#BlogHer09 Day 1 – Alarm Clocks Suck. But WordPress Rocks.
Ok, so I admit, I overslept and missed the opening Keynote. The person coming to clean my room woke me up, at least, so I made it down in time for the morning session I wanted to attend.
My purpose in being here – other than to meet all the awesome women here I’ve talked to online for ages – is to get a deeper understanding of WordPress. I’m a little behind. I don’t know PHP, and I don’t know CSS. So, I can’t fix what’s broken. Right now, if you submit a comment, you’ll receive a “page not found” after. The comment will submit, but there’s no “thank you” page.
The problem is unfortunately not with my theme (which the kind folks over at wordpress.org had suggested), as I’ve tried a number of other ones to fix. The problem was a WordPress update. Not this past update, but the one before (or the one before that, it’s been updating like crazy lately).
It drives me nuts that I don’t know how to fix. I’ve been learning some basic PHP (I tend to learn a language a year, last year was Ruby, this year PHP), but still have a ways to go before I can truly dig in to the nuts and bolts of this blog.
This morning was a session on CMS and WordPress, this afternoon a session on CSS. PHP session tomorrow. I’m doing what’s called the “Geek Lab” track. I love that they have this, since I really don’t need a session on MommyBlogging or Blogging to Book. Just not my thing.
Speaking of Mommy’s, dear lord did I get a lot of kiddy stuff. Heather….I will have lots for Alice. But I’ll go through the schwag in another post, it deserves one.
Now to pack up and find the room for the next session!
(Funny note – I was at lunch when I wrote this, but had to come outside to get online. I swear, no matter how hard ppl try (and did they ever try) wireless at conferences is messy.)
