October 27, 2016 — We designed and built a peer-to-peer e-commerce platform for JWalkyn.com. It was an eye-opening experience pushing WordPress to the absolute max to create this unique site to help people buy and sell their favorite Air Jordan shoes.

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October 27, 2016 — Approaching e-commerce without giving consideration to Amazon is paramount to eating your lunch in the tiger cage at the local zoo. That’s not to say it can’t be done—because it can. You just need to be very clear about your strategic planning and what creates your competitive advantage. We will touch on these topics for store owners to help differentiate and win!

October 27, 2016 — All businesses and stories start as a idea. WordPress is a democratized platform for that inspiration, where ideas are empowered to evolve into meaningful products and stories that shape and create the world we want.

October 27, 2016 — There are five rungs to the UX Design Success Ladder, it starts at functional where basic WP templates and development driven plugins reside. If you’ve had a user experience designer work with your site, plugin or template, you’ve likely stepped into the second step, usable. The great UX work starts after that, as we strive to climb the ladder to comfortable, delightful and meaningful. Learn ways to think about elevating design for websites, templates and WordPress products for UX success. We’ll also review real-world examples and open up Q&A around design thinking and execution.

October 27, 2016 — Today’s relationships are created with information, not people. Buyers are searching for information that will help them make an informed decision. Businesses that provide that information win. By providing relevant, useful content to your customers, you are creating something of value for them, and they will ultimately reward you with their business and loyalty. From content types to SEO, here are 10 things to keep in mind when creating your content marketing strategy.

October 27, 2016 — Never let it be said that this flying fat broad has body issues. Oh no. How many times have you needed to tweak a category of posts to make some element fit a little better? Or had a site with some content aimed at fashion-conscious adults – and another set of posts aimed at their kids? You could use all sorts of fancy taxonomy – custom post types or multisite, or some other foolishness. But I just don’t have the patience. But I do have a secret weapon. Body classes. They’ve gotten me out of more styling jams than Janet Jackson’s wardrobe staff. (Wait. That’s not saying much, is it?) Let’s take a look at how a good look through all those classes on your body tags can lead you to a world of styling options – with no malfunctions allowed.

October 27, 2016 — For when you need a custom solution where the default WordPress installation process and code management just won’t work. Make updating core and managing plugins easier through code driven development.

October 27, 2016 — Many members of the WordPress Community use or are a part of a distributed workforce of designers, developers, content creators, and project managers. Having the right tools in place and establishing a good workflow for incoming projects is essential to success. Otherwise you risk dropping tasks, miscommunication, and overall disorganization–all of which can drastically affect your company’s bottom line.

October 27, 2016 — According to Google, 55,000 sites got compromised per week. As we know, WordPress runs majority of the content-driven websites in the world. It then became the number one target for hackers and phishing scammers. In this presentation you will learn the What, How, Why, Where, by following an up to date security checklist with steps to prevent and avoid your WordPress getting hacked.

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October 27, 2016 — n this session The Stacey Harris shares why content alone is not as valuable as you’d like. Real talk time, is a gorgeous website and valuable content still gorgeous or valuable if no one sees it? The answer is no. Get real about what it takes to share your content on social media in a way that makes sense, and actually connects. No douchebag tactics allowed.