February 15, 2014 — Learn best practices and see practical examples for using email marketing services and e-commerce closely with WordPress.

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February 15, 2014 — Think differently about diverse funding and revenue generation opportunities for online entrepreneurs. Go beyond advertising and affiliates and think of your blog as a business.

February 14, 2014 — The Hieroglyph Project is a collaboration between science fiction author Neal Stephenson and the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU. The goal was to build and maintain a community for virtual collaboration to inspire innovation and creativity. Buddypress gave me the toolkit to build a site that allowed conversation and collaboration, and I learned some valuable lessons along the way.

February 14, 2014 — Imagine there was a way to get past all your insecurities and have the courage to keep going and growing – without any fear that others might think you’re a fraud. Come hear Chris’ take on how you can escape the impostor syndrome.

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February 10, 2014 — The basics of creating ​ and customizing​ themes, plus the customizing the admin for ease and beauty.

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February 10, 2014 — This talk identifies the primary web design and development skills including, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and FTP. Throughout the talk, Zac identifies how you can start with minimal or no knowledge of these skills and begin to become proficient with these skills, moving up to becoming a real web designer if interested.

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February 9, 2014 — WordPress is being used all around the web. This presentation goes through the story of Happytables, delving in the product and design decisions that have been made to bring this WordPress application & SaaS to where it is now. If you’ve ever wondered how WordPress can be used for more then just websites, just watch the video.

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February 9, 2014 — Developing your WordPress site locally will save you tons of time and prevent that “oops” moment when something breaks on a live site. This session shows you how to utilize tools and incorporate them within your workflow in order to save time and prevent mistakes. It explains the components needed to create local development sites, show you how to do it by utilizing time-saving techniques and then demonstrate the steps required to deploy your site once complete.

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February 7, 2014 — People like to read and shop online in their native language Multilingual Websites boost traffic and sales. This presentation shows how to easily build and manage WordPress Multilingual Websites, including e-commerce sites.

February 7, 2014 — This presentation shows the possibilities for styling WordPress and the freedom that the system gives in terms of the vision of the websites. He telsl more about the work of the Theme team Automattic, what do they do to have a wide variety of really cool and affordable themes for users.

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