January 5, 2014 — This talk covers the “blobs vs chunks” distinction popularized by Karen McGrane and why content modeling matters in the CMS world. Then covers custom post types, custom meta fields, custom taxonomies, and other ways of doing structured content in WordPress.

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January 5, 2014 — Understanding different caching tools and techniques available to WordPress developers such as the Transient and Object Caching APIs and how/why they can make or break your site.

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January 4, 2014 — Tips, Tricks and Tools used by Blogger ITProGuru (Dan Stolts) to become one of the top Microsoft bloggers. Dan shares his secrets to amassing an audience of more than 65k unique visitors every month. He shares how to get content ideas, how to bring those ideas to life in a compelling way, how to get people that visit your blog to act while they are there, and how to be relevant in search.

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January 4, 2014 — This session goes through examples of several common attacks, vulnerabilities that allowed them to happen in core, how they were fixed, and how our community can work together to stay safe. This session involves brief code snippets and discussions, but is generally a higher level overview of the types of security problems that affect the WordPress community and how we can continue to fix them.

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January 3, 2014 — The Customizer is great, but there’s very little knowledge out there for building advanced controls with it, since its JavaScript API is currently undocumented.

(This is a real time demonstration – no slides available.)

I’ll share lessons learned building advanced controls for Custom Design on WordPress.com for how you can take the Customizer to the next level.

January 3, 2014 — There are 10 questions that range from developer basics, to advanced WordPress development, to developer philosophy that help me suss out just how “expert” a candidate really is.

Whether you’re contracting a developer to build your site, hiring a full time engineer, or just want to see if *you* can pass the 10up test, this talk is for you.

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January 2, 2014 — Template languages are a major feature of Rails, Node and Django, but not something found in WordPress (until now). This session walks through how to build a theme using Timber and Twig. With this understanding, you’ll be making more themes with cleaner code and less debugging.

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January 2, 2014 — This session explores many of these unconventional applications of WordPress, as well as to encourage exploration into the many possibilities offered as the platform continues to advance.

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January 1, 2014 — Santosh shows pointers on how SEO can be used in WordPress to make your rankings high in search engines. He shares various tricks and tips, plugins that anyone can use to better the content and increase traffic as well.

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January 1, 2014 — Mahadev shares how WordPress sites are hacked by hackers using a number of attacks to break WordPress security. He also shares his knowledge on how these can be prevented or fixed in your site.

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