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Today’s Social Media Integration Evolution

Presented by Kari Leigh Marucchi • Intermediate Track

As the DNA of social media continues to incrementally mutate, so do methods of integration with web properties. What are today’s most used, most effective, and highest quality WordPress plugins and offsite activity trackers for social media? What are tomorrow’s … Continue reading Today’s Social Media Integration Evolution →

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Hope, Freedom, and Custom Post Types

Presented by Paul Clark • Intermediate Track

WordPress saves lives. Discover how the freedom and flexibility built into WordPress empowers relief teams working in war zones in Southeast Asia. We’ll explore the challenges faced and strategies used to create an application that tracks medical care and human … Continue reading Hope, Freedom, and Custom Post Types →

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Adding jQuery magic to your theme

Presented by Natalie MacLees • Intermediate Track

jQuery and JavaScript can be used for everything in your theme from creating a fancy dropdown menu system to turning your WordPress site into a single page application. In this session, I’ll show you jQuery plugins and techniques to add … Continue reading Adding jQuery magic to your theme →

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The WordPress Theme Review Process

Presented by Konstantin Obenland • Developer Track

This will be an overview of the WordPress.org Theme repository, how the WordPress Theme Review Team works and how to prepare for submitting your Theme to the repository. We will also discuss where to find the most current guidelines and regulations (there is more … Continue reading The WordPress Theme Review Process →

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Responsive Widget Design

Presented by Wes Chyrchel • Intermediate Track

Everything is going Responsive. Every day more and more themes come out that are created with Responsive Web Design techniques. One area that doesn’t seem to be responding as quickly are Widgets. As we all know widgets are a very … Continue reading Responsive Widget Design →

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Optimizing WordPress

Presented by Ben Metcalfe • Intermediate Track

This talk will encompass ways to optimize your website to make it fast, and then how to make that speed scalable. It starts at the beginner level with basic ways to get the most from WordPress, and will go all … Continue reading Optimizing WordPress →

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WordPress is saving Journalism

Presented by Joe Boydston • Beginner Track

Learn how community newspapers in California are replacing their proprietary publishing systems with WordPress. Learn lots of outside the box uses for WordPress from someone who learned the hard way. We’ll take a deeper dive into topics depending on audience … Continue reading WordPress is saving Journalism →

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eCommerce & WordPress – What’s the right solution for you?

Presented by Belsien Thomas • Intermediate Track

This session is meant to help WordPress users uncover what really goes into building and running an eCommerce website and what are some popular present day solutions available to the WordPress community. There is no “one size fits all” solution … Continue reading eCommerce & WordPress – What’s the right solution for you? →

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Enterprise Class WordPress

Presented by Jake Goldman • Intermediate Track

Sure, we all get that WordPress is great blogging software, and makes a great website for Joe’s Corner Coffee Shop or Mike’s Hometown Consulting Services. And maybe you feel solid about your ability to build a WordPress site on a … Continue reading Enterprise Class WordPress →

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Weaving JavaScript in and out of WordPress

Presented by Jeff Zinn • Intermediate Track

I’d like to do a presentation on how JavaScript goes into a WordPress setup and how a programmer gets it back out. The presentation would cover the proper way to register and enqueue scripts. It would expand upon that idea … Continue reading Weaving JavaScript in and out of WordPress →

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