June 9, 2013 — This presentation includes: Planning your eventual “escape” to do Freelance Full Time, the Pros and Cons of Freelancing and Business Ownership and being prepared for the unknown road ahead.

June 9, 2013 — Focusing on a tightly targeted niche market, can free you from the ups and downs of accepting any and every client that hits our contact form. This presentation discusses how to pick the right niche, how to market your services or products to that market, and the path to grow beyond your one-man shop. Geared for WordPress consultants, and WP product creators.

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June 8, 2013 — A detailed look at some of the security vulnerabilities that we’ve seen in WordPress – including the infamous Timthumb.php attack, and to put into perspective WHY WordPress sites are targeted and what the key motives of the criminals are – it isn’t what many people think.

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June 8, 2013 — This presentation shares some knowledge about how to get started a little more adventurous in terms of some of the tweaks you can make to a theme to make it your own.

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June 7, 2013 — This presentation covers how to maximize your video efforts with smart SEO, get more traffic to your website using my complete syndication method from YouTube to WordPress and leveraging video content, turning it into, transcripts, articles, blog content.

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June 7, 2013 — This presentation is aimed at new users who are not yet familiar with how to navigate the WordPress admin area and what different areas do. It walks though each section and points out some recommended settings that will be helpful to slightly more advanced site editors.

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June 6, 2013 — After a bit of background information about how the project came to be, you’ll see a demo build for a fictional restaurant website showing how MasterPress can quickly take a fresh installation of WordPress through to a highly customised dashboard containing multiple custom post types, taxonomies and custom fields.

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June 6, 2013 — Most spam today is machine-generated by automated programs or “spambots” that trawl the net, but human spammers still play a part.
This presentation shows how we can reduce the incidence of spam on our WordPress sites without impeding the ability of clients, customers and website visitors to communicate, comment and contribute to your site.

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June 5, 2013 — Unfortunately, there is a lot of misleading information out there on how to optimize your WordPress site. Also, the SEO (search engine optimization) landscape is changing rapidly due to the recent massive Google changes. This presentation cuts through the noise and gives you a proven roadmap to bring traffic to your website. It covers all aspects of SEO as well as the best WordPress plugins.

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June 5, 2013 — This presentation shows you ways to extend the capabilities or WordPress through other web services. WordPress alone is great, but “mashing it up” with other web services allows you to create new web applications that have never been seen before.

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