August 11, 2015 — This session takes a looks at WordPress Security. It will address concerns of the general user, how WordPress sites are generally hacked, the need for an international security standard in WordPress. The session describes the top 10 vulnerabilities as listed in OWASP.

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August 7, 2015 — The core tenets of the popular self-help book (The Four Agreements) provide a surprisingly on target guide to surviving and thriving in the world of professional services:
Be Impeccable with your word – Don’t take anything personally – Don’t make assumptions – Always do your best.

August 7, 2015 — In this session we discuss the power of copyright and how to protect this important asset of your business. We walk through some terms that should be in all services agreements and share some cautionary tales of inadequate — or non-existent — agreements to produce work subject to copyright.

August 7, 2015 — This talk is an introduction to using WordPress as a middle-ware system for various apps, particularly for mobile applications. We deal with WordPress’s Custom Posts, REST API, JSON, and AJAX to build an engine, and a simple front-end based on it.

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August 7, 2015 — We’ve all built a ton of WordPress sites. We’ve also managed them all too. You’ve probably heard about WordPress Multisite Networks, and all the awesome things it can (and can’t) allow you to do. With great power, comes great responsibility. During this talk, Taylor will step through the do’s and don’ts of Multisite Networks. He will share how WordPress Multisite can be your best friend or worst enemy… but usually both… at the same time. Expect pro-tips, eureka moments, and hard lessons learned from his experience setting up and running multisite networks for small private company intranets, all the way to global enterprise brands. By the end of this talk you will know the pros and cons of WordPress Multisite Networks, best practices for setting up and running a multisite, and know about alternatives if multisite isn’t a fit for your next project.

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August 6, 2015 — This talks is about using Git, WordPress and Azure.

August 6, 2015 — After working on BruteProtect, a plugin that was acquired by Automattic, I’d like share the knowledge I wish I knew 2 years ago when I first started with WordPress. I’ll discuss plugin file structure, short codes, security, and private deployment to multiple client installs. We’ll discuss MVC structure, in which your logic is separate from your UI.

I build WordPress websites and apps for the Hotchkiss Consulting Group. My blog can be found at roccotripaldi.com

August 6, 2015 — This talk is a behind-the-scenes look at building a publications website from scratch using our recent work on the acclaimed Harvard Law Review website. We look into the design systems that publications need and the WordPress tools to make a complex publication come together.

August 6, 2015 — The focus of this presentation is making a WordPress theme more accessible for those with disabilities. This presentation is programming specific, and cover various HTML and CSS requirements to ensure any WordPress theme is accessibility-ready. I cover accessible images, media, link text, headings, keyboard navigation, colour contrast, skip links, and forms; and how a developer can program these aspects to meet WCAG 2.0 Guidelines.

August 6, 2015 — As we move toward the “Semantic Web” or “Web 3.0″, the power of well defined, accessible information is getting greater and greater by the day.
In this talk, we look at the way that data and the web are changing, and the possibilities that are created by allowing your data and your design to exist independently.