Pillar: Training & Speaking

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Training 101

    Microsoft PowerPoint Level 1 training — slides that communicate clearly, without borrowed templates and designs that distract from the content.

    Microsoft PowerPoint Training 101
  • What WordPress 7.0’s AI layer means for plugin developers and buyers

    A practitioner’s read on WordPress 7.0 — the AI infrastructure it shipped, the real-time collaboration it pulled, and what the release means for plugin developers and platform buyers.

  • Newspapers with WordPress

    Slide deck from a 2012 talk on running a newsroom on WordPress — editorial roles, workflow, and the technical choices that keep multi-author publishing honest.

    Newspapers with WordPress
  • WordPress security & hardening

    Tier-laddered WordPress security: audit from $1,375, a $2,750–$8,250 audit + remediation engagement, or a $1,375/mo hardening retainer. User audit, 2FA, WAF config, malware scan, written remediation report. Three days, fixed scope.

    WordPress security & hardening
  • M.L. Campbell’s distributor training center: a custom LearnDash LMS

    Active-learner attendance grew by an order of magnitude, and the platform cost a fraction of the system it replaced. This is the story of a custom WordPress + LearnDash LMS built to be the qualification layer underneath an entire distributor sales network — and what that architecture looks like when staff competence is the actual…

    M.L. Campbell’s distributor training center: a custom LearnDash LMS
  • WordPress Maintenance SLA Template

    A contract-ready service-level agreement for WordPress maintenance. Response times, exclusions, escalation paths, and the editorial line agencies forget to price.

    WordPress Maintenance SLA Template
  • The week the platform moved, and the teaching had to keep pace.

    WordPress 7.0 landed and everything downstream had to move with it — the client answer, the courses, the free tools. This is what that week looked like, and why keeping pace is the whole job.

    The week the platform moved, and the teaching had to keep pace.
  • WordPress 7 is here. Here’s what’s new and what to do.

    WordPress 7 shipped in May 2026. If you run a WordPress site, here is what changed, what matters, what to actually do about it, and the one feature that got pulled at the eleventh hour.

    WordPress 7 is here. Here’s what’s new and what to do.
  • WordPress 7 Quick-Reference Guide

    A two-page PDF — seven things every WordPress site owner should know about WordPress 7, plus a 14-day safe-upgrade checklist you can print and tick off as you go.

    WordPress 7 Quick-Reference Guide