August 3, 2015 — When I started making websites 7 years ago, WordPress was the hip new thing all the cool kids were using. So I used it too.

But then time went by, and the web changed. The tools and techniques that I used changed too. I moved away from WordPress.

Now I’m back. Let me show you why I’ve returned, and why I believe that what WordPress has become over the last 7 years has ensured its continued success.

August 3, 2015 — I recently replaced a proprietary SaaS CMS for the largest school district in the state (Newark, NJ). We launched our 70+ schools sites on Aug 29, 2014 on top of WordPress. Our district site is 30,000 pages and 300,000+ media assets. In the end, we cut our annual web site management budget in half and have beautiful new web sites powered by WordPress that ease the pain points our content owners, administrators and technology coordinators have when managing their school websites. This presentation covers how this was achieved using WordPress, how it has solved many of the problems we were facing with our vendor-controlled proprietary system, and how we have embraced the concept of WordPress as an Application Framework, allowing us to create all kinds of sites, applications, and mobile apps directly from WordPress.

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August 1, 2015 — Sam was the creator of BruteProtect, a WordPress security plugin acquired by Automattic in August 2014. He now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic, with the goal of bringing killer features and functionality to WordPress blogs everywhere.

August 1, 2015 — Talking about elasticsearch, why searching in WordPress/MySQL is bad and what next gen NLP technologies will allow WP to do.

August 1, 2015 — WordPress core contributor Taylor Lovett covers why the new JSON REST API (proposed for WordPress 4.1) is so awesome, as well as explains some cool things you can do with it and how you can start using it today.

August 1, 2015 — You can make your codebase much easier to maintain and expand by breaking your scripts up into modules, encapsulating different logical units in their own files, which makes developing and debugging simpler.

Learn how to break your scripts up into smaller files to make coding and debugging your plugins more manageable, and how to use a build process to reconstruct them into a single file for release.

August 1, 2015 — WordPress upgrades, they bring us new features, faster sites, and better security. But pushing that upgrade button can be a scary moment, unless you’ve ensured your site is ready and compatible. I’ll show you the best practices for ensuring your site is ready including a simple strategy that works whether you manage one site or hundreds.

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August 1, 2015 — This talk covers the BuddyPress plugin and to set up a social networking site with it. This presentation goes over the various features of BuddyPress as well as digging into some of the code and extending the plugin to suit the needs of your application.

August 1, 2015 — It’ll start with explaining what typography is, why it’s important and how, by just investing 10 to 15 minutes, you can make your site more readable and good looking. Since everybody deals with text, this talk would be relevant to all – developers, designers, bloggers and other WordPress users.

July 31, 2015 — He’ll discuss the different scenarios that we encounter when teaching WordPress to our clients, friends, and students. He’ll offer strategies for optimal sharing of our knowledge to others.

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