November 15, 2014 — If you are new to WordPress, this session teaches you how to make the most of the awesome functionality provided with WordPress core to build your website or blog. Itl covers the latest and greatest features of using WordPress utilizing featured images, tags and categories, native galleries and audio playlists, menus, widgets, and the Theme Customizer to preview modifications to themes before pushing them live on the server, all from a website owner perspective.

November 15, 2014 — Did you know that consistent blogging gives your brand:
Voice: What is your specialty in the field? How do you solve your current and future clients’ needs? Blogging allows you to address these key questions through quality content. Visibility: Is your business searchable? Each blog article you write is another page that can be indexed by search engines–whether on your own website, or appear as a guest blogger on another site. To put it simply, if you are not blogging, you are losing opportunities to be found online. Vibrance: What do you want to be known for (i.e. paid for) in your businesses? Strategic blogging allows you to show your passion and uniqueness and expertise in your field.

November 15, 2014 — This talk takes a stroll through the docs road map devised two summers ago and how that’s progressing. We examine the diminished role the Codex will take going forward, as well as highlight some exciting initiatives coming into the fold — including the handbooks, code reference, and more.

November 14, 2014 — There is so much talk about design in our industry these days, but how do we actually put that into practice? How do we make products that thrive? How do we create a culture for our teams that fosters creativity, momentum, and trust? Jeff shares the techniques he’s used with his own teams to help you be more productive and satisfied in your work.

November 14, 2014 — In this session Jason covers the most commonly found missed opportunities when it comes to optimizing WordPress websites for search engine success. Geared to offer something for all levels, this session discusses the importance of site speed, SEO optimization plugins, site maps, mobile considerations, social integration (and how to optimize for social), schema markups, authorship, blogging and maintenance.

November 14, 2014 — Lightning Talks: Inspiring Stories
Over the years of working closely with people often associated with WP — from budding bloggers, talented designers and developers, I’ve realized that being able to release your work to the world is loaded with fear and anxiety and perfectionism and want to share my story to inspire others to click Publish and ship their work — whatever that may be. I share the stories of success (and failure) that living this philosophy has produced in my life.

November 14, 2014 — Lightning Talks: Inspiring Stories
Asif was a simple boy from Bangladesh. Back in 2004, when Asif just started University in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering, he tried to make a site, as part of assignment, using Blogger. During that time he was introduced to WordPress. It changed his life, Asif found WordPress very easy. He started to make websites. Managing, all of the sites became difficult so he started hiring University friends but that also became unmanageable. Asif took an office and started his own company. Some of our websites worked super well, like The Tech Journal, it reached alexa rank 3000 within 1 year of inception. They kept working only in WordPress, built tons of plugins and theme, become attached with more important figure inside WordPress. Asif had his first invite from WordCamp Melbourne and spoke their during 2011 event. Since then, he has attended over 10 WordCamp worldwide. Asif attended the last 3 WordCamp SF. Now he has a registered company in US, working to help young entrepreneur in US and Bangladesh too. He has managed and helped multiple WordPress Meetup and WordCamp. He is happy to share his story.

November 14, 2014 — Every developer inherits technical debt, whether it is a codebase built by a third party, a codebase at a new job, or even ones own codebase that they have not touched in a few years. Some of the things I explained are, how I code audited the codebase and came up with some key major fixes that would greatly increase performance and load time, came up with a strategy and prioritized how to go about executing the fixes, and lastly how I executed the strategy and what the overall outcome (performance, load times, etc.) of the site was when finished.

November 14, 2014 — Lighting Talks: Unscary Tech
How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.

November 14, 2014 — Lighting Talks: Unscary Tech
Thinking Inside the Box is 5 minutes that will change the way you think about web content and web design: On the web everything is a box and once you know how to bend those boxes to your will you can do pretty much anything you want.