June 27, 2014 — Treating yourself as a Resource, Client, Project Manager, Client Manager, Accountant, Sales Department, Collection Department, Office Manager, Supply Department and more.

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June 27, 2014 — No coding experience? No problem! With WordPress.com, you can have a great looking site up and running in just a couple minutes. We’ll go through the basics of using WordPress itself, and what WordPress.com specifically can offer you as a beginning blogger or site builder.

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June 26, 2014 — This presentation demonstrates how a custom WordPress theme should be melded to the client’s needs and not how a client should be shoved into the limitations of a pre-existing theme with a few tweaks. The admin should be a pleasant experience for the client without extra whistles and bells.
Key take-aways:
1. Always offer a project questionnaire
2. Establish Site Architecture before you touch a line of code.
3. Use a basic theme such as _score to keep the clutter down in the admin
4. Utilizing WordPress Custom Post Types for regularly used content such as: portfolio items, sponsor logos, team members, musicians
5. Utilizing: Advanced Custom Fields Plugin and Posts 2 Post plugin to make something that is nearly enterprise level
6. Always be up for the challenge, you will gain more skill and insight as a result.

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June 26, 2014 — Website security is important to everyone who has a website, as well as everyone who uses a website. Whether it gets five visitors a day or five-thousand, hackers are looking to compromise, break, infect and virtually own every website that they can for monetary and social purposes.

While the topic seems mysterious to most users, website security is actually a set of simple principles that everyone can adopt to keep their risk at the absolute lowest. Being a WordPress user is a great start, and the discussion surrounds habits, practices and techniques to follow to keep a WordPress site secure from hackers and malware.

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June 26, 2014 — PHP Optimization can increase a client’s site performance and leverage your plugin design and capacity. Writing your code with PHP in mind first will help you build stable scalable plugins and applications. It will also save you time and energy after product release. Practical tips are shared for you to implement in projects immediately.

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June 25, 2014 — I hear frequently that it’s difficult to contribute code to WordPress’ core. During the past year, there’s been an increased emphasis on not only reaching out to new contributors, but making it simpler to get involved by making toolsets more accessible and trac more friendly to newcomers. In this talk I walk through how I got started, and how things have changed for the better since. Come to learn the first steps in contributing to WordPress’ core, leading up to Sunday’s workshop.

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June 25, 2014 — Working with WordPress in the Enterprise can be a unique challenge. This session discusses some of the performance and architectural approaches that will help make your WordPress installs run like an enterprise application.

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June 24, 2014 — Leverage your existing WordPress development skills to build mobile apps for your clients. Learn about different tools including the free AppPresser plugin and the Phonegap framework to create mobile apps, and distribute them to the iOS and Android app stores.

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June 24, 2014 — The sky is really the limit in terms of how you want to implement WordPress into a scalable and profitable business model!

This presentation shares some some techniques to get started as well as how to determine your avenue and approach. And details on the challenges of growth and scale as well as how to build great WordPress products.

June 24, 2014 — When building a project or platform it’s important to consider how your users will use the product or service. This presentation dives into a project example to understand how to effectively execute User Experience for platforms.

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