June 23, 2013 — This presentation focuses on the basics of how to use Underscore to make your theme and plugin scripts more efficient. It touchs on the significance of adding Backbone to core and provides some resources for Model-View-Controller (MVC, or “MVWTF”) JavaScript development on top of WordPress.

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June 23, 2013 — In this video we explore how to add new users to your WordPress site, required information for creating a new user, User Roles, what certain Access Levels can and can’t do inside WordPress, Editing user accounts and Promoting users on your site with biographical information.

June 22, 2013 — This presentation makes sense of the pandemonium of plugin development by breaking it down into three stages: planning, implementation, and release, while providing resources and discussing best practices.

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June 22, 2013 — This video introduces users to the Image Galleries feature provided in WordPress. It covers everything from adding new images to re-arranging photos to navigating through images in WordPress image galleries.

June 21, 2013 — Lessons learned taking a plugin from a casual .org submission to a paid product.

June 21, 2013 — This video introduces users on how to find the media library, how to edit items within the media library and how to delete photos, videos, audio and documents in the library.

June 20, 2013 — This presentation discusses the correct way to insert the magic that is jQuery into your theme and theme customizations.

June 19, 2013 — In this presentation learn the key components most articles should include which will keep readers on the page, increase page views, and rank with the search engines. The presentation focuses on the following: – content – keyword research – monetization – video / graphics – onsite SEO – social sharing – suggested tools and toys.

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June 19, 2013 — Learn how community newspapers in California have replaced their proprietary publishing systems with WordPress. Far more than just a website, these newspapers use WordPress to run their brick & mortar businesses. We’ll look at themes and plugins developed by these newspapers, illustrating many outside the box uses of WordPress.

June 18, 2013 — Video explaining the Post Categories screen – for beginners.