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Reid Peifer: A Real World Design Process
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speaker: Reid PeiferDecember 2, 2013 — This talk is about wireframing, and prototyping, when to use Photoshop, and when to go straight to the browser. How to bootstrap a UX test, and when to ask your Mom for design advice. What steps you can skimp when you’re pinched for time, and how to find inspiration with our copping someone else’s work.
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John James Jacoby: BuddyPress Rules – The Road To Rewrites Is Paved With Pretty Permalinks
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speaker: John James JacobyDecember 1, 2013 — This session discusses how WordPress Rewrite Rules API integration for BuddyPress 1.8 was planned, architected, built, and patched.
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Panel Discussion: The Zen Of Freelancing
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speakers: Aaron Holbrook, Kyle Unzicker, Drew Poland, Andy StrattonDecember 1, 2013 — Panel discussion with guided discussion and Q and A across a panel of successful freelancers in the WordPress community.
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Shanta Nathwani: Data Architecture In WordPress
WordCamp Buffalo 2013Speaker: Shanta R. NathwaniNovember 30, 2013 — Posts vs. Pages & Categories vs. Tags. There is so much confusion about what types of things should be put on a page and what should be in a post. Static vs. Dynamic content is the best way to tackle this. When creating a website, you can edit a menu to include not only pages, but also category archives that can create a more complete experience for small businesses.
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Al Davis: Managing Multiple Authors – Creating an Editorial Process
WordCamp Buffalo 2013Speaker: Al DavisNovember 30, 2013 — This session looks at a couple of different options as to how you can handle multiple authors, whether they be guest bloggers or regular contributors. It also looks at options for creating a full blown editorial workflow with WordPress — one that will allow you to establish clear guidelines and processes for any team, whether it be a one person shop to multiple writers and editors.
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Monte Martin: Optimizing Your Site For Business Performance
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speaker: Monte MartinNovember 29, 2013 — How do you determine if your site is living up to potential? This presentation tackles that question and discuss ways to gather information about how visitors interact with your website. It discusses how to use the information you gather to answer important questions about your sites (business) performance.
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Tom Jenkins: Plugin Unit Testing For WordPress
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speaker: Tom JenkinsNovember 29, 2013 — WordPress has it’s own testing environment. Integrating PHPUnit with the WordPress testing framework can not only improve your code quality, but also your architecture. This talk walks through the process of integrating these environments into your plugin development for more efficient code and easier feature development.
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Sheri Bigelow: Adventures In Theming
WordCamp Buffalo 2013Speaker: Sheri BigelowNovember 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.
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Carl Danley: JavaScript Performance Techniques
WordCamp Chicago 2013Speaker: Carl DanleyNovember 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.
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Joe Rozsa: You Want To Stick That Where?
WordCamp Buffalo 2013Speaker: Joe RozsaNovember 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.
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