August 12, 2013 — WordCamp Seattle 2013 Keynote

August 11, 2013 — Over time, the WordPress admin has grown in complexity as the software itself has become more powerful and features have been added. Clients will always be best served by evaluating their specific workflow needs and custom tailoring the admin to fit. This presentation explores some case studies to give an overview of what they needed and what was done to give them their own WordPress-powered content publishing experience.

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August 11, 2013 — The panel, moderated by Matt Mullenweg, explores what it means to break the 1 man freelancer barrier and the challenges of building an agency in the WordPress ecosystem. Topics include first hire/hiring/management, managing a team, business models (distributed vs. brick and mortar, contractors vs. full time employees), challenges with WordPress at a larger scale, and the economics of bigger teams in an ecosystem filled with freelancers.

August 10, 2013 — Learn how capabilities are “mapped” to other capabilities, and what the difference between primitive and meta capabilities means for your plugins and custom post types. Explore the true hidden powers of the API, like using capability mapping to selectively grant and revoke privileges on the fly, making complex user management more maintainable.

August 10, 2013 — An inspirational talk about the beautiful and amazing future of WordPress themes. The aim is to excite the imagination and passion of WordPress themers while encouraging the next generation of themers to take a stab at theming through stories of my own experiences and to convince the world that they can help build WordPress while making the world a more beautiful and exciting place through theming.

August 9, 2013 — For years BuddyPress was tied to a specific theme and creating a custom theme had a steep learning curve. BuddyPress now has theme independence. This presentation looks beyond the default, to new UI’s, new possibilities, to design for the community not to the default and gives some consideration to what the ‘new default’ should be when you load BuddyPress.

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August 9, 2013 — This presentation details security issues Gullibunny faces – Remote Requests, Clickjacking, and Rated XXE (XML eXternal Entity) – and how to handle them.

August 8, 2013 — A lot has changed in WordPress, in themeing, and in wider web application development in the intervening years. We’re currently deep into the process of building the next generation of P2, which we’re calling o2. Learn about what’s different, what’s new, what works and what doesn’t. Hear about some of our plans for the future, and how we’re morphing WordPress from its server-side roots into powering a dynamic, flexible, front-end heavy web application.

August 8, 2013 — We often think the first steps in setting up a new WordPress site are to install WordPress, choose a theme, and start writing. But the secret first step to a successful site is planning. When you’ve mapped out the crucial 5 W’s and 1 H, you can focus on what’s important, avoid procrastination, and dodge mistakes that can be hard to recover from later on. Learn how to get it right the first time by witnessing six examples of total wins and epic fails.

August 7, 2013 — This presentation covers how to identify a stakeholders true knowledge, actions to avoid, actions to take, and some fun stories of my biggest failures. The target audience is semi- to fully-technical designers, developers, or business owners working with clients or teams that are not fully technical.

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