February 3, 2014 — So you’ve built a website now what? Learn how to attract and engage your visitors and keep them on your website. Turn those visitors into loyal followers, clients, or buyers.

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February 3, 2014 — Content Rules! WordPress lets you easily update your web site even if you are not technical. This presentation goes over how to add pages and blog posts step by step, including text, images and other media. Learn the difference between pages and posts, when to use each, and understand WordPress terminology.

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February 2, 2014 — This presentation talks about the most popular attacks going on right now that are taking out WordPress sites, security best practices for building plugins and themes, and it covers workflow best practices (are you the reason your client’s site got hacked? Maybe!)

Then the other side of the coin — once your site has been hacked, what do you do next? How to get things cleaned up and make sure that they stay that way

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February 1, 2014 — This session is for beginners that are new to WordPress and would like to learn the essentials of how to setup a website utilizing WordPress’ awesome built-in features such as the blog, themes, widgets, and plugins. I will also cover the basics of what you need to do to maintain and manage your site, as well as resources for where to get help in the community and online.

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February 1, 2014 — This presentation covers what WordPress is, the history and community behind it. Then moves into installation – the difference .org vs. .com, selecting hosting, registering domains, and installing.

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January 26, 2014 — Running a business is not an easy task. A lot of people tried and failed at it. And even more people are still trying to find the secret recipe to building a successful business. This presentation shares what was learned on the journey to build an 8 people agency that specializes in building bespoke WordPress websites. All the Do’s, Dont’s and Lessons learned over the years.

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January 26, 2014 — WordPress’ position in the newsroom has never been stronger, and there’s never been a better time to be a WordPress developer working with news media. This presentation share strategies for conquering some of the toughest challenges facing The Post and other big news sites on WordPress.

January 25, 2014 — Any seasoned WordPress veteran will tell you that there’s a world of difference between a good WordPress site and a bad one. In this session, David looks at why making good WordPress sites matters and what we can all do to raise the bar and make the world a better place

January 25, 2014 — Take control over your website and learn how to fine-tune your WordPress for ultimate performance! In this presentation, you will get practical tips and tricks how to benchmark, pinpoint issues and prioritize tasks. Find the best page length for you. Use social media widgets and fonts properly. Choose themes well, Optimize images, Minify CSS and JS, Utilize the gZIP compression. Learn how to leverage your browser’s caching and use CDN and Caching for your content

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January 24, 2014 — In this presentation Marko Heijnen talks more about the workflow and what are the best practices and techniques of creating WordPress plugins.

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