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Steve Bruner interviewed by WP Engine

sbruner — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:17:24 +0000

If you want to learn a bit more about Steve, check out his “Finely Tuned Interview” with WP Engine.

nRelate

sbruner — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:10:48 +0000

Back in 2010, we partnered with nRelate to create a plugin for the WordPress community based on their awesome patented
technology. The plugin, nRelate Related Content, was an immediate hit and is currently used by tens of thousands of websites. The success of that product allowed us to build two more plugins with nRelate; Most Popular and Flyout.

This success has not gone unnoticed. In July 2012, Ask.com (an IAC company), purchased nRelate for an undisclosed sum.

SlipFire is proud to be a partner with nRelate.

BrainPOP Community

sbruner — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:33:52 +0000

BrainPOP Educators, the teacher community of BrainPOP, features free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more. They came to SlipFire wanting to build a true community site, where teachers can interact with each other and share information. So, using a combination of WordPress muliti-site and BuddyPress, we worked with the BrainPOP team to create the ideal teacher community. Since the community was just one of many BrainPOP websites, we also built real-time data syncing between BrainPOP.com and BuddyPress, and imported data for over 130,000 users.

Features Include: Member profiles, forums, groups, integrated blog, custom widgets, front-end spell checking, single sign-on and real-time syncing between multiple sites.

Famous Monsters of Filmland

sbruner — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:06:18 +0000

Famous Monsters of Filmland (FM) has been defining horror since the 1950′s. Horror can be found on line, on television, in books, in comic books, in movies and in role playing games – and they cover it all. FM needed a website that was flexible and could showcase their extensive library of videos and comic books, and they chose SlipFire to build it. We started with the Genesis theme framework for security and speed, and mixed in some Google webfonts for that comic book look. The result is an awesomely scary site!

Features Include: Fully customizable Header and background advertisement, custom video slider, custom comic book loader, integrated streaming video, Google web fonts.

WordPressNYC

sbruner — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:10:48 +0000

SlipFire is located in New York City, and we’re very active in the local WordPress community. Besides co-organizing two WordCamps, we also organize the local WordPressNYC Meetup. Two of the goals of the meetup is to network and educate our members, so what better way to do this then to create a community website using BuddyPress… and that’s how WPNYC.ORG was born! SlipFire was the lead developer on this project, along with two community members.

WPNYC Features: Built on BuddyPress, full community features, web font support, custom search, auto tweeting, auto submit to Facebook and Linkedin, sharing (tweet, FB like,etc), just plain awesome

Steve Bruner Speaking at Ultra Light Startups

sbruner — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:20:38 +0000

Our own Steve Bruner will be on the Ultra Light Startups panel on December 2, speaking about how to get from a concept to a website and of course, pimping WordPress. Other panelists are:

Paul Berry, CTO of HuffingtonPost
Gil Beyda, Founder and Managing Partner of Genacast Ventures
Vinicius Vacanti, Co-Founder of Yipit.com

From the Ultra Light Startups website:

You have a great idea for a startup business. It’s a concept nobody has thought of before and you’re sure it will change the world – and make millions in profit. The problem is, you’ve never built a website before. So how do you implement your idea? Come to this event and find out – hear from startup experts who have done all it before..

Topics include:

An outline of the common technology platforms used to build websites. How to determine which one is right for your project.
Hiring a freelancer or a software development agency
Recruiting a technical co-founder
Building it yourself
An outline of the essential product and project management skills necessary to be successful
And much more…

You can watch the panel here. The good stuff starts about 18 minutes in:

NYConvergence

sbruner — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:47:26 +0000

NYConvergence on WordPress

Original site on Typepad

NYConvergence is a digest of digital media technology news of interest to the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state area. Originally built on Typepad, nyconvergence.com asked us to move them to WordPress and redesign their site. We used the Genesis Theme Framework for ease of customization and security, and as you can see from the photos, we did a total upgrade which looks awesome!

NYconvergence.com features: Related Stores, Popular Stories and a total social networking package: Facebook Like, Twitter tweets, email to friend, Newsletter, iPhone app, Amazon Kindle subscription, Widgetbox widget and much more.

Steve Bruner organizing WordCampNYC 2010

sbruner — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:13:36 +0000

For the second year in a row, Steve Bruner is a co-organizer for WordCampNYC. Last years event was awesome, and this year will be just as good, so get your tickets now. If you would like to Sponsor, Speak or Volunteer, we would love to hear from you. WordCampNYC 2010 will be the weekend of October 16 at Baruch College.

Women’s Voices For Change

sbruner — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:13:24 +0000

The goal of Womensvoicesforchange.org is too redefine menopause in terms of today’s women. This non-profit came to us and asked for a full site redesign to help them get their message across. Originally on Typepad, we transfered their site to WordPress and was able to add all the functionality they needed.

WomensVoicesForChange Features: new clean look, featured area with slider, ability to add videos to posts, lots of social networking tools including Facebook Like, Twitter Retweet, Email post to a friend, Related Content, email newsletter signup.

RoloPress

sbruner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:06:07 +0000

RoloPress is more than a theme… RoloPress transforms WordPress into a full-featured contact manager. Just like WordPress, you can change the look of RoloPress and install plugins. It’s super cool! You need to see it to believe it >