March 28, 2016 — Much like online businesses or blogging, higher ed is a world of its own with unique challenges, content, stakeholders, and target audiences. In our world, we don’t worry so much about which eCommerce plugin is best. Instead, we’re more concerned with how to manage a large-scale network of faculty blogs, abide with FERPA regulations, and implement Active Directory single sign-on. This talk will showcase how WordPress is used in the world of higher ed and how we’re a great candidate for utilizing WordPress to its full potential, whether it’s using the powerful CMS to stretch limited resources or using its new API capabilities to share information and break down silos.

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March 28, 2016 — Pulling from my experiences developing leenk.me and iThemes Sync, I will discuss the most important aspects of integrating a SAAS app with WordPress. We will cover the basic ways of communicating data to and from WordPress, including creating a basic REST API in WordPress and using the WP-API. I will also briefly discuss the benefits of using WordPress as your SAAS framework.

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March 26, 2016 — I’m a digital marketer with a love for my community and the nonprofits that serve my community. Some friends and I set out to create a way to help marketing professionals and developers use their specific skills to help local nonprofits, and 48in48 (48in48.org) was born. We recently finished our first 48in48 event where a team of over 150 people built 48 WordPress websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours. This session will explore what I learned during the creation, planning and execution of the event and will give some thoughts on how the WordPress community can give back using their professional skills.

March 26, 2016 — As a Heart-Centered Entrepreneur, You’re Passionate About Your Work.
You offer great service at a great rate and clients love you for it. But here’s the thing…
Sometimes you get the feeling that you can be doing more great work with even more great people.
Except you don’t want to be that over the top, in your face “sales” guy to do it.
So the question becomes: How can you grow & market your business so you can impact even more clients, without compromising your values or integrity in the process?
During this fast-paced, highly interactive session, best-selling author Brian Hilliard will show participants:
– 3 Surefire Ways to build their business with WordPress…so participants can impact more people and do more great stuff with their clients!
– 2 Quick thoughts on how blogging with WordPress can get more “word of mouth” business…so participants can have a steady stream of referrals flow their way.
– 1 Amazingly simple formula on how Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs can effectively and ethically market their business with WordPress…without compromising their values or feeling “pushy” in the process.

March 26, 2016 — So much attention is paid to the code that goes into making WordPress a stellar product, but you don’t hear much about the human side of it. While you will find the occasional blog post or random tweet talking about mental health and happiness in the WordPress community, most overlook the best way to contribute to WordPress…paying attention to your mental and physical health, and taking care of each other. Give back to WordPress by stepping back from the code and looking at the world around you.

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March 26, 2016 — We can’t all be experts, but we all can do something to contribute to the WordPress project. I’ll be the first to admit I’m still a beginner with WordPress even after using it for 8 years. But I never let my lack of knowledge hinder me from being a source of help and service to the WordPress community. I’m here to share my story of how anyone, regardless of WordPress know-how, can get involved and do some good in their local community or the WordPress project at large.

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March 26, 2016 — Building websites with WordPress is fun, challenging, exciting. Building solutions that fundamentally alter a person’s behavior or the way of business for an entire network of museums? That’s nothing short of incredible.

Come and learn how WordPress helped transform an art museum, a library, and a national fitness center by awarding digital badges for real-world participation.

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March 26, 2016 — In this talk, you will learn how to use WP-cli, a command-line tool, for developing locally, as well as deploying a site to a staging or production server, and finally how you can use it to automate a lot of the processes for creating your own managed WordPress hosting. This talk is designed for developers or those familiar with command-line and basic linux scripting.

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March 25, 2016 — Learn about amazing tools to help you improve your blogging. We will go over a variety of tools including tools for idea generation, planning, creating, editing, and marketing. Take your blog to the next level by learning about these tools today!

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March 23, 2016 — Heather Baker captured the essence of our city, and our recent superduper event, in this delightful little short-form video. Relive day 3 in this almost-instant replay.