Author Archive
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Tracy Levesque: What You Don’t Know You Can Do: WordPress Development for Absolutely Everyone
WordCamp San Francisco 2013Speaker: Tracy LevesqueJuly 31, 2013 — Do you think tapping into “advanced” WordPress functionality is only for developers? Anyone can build a site that takes advantage of all that WordPress has to offer. Learn about Templates, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, The Loop, Hooks, Actions & Filters and how power users and designers can use them to build a great site with custom functionality.
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Kathryn Presner: How To Jazz Up Your WordPress Site Without a Lick O’ Code
WordCamp San Francisco 2013Speaker: Kathryn PresnerJuly 29, 2013 — While building a site for a fictitious event, learn how to add variety by using plugins to easily create columns, display information in tabs, add social media buttons, generate contact forms, and lots more – all without manually coding anything!
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Yuri Victor: Why The Washington Post Uses WordPress
WordCamp San Francisco 2013Speaker: Yuri VictorJuly 29, 2013 — The Washington Post used a user-centered design philosophy to radically shift our development process to launch dozens of successful new blogs, platforms and tools in the past year. This philosophy is the reason why we use WordPress. This presentation explores the importance of empathy, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, testing and iterating and how to incorporate these methods to build better products, faster.
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Melanie Adcock: The Famous 5 Minute (Secure) Install
WordCamp Atlanta 2013Speaker: Melanie AdcockJuly 17, 2013 — This presentation covers a basic WordPress installation will be demonstrated, including:
Adding the WordPress files to your server, Running the installation and Making sure that permalinks and uploads work. -
Paul Bearne: WordPress Child Themes
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Paul BearneJuly 17, 2013 — This presentation talks about how to safely tweak your child theme while still getting updates from the parent theme.
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Jonathan Davis: eCommerce is Hard!
WordCamp Atlanta 2013Speaker: Jonathan DavisJuly 16, 2013 — This presentation covers the details about setting up an eCommerce site.
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Troy Dean: 101 Ways to Elevate Yourself and Demand Higher Fees
WordCamp Melbourne 2013Speaker: Troy DeanJuly 16, 2013 — This presentation helps web developers add massive value to their clients without having to negotiate on price. It gives 101 ways to do this in your business, starting at the initial stage of incoming inquiry right through to site deployment and training.
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Brent Toderash: Finding the Right WordPress Plugin
WordCamp Winnipeg 2013Speaker: Brent ToderashJuly 15, 2013 — This presentation talks about how to find the best WordPress plugin for your site.
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Russell Fair: Using Javascripts the “Right Way”
WordCamp Atlanta 2013Speaker: Russell FairJuly 15, 2013 — Learn the “right way” to include javascripts in your theme or plugin and how to pass variables and translated strings to your scripts.
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Mo Jangda: Debugging for WordPress Developers
WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012Speaker: Mo JangdaJuly 14, 2013 — Techniques, tools, and examples on how to debug WordPress development issues.
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