January 14, 2017 — The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is a powerful tool that allows you to extend the capabilities of WordPress admin without writing any additional code to create these fields.

We’ll explore:
• How ACF allows you to offer additional functionality to your clients
• How to use these new fields in your templates
• And how to make sure you don’t go too far when adding fields.

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January 14, 2017 — Podcasts are rising in popularity and allow you to connect more personally with an audience. You can share your passions, or build your business. Learn the plugins, tools, and techniques you’ll need to launch and host a successful podcast from your own WordPress-powered website.

January 14, 2017 — Adding Content To Your WordPress Website
Pages Versus Posts: What’s the Difference?
The Importance of Regular, Relevant Content
Planning Your Parent and Child Pages
Adding Pages
Planning Your Posts: Categories and Tags
Adding Posts
Getting Familiar With The ToolBar
Publishing Options: Status, Visibility, Schedule
Adding Media: Photos, Videos, Documents
Managing Existing Posts and Pages Quickly
Managing Comments
Moderating Comments

January 9, 2017 — Building a business with WordPress.

January 9, 2017 — How disruption in technology have a affected the societal lifestyle and the future of businesses as per the effect of this technology disruption. Justus has a wealth of information in the stated topic as its what we are currently using develop the next world solutions.

January 9, 2017 — One of the most important parts of building a WordPress site from scratch, is brainstorming and building out the various types of data, and how they relate to each other.

In this talk we will cover:
Creating Custom Post Types
Creating Custom Taxonomies
Using Metadata for CPT’s and taxonomies
How best to make relationships between these two data types.
How to build performant queries.
And lastly we will look at some basic caching techniques that we can employ with Transients and/or Object Cache to make these queries even more performant.

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January 9, 2017 — How to use WordPress to easily reach large audience with little knowledge of code/web design

January 9, 2017 — Robert Sather is a 25 year old web developer with 6 years experience in web development, doing mainly plugin and custom theme development. Robert resides in Norway and has interests in travelling, urban exploration, hiking in the woods, hamradio, airsoft

January 8, 2017 — Content marketing is certainly an industry buzzword as it continues to top the budgets of practically all marketers. But is it effective and is it being approached in the most strategic of ways?

This presentation will walk-through how to plan and execute an effective content marketing strategy to generate qualified sales leads. We’ll discuss and review various WordPress plugins to consider and layout (high level) a funnel system to gain engagement that leads into form completions.

In 30 minutes, attendees will gain insights into what content to develop, how to align it with the buying process, what infrastructure us required, and how to build am automated system to put the funnel on auto-pilot.

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January 8, 2017 — In this talk, the audience can expect to learn about creating successful content strategies for their WordPress sites and blogs. I will cover creating an editorial calendar, using analytics and research to generate content ideas, and providing a report back to leadership regarding the success (or not) of a WordPress site or blog.