November 17, 2014 — Developing your first plugin can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation assists beginner to intermediate developers in understanding the basics of plugin development by walking through a basic plugin step by step. It goes over hooks, how important they are, how they are used, and what hooks are available to you in WordPress core as well as some good practices to keep your plugin sharp.

November 17, 2014 — Are you a creative genius? You may be and not know it. How WordPress can help inspire that genius in you.

November 17, 2014 — This talks gives tips and information about building an online community in 5 easy steps.

November 16, 2014 — As we move toward the “Semantic Web” or “Web 3.0″, the power of well defined, accessible information is getting greater and greater by the day. This talk looks at the way that data and the web are changing, and the possibilities that are created by allowing your data and your design to exist independently.

November 16, 2014 — Each microsite collected together all the content about each supplier from all over the site. This presentation is about some of the tools used to bring the setup time down to around 30 minutes with the added benefit of consistency, including custom post types and a great plugin called posts2posts.

November 16, 2014 — This presentation shows you how to customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework. You will be able to add common features quicker than ever before, and advanced features you might not have known existed–saving you hundreds of hours of coding each year. Whether you are a beginner or advanced developer, you can do more with Piklist.

November 16, 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.

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November 16, 2014 — Have you used WP-CLI before and want to know what makes it so powerful? Or, simply curious about what makes it tick? Join Daniel Bachhuber, WP-CLI’s current maintainer, on a dive into its internals. Learn about the load process, historical design decisions, its libraries, and which pieces you can incorporate to make your commands just as powerful.

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November 16, 2014 — What does the current WordPress design landscape look like? What are popular and upcoming trends to look out for? This presentation explores theme design and its current environment and how it’s projected to change in the next year.

November 16, 2014 — When starting a design project, we sometimes begin with the final vision, without asking the questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Design is usually defined as the visual. When it is the steps taken to the finished outcome. It is the process, the area between knowing and doing. The making. Not the styling, nor the graphics, it’s the reasoning behind the decisions. Creating solutions, that solve the issues for the user (and the owner). The bridge between vision and reality.