August 5, 2017 — Mark Jaquith has been working with and contributing to WordPress since 2004. He is one of the lead developers of the WordPress core and offers freelance WordPress consulting services through Covered Web Services with a focus on scaling, security, and custom functionality.

August 3, 2017 — How to present and maintain a secure E-Commerce site. We will go over some details on PCI compliance as well as privacy policy and general web security.

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August 3, 2017 — WordPress has created many opportunities for people all around the world, so many people are curious about how it could help them grow.

In his talk, Noel will discuss the path to success for anyone interested in working with WordPress, remote working or generally being part of this movement.

August 3, 2017 — With the new Plugin Directory being based on WordPress comes the ability to use its REST API to access its data. In this session we’ll be going over the various modules and libraries available that make it fairly straight forward to get started on a front-end React client for your site. We’ll discuss a possible NPM module setup and Grunt workflow, as well as how React components for the Plugin Directory are structured, before looking at how it all comes together. And finally we’ll take a look at how the Directory is using React today!

August 3, 2017 — During one of the breaks between session, an informal AMA session was held with Andrew Norcross, an accomplished WordPress developer who also runs Reaktiv Studios. Your WordPress questions answered!

August 1, 2017 — As organizers, we want our events to best reflect the local WordPress community. However (just like websites), sometimes real-life events are not accessible for everyone. In this talk, I’ll cover a number of ways you can make your events more welcoming for people with disabilities and by extension, everyone else.

August 1, 2017 — Your community is growing in the polyglots team but you have problem on quality of the translation.
What can you do to improve it? Your community glossary is the key so discover the Italian experience, tips and the GlotDict features for your PTE and polyglots workflow.

July 31, 2017 — WordPress 4.7’s integrated REST API just gave us easy access to the public data of millions of sites. We, as designers, can now structure that data in visual ways to build creative solutions, and encourage thought. Let’s learn about APIs, how we can use them, and what we can do with the data that’s available to us from a design perspective.

July 31, 2017 — Jose Castaneda is a WordPress fanatic, theme reviewer, father, husband and life-lesson learner. He loves to learn new things and loves to share those lessons. He works on open-source projects when he can and try to give back when he is able to.

His interest include but are limited to type, music, fonts, art, design, PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, learning, code, hiking, photography, culinary arts, food, Flamenco guitar, music, video editing, HTML

Jose is a member of the Theme Review Team but also spends a lot of time on the support forums helping people with their WordPress issues.

July 23, 2017 — Kat Slump is a rising senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she is pursuing a degree in IT Innovation.
Kat has had experiences in a variety of areas — from development to marketing to design — interning at Interface School, Flywheel and Apple. In her spare time, Kat loves playing with her kitten, Swift, who happens to be named after her favorite programming language. She also has a love for fashion and blogging. You can find Kat on Instagram & Twitter via @katslump.