January 10, 2014 — Stop designing around devices, and begin designing around content and prepare for the future by designing for a continuous flow of screen resolutions. This presentation talks responsive design and how to ease the pain a bit, of being a web designer of today (the future).

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January 10, 2014 — Leveraging resources available in external APIs is a hot topic in today’s web world, however how to leverage those resources from WordPress is not well known. This presentation walks you through the API functionality built-into WordPress and shows you how to retrieve information from an existing popular API.

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January 9, 2014 — This presentation shows how there’s a whole community ready to help and how you can be part of it. Contributing by helping on the forums, submitting themes, plugins and patches is a great way to expand your network, your knowledge and join an amazing community of like-minded folks.

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January 9, 2014 — Everybody is making responsive websites these days, but only the super hip kids are using stuff like em based media queries, rem font-sizes, and off canvas nav menus. Learn about these techniques and more RWD magic, and instantly earn the right to sport a hipster mustache and move to San Francisco!

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January 8, 2014 — Can WordPress Really Do That, Take 2 is a case study of how we took a site that cannot be described as anything other than a complete disaster and resurrected it with the help of WordPress. The talk touchs on everything from IA and UX to design challenges, CPT and taxonomy implementation, working with a designer, to how to get the most out of WordPress by building on its strengths.

January 8, 2014 — This talk breaks down some of the popular lessons from my WordPress business podcast where I interview other WordPress entrepreneurs reaching for the same goal and how to you find the right client (and fire the bad.), landing $100k projects, growing from a 1 person to 25+ member team and starting your own marketplace of products.

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January 7, 2014 — This panel is for people looking to build their WordPress business past an employee of one. It discusses hiring/firing, money management, team collaboration, finding higher level clients, our “breakout” moments.

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January 7, 2014 — Attention to detail in your code and design work is important – but before you lay down one single pixel, or one single line of code, you need to make sure that everyone (you, your client, your clients client, etc) are on the same page and make sure you are managing expectations on what the desired project outcome is.

This presentation covers hard lessons I’ve learned in a decade of client work – I hope to pass those headaches on to you so you don’t make the same mistakes.

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January 6, 2014 — Composer has gained a lot of popularity and momentum in the past year. This session is a brief crash course in PHP dependency management using Composer. It explores how to install dependencies as separate packages and as WordPress plugins or themes. And it looks at how this can be used to speed up dev environment setup times.

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January 6, 2014 — Sakin shares his experiences and some tips and tricks that would help your free theme appear on the top 15 Most Popular Downloads at WordPress.org repository. This is a great achievement if you want to become a professional WordPress Theme Developer and want to sell your themes.

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