June 10, 2014 — You are working with WordPress when you find yourself in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Community. Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curves downward to the right; the other leads upward to the left.

The choices you make in the WordPress community define your WordPress adventure. I’ll share stories of decisions and outcomes I’ve seen during my three years as a WordPress community manager. The possibilities are endless, but this talk will be about 30 minutes.

June 9, 2014 — This presentation covers the many options of how to format navigation when building a responsive site. It touches on user experience as it relates to your navigation and site architecture. We’ll be going over several ways to modify your theme’s menu to optimize it for different navigation patterns as well as the CSS and JS used to make each one work. Additionally, we’ll cover the use of hover and touch properties and a walk-through of live examples.

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June 9, 2014 — In WordPress, date and time — the publishing date – is a fundamental metric for the structure of your content. But in your business activity, other types of dates — event dates — may be of foremost importance. This talk presents a simple and flexible solution for managing such dates in WordPress.

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June 9, 2014 — WordCamps have come a long way since the first one was organized in 2006. This presentation talks about things that all WordCamps share and explore interesting variations within the WordCamp program. It also looks at ways WordCamp Central seeks to help WordCamps currently and in the future, and how you can help.

June 9, 2014 — Grab a cup of coffee and start your day off (no matter what time it is) on the right foot with Automatticians Konstantin Obenland and Michael Cain in our morning show-style WordCamp talk! We’ll break the session into three segments, two that will cover any number of WordPress topics – theming, design, development, best practices, worst practices, future trends, you name it – and a special guest interview with a big name from the WordPress world. There will be laughter (hopefully?), there will be tears (regrettably?), there will even be some awkward silences (definitely). But most importantly, there will be plenty of that whole-grained, balanced-diet WordPress that you just can’t get enough of.

June 8, 2014 — Many developers and designers focus more on the technology behind their site than the end-user experience. This is a massive disservice to clients, and the goal of any web technology should be to get out of the way and let the content shine.

Eric provides 10 simple topics that every developer/designer should consider when building a site – from performance concerns to language focus when presenting the final product to the client.

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June 8, 2014 — Clint warren describes how he built a career in WordPress in just 3 years. Clintons story of overcoming huge obstacles, and focusing relentlessly on his goals is inspiring.

June 8, 2014 — Helen Hou-Sandi gives a great presentation on the benefits of being an active WordPress contributor, and how even small companies benefit from giving back.

June 7, 2014 — There is more than one way to make your blog pay for itself, in terms of time and cost. Come hear the insider secrets to how I make my blog (chrislema.com) work for me and pay for itself (and much more).

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June 7, 2014 — There are many different options, or models, for selling premium plugins: one-time purchases, subscriptions, extensions, etc. If you are thinking about selling a plugin for profit, and you should, you’ll have to decide which of these pricing models is right for you. This session will walk through many of the lessons learned from the life of the Ninja Forms plugin, which follows the so-called “freemium” model. Hopefully, this session will leave you with the right sorts of questions to ask, and plenty of the pitfalls to avoid, when choosing to sell a WordPress plugin for profit.