I’m thrilled to be going to WordCamp 2011. I went in 2009 and found it sent me to the next level in working with WordPress. It sold out last year so I’m glad I got my ticket early.

It’s funny because even a year ago when I felt like I was really grooving with WordPress as a CMS, going to Word Camp was really eye-opening.  Sure, there a bunches of developers out there who are real developers. They could probably write their own blogging platforms in PHP in their spare time. Me, I’m a practitioner. I’m really a GUI designer who needed to find a CMS platform that I could manhandle on my own. That’s exactly what I feel I can do now: manhandle WordPress to my will.

I’m looking forward to whatever WordCamp 2011 brings in terms of new levels of use for me. Maybe I’ll finally tackle WordPress Hooks…