December 9, 2013 — In the past, image manipulation in WordPress was an alchemy of mixing GD functions and WordPress functions together to (hopefully) turn out the desired result. In WordPress 3.5+, GD is abstracted out, and a new class, WP_Image_Editor, allows easy manipulation of image files. This lets you perform simple resizing, crops, flips, rotates, and real-time streaming of those results using Imagick or GD. But, that’s not all! You can also easily extend WordPress’ classes to add your own functions, or replace the entire engine with your own.

This session will walk through what’s changed for image manipulation in 3.5, and explain ways you can take advantage of the APIs, both through using them directly and extending them for plugins of your own.

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December 9, 2013 — You’ll learn the proper way to write the most secure code in WordPress. Whether you’re a plugin developer or build themes, it’s extremely important to understand how to secure your code from hacks and exploits. Overlooking some very easy to follow techniques can expose your website to the hackers everywhere. WordPress features a number of built-in methods to help make sure your code is safe and secure, and we’ll cover each and everyone in detail

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December 9, 2013 — ver wonder if your site, your visitors, or business is safe on the internet? This session by Dre Armeda will show a demo on how quickly your site can be hacked, and your reputation put on the line. Dre will cover various scenarios that can affect your website like Pharma Hack, SEO Poisoning, and malicious redirects. He will then aid you by providing some tips to help reduce risk now and forever. Information Security is everyone’s responsibility, and should be a consideration on any web project, beginning to end.

December 8, 2013 — WordPress is being used all around the web. Noel will go through the story of Happytables, delving in the product and design decisions that have been made to bring this WordPress application & SaaS to where it is now. If you’ve ever wondered how WordPress can be used for more than just websites, watch this talk.

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December 8, 2013 — Some love it, some hate it, few understand it. Some won’t develop with WordPress because it doesn’t use enough of it, some won’t develop with WordPress again if it did. Object-oriented programming is by far the most widely spread programming paradigm, WordPress is by far the mostly spread web publishing system. In this talk we will see how the values of the two align and what can be the place of OOP in the future of WordPress.

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December 8, 2013 — This talk is about how the new CSS definitions, namely, CSS Regions and CSS Shapes along other definitions, is going to change the whole web experience in near future. How designers will be able to use these definitions for a better storytelling and deviate away from limited box shape and CSS animations that define the web today.

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December 8, 2013 — This talk discusses reasons why responsive is the best way to develop new websites, as well as the best techniques discovered after a year of full time development of responsive websites.
(Note: actual talk starts at 7:25)

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December 7, 2013 — This talk shows some sites based on Genesis child themes. It shows the stylesheets and how they’re the same from theme to theme. It then moves into some other work that combines themes, and talks about adding mobile-first design instead of just sticking to the child themes’ responsive CSS.

December 6, 2013 — Design is not just about themes, graphics, or the look-and-feel of a website. This talk discusses “design thinking” as a problem solving strategy, including why the most beautiful sites are not always the most successful. It ends with some ways for you to start applying design thinking principles to all of your projects.

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December 6, 2013 — This talk is a quick introduction to WordPress Multisite with a more detailed description of the install at The Ohio State University Libraries. Particular attention is given to maintaining the install, curating plugins, and the development and use of a custom theme, which was developed from the Underscores theme.

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