Author Archive
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Dara Skolnick: Levelling Up Your WordPress Development Workflow
Speaker: Dara SkolnickDecember 16, 2016 — You’ll love being a WordPress theme developer even more than you already do by learning to apply time- and sanity-saving practices to your WordPress development workflow. If you’ve heard about web developers using technologies like CSS preprocessors (e.g. Sass), task runners (e.g. Grunt, Gulp), and version control (e.g. Git) and wondered how to apply them to developing WordPress themes, I’ll show you how!
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Maxime Jobin: Sécurité – Ne soyez pas une cible
WordCamp Montreal 2016Speaker: Maxime JobinDecember 16, 2016 — Qui dit logiciel dit bogue. Qui dit bogue dit brèche de sécurité. Malgré le fait que WordPress soit un logiciel sécuritaire, comment se fait-il qu’autant de sites web utilisant WordPress soient piratés ? Ne soyez pas une cible facile ! Cette présentation couvre les différents stratagèmes utilisés pour pirater un site web et comment bien se défendre contre les attaques potentielles.
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Topher DeRosia: What’s a REST API and Why Should I Care?
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Topher DeRosiaDecember 15, 2016 — The WordPress REST API is one of the most fundamentally important new aspects of WordPress, yet it’s rarely explained to people who aren’t developers. In this talk we’ll explain what this thing is, and why you should be excited about what it can do for you, even though you’re not a developer.
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Kevin Skarritt and Steve Bennett: Explode Your WordPress Business
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speakers: Kevin Skarritt, Steve BennettDecember 15, 2016 — Expand your role and grow your business within the world of Word Press. In this session, you’ll learn to:
– Triple your average sale
– Sell services that you’re not currently offering – while focusing on what you do best
– Have a higher level of perceived authority with your clients
– Garner “guru” status
– Become a full-service agency (if you want to)
… All by making one simple change to the conversation!
Want to be bigger?
Want to see more for your role?
Want to learn to control and evolve the conversation with your clients?
Steve Bennett and Kevin Skarritt will walk you through the process of how leading with brand strategy can take your business to dizzying new heights.
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Brian Richards: Immediately Practical Ways to Use the WP REST API
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Brian RichardsDecember 15, 2016 — Let’s walk through a few common AJAX patterns and compare how they look and work using the WP REST API instead of custom admin-ajax hooks and functions.
Specifically, we’ll look at code samples for infinite scolling/load more buttons, look-ahead search, and interacting with a totally custom data set (custom post type and custom post meta).
Throughout the process we’ll talk about what you get for free from the REST API, what you have to build yourself, and review real, working code so that you can build smarter and faster solutions.
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Rebecca Gill: WordPress, SEO and You
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Rebecca GillDecember 15, 2016 — In this session we look at SEO best practices and how to apply these to your WordPress website and blog. We’ll discuss what search engines want and need, so you can apply this to driving traffic via organic search.
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Michelle Schulp: DIY Design – Think Like A Designer When Creating Your Site
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Michelle SchulpDecember 15, 2016 — Learn the tricks designers use to make websites attractive and effective. We’ll teach you the Most Important Question designers ask their clients, and how you can use it to your advantage when doing it yourself. Then, learn practical ways to apply it to create attractive sites (using good design principles and simple rules for success) and effective sites (through basic exercises that help you develop and showcase your primary call to action).
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Kyle Maurer and Adam Silver: WP Battles – Hacker vs. Webmaster
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speakers: Kyle Maurer, Adam SilverDecember 15, 2016 — The Internet is a battleground. It’s true. Every minute of every day, a war is being fought. This is a war between the owners of every website in existence and the nefarious hackers seeking to circumvent any and all protective layers in order to gain control of the digital property of others to use for their own malicious intent. There is no end in sight to this struggle. It is one in which we must all engage no matter how serious or trivial our purposes may be.
This session will take you into the depths of this conflict where you will witness firsthand the tactics and strategies employed by both sides to gain the upper hand. You will learn the methods used by hackers to bypass security and compromise websites. You will also see how experienced webmasters protect and defend their sites from invisible enemies.
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Cory Miller: How to Survive and Thrive in the Near Future
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Cory MillerDecember 15, 2016 — Cory Miller gives his keynote presentation at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016.
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Angela Bergman: Don’t Be a Search Engine Optimist
WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016Speaker: Angela BergmanDecember 14, 2016 — Everyone hears they should be using SEO on their website, but what does that really mean? Angie walks through the important basics anyone can do to help their websites get better ranking, without the smoke and mirrors act.
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