November 17, 2014 — As a veteran of 4 regional WordCamps (and countless other conferences), Lisa Melegari has developed a set of useful tips and tricks to surviving WordCamps across the country. Whether it’s your first camp or you’re a seasoned attendee, join Lisa for this quick lightning talk on the dos and don’ts of WordCamp survival.

November 17, 2014 — Adam Soucie, WordPress developer at Highforge, shares his experiences in getting started as a WordPress developer. Learn the positives and the pitfalls you should be aware of as you begin your own WordPress journey from someone that’s been there and back again.

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November 17, 2014 — Nicole walks through examples of some lesser known, but very useful functions that exist within WordPress.

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November 17, 2014 — Developing your first plugin can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation assists beginner to intermediate developers in understanding the basics of plugin development by walking through a basic plugin step by step. It goes over hooks, how important they are, how they are used, and what hooks are available to you in WordPress core as well as some good practices to keep your plugin sharp.

November 17, 2014 — Are you a creative genius? You may be and not know it. How WordPress can help inspire that genius in you.

November 17, 2014 — This talks gives tips and information about building an online community in 5 easy steps.

November 16, 2014 — 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. This talk looks 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.

November 16, 2014 — Each microsite collected together all the content about each supplier from all over the site. This presentation is about some of the tools used to bring the setup time down to around 30 minutes with the added benefit of consistency, including custom post types and a great plugin called posts2posts.

November 16, 2014 — This presentation shows you how to customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework. You will be able to add common features quicker than ever before, and advanced features you might not have known existed–saving you hundreds of hours of coding each year. Whether you are a beginner or advanced developer, you can do more with Piklist.

November 16, 2014 — With thousands of functions in the WordPress codebase, it’s virtually impossible to remember all of them. We’ll cover some overlooked WordPress core functions that you may not know exist. We’ll walk through some practical examples for their use, and give you a variety of new gems you can use every day.

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