April 8, 2015 — Starting an online business comes with many decisions, some of which you—or your client—may not know you need to make. These decisions will directly influence the direction you take in the design of their ecommerce site and ultimately determine how successful (and profitable) your customer is.

April 6, 2015 — Embedding maps into a WordPress blog.

April 6, 2015 — This presentation is on the Do’s and Don’ts of advertising on Facebook and Twitter. Learn some of the tips and tricks to jumpstart your campaigns to build your brand or sell your products.

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April 5, 2015 — Two flash talks from Sara Rosso & Siobhan McKeown:
Grow a Community: the Community Life Cycle – Sara Rosso
The WordPress Community Through the Years – Siobhan McKeown
Followed by Q&A for each of the presentations, and general Q&A and discussions about community inside and outside of the WordPress world.

April 5, 2015 — Some details of how I run multiple separate WordPress installations under NGINX on one VPS or dedicated server.

April 4, 2015 — We all love WordPress but know that things can go wrong from time to time. What if you knew exactly what to do whenever a WordPress issue arises? This can include anything from a theme or plugin issue all the way to those really bizarre things that can happen leaving you clueless how to troubleshoot them. No high level amount of technical experience needed with the tricks you will learn. Being equipped to handle WordPress issues can really help you keep things running smoothly on your site and focus on the fun stuff rather than hair pulling and other madness.

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April 4, 2015 — Over 6 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every month. That’s nearly one hour for each person on the planet — Every. Month. There’s no doubting the power of YouTube; it is the world’s second largest search engine,after all. The question is: how do you harness it? Jason Merrell — a popular YouTuber with over 70,000 fans — believes that being successful on YouTube is about more than the meta data, it’s about building a community.

April 3, 2015 — The February 2015 Northeast PA WordPress meetup hosted a forum of WordPress tips and tricks. Members talk about some of their favorite plugins and solutions to their problems.

April 3, 2015 — This presentation covers what plugins are necessary to maintain a healthy website and which ones are worth paying for. WordPress has over 25,000 plugins and not all of them are worth your time.

April 2, 2015 — There are many approaches to building websites, but when it comes time to managing multiple websites, the approach that utilizes the most reusable code makes it a lot easier. By leveraging one theme to run multiple websites, you only have to familiarize yourself with one codebase and turn the development and managing of multiple websites into one. In this talk, Brian will share his experience and tips in utilizing this approach.