June 22, 2015 — Developing a startup software product/app with WordPress. Not necessarily the right long-term solution, but makes it easy to get your minimum-viable product up and running without hiring a dev team.

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June 22, 2015 — Ben and Joseph gives you a step by step walkthrough of consuming data from a WordPress back end using AngularJS and show you how they have used this concept in production to power multiple front end websites with one WordPress installation.

June 22, 2015 — This talk focuses on the merits of Client Side applications, and how to build one using WordPress and the WP-API. While I will show code using my preferred JavaScript framework, AngularJS, I will show how just about any JavaScript framework can be utilized in building out a client side application using WordPress. This talk is geared towards developers who either want to learn or are curious about client side frameworks (AngularJS, EmberJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, etc.) can work with WordPress when utilizing the WP-API.

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June 22, 2015 — In this presentation, Marko discusses the basics you can do with WordPress and which software you can use to prevent – and detect! – hacking.

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June 22, 2015 — Karin shares her story how she built a WordPress company where her lifestyle works with the company and not against it. She will talk about how she manages to work from all over the world, while running a business back home.

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June 22, 2015 — Using the theme customizer – Merrill Mayer
An overview of the theme customizer API and how to build it into your themes.

Falling in Love with Sass for WordPress — Frederick Meyer
Learn why Sass, the CSS preprocessor, is better than vanilla CSS for complex projects, based on two key qualities of Sass: 1. It’s DRYer, and 2. It’s dynamic. The talk describes these benefits with reference to a complex real-life client project: creating a user-managed WordPress theme generator, with widths, color scheme, typography, etc., all changeable as Sass variables, compiling to one clean custom CSS stylesheet with no extra “theme options” DB calls.

Using Composer and WordPress — Kalen Johnson
Composer has taken the PHP community by storm, allowing projects to easily integrate PHP packages with their projects. Although WordPress doesn’t (yet) use autoloading and Composer, that doesn’t mean we as developer’s don’t have to. We walk through what Composer is, how to use it, then see how we can integrate it with our own WordPress projects, whether that’s a theme, plugin, or an entire WordPress site.

June 22, 2015 — What is Pinterest and Why You Should Use It.

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June 22, 2015 — A focus on the emerging development and applications of the WordPress REST API, a plugin which “provides an easy to use REST API, available via HTTP.

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June 21, 2015 — How to set up and work with WordPress child themes.

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June 21, 2015 — Speeding up your WordPress site has great benefits – user satisfaction, SEO boost, better conversion, and saving money. Through internal tune-up and external optimization, you too can make your site faster.

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