November 8, 2016 — There’s a simple yet powerful API within WordPress to help developers cache all sorts of data, and in turn speed up load times. Transients are often misunderstood by developers, and their powerful abilities can sometimes be misused.

In this session we will uncover the inner workings of the Transient API, and learn how to properly leverage it’s abilities.

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November 8, 2016 — Most small businesses are told they need to be on social media, or they need to blog, or they need to have a website but often they don’t know how to tie all the pieces together. This session provides an inbound marketing-based strategy and a plan for how to bring all the pieces together.

November 8, 2016 — How to use WordPress to do other things than websites: iOS web based apps, streaming web video channels, and ROKU channels (to name a few!).

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November 8, 2016 — Making WordPress themes and plugins can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to accessibility for your end users. This session will walk you through some steps you can take to make your WordPress sites more accessible for all.

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November 8, 2016 — This talk will cover using React, Redux, and the REST API to create decoupled JavaScript apps to interact with WordPress.

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November 8, 2016 — Isn’t it heartbreaking to go through the process of writing a proposal and not getting the project? I’ll help you ask stronger questions up front to really understand your potential clients’ projects.

Oh, and as a bonus, I’ll share how I find out what they are really willing to pay before I write a proposal.

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November 8, 2016 — This session will be a Q&A round table with noted WordPress developers on the future of WordPress moderated by Allen Moore of 10up.

November 8, 2016 — Chrome is not just a great browser for viewing websites, but also an invaluable tool for building websites. Out of the box, Chrome ships with “developers tools”. Many web developers are aware of this and make use of some of the tools it provides. However, most developers only scratch the surface of what the browser can do.

Join in as we take a deep-dive into the Chrome developer tools and learn, among other things, how to:

– Quickly test styling fixes
– Emulate handheld devices to test responsive designs
– Easily navigate and debug JavaScript
– Use the JavaScript console
– View form submissions
– Monitor AJAX requests
– Check for performance issues
– Troubleshoot caching issues
– Create and use your own snippets

November 7, 2016 — See the Power. Every WordPress website has (or will have soon) an API built-in! What can you do with that? It allows us to further separate the data from the code. Because WordPress is a great CMS we can use it to manage our data and then via the API access that data to power whatever we like. We’ll touch a handful of examples and explore an iOS app pulling all it’s data and assets from a WordPress site via this API.

See the Power of the WP API. Now that every WordPress website has (or will have) an API built-in, what can you do with it? It allows us to further separate the data from the code. Use WordPress to manage our data and then via the API easily access or update that data to power whatever we like. We’ll touch how to set it up and a handful of examples and then explore an iOS app pulling all it’s data and assets from a WordPress site via this API.

This will be geared for developers with some “how to” but also for everyone interested in the power of WordPress and where things are heading.

Learn how to spell WP-API
Learn about the power and flexibility it brings to WordPress
See it working in a live app

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November 7, 2016 — My wife recently launched a new WordPress Multisite network for the Cherokee County School District in Georgia, which encompasses 40+ schools and serves more than 41,000 K-12 students. For some of the deeper coding, she enlisted my aid to help bend WordPress Multisite to her will.

From adding custom BootStrap CSS column classes to nav menu items, to automagically including a custom stylesheet for each school site, to denying content editor access to specific parts of the dashboard, these and several other code snippets will be covered.

Featured code snippet: the “redirect_naughty_children()” function. Get out of my Dashboard, you darn kids!

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