August 28, 2013 — This presentation demonstrates the process of developing a WordPress members only section without a plugin. It discusses the code involved in creating custom sidebar widgets and templates with ‘Members Only’ content as well as ways to customize the WordPress login system to match your theme.

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August 28, 2013 — About WordPress from a Lead Developer.

August 27, 2013 — Learn from over 50+ WordPress entrepreneurs interviewed and hear their stories about how they grew their WordPress business. This presentation defines what it takes to be a WordPress entrepreneur, starting out as an elite freelancer, building your business, and achieving great work/life balance.

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August 26, 2013 — This presentation covers the top ten list of things to do after your WordPress install.

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August 26, 2013 — This presentation covers how the Internet Archive is attempting to provide universal access to all knowledge by working with communities that have been digitizing, organizing, and serving books music and video for years. Hopefully the ensuing discussion will lead to new ideas on how the Internet Archive can help the WordPress communities and how the WordPress communities can bring even more rich resources to a world that is increasingly turning to the web as its library.

August 25, 2013 — This is an interactive session that reviews live websites from attendees, covering various website testing and usability techniques that can used to improve sales and customer engagement on your website. From simple content changes to more in depth issues, this presentation has practical takeaways to be put to work right away.

August 25, 2013 — It has happened to everyone – the dreaded call that the site is down and you are the only one who can fix it. While this can seem like the end of the world, fear not – there are a number of tools that can make your life easier. From monitoring to backups, command line to GUI, this presentation explores the most effective tools and tricks to get to the bottom of the most common server problems.

August 24, 2013 — This presentation explores the Rewrite API by example. Create some advanced permalink structures like adding taxonomies to post type permalinks and see how the Rewrite API makes it both simple and elegant. It goes through what happens when we change permalinks, how WordPress intelligently and automatically handles some redirects.

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August 24, 2013 — Capistrano is a Ruby gem which helps automate code deployment (in some cases, even on shared servers). This presentation goes over what Capistrano is, what you can do with it, and what it takes to get started using it. It also provides some starter resources to help you get going with automated deployments.
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August 23, 2013 — Higher Ed is facing economic challenges that make it ripe for disruption. WordPress offers a great UI and has the potential to be a first rate purveyor of learning content. This presentation explores how WordPress can become the de facto platform for open sharable learning content and resources.

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