November 20, 2014 — If you have recently searched for WordPress speed and performance optimization tips and techniques, you have definitely seen several things being recommended all the time: different caching mechanisms (full page caching plugins, memcached, reverse proxies), sprites, CSS & JS minification, to name a few. All of them are indeed viable and really effective ways to speed up your site performance. However, they may not be equally applicable for everyone and there are cases in which they can actually break your website. This presentation covers what actually can go wrong with each of the most popular and widely accepted performance optimization techniques, how to implement them without breaking your site and how to fix the most common issues with different speed boosters.

November 20, 2014 — Every plugin or theme developer who’s done a lot of development has learned that developing the backend often takes more time than developing the front end. Thinking about how you make your backend look and what you name options can save many, many hours on support. We’ve found in research amongst our own users that default settings often don’t get changed. What does this mean? What to do with it?

November 20, 2014 — As of WordPress 3.9, the Heartbeat API is no longer experimental! It’s intended to help developers synchronize data between a user’s browser and server without manually sending individual AJAX calls. Learn how WordPress’ core implements Heartbeat, and how they can use it on their own sites to create more interactive and up-to-date admin screens.

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November 20, 2014 — Blogging is critical to the success of any online business, yet it’s often ignored, underutilized, or flailing. Learn the biggest mistakes new bloggers make, why they are sabotaging their own success, and how to avoid doing the same. From headlines, to optimization, to formatting, to promotion, we’ll cover how to get every one of your blog posts maximum visibility and get them in front of people who need what you offer, are ready to buy, but just don’t yet know you exist.

November 20, 2014 — Você já deve saber que o WordPress é um grande mundo a ser explorado. Por isso, nada mais justo que alguém te dê o caminho das pedras. Descubra por onde começar, quais as principais fontes de conteúdos sobre WordPress, onde tirar suas dúvidas e como participar ativamente da comunidade do maior CMS da galáxia!

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November 20, 2014 — This session takes you through some of the advanced techniques and secrets to get the most out of the ACF ecosystem. It goes through specific examples of real-world usage on sites like NPR, Random House and the Harvard Law Review. With WordPress and ACF, developers can create seamless editing experiences for the people who maintain your sites, better than any enterprise CMS out there.

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