May 18, 2017 — Mason is passionate about remote work culture and measuring support effectiveness. Mason manages customer expectations, troubleshooting, and consulting work with the same criteria – education to increase success.

May 18, 2017 — With plugin, theme and core updates coming out on a continual basis, keeping your websites updated and secure can be a daunting task. Steven’s presentation will focus on tools and processes to ease the burden of managing multiple WordPress websites and keeping everything secure, backed up and safe.

May 17, 2017 — The success of small- and medium-sized technology consulting businesses is heavily dependent on how the front-line consultants are perceived by potential clients. This personal/professional branding relies on communicating several key factors such as Expertise, Ethics, Effectiveness, and Efficiency. In this presentation, my goal is to move your personal brand, as well as your organizational brand, to where it needs to be to not only attract the right clientele or employers, venture capitalists, etc., but also to allow you to command the type and amount of compensation that will allow you to meet your various goals. We’ll discuss the What, the Why, and the all-important How to make sure that the right people understand your expertise in the right way.

May 17, 2017 — An insightful interview with several youths ages 6-14. The focus? How they publish on the web in 2017.

What tools do they use? What are their friends using, and why? Do they publish with WordPress?

Why are these questions important to the larger WordPress community? Because it’s vital for current WordPress users, developers, and product maker to know what the next generation is using. When it comes to technology, you don’t adapt – you die. And getting an insight to how youth is publishing on the web is one way to figure that out.

May 17, 2017 — This session is all about kids and code. We will discuss why you should teach your kids to code. We will cover how to teach your kids to code. We will even talk about how to keep your young bloggers safe online. We will cover resources and what you as a parent, or teacher need to know to make sure your child is ready for the future in code.

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May 17, 2017 — Kyle talks about managed hosting, product design and development, team collaboration to push technical products forward, and more.

May 17, 2017 — WordPress Transients API is a powerful tool for caching data with an expiration date. But you always have to have a look on the database the transients are stored in.

Transients can mess up your and your clients database without any benefit. A poor implementation of transients can slow down the database and consequently the webpage instead.

I want to raise awareness for a lightweight way to use the Transients API. Additionally you’ll get an approach to reduce queries and fragmentation of the database.

May 16, 2017 — As lead of the Ongoing Client Support at CrowdFavorite I’ve worked with lots of legacy code on different projects. This session covers some of the lessons we’ve learned in the process and tips how to deal with the most common issues faster and more effective. It also shows how the legacy code can be actually fun!

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May 16, 2017 — Advanced Custom Fields is a powerful plugin that enables the addition of custom fields to your pages, posts and more. Yet, it’s so wonderfully simple that anyone with a basic understanding of WordPress themes can learn to integrate its functionality into their own WordPress builds. Come learn what it can do and how to get started using it.

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May 16, 2017 — Is social media impacting your happiness and productivity? People usually spend 3-4 hours every day on their smartphones. Fear of missing out, plagues a huge number of social media users. This session will give you the tools and balance you need to effectively use social media for your business and personal life. Learn how to live a happier life by understanding the research behind “Social Media and Happiness”.