January 18, 2013 — In this presentation, Josh Harrison explains why plugin developers need to use the power of WordPress so that other developers can extend the plugin and do exactly what they want. This talk covers the importance of using the WordPress API but also emphasizes that developers need to follow the example of core and add hooks where appropriate. Examples of where this would be very advantageous to make site development and deployments easier is also provided as well.

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January 16, 2013 — While talk of sites running on load balanced multi-server setups with Nginx reverse proxies, sharded databases and sever level caching is sexy cool… what about rest of us out there running low traffic sites on $6/month shared hosting? What can we do to speed up what we’ve got given a shared hosting environment? In this presentation, Jon Brown discusses what you can do to speed up your cheap shared hosting without too much technical know how.

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January 16, 2013 — Every day there are a number of new hacks that come online and the problem is affecting everyone. In this presentation, Tony Perez discusses prominent WordPress hacks, how they affect sites, and how to leverage WordPress resources, and (more importantly) how to detect and remove them. You will learn how to work with Google Webmaster and deal with “Your site maybe be compromised” warnings in the search engine results pages, as well as steps that will help you protect yourself from attack.

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January 15, 2013 — There is a lot of talk these days about taping into the resources available through external APIs (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc). Much of the functionality needed to interact with APIs is already included in the core through the HTTP class. In this session you will learn the concepts behind pulling data from an external API, sending data to an external API, how to utilize WordPress caching to increase speed and functionality, etc.

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January 15, 2013 — For those of us using WordPress as a driver of our business, whether we build products, help small clients, or work with huge corporations, there are a unique set issues we tend to experience. This session will help demystify the traits commonly found in successful WordPress businesses of all sizes, and identify common pitfalls to avoid, and actionable best practices you can apply to your business.

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January 15, 2013 — There are all kind of ways to approach your website- but when you strip everything else away its a machine. Using these tools, exercises and philosophies you can remove the self doubt and procrastination that usually accompanies website construction whether you’re running a blog, business site or non profit. We’ll cover what your sitemap should look like, what content to put on the site and how to write it, what plugins to use and then how to measure it all and refine it.

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January 14, 2013 — Plugins are defined by WordPress.org as: “Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine”. In this session, we are going to talk about free and paid plugins that will add enhancements to your blog or website.

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January 14, 2013 — User Experience Design is a way to provide real world solutions for real world problems. The benefit of using WordPress for building websites and applications gives us the backbone to best solve UX issues in a forward thinking way. We will look at different cases with different goals and see how we used WordPress UX to solve them. We’ll also look at some awesome other examples of WordPress design as well!

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January 14, 2013 — Does updating all your plugins by running `wp plugin update –all` sound too good to be true? Enter wp-cli, an open source WordPress management tool. Learn how to install it locally or globally on your host, perform common WordPress administration tasks, and expand its functionality with plugins of your own.

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January 11, 2013 — Taylor Jasko presents a new Web 3.0 approach to using WordPress as a fully dynamic webapp running off AJAX, with all content being cached and delivered from a CDN in an intelligent way to handle dynamic content.

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