Nicole Nicolay and Reggie Nicolay will present on various WordPress features and plugins. They will cover child themes, theme frameworks like Genesis, post thumbnails, custom backgrounds, author templates, custom post types, custom taxonomies, custom menus, and WordPress multisite. They recommend plugins like Custom Post Types UI, Verve Meta Boxes, and Custom Post Type Template Redirect.

1. Nicole Nicolay Agent Evolution ReggieNicolay Realtors Property Resource (RPR)

2. Your Presenters Nicole Nicolay - @Nik_Nik Nicole Nicolay is Chief Creative Officer of Agent Evolution.com Co-Founder of MyTechOpinion a Real Estate Technology Blog Reggie Nicolay - @ReggieRPR Reggie Nicolay is the Director of Social Media for Realtors Property Resource or RPR Co-Founder of MyTechOpinion a Real Estate Technology Blog

5. The rise of Theme Frameworks

6. Post Thumbnail Images

7. Custom Background

9. Custom Taxonomies

10. Custom Menu Management

13. Theme update = Wiped out personalization's

15. It all starts with Style.cssThe Template attribute tells WordPress to inherit all template files of “Genesis”

16. Theme Frameworks

18. Easier development

19. Increased time savings

20. Optimized code: CSS, HTML, PHP functions

22. Security

23. One Click Update Genesis

25. Threaded comments / Gravatar Support

26. Custom Widgets: My Tweets, User Profile, eNews & Updates, Featured Posts, Featured Page

32. Needs to be activated in your themes functions.php

33. Must be called in theme template:the_post_thumbnail(); add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

36. Before resizing, the image it cropped to the defined aspect ratio, and then reduced to fit the width and height preciselyset_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true );

37. Post Thumbnail Images

43. Define the template to be used

44. Naming conventions and template hierarchy:

45. author-{nicename}.php - If author's nice name is nicole, WordPress looks for author-nicole.php.

46. author-{id}.php - If author's ID is 5, WordPress looks for author-5.php

47. author.php

48. archive.php

54. Recommended Plug-Ins:

55. Custom Post Types UI

56. Custom Post Type Template Redirect

57. Verve Meta Boxes

59. Default WordPress Taxonomies: Category, Tag, Link Category

61. (1) Custom Taxonomy: Status (3) (2) Custom Fields

62. Plug-In: Custom Post Types UI

63. Plug-In: Custom Post Types UI

64. Plug-In: Custom Post Types UI

66. Plug-In: Verve Meta Boxes

67. Custom Taxonomy: Status Custom Fields

69. Custom Post Type Template Redirect Plug-In

70. If Listings custom post type, then WP looks for listings.php

71. Get Custom Field Values Plug-In

80. Great option if you’re managing multiple sites

81. Faster site performance, quicker updates