John B. Hartley

Notes on a talk by Eric Karkovak

- Time-savers: Frameworks, plugins that save coding time and keeping a repository of re-useable code

- Built-in shortcodes, custom page layouts (multiple templates),

- Genesis Framework

- Startbox Framework www.wpstartbox.com CSS3 buttons, but, you could also use MaxButtons from Max Foundry

- Time-saving plugins

• CMS Dashboard Note: hasn’t been updated in over 2 years
• Pods Framework – possible other CMS system to use
• Display Widgets
• List Category Posts
• Raw HTML Snippets
• SB Child List
• Search & Replace
• Smart WYSIWYG Blocks of Content
• WP DBManager

- Creating your own code cheat sheet

- Karks Cheat Sheet Starter: here

Note: You can also use a text editor to create Tab-triggered snippets. Click here for a Sublime Text 2 Snippets Tutorial.

Definitely enjoyed this talk and it was a great opener for WCBalt. You can follow Eric on Twitter @karks88.

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