August 31, 2013 — This presentation discusses how to extended the JSON API Contrib plugin to manage and streamline various admin tasks such as: WordPress Core updates or installing a specific version Enable, disable, update, and install plugins. Revert plugin updates Add, delete, update users. In addition, with this solution, we can install plugins or core updates without manually having to download plugin files from wordpress.org and upload them to the server.

August 30, 2013 — If you’ve ever wanted to make your WordPress passions a full time job you’re not alone. It’s a long journey to go from idea, to a documented, commented, socially mentioned, commonly installed and productive project. This talk reviews many of the tough lessons learned in trying to both build a team, community and movement around a WordPress plugin and shares tips, best practices and pitfalls and most importantly how to address them once identified.

August 30, 2013 — Design is, fundamentally, about problem solving. Our clients often come to us with solutions, but do these solutions even solve the right problems? Whether you’re using WordPress to build enterprise-level websites or web apps for startups, a strong UX research and discovery phase can help bring any confused project into perspective, create focus, and set the path for an accurate solution (and a happy client).

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August 29, 2013 — This presentation explains what Computer Science actually entails. It covers ways to describe code performance using Big-Oh notation comparing different post meta and taxonomy queries and it discusses concurrency as it applies to WordPress, specifically data races and how they can occur while counting post views.

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August 29, 2013 — Write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster. Starting from a beginner’s perspective, this talk allows anyone (designers & developers) to get started with SASS or LESS for their WordPress theming.

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August 28, 2013 — This presentation demonstrates the process of developing a WordPress members only section without a plugin. It discusses the code involved in creating custom sidebar widgets and templates with ‘Members Only’ content as well as ways to customize the WordPress login system to match your theme.

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August 28, 2013 — About WordPress from a Lead Developer.

August 27, 2013 — Learn from over 50+ WordPress entrepreneurs interviewed and hear their stories about how they grew their WordPress business. This presentation defines what it takes to be a WordPress entrepreneur, starting out as an elite freelancer, building your business, and achieving great work/life balance.

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August 26, 2013 — This presentation covers the top ten list of things to do after your WordPress install.

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August 26, 2013 — This presentation covers how the Internet Archive is attempting to provide universal access to all knowledge by working with communities that have been digitizing, organizing, and serving books music and video for years. Hopefully the ensuing discussion will lead to new ideas on how the Internet Archive can help the WordPress communities and how the WordPress communities can bring even more rich resources to a world that is increasingly turning to the web as its library.