January 24, 2014 — A presentation on how Helpful Technology developed the GovIntranet theme for the Department for Culture, to use for their intranet and how we have subsequently released the code on GitHub and are working with other departments with the theme.

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January 23, 2014 — Konstantin Kovshenin really loves WordPress themes and in this presentation he talks about building templates. He goes through some of the coolest core functions such as get_template_part() and locate_template() and how themes could use their flexibility.

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January 23, 2014 — In this presentation, Joe talks about setting up production environments and shares some very useful tools for work with production environments.

January 22, 2014 — The transition to being an online first business is still evading many publishers and making it a challenge to turn traffic into money. So how does a previously print centric publishing industry switch their skills and knowledge towards the digital economy? What are the opportunities that await, and how can WordPress be a part of that?

January 11, 2014 — Learn how to create compelling video content quickly and how to use your YouTube account to drive traffic to your WordPress blog/site. The presentation covers the various video hosting options, how to create a video xml site map, and cover the new Yoast Video SEO plugin.

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January 11, 2014 — This presentation highlights working in and building the WordPress community, sharing knowledge, constantly learning more of the craft as well as ways to manage your own freelance business and client strategies. The work is out there; if you make the commitment, you can make a living.

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January 10, 2014 — Stop designing around devices, and begin designing around content and prepare for the future by designing for a continuous flow of screen resolutions. This presentation talks responsive design and how to ease the pain a bit, of being a web designer of today (the future).

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January 10, 2014 — Leveraging resources available in external APIs is a hot topic in today’s web world, however how to leverage those resources from WordPress is not well known. This presentation walks you through the API functionality built-into WordPress and shows you how to retrieve information from an existing popular API.

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January 9, 2014 — This presentation shows how there’s a whole community ready to help and how you can be part of it. Contributing by helping on the forums, submitting themes, plugins and patches is a great way to expand your network, your knowledge and join an amazing community of like-minded folks.

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January 9, 2014 — Everybody is making responsive websites these days, but only the super hip kids are using stuff like em based media queries, rem font-sizes, and off canvas nav menus. Learn about these techniques and more RWD magic, and instantly earn the right to sport a hipster mustache and move to San Francisco!

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