October 8, 2014 — A deeper look into customizing the WordPress content editor (TinyMCE), and extending or even replacing the editor to match the needs of modern content editors. We start by looking at what makes modern content “stand out”, then look at the default ways to customize TinyMCE within WordPress, then look at some commercial plugins to customize WordPress (and how to customize those tools). Finally, we explore some techniques for working with word processing programs like Microsoft Word, and dealing with tabular (nested) data along with free tools available online to assist us in the content editing process.

October 8, 2014 — Want to know what the future of design looks like? Our panelists have a pretty good idea, and they’re ready to share it with you. Come prepared with questions!

October 7, 2014 — Lee talks about the decision his team went through in choosing WordPress Multisite to run many of their brands and the struggle in choosing whether to do things good, cheap, or fast in his presentation, “Breaking the Project Management Triangle.” They chose WordPress, and IPC Media a wholly-owned subsidiary of Time, Inc., is starting to roll out some of the 55 brands in its portfolio on WordPress Multisite.

October 7, 2014 — Ephraim Gregor from USA Today presented “World Cup and WordPress.com VIP” at the recent Big Media & Enterprise Meetup in New York City.

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October 7, 2014 — Mo Jangda from Automattic gave a presentation and lead a discussion on Code Review at a recent WordPress Big Media Meetup in New York City.

October 7, 2014 — In this presentation you’ll learn:

How to determine if WordPress is a good option for your agency
The important technical considerations
The biggest challenges and successes CFPB had with implementing WordPress
The resources you’ll need to implement it and keep it sustainable
How to get buy-in and make the business case to switch/choose WordPress

October 7, 2014 — Norcross came over from Tampa to talk plugins, and how he views the ecosystem surrounding them. Check out the video for a freeform talk, without slides or guides, as he shares a lot of great advice for prospective plugin developers.

After his solo talk, Norcross joins Adam Soucie and David Parsons, moderated by David Yarde, for a discussion about plugins. They talk development theory, disruptive industries, suggestions for useful plugins, how to determine if a plugin is good and more.

October 6, 2014 — WordPress gives us all so much for free. Thousands of lines of code, thousands of hours of other people’s time all for the unbelievable price of free. So, ready to give back? It’s easy. This talk covers several ways that you can contribute to WordPress including ways that you can contribute if you’re not a programmer.

October 6, 2014 — This is a talk about mobile development versus responsive design.

October 5, 2014 — Learn how to write CSS in a whole new way Heard about CSS preprocessors but don’t know what the fuss is about? Think you can’t use them with WordPress? Think again! This session goes through the highlights of using CSS preprocessors (we’ll mostly focus on Sass), their awesome features, and how to integrate them into your WordPress theming workflow.