November 28, 2013 — This talk is about making the jump from theme tinkerer to developer and how to make a theme you really love. The journey begins with CSS and culminates with Photo Addict.
November 28, 2013 — This talk presents a number of ways on when to use jQuery and how you can write efficient code with an emphasis on performance. It covers important techniques like event delegation and lazy evaluation, the how-to’s on being cognizant of performance factors and speed gains from various code enhancements.
November 27, 2013 — This session takes a trip through the proper way to size and optimize photos using Photoshop and Google +s photo editing capability to make sure the maximum upload size limits of WordPress sites is always met, whether it’s 2MB or 32MB before it becomes an issue.
November 27, 2013 — This talk shares with you the plugins and tools that you can borrow to help editors and users on your site get the VIP treatment.
November 26, 2013 — This presentation is about WordPress Setup for Large Projects.
November 26, 2013 — After a brief overview of web typography as a whole this presentation discusses ways to improve your sites readability, typographic style, and shows how some of this can be made easier with WordPress.
November 26, 2013 — WordPress is known to power websites for individuals, small businesses, news outlets, and educational institutions. We are at the tipping point of WordPress gaining acceptance, over traditional enterprise tools, within corporate controlled environments. This session reviews four websites built, using WordPress, for well-known big business corporations.
November 19, 2013 — Learn how community newspapers in California have replaced their proprietary publishing systems with WordPress. This presentation looks at themes and plugins developed by these newspapers, illustrating many outside the box uses of WordPress.
November 19, 2013 — This presentation covers accessibility topics including implementing best practice accessibility for theme and plug-in developers, discussing current progress and goals from the WordPress Accessibility P2 group, and addresses general principles of accessibility useful for every WordPress developer and designer.
November 17, 2013 — A recurring story is a client who’s already been through the gauntlet with a fellow developer, but didn’t get what they wanted, it went way over budget, or one of a million other outcomes. This talk is about some of these pitfalls, and preparation you can do to be a wise client.