Language: English
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John Havlik: Writing (more) Secure Plugins John Havlik
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: John HavlikMay 24, 2015 — This session aims to enlighten the audience about some attack vectors and how to counter them with the current security best practices for WordPress plugins. Topics covered include: Plugin security best practices, data sanitization, action authorization, and permissions.
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Brad Parbs: Powerful Local Development Environments with Vagrant and Friends
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Brad ParbsMay 24, 2015 — This talk walks through setting up a professional, powerful, and efficient local development environment. It discusses how to get set up, why, and the different things you can do with a great set up.
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Anthony D Paul: Lean Requirements, Without Skimping on the Meat
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Anthony D PaulMay 23, 2015 — This session introduces a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create success goals that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.
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Cindy Reed: What’s Your Story? Harnessing the Power of Story to Engage Your Readers
WordCamp Atlanta 2015Speaker: Cindy ReedMay 23, 2015 — Whether you’re starting a personal blog to share your thoughts and ideas, or blogging to promote your business, storytelling is the most effective way to engage your audience. Recitations of facts or personal journal entries might convey meaning, but stories provide your audience with a relatable entry point into your subject matter. Story inspires, teaches, and stimulates discussion. The well-told story is memorable and unique, positioning you as a trusted voice. This presentation looks at all the elements of creative nonfiction storytelling so you can create the most compelling content for your blog, one 400-600 word post at a time.
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Mel Choyce: Beautiful Web Type
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Mel ChoyceMay 22, 2015 — With the rapid popularization of web fonts over the past few years, type on the web has never been more exciting! Learn a bit about basic typographic principles, review techniques and services for integrating web fonts into your WordPress sites, and finally conclude with a bit of speculation on where type on the web is heading.
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Nick Ciske: Creating Usable, Maintainable, and Upgradable WordPress Sites
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Nick CiskeMay 21, 2015 — You’ll find thousands of tutorials, snippets, and other advice online advising you to “just add this to your functions.php file.”
In this talk learn Why that’s rarely the best strategy for anyone (yes, even a non-technical user), Why developers and designers should never do this on client sites, What best practices are regarding adding custom functionality to your site and Tools for users of all levels to avoid functions.php bloat. -
Josh Leuze: Building Your First Functionality Plugin
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Josh LeuzeMay 20, 2015 — Learn what a functionality plugin is, what belongs in a theme and what should go in a plugin, and how to build a plugin.
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Michelle Schulp: Beyond Whitespace – Designing for Complex Content
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Michelle SchulpMay 17, 2015 — This presentation explores how to use design principles to organize and display elaborate user experiences like mega-menus, massive news sites, high-information catalog pages, and multi-level interactions.
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Tony Perez: Building and Running a Global Workforce – The People Aspect of a Remote Company
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Tony PerezMay 17, 2015 — This talk shares the challenges of a remote work force; talk to people issues, culture, growth challenges, scaling, and everything in between.
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Blake Iverson: IP for Creatives
WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Speaker: Blake IversonMay 17, 2015 — A quick overview on copyright and trademark law for designers, developers, and business owners
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