April 17, 2015 — Building a successful website is a very challenging task. One must have the knowledge and skills to build up the right balance in every aspect of it. In the end, a business product, service, and content will always be the most important part on the platform; however, all of these would come to waste (money, effort), if not given with the right web traffic. Digital marketing can be overwhelming in the sense that the Internet is constantly changing from search engines algorithm updates, social media platforms updates, online advertising to mobile apps and its usage. However, if your 2015 plans involve boosting ranks, generating leads, online sales, and building awareness, then maybe it is time that we need to focus on big things and we explore more creative solutions. And I will get you there by discussing about: ‘targeted’ traffic and methods of getting it, social media, off site SEO, link building and many more things that will help convert traffic to ranks and sales.

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April 17, 2015 — Start off the New Year with the best game plan for your search engine optimization. Learn what is new for 2015 and what old habits you need to kick to the curb. Walk through some great tips with Kori Ashton.

April 17, 2015 — VCS, deployment, servers, building tools, CI etc.

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April 17, 2015 — Creating content in WordPress isn’t just about putting words on the page. Optimizing that content, and making full use of the options in WordPress, will help your content convert, rank better, and be found by more people.
Just a few of the topics covered include:
Writing compelling and optimized headlines
The visual vs. the text editor, and the pros and cons of both
Categorization—should your categories be included in your URLs?
Tags—are they necessary, or are they creating duplicate content?

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April 16, 2015 — Every designer has their own process and tools for creating beautifully designed WordPress websites. Join Ali Green, Jill Anderson, Cliff Seal and Tom Tortorici as they discuss their tools of the trade. From inspirational resources to future design trends, we’ll cover designing for WordPress from beginning to end.

April 15, 2015 — Plugin Development Panel

April 15, 2015 — Keynote for WordCamp Atlanta 2015

April 15, 2015 — There are a lot of very valuable plugins in the repository, however there is one that is imperative to have: the Yoast SEO plugin. I will do a walk through of the plugin to show best practices and explain how and why it is so imperative to have this plugin.

April 15, 2015 — The WordPress Administration area is no walk in the park. Just because it’s, perhaps, the most user-friendly of the big CMSs doesn’t necessary make it objectively easy to use. All sorts of things that can seriously break your site are mixed in with trivial options. And, once you start adding robust plugins, things can get complicated fast.

There are many ways to make WordPress more palatable for the common user (see: non-developers) and reduce the risk of big-time accidents. In this session, I’ll show you how easy it is to remove things users don’t need from the admin area—all with your own plugin.

Don’t worry if you haven’t written a plugin before. Not only will I give you the working plugin to start with, but I’ll explain everything along the way.

Let’s make WordPress just a little easier and safer for everyone!

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April 15, 2015 — Meetup topics include themes, plugins and accessibility.

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