October 10, 2014 — Keynote WordCamp Maine 2014

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October 10, 2014 — Earlier this year, 10up and MaineToday Media worked together to re-launch PressHerald.com and launch CentralMaine.com on WordPress, delivering compelling, modern, responsive digital news experiences to the Pine Tree state. This talk goes over an extended case study of the redesign and replatform.

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October 9, 2014 — VVV is a WordPress focused development environment, giving you, the WordPress developer, a “default
server configuration … intended to match a common configuration for working with high traffic WordPress
sites”.

In this presentation, Simon introduces some techniques his team uses in their sites provisioning scripts to solve issues with private Git repositories and will also cover various provisioning methods (WP CLI, SVN, Git, Composer).

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October 9, 2014 — Underscores is a starter theme, but what does that mean? Why should you use Underscores, also known as simply _s? In this talk I’ll go through why at Automattic we use it to create our themes. I’ll also show you why and how you can too.

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October 9, 2014 — I’ve now been to about 15 WordCamps and discovered that they all have the same problems. First-time WordCampers seem kind of lost and by the end of the day they seem to feel like their head is going to explode from all of the information made available to them in such a short time. My talk would cover my 12-step program on how to get the most out of a WordCamp and how to start giving back to the Community immediately.

October 9, 2014 — The internet has grown so great, that it is difficult to stand out and make yourself distinguishable. To attract and capture a solid audience, you have to be the peacock. You have to be bold and colorful. This session will teach you how to find your inner peacock, so that you can strut like no one has ever seen you strut before.

October 9, 2014 — “Build power! Create focus! Establish consistency! …All with one, easy-to-understand innovation in brand strategy.”

In the world of web development, especially with designers, content creators and marketers, we have a HUGE challenge; The client sometimes just can’t get out of their own way!

Even if a designer teaches them the right way to view aesthetic issues, the content person still battles them with words … and neither of these situations fixes the same issue for the marketing person’s task.

In one, easy to grasp, powerful, fell-swoop, it’s possible to fix all of these problems all at once! Better yet, the problem is fixed permanently! The client (and your team as well) has focus, power and consistency!

This presentation will completely re-define how you think about brand strategy forever!

October 9, 2014 — Awesome Plugins Everyone Should Be Using

October 9, 2014 — We’ll discuss how to speed up your site using caching via easy plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache, transients, and server site options like Memcache, APC, and Batcache.

October 9, 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.