February 1, 2013 — Ever wonder if your WordPress site, your visitors, or business is safe on the internet? This session by Dre Armeda will show a demo on how quickly your site can be hacked, and your reputation put on the line. Dre will cover various scenarios that can affect your website like Pharma Hack, SEO Poisoning, and malicious redirects. He will then aid you by providing some tips to help reduce risk now and forever. Information Security is everyone’s responsibility, and should be a consideration on any web project, beginning to end.

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February 1, 2013 — Not every site needs a redesign, but every site can benefit from some careful observation and reaction to users. This session would introduce the idea of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), give examples of it’s usefulness, and provide some getting started tips. The topic is an essential element of effective ongoing site marketing: people think about optimizing their sites for the search engines… how about the users?

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January 31, 2013 — Attendees will learn the basic history of web design, what Responsive Design is, why you should care, how you can get started using it, and some great tips for anyone who uses WordPress. People will be inspired to make their sites responsive, as well realizing it is quite simple and easy to do so.

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January 31, 2013 — Learn what types of themes are out there, how to find and install theme, and dive into basic modifications to your theme so it fits you perfectly. Lance explains how you can find the perfect theme for your need.

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January 22, 2013 — Philip Arthur Moore shares the different kinds of approaches to WordPress Theme Development. He also explains how the Theme Team at Automattic develops WordPress Themes.

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January 18, 2013 — Often times people have wrung out all of WordPress’s options and settings and want it to do something a little more. It may be minor, but in some cases it requires the dreaded: code! You don’t need to know how to code to create a simple plugin. There are plenty of code snippets on the web that can make WordPress do different things, but where do they go? In this presentation we cover the bare minimum required to create a plugin, how to install it, and what it can do.

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January 18, 2013 — Michael McNeill talks about the latest trends in WordPress security and shares insights into the hardening techniques that professionals use to protect their sites. This presentation is extremely helpful to all types of users, no matter wether they are beginner or advanced users of WordPress. The focus will be on web security and WordPress and how they work with and against each other on the internet.

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January 18, 2013 — Is WordPress a blog, a CMS, or an event registration system? The answer is “Whatever you want it to be.”

In this presentation, Joshua Strebel discusses some of the more interesting and novel uses of WordPress that are on the web today, including examples of sites that push the very notion of what Wordpress is.

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January 18, 2013 — In this presentation, Josh Harrison explains why plugin developers need to use the power of WordPress so that other developers can extend the plugin and do exactly what they want. This talk covers the importance of using the WordPress API but also emphasizes that developers need to follow the example of core and add hooks where appropriate. Examples of where this would be very advantageous to make site development and deployments easier is also provided as well.

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January 16, 2013 — While talk of sites running on load balanced multi-server setups with Nginx reverse proxies, sharded databases and sever level caching is sexy cool… what about rest of us out there running low traffic sites on $6/month shared hosting? What can we do to speed up what we’ve got given a shared hosting environment? In this presentation, Jon Brown discusses what you can do to speed up your cheap shared hosting without too much technical know how.

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