December 3, 2012 — Michelle Gower, Lead Trainer/Developer for Gower Power Consulting, LLC, focuses on how to start, organize, and manage WordPress tools so that you can focus on your priorities and results. You’ll learn how to make friends with the dashboard, create blog posts and pages as easily as you write an email, and how to install and upgrade the software in just a few clicks.

December 3, 2012 — An understanding of custom post types will allow you to move your WordPress sites way beyond the blog and well into CMS territory. In this session Denise Tawwab will walk through the steps (and plugins) needed to create a custom post type, to attach a custom taxonomy, and to display the custom posts on your website.

December 2, 2012 — Erick Hitter goes in-depth on the roles that control user accounts in WordPress, the various capabilities given to each role, as well as how behind the Administrator, Editor, and the other default roles is a powerful system that can be customized extensively.

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December 2, 2012

December 2, 2012 — Which WordPress is right for you? We’ll compare the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org to help you understand if you should stick with WordPress.com or move to a self-hosted WordPress.org installation.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dandelionweb/moving-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg-14520574

November 30, 2012 — Andy Nathan discusses what it means to be an active blogger and how to take the long view on building traffic to your blog.

November 30, 2012 — There is no dominant screen size anymore. Visitors are viewing the web on devices with screen resolutions that vary from the tiny (240×320) up to massive retina displays (2880×1880). The question isn’t if you should be developing responsive sites, but how to make sites responsive as painlessly as possible.

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November 29, 2012 — This session focuses on developing WordPress plugins that are easily extendable by other developers. The idea is to build plugins that not only allow you to add-on and extend the plugin, but also allow other developers to create extensions and modifications without ever modifying the core source code of the plugin.

November 29, 2012

November 28, 2012