November 26, 2016 — These are just a few random chats I was able to record during WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016. Many thanks to Andrea Rennick, Derek Miller, Joel Worsham, Marianna Juliette, Rich & Nicole Robinkoff and Seth Alling

November 25, 2016 — Among other marginal skills, I am quite good at inventing words, so I cooked up ‘blogophyte’ to describe a neophyte blogger. Among the thousands of dazzlingly competent web developers and other professionals, might it be helpful to hear the journey of a blogophyte piecing together the jigsaw of social media and web development tools to find creative expression through WordPress?

November 25, 2016 — English:
Nürnberg #1 WooCommerce Meetup – Nov. 2016 Edition. Before The Edge (Big Shops, Multilangual and Import/Export)

Deutsch:
#1 Nürnberger WooCommerce Meetup – Aus erster Hand (Große Shops, Mehrsprachigkeit und Import/Export Plugings)

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November 24, 2016 — Our own mental wellness, and that of those around us, is probably the least understood and most neglected part of our daily lives. It is time we all started understanding what it truly means to have mental wellness and what it means to us and those around us when we do not have it – especially what we can do to help those around us and ourselves.

The WordPress community is both the perfect place for Mental Health issues to go undetected as well as the perfect place for so many people to live a higher quality of life simply by increasing our awareness to it.

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November 22, 2016 — There are a lot of parallels between the open source development world and Improv communities. The goal of this talk is to expose the similarities and directly apply the core principles for the stagecraft of improv to get better code, smoother projects and ultimately happier customers. At the end the audience will be able to take practical examples and very simple exercises back to their organizations to better communicate with customers and internal stakeholders alike. Also, techniques to get ‘unstuck’ when hitting major blockages in creativity needed for elegant code.

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November 22, 2016 — Security can seem intimidating and complex for many of us, but we shouldn’t (can’t) let that stop us from making sure we’re doing everything we can to secure our WordPress sites. After all, our websites are often part of our livelihood. In this session Adam will discuss the “big picture” of website security and break down the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan, in order of importance. Adam will provide an actionable checklist on what you can start doing today to better secure your WordPress websites. After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of website security as a whole and what steps they can take to mitigate risk. Attendees will be able to start building their WordPress security master plan immediately.

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November 22, 2016 — In this talk, I’d talk about all the recent improvements to i18n (internationalization) and l10n (localization) in WordPress 4.6 and upcoming versions. There are some great performance improvements and new features to make the lives of developers and users easier.

This includes, but is not limited to, just-in-time loading of translations, per-user language settings and JavaScript internationalization. Some very interesting stuff that I will demonstrate with code examples and screenshots.

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November 22, 2016 — Timmy Gelles is the Senior Web Developer for the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. A Baltimore resident, he’s a self-taught developer who once worked as a newspaper reporter and an AmeriCorps VISTA. For the past 2 years he’s assisted academic departments, faculty members, and other educational groups on the Homewood campus get on board the WordPress train.

November 22, 2016 — As WordPress gains more popularity, high schools, colleges and universities, and online learning environments are spending more time and money developing WordPress-based courses. Over the last few years I have developed several curriculums for myself, for colleges, and for training-based companies. In this talk, I will go through my process for developing 3 courses: an introduction to WordPress, creating a business website for WordPress, and an introduction to WordPress theming.

November 22, 2016 — Don’t you just hate it when a large traffic spike comes your way and your website goes down? Is your server set-up shakier than an all-night Red Bull + espresso bender at Starbucks? Is your web host holding you back from running your website of your dreams? Then setting up on top of Amazon’s cloud is definitely for you! There is a lot of information about how to set-up a server and running a basic WordPress site on Amazon Web Services. But there isn’t a lot of information on building a highly-available, scalable, enterprise-grade, infrastructure to power WordPress. This talk will cover the nuts and bolts of a highly-scalable cloud hosting set-up specifically for WordPress through my own experience re-architecting BillyPenn.com.