September 2, 2013 — This presentation shares the plugins that you can use to help the editors at a small publication get the VIP treatment.

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September 2, 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. Build your plugin development foundation and learn how to take your skills to the next level while enjoying a unique perspective on the WordPress world.

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September 1, 2013 — Learn how to design simple structures that look totally unique: but still are easy to develop and manage.

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September 1, 2013 — Demystify the Rewrite API and advanced permalink structures cookbook-style.Go through cool tricks like adding custom taxonomy slugs to custom post type permalinks, adding multiple taxonomies to a URL to make one appear to be the “parent” of another, and splitting a post into virtual sections via permalinks and break down all of the rewrite API functions and learn when to use each. And go through changing permalink structures without a mess of 404s.

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August 31, 2013 — This presentation talks about the design process from conception to implementation to launching a responsive/adaptive website. It talks about a browser centric workflow and how to implement with a mobile first mindset, while resolution independence and about the importance web standards in code & design, as well as organization in markup, project files, and content. It covers device support, and what to do after launch.

August 31, 2013 — This presentation discusses how to extended the JSON API Contrib plugin to manage and streamline various admin tasks such as: WordPress Core updates or installing a specific version Enable, disable, update, and install plugins. Revert plugin updates Add, delete, update users. In addition, with this solution, we can install plugins or core updates without manually having to download plugin files from wordpress.org and upload them to the server.

August 30, 2013 — If you’ve ever wanted to make your WordPress passions a full time job you’re not alone. It’s a long journey to go from idea, to a documented, commented, socially mentioned, commonly installed and productive project. This talk reviews many of the tough lessons learned in trying to both build a team, community and movement around a WordPress plugin and shares tips, best practices and pitfalls and most importantly how to address them once identified.

August 30, 2013 — Design is, fundamentally, about problem solving. Our clients often come to us with solutions, but do these solutions even solve the right problems? Whether you’re using WordPress to build enterprise-level websites or web apps for startups, a strong UX research and discovery phase can help bring any confused project into perspective, create focus, and set the path for an accurate solution (and a happy client).

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August 29, 2013 — This presentation explains what Computer Science actually entails. It covers ways to describe code performance using Big-Oh notation comparing different post meta and taxonomy queries and it discusses concurrency as it applies to WordPress, specifically data races and how they can occur while counting post views.

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August 29, 2013 — Write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster. Starting from a beginner’s perspective, this talk allows anyone (designers & developers) to get started with SASS or LESS for their WordPress theming.

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