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Adam Silverstein: Put a Little Backbone in Your WordPress
WordCamp Asheville 2015Speaker: Adam SilversteinSeptember 22, 2015 — Backbone (and Underscore!) are bundled with WordPress – explore how you can leverage their power to deliver complex user experiences while keeping your code organized and maintainable.
~ When and why should you use Backbone?
~ How can WordPress help?
~ Backbone fundamentals
~ Backbone in core
~ A sample Backbone project
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Boomer Sassmann: A Look Behind the Curtain
WordCamp Asheville 2015Speaker: Boomer SassmannSeptember 22, 2015 — This presentation is geared towards individuals looking to start or grow a WordPress design/development company. Topics covered will include:
When and how to hire help
Tools and services that help automate and streamline
Project Management
Time Tracking
How to identify what makes your company unique in a sea of competitorsTakeaways
Should you become an employee, a freelancer, or a business owner?
What tools are vital to the success of the business operations?
Mistakes and mishaps that you should try to avoid -
John P. Bloch: How to Make Multilingual Plugins and Themes
WordCamp Dallas / Fort Worth 2015Speaker: John P. BlochSeptember 21, 2015 — This talk will explain the concept of internationalization and localization in plugins and themes and introduce theme and plugin developers to the necessary tools for the job. In addition to discussing the importance of internationalization, this talk will cover WordPress internationalization functions and best practices.
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Kathryn Presner: A CSS Adventure
WordCamp Montréal 2015Speaker: Kathryn PresnerSeptember 21, 2015 — Ever wanted to make small changes to the look-and-feel of your site but weren’t sure how to go about it? Itching to change the colour of your site title, tweak the size of your paragraph text, or hide the date on your posts? Let’s go on a CSS adventure together! In this session you’ll learn some basic CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and we’ll look at some practical examples, using a browser inspector to customize our site’s design.
Prerequisites:
Some basic HTML knowledge is helpful, but not required. You should be open to looking “under the hood” at a site’s HTML and CSS. -
Dustin Yoxall: Let The Robots Win! How to Utilize Task Automation to Speed Up Your Workflow
WordCamp Baltimore 2015Speaker: Dustin YoxallSeptember 21, 2015 — In this talk I will showcase some of the tools I use to speed up my development process and some of the reasoning behind the way I have things set up. I will touch on subjects like developing locally, using git, the benefits of Sass and why everyone should be using it, running grunt tasks to compress your css, js, and images as well as using autoprefixer. I can also briefly touch on using frameworks if time and interest allow for it.
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Elana Rudick: Themes That Make You Go Hmmmm – Theme Strategies for Designers
WordCamp Montréal 2015Speaker: Elana RudickSeptember 21, 2015 — If you want to make money designing WordPress sites, it’s crucial to know when to go custom and when to stick with a ready-made solution. In this session geared to designers looking to make profitable WordPress websites, learn how to assess when to use a premade theme, how to pick the right one, and when to start from scratch.
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to attend this talk. This session is intended for designers, beginner WordPress users, bloggers and anyone looking to profit from designing WordPress websites. -
Anthony D. Paul: War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon
WordCamp Baltimore 2015Speaker: Anthony D PaulSeptember 20, 2015 — In this talk, I share how our work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as freelancers who want to impress their clients.
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Cameron Campbell: Training Day – Preparing Clients for Their WordPress Experience
WordCamp Asheville 2015Speaker: Cameron CampbellSeptember 20, 2015 — Once you’ve designed, coded, and deployed your clients amazing new WordPress site, the job feels “done”. We’ve all dropped the ball here, so my goal is to provide a guide to efficiently training your clients on how to use and maintain their new site. This makes for happier clients with more successful businesses. Oh, and you don’t get a call 6 months later because they “broke” their site.
Takeaways
Learn how to efficiently train clients on how to use & maintain their WordPress site
See how getting the client “into the dashboard” early on makes a huge difference
Get a glimpse of my process for providing training in person or remotely -
Zac Gordon: PHP for WordPress
WordCamp Baltimore 2015Speaker: Zac GordonSeptember 20, 2015 — This talk introduces a important things to know about learning PHP as it relates to WordPress. The talk covers coding standards, best practices and important concepts in both PHP and WordPress that new and intermediate developers will find helpful.
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Bill Gadless: Moving Up the Food Chain: Finding, Landing and Executing on 5 and 6-figure Projects
WordCamp Baltimore 2015Speaker: Bill GadlessSeptember 20, 2015 — Once perceived as a mere blogging or small website tool, WordPress is an enterprise-grade CMS … stable, secure and scalable enough to be used on large websites. emagine is a leader in at acquiring large, lucrative WordPress projects and would like to provide insights and considerations for doing so.
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