Archive for 2014
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Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko: Caching Small Big Things
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Andrey SavchenkoMay 17, 2014 — Performance has always been foundational to computing. This talk aims to dispell common myths about caching, and provides a practical method to implement fragment caching for WordPress.
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Paolo Belcastro: Around The World 80 Times Per Day
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Paolo BelcastroMay 16, 2014 — Paolo Belcastro describes the challenges, common mistakes and life lessons of managing a remote team. Working remotely since 15 years, he is currently leading a team of 30 spread across 4 continents and 17 time zones.
Read his related posts: On Communication Within A Distributed Team, The End Of Time, Is Working Remotely Hereditary?. -
Stephanie Booth: Blogging In An Imperfectly Multilingual World
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Stephanie BoothMay 16, 2014 — In personal blogging, running a true multilingual site with translations of everything is unrealistic. This talk demonstrates how it is viable to be imperfectly multilingual, as most humans actually are.
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Konstantin Obenland: Behind The Scenes Of The WordPress.com Theme Showcase
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Konstantin ObenlandMay 16, 2014 — A look at recent improvements in the WordPress.com Theme Showcase, the new WordPress.com Dashboard – Newdash – and the THX project.
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Silvan Hagen: Multisite On A Tight Budget
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Silvan HagenMay 16, 2014 — Case study and lessons learned implementing a WordPress Multisite project on a tight budget. The talk covers project management, technical implementation and hosting.
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Beth Backen: How (and why) to Create a Child Theme
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Beth BackenMay 15, 2014 — In this session, Beth Backen discusses what child themes are used for and outline the benefits of using child themes, including a walk through of the steps to creating a child theme and demonstration of how to use FTP (file transfer protocol) to add the child theme to a WordPress install.
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Kyle Unzicker: Back To Square One: Building A WordPress Starter Development Kit
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Kyle UnzickerMay 15, 2014 — The back-end and front-end teams at Modern Tribe set out to create a WordPress starter development kit in order to speed up development and help keep uniformity among projects. So, how did we build it? Why didn’t we use “________” framework instead? What does the code look like? Is our universe real? What is true happiness? This session will attempt to answer at least 60% of these questions.
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Joe Dolson: Presenting Accessible Video In WordPress
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Joe DolsonMay 15, 2014 — WordPress incorporates the powerful and flexible MediaElementJS library to handle audio and video files. It also includes oEmbed for many online video sources. On top of that, there are tons of plug-ins available for handling audio and video files. This presentation goes through the ins and outs of making your multimedia documents accessible, what the issues are with the native WordPress methods and popular plug-ins, and show you how to make sure that you’re making your media available to as much of your potential audience as you can.
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WordCamp Dayton Keynote
WordCamp Dayton 2014Speaker: Cory MillerMay 15, 2014 — Cory Miller founder of iThemes tells his story.
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Jenny Munn: Content Marketing Workshop: How To Plan, Optimize And Analyze Your Efforts
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Jenny MunnMay 14, 2014 — You may love your blog posts and WordPress website content, but does anyone else? How do you know what’s working and what’s not? If your content marketing plan (or lack thereof) could benefit from a strategy planning overview, then this session will help you understand what kind of content your market is searching for, how to make it find-able and how to track what’s working and what’s not.
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