July 31, 2013 —
It’s been ten years since the first release of WordPress, and even longer since its predecessor, b2, caught the eye of a small group of bloggers. Thousands of lines of code have been written, hundreds of hours have been spent in online discussions, and many, many itches have been scratched.

This presentation is the story of the itch. It will travel back through time to trace the itch, from the very first scratcher, to the people who caught the itch, until it became contagious and hundreds of people were scratching furiously and somehow they solved a problem for millions of people all over the world.

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July 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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July 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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July 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.

July 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.

July 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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July 16, 2013 — This presentation covers the details about setting up an eCommerce site.

July 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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July 15, 2013 — This presentation talks about how to find the best WordPress plugin for your site.

July 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.