November 9, 2016 — Automation should be a key component to any business. Anytime you find yourself doing the same thing over and over for different clients, automate. Automating reduces human error and increases productivity. Let’s face it, when it comes to business, we are our own worse enemy. Learn how to take the “YOU” out of our business and start making more money.

November 8, 2016 — Now that you have a WordPress site, how do you get people to go there? Everybody says you need all sorts of social media accounts, but how do you get them to work together? Join Lee Blue as he shares how he grew his business by over 40% in three months for free.

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November 8, 2016 — Creating SOLID (not STUPID) Plugins and Themes

A dive into the mistakes we as developers make and the best practices we can employ in object-oriented programming and design. We start with an example plugin and remove issues addressed using the STUPID principles. We then apply the five basic principles of SOLID design ending up with a word class WordPress plugin.

STUPID: (Singleton, Tight Coupling, Untestability, Premature Optimization, Indescriptive Naming, Duplication)

SOLID (Single Responsibility Principle, Open/Closed Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle, Interface Segregation Principle, Dependency Inversion Principle)

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November 8, 2016 — There’s a simple yet powerful API within WordPress to help developers cache all sorts of data, and in turn speed up load times. Transients are often misunderstood by developers, and their powerful abilities can sometimes be misused.

In this session we will uncover the inner workings of the Transient API, and learn how to properly leverage it’s abilities.

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November 8, 2016 — Most small businesses are told they need to be on social media, or they need to blog, or they need to have a website but often they don’t know how to tie all the pieces together. This session provides an inbound marketing-based strategy and a plan for how to bring all the pieces together.

November 8, 2016 — How to use WordPress to do other things than websites: iOS web based apps, streaming web video channels, and ROKU channels (to name a few!).

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November 8, 2016 — Making WordPress themes and plugins can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes to accessibility for your end users. This session will walk you through some steps you can take to make your WordPress sites more accessible for all.

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November 8, 2016 — This talk will cover using React, Redux, and the REST API to create decoupled JavaScript apps to interact with WordPress.

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November 8, 2016 — Isn’t it heartbreaking to go through the process of writing a proposal and not getting the project? I’ll help you ask stronger questions up front to really understand your potential clients’ projects.

Oh, and as a bonus, I’ll share how I find out what they are really willing to pay before I write a proposal.

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November 8, 2016 — This session will be a Q&A round table with noted WordPress developers on the future of WordPress moderated by Allen Moore of 10up.