October 9, 2014 — Awesome Plugins Everyone Should Be Using

October 9, 2014 — We’ll discuss how to speed up your site using caching via easy plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache, transients, and server site options like Memcache, APC, and Batcache.

October 9, 2014 — With thousands of functions in the WordPress codebase, it’s virtually impossible to remember all of them. We’ll cover some overlooked WordPress core functions that you may not know exist. We’ll walk through some practical examples for their use, and give you a variety of new gems you can use every day.

October 9, 2014 — This session takes users who are looking to expand their knowledge of WordPress hooks for theme and plugin development. I’ll walk them through what hooks are, first and foremost, the WordPress core page load (ie when certain hooks fire), the anatomy of the various hook functions, and finally some examples of common ways they are used.

October 8, 2014 — You’ve built a stunning WordPress powered theme and installed the site for a client. The code is top notch, the design is pixel perfect and you’re just about to hand it over to the client, but what now? How will the client use the site? Is your theme in a strong enough shape to allow clients to update the content on the fly? Do they know what to do? Learn from a panel of local Calgary Developers on the tips and tricks of handing over a web site to a client. Everything from how to create tutorials to what plug-ins to improve the end user experience will be answered in this panel.

October 8, 2014 — Blogging is easier to do when you’re organized. Learn some tips on how to keep your blog organized and how to keep posting on your blog consistently.

Angelica Yarde is the co-founder of Sevenality and owner of Studio 404 Paper. She is also the editor Studio 404, where she blogs about design, blogging, and business. Angelica uses her eight years of blogging and social media experience to help deliver and implement good branding practices to businesses in Central Florida.

October 8, 2014 — This talk is be suitable both for those running a personal blog, or a business website on WordPress. It looks at:

How you can leverage and optimise for the main social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & Linkedin as well as some other more specific platforms such as ManageWP.org.
Understanding Follow vs. Share vs. Like.
Sharing buttons, the official and other options.
Social meta data like open graph tags and twitter cards & the benefits of implementing them.
Testing and previewing social meta data – Plugins as well as manual options.

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October 8, 2014 — This talk is about how advertising is not the only way to monetize and you need to focus on different “layers” of income streams. By focusing on growing the readership, One Page Love has allowed Rob to quit web development work and now focus on his passion project full time.

October 8, 2014 — WordPress as an application platform.

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October 8, 2014 — This talk covers how to use WordPress’ dashboard and backend to manage the content marketing process for virtual teams, from the creation of a content calendar to editing posts to SEO post optimization to social sharing and publishing. By using a symphony of WP plugins and GMail any marketing/advertising person or business owner can manage multiple users across multiple tasks to make sure that their content marketing plan is executed in a way that translates to ease and profit in their bottom line.

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