August 7, 2013 — This presentation showcases some favorite BuddyPress and bbPress installations. It explains what makes them great, why they’ve succeeded, and provides tips and tricks you can implement to take your BuddyPress and bbPress powered site far beyond the blog.

August 6, 2013 — Learn how using the command line can change your WordPress development life. Learn how to install it locally or globally on your host, perform common WordPress administration tasks, and expand its functionality with plugins of your own.

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August 6, 2013 — Grunt is a local development tool that helps optimize and streamline the workflow, empowering developers and designers to focus on what they do best. This presentation introduces the various CSS and JS best practices, and a workflow that uses Grunt to automate the nitty-gritty details of preparing a theme or plugin for release.

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August 5, 2013 — Unit testing changed the way I write, architect, and debug code. In this presentation, I’ll tell you why I’ve fallen in love with unit testing, and hopefully inspire you to do the same.

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August 5, 2013 — Getting involved with the community is the best way to increase your WP skills, grow your network, and give something back to the WP world. This session is intended for anyone who knows and loves WordPress, but who isn’t sure how to take the next step.

August 4, 2013 — This session explores what led me to start contributing to WordPress for Android, and why I think it’s such an important project, both to me personally and as part of the larger WordPress family.

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August 4, 2013 — Learn how building genuine relationships and contributing to the WordPress community can strengthen your business and elevate your reputation. Instead of working against your competitors, creatively find ways to collaborate with them and sharpen your offerings.

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August 3, 2013 — P2 from Automattic is an atypical theme that works for longer posts but really lends itself to quick updates, inline commenting, and real-time communication. In this session, see how a P2-powered internal blog has improved staff communication and cohesion at UCSF resulting in a much better user experience for the researchers and students we support.

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August 3, 2013 — This presentation covers all the steps you’ll need to follow to get your brand new theme internationalized and localized. If gettext, Poedit, POT files GlotPress, all seem like a foreign language to you, this presentation will change that.

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August 3, 2013 — It’s easy to create a custom navigation menu for your site using the WordPress custom menu function. We’ll cover how to set up your first custom menu, as well how to create drop-down menus and other basic settings.