December 21, 2013 — Generally our meetings are simple and to the point, we talk about more advanced WordPress topics and projects we’ve been working on as well as everyone gets to share code and design tips and ideas for everyone to comes.
No one person will speak but instead we try to make this into a bit of an unconference round table with people wanting to talk about WordPress and encourage everyone to bring at least one interesting new thing for us all to learn from in the group.

December 21, 2013 — Parallax Web Designs have been pretty popular lately. Jimba explains why Parallax Designs are made and how they play a vital role in a better storytelling.

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December 20, 2013 — Learn how to keep your WordPress sites under version control using a workflow refined over dozens of sites. We’ll cover repository organization, what belongs (and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t belong), and how to make deploying updates and working with multiple environments as painless as possible.

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December 20, 2013 — In this presentation learn ways to find fresh new material for your blog week after week using headline starters to spur ideas, piggybacking off of popular bloggers without plagiarizing their material, interviewing people, writing posts that tie into current events as well as other strategies to make sure you always have engaging material for your readers.

December 19, 2013 — This presentation mixes in general and advanced SEO using tools for keyword research and showing you what you should find. Learn about site audits and some tools to incorporate it all into WordPress.

December 19, 2013 — Learn about WordPress accessibility for the physically disabled. This talk goes over some interesting facts on internet trends concerning the disabled and why it is important that we cater to this demographic. It covers some current and generalized strategies for making any website more accessible. And it showcases some specific WordPress plugins and techniques that make WordPress websites way more accessible to the disabled.

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December 18, 2013 — WordPress has grown so much lately that it can be daunting for beginners in finding where to start. This talk covers each section of the admin panel and explains what each does.

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December 18, 2013 — Sliders are one of the most popular functional elements included with themes, or added via plugin. Despite their widespread use, the value added to a site by having a slider has been increasingly questioned lately, with some results showing that a slider actually hurts the site in terms of click-through rate, in addition to possible negative effects to the overall site performance. In this talk see where sliders can be most effective, how they can be effective and what makes, or doesn’t make, a slider a valuable addition to a site.

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December 16, 2013 — If you’ve spent cycles of iterations with clients losing your shirt, the problem may not be your client. It may be how you see yourself. Misunderstanding your role will quickly lead to lost profits or leaving money on the table. For freelancers and development shops alike, this session will help you avoid some classic mistakes we’ve all made.

December 16, 2013 — The Model-View-Controller design pattern is a popular technique to help structure applications in a way that is flexible, modular, and easy to maintain, but it hasn’t received much attention within the WordPress community. This session introduces the basic principles of MVC and show some practical tips on how to implement them in a WordPress plugin.

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