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Announcements

– Register for WordPress Webinar – Custom Post Types
– NMX Meet Up – Monday Jan 7th at 7:15am: Details.
– Advanced Developer Course will begin on January 28th

Important Things to Focus on in 2013

For Website Owners
– Responsive Design
    - Your customers are probably spending time on your website on their phone
    - Do you have too much information on your site?
– Speed
    - Removing extra themes / plugins
    - Trimming Database to get ride of junk
    - Choosing the right hosting provider
    - Are your images too large?
– Security
    - Prevent your site and server from being hacked
– Attend Local Meet Up (meetup.com) or WordCamps (wordcamp.org)

Developers
– How to write better / more efficient code: HMTL, CSS, PHP, mySQL
– Developing functionality plugins
    - Custom Post Types
    - Theme Options
– How to build / manipulate child themes
– Learn to use SASS to help you write CSS more quickly / efficiently
– Learn how to use a popular framework, like thesis, genesis, builder, etc.
– Share your knowledge at Local Meet Up (meetup.com) or WordCamps (wordcamp.org)
– Contribute to WordPress core
– Answer questions on WordPress forums
– Build a plugin or theme and release on the repository
– Become a terminal / command line ninja

Call To Action

– Sign up for webinar at http://YourWebsiteEngineer.com/webinar
- If you are interested in the Advanced WordPress Developers Course, please email me: Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com

What are your WordPress goals for 2013?

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