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Sean Nilsson: How to Choose a Premium Theme
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Sean NilssonDecember 13, 2012 — There are hundreds of thousands of WordPress themes floating around and a whole cottage industry built on theme selling. This presentation is about how to evaluate a premium WordPress theme and what to look for when shopping for a theme. This presentation focuses on tradition themes and will not go into detail on frameworks such as Headway, Thesis, etc. The presentation assumes participants are fairly new to WordPress.
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Introducing WordPress 3.5 “Elvin”
December 11, 2012 — Read more about this release on WordPress.org.
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Al Davis: After the Install
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Al DavisDecember 10, 2012 — Presentation Slides »
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Joe Rozsa: You Want to Stick That Where?
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Joe RozsaDecember 10, 2012 — You Want To Stick That Where? You can just stick photos and graphics into WordPress. Scaling images with Photoshop to fulfill the 2mb upload limit in WordPress. Knowing the difference between file size and image size, dpi and ppi, 72dpi and 300dpi can save you a ton of time.
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Kathryn Presner: Passionate About Plugins
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Kathryn PresnerDecember 8, 2012 — The huge range of community-contributed plugins is one of the most valuable features of WordPress.org. But how do you determine what’s a safe and effective plugin without being overwhelmed by choice? Learn how to make an informed decision about which plugin to use – and how to troubleshoot any conflicts that may crop up.
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Andy McIlwain: SEO & Web Analytics
WordCamp Toronto 2012Speaker: Andy McIlwainDecember 7, 2012 — My goal for this presentation is to give you a high-level introduction to improving and measuring your site’s performance on the web.
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Joe Boydston: WordPress is Saving Journalism
WordCamp Raleigh 2012Speaker: Joe BoydstonDecember 7, 2012 — Learn how community newspapers in California are replacing their proprietary publishing systems with WordPress. Learn lots of outside the box uses for WordPress from someone who learned the hard way.
We’ll take a deeper dive into topics depending on audience interest. Talking points and demos include plugin demos, theme building, child themes for mobile optimized sites, scaling WordPress, advertising sales models, subscription based sites, and more!
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Dave Martin: Contributing to WordPress Core – A Getting Started Primer
WordCamp Raleigh 2012Speaker: Dave MartinDecember 7, 2012 — Thinking about contributing to core, but don’t know where to start? Millions of people use WordPress every day. Contributing patches can be exhilarating, but also a tad intimidating as you’re starting out. At the end of this session you’ll have all the knowledge you need to begin contributing. We’ll cover getting a local install of trunk for development, as well as writing and applying patches. We’ll look at navigating Trac, where to get answers to questions you may have, and the dynamics of the core community.
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Jayvie Canono: Building a Career with WordPress
WordCamp Raleigh 2012Speaker: Jayvie CanonoDecember 7, 2012 — This talk is geared towards anyone interested in using WordPress to fuel their career: whether it’s self-employment, or building a great skill portfolio so they can be picked up by great places to work. I’ll be sharing a little about my own path to self-employment but the talk will be focused more on techniques to automate tasks, manage one’s time, and expand one’s market.
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Kevin Dees: Pragmatic WordPress WorkFlow: Theming
WordCamp Raleigh 2012Speaker: Kevin DeesDecember 6, 2012 — In this talk, Kevin Dees uncovers ways to improve our workflow and walks through what it takes to make a killer WordPress theme. A theme that has theme options, custom post types, custom meta boxes, forms, backups, SEO and more. Its a pragmatic approach everyone can use.
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