Very likely, once you get setting The Conference Plugin up on your website, you’re going to want to do some customization work. Things like adding extra fields to the Speakers or Sessions, or changing the layout of the schedule or speaker pages.

This sort of work is done by creating a custom add-on plugin that uses the hooks provided within The Conference Plugin to make these changes without having to touch the original source code. Leaving the ...

The ongoing saga of my lousy week.

There are things to be said about Mitch Podolak. If you don’t know him, you know someone who knows him. Pretty much anywhere music festivals happen. He started the Winnipeg Folk Festival and invented my father’s stage persona, Curly Boy Stubbs. Mitch also happens to be one of the best BBQ smokers around and has engineered a pretty ...

I’ve just dealt, for the first time ever, with complete system failure. I don’t ever want to deal with it again.

For about a year I’ve been running my own dedicated server, hosted by iWeb. For about a year, everything has been fine.

Last week, as I was moving a client over to my server, the good people at iWeb noticed that one of my mirror drives was showing signs of failure. “Let’s swap ...

Congratulations for wanting to jumping on board with creating a mobile app for your event. You’re a forward thinker and you deserve glory and fame.

You no doubt want to build some customizations into The Conference App to make it your own. The simplest of these is changing the splash screen and adding your own CSS Stylesheet. The way to do this is to start your own add-on (or sibling) plugin that tells The Conference App plugin what ...

On November 5, 2011, Trevor Mills from Top Quark gave a presentation at the Toronto WordCamp on building mobile apps within WordPress. Topics covered included:

• Differences between a Native App and a Web App
• An opinion on the best Javascript framework (Sencha Touch)
• An example app (using Top Quark’s The Conference App plugin)
• A summary of WordPress hooks to use to build a web app
• Using Cache Manifest and LocalStorage to take an app offline
• An introduction ...
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In order to get data into The Conference Plugin (and by extension, The Conference App), you basically need everything in two Excel spreadsheets.

The first spreadsheet is for the people – speakers, performers, panelists, exhibitors, delegates – anyone you want to appear in the app.  Within that one, we’re looking for first name, last name, website, twitter (if known), bio (line breaks are fine) and images.  The images come in the form of URLs – so a URL to the image ...

As part of the ongoing documentation effort here at TopQuark.com, here is a summary of all of the available Filters, Actions and Shortcodes within the Top Quark Architecture plugin – available at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/topquark

All Filters

• set_{ContainerName}_columns
• extend_{ContainerName}
• extend_{ObjectClass}
• add_{ObjectType}_object
• update_{ObjectType}_object
• get_all_{ObjectType}_where_clause
• get_all_{ObjectType}_sort_field
• get_all_{ObjectType}_sort_dir
• set_user_conf_file_{PackageName}
• addition_conf_{PackageName}
• set_user_functions_file_{PackageName}
• {PackageName}_paint
• {PackageName}_retrieve
• {PackageName}_ajax
• topquark_gallery_base_url
• set_gallery_dimension_callbacks
• Smarty_Instance_resource_name
• Smarty_Instance_smarty_include
• tqp_do_get_header
• tqp_do_get_footer
• tqp_extra_header_markup
• tqp_extra_footer_markup
• {PackageName}_{AdminPageParm}_{TabID}_items

All Actions

• new_{ObjectClass}_object_id
• tqp_get_header
• tqp_get_footer
• {PackageName}_{AdminPageParm}_display_tabs

All Shortcodes

• [topquark]
• [capture]

Filters

 

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set_{ContainerName}_columns

This is a dynamic ...