January 15, 2013 — There are all kind of ways to approach your website- but when you strip everything else away its a machine. Using these tools, exercises and philosophies you can remove the self doubt and procrastination that usually accompanies website construction whether you’re running a blog, business site or non profit. We’ll cover what your sitemap should look like, what content to put on the site and how to write it, what plugins to use and then how to measure it all and refine it.

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January 14, 2013 — Plugins are defined by WordPress.org as: “Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine”. In this session, we are going to talk about free and paid plugins that will add enhancements to your blog or website.

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January 14, 2013 — User Experience Design is a way to provide real world solutions for real world problems. The benefit of using WordPress for building websites and applications gives us the backbone to best solve UX issues in a forward thinking way. We will look at different cases with different goals and see how we used WordPress UX to solve them. We’ll also look at some awesome other examples of WordPress design as well!

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January 14, 2013 — Does updating all your plugins by running `wp plugin update –all` sound too good to be true? Enter wp-cli, an open source WordPress management tool. 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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January 11, 2013 — Taylor Jasko presents a new Web 3.0 approach to using WordPress as a fully dynamic webapp running off AJAX, with all content being cached and delivered from a CDN in an intelligent way to handle dynamic content.

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January 11, 2013 — Lessons from the road making a successful & popular premium WordPress plugin. Shane shares the strategies his company employed to be profitable and the mistakes they made while learning.

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January 11, 2013 — An introduction to the Multisite feature of WordPress that will help you understand what Multisite is, how to activate the features on you WordPress.org installation, and a walk through of basic features of Multisite. This is followed by several use case scenarios and examples to assist you in determining if Multisite is a viable solution for your next WordPress project.

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January 10, 2013 — How do you build a newspaper with WordPress, what steps do you need to take and how you can avoid some common pitfalls.

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January 8, 2013 — Michael Bastos’ goal in this presentation is simple: To get you from having no EC2 account to having a running server using your domain name all the way to the WordPress Install screen.

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January 8, 2013 — In this presentation, Brandon Dove identifies key parts of the WordPress community, highlights some core features of WordPress, and gives resources for new users of WordPress.

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