June 20, 2017 — Shivam is a Senior Software Engineer with BlogVault. He spends most of his time glued to a computer writing codes directly/indirectly related to WordPress.

WordPress is huge. One of the greatest things about WordPress is that it’s open source; which also means that it is really well understood. WordPress powers more than 25% of the web and it’s steadily moving towards the 30% mark. Thousands of third-party plugins and themes are available. All these points that make WordPress great, also make WordPress extremely vulnerable to hacking. Also, the scale and complexity of WordPress provides for a large attack surface.

June 20, 2017 — Shelly Peacock is the founder of the Spinbird Group, a WordPress Consulting and Design Group. She has a “full-stack” professional background of over 15 years which includes sales, marketing, and social media training.

She gave quick customization tips. Also explained about incorporate Page Builders for even more speed and flexibility.

June 20, 2017 — Tony lives in Asheville, NC, and operates Digital Strategy Works, a digital-strategy consulting company guiding small businesses on WordPress-related platform development.

Standardization creates a great framework in that every site you work on, you know and understand each tool you used to build into your site. It makes it much easier to update, maintain, and create.
By standardizing and eliminating processes that no longer work or are antiquated, you can build sites faster with less exposure to cost overruns. Getting to market quickly on time and within budget is important to a business owner trying to solve a problem or launch their service.

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June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner

June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner

June 19, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner

June 19, 2017 — How to use AWS (Amazon Web Services) to improve distribution of your self-hosted videos. You can easily deliver video to your WordPress website. This approach allows you to maintain analytics and keep your brand consistent. You’ll learn how to use AWS to distribute video content, setup JW Player and add your self-hosted videos to your WordPress site.

June 19, 2017 — *This is a 15-minute Lightning Talk*

What are landing pages? Why are they important? What role can they play in generating more conversions and more revenue? Find out the key aspects of successful landing pages and how you can get more of your website visitors to take action and become leads and sales.

Takeaways:

List of successful landing page examples
Identify the types of conversions that might work for your website
Outline tracking tools that will help quantify landing page success

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June 19, 2017 — Learn some quick WordPress security measures and policies that do not require any programming knowledge.

Takeaways:

Initial Setup Configuration
Secure Login Form
Plugin To Help Secure Your Website

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June 19, 2017 — The white screen of death! You were simply uploading content, updating a WordPress plugin, or clicking on this neat thing to see what it does and then your screen goes blank. You cannot login to your website. You can’t even see your WP login screen anymore. HELP!

In this session, you’ll learn how to break your WordPress site by:
– Updating to the latest version of WordPress
– Updating your plugins
– Adding new plugins
– Adding 301 redirects
– And much more

Most importantly, you’ll learn how these seemingly innocuous updates that should be easy to make on your website can break your WordPress site if not done properly.

Takeaways:

Attendees will learn that without the proper research, thought, and sequence of events, it can be very easy for a new user (or sometimes a very experienced one) to break their WordPress website.
They will get tips on how to avoid breaking their site and getting the dreaded white screen of death with a presentation with dry humor.

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