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Gabriel Koen: Anatomy of a high volume, cloud-based WordPress architecture

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Marty Thornley: The Third WordPress

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:02:06 +0000

You often hear about the two versions of WordPress – .com and .org. With the .com version users get a free, easy to use version that is limited in functionality and not very customizable. With the .org, users get a self-hosted version that is fully customizable but requires programming knowledge.

Developers have built an industry around the .org version creating and selling premium themes and plugins, offering membership to support sites, or creating custom sites for clients one at a time.
With the addition and growth of MultSite (formerly MU), WordPress is capable of a whole new way of doing things, bringing the best of the .com and the .org worlds together.

By creating a premium WordPress MultiSite installation targeted to a niche market, it is possible to provide an easy to use end user experience that provides premium themes and plugins and a level of customization tailored to that market.

Matt Mitchell: Digital Subscriptions to Your Content

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:02:41 +0000

Online content creators struggle to monetize their content effectively with a pure advertising model. At MediaPass we’ve helped hundreds of publishers sell subscriptions to their online content, giving us a unique expertise in digital subscriptions. The subject of online paywalls is very topical right now. Unfortunately, however, there’s a lot of speculation and not a lot of data.

Topics to discuss:

· How and why you should be considering charging for some content

· Pros and cons of various subscription strategies

· What content is best for subscriptions and why it may not matter

· And more!

Peter Chester: 170 Radio Stations: WordPress at Scale

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:02:26 +0000

We launched over 170 sites in 4 months starting from scratch. In this session, I will give an overview of what’s involved in producing and launching a high traffic (many million uniques per month) network of WordPress blogs.

Architecting for scale
Coding practices
Performance tuning
Launching

Jordan Acosta: Mobile Theme Checklist

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:05:07 +0000

There’s a lot of material out there to help designers and developers make their themes mobile-friendly, but it can be difficult to find all the best sources and be sure that you have all your bases covered. I discovered this recently while making a new theme for my own site, and decided to make a WordPress-specific checklist of all the code I would need to make sure that my theme would work reliably and consistently on tablets and smartphones.

My presentation will take the audience step-by-step through the necessary HTML, CSS, and Javascript, covering what the code does and where it should go in a theme. Time permitting, I’ll discuss the more challenging aspects of mobile design in more detail, such as the difference between virtual and device pixels, how the behavior of view-ports affect page layout, and the different ways of detecting a device’s screen size.

Justin Dorfman: Information Architecture

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:06:25 +0000

how to optimize their WordPress sites for speed.

Ryan Fugate: BuddyPress 101

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:15:55 +0000

Learn how BuddyPress can make your WordPress site social.

Topics to be covered:

What BuddyPress is, an overview of it’s features.
How you can get BuddyPress?
How to install BuddyPress, adding to an existing WordPress blog.
How you can extend BuddyPress to add more features. Plugins!
Examples of what you can do with BuddyPress.
and more!

Brad Markle: .com to Self Hosted (.org)

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:05:54 +0000

Michael Fields: Theming for the Masses 2

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:30:07 +0000

This talk will be a continuation of the talk I gave at WordCamp Seattle earlier this year. It focuses on my experience creating a theme for public release in the official WordPress Theme directory. The original presentation can be viewed here.

My goal with the second talk would be to pull key elements from this presentation, but introduce some new concepts that I learned during the process creating my second theme for public release. I intend to create a totally new presentation; not just recycle the old one

Matthew Lawson: Design, SEO and Selling WordPress

Austin "TheFrosty" Passy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:47:53 +0000

Working as a freelance web designer and at several small studios, I’ve gained some experience in designing and marketing websites to small businesses. Since I started using WordPress for most of my websites, I’ve found that the value that independent designers are able to offer their clients increases exponentially.

Pairing WordPress on-site SEO advances with an intelligent and realistic internet marketing campaign will generate new focused leads with minimal upkeep. If you can design beautiful and eye-catching websites and gear them for better search engine visibility, then you’re in business.