November 12, 2014 — Some folks call it laziness. I call it efficiency. And I’ve used WordPress for over a decade to make my jobs more efficient – from moving one of the oldest and most popular hyperlocal sites Baristanet.com away from Movable Type, helping incorporate WordPress as a CMS at the NBA, to centralizing my slideshow workflow. I’ll talk about the struggles and breakthroughs I discovered while exploring the flexibility of using WordPress to solve a variety of problems.

November 11, 2014 — This presentation will focus on how to write effectively for any audience. This will be a back to basics interactive session that will make even the most technical subjects understandable to readers outside the specialty.

November 11, 2014 — Heard about Sass but don’t know what the fuss is about? Think you can’t use it with WordPress? Think again! This session will go through the highlights of using Sass, its awesome features (and things to watch out for), and how to integrate it into your WordPress theming workflow.

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November 10, 2014 — Cody Brown is the co-founder of scroll kit, a tool that turns your browser window into a canvas. scroll kit users include The Smithsonian, WSJ, Esquire, in addition to people who’ve never made a site before. In this talk, Cody will talk about the amusing surprises and brutal lessons learned over three years of watching people customize the web with no limitations.

November 9, 2014 — Over the past few years, my company has built multiple large (500+ site) multisite networks for companies in the financial services industry, and consulted on a number of high-traffic multisite installs. In this talk, we’ll talk about what makes a good multisite network and when you should look at other solutions, and I’ll go over the issues that we faced and the lessons that we learned.

November 9, 2014 — This talk demos a set of example plugins that has examples of how to perform these WordPress tasks. You can use them to learn how to manipulate WordPress, or even use them as a starting point for your own plugins. The goal of the WordPress Examples Toolkit is to provide a set of plugins that are well documented and perform small tasks that are easy to understand.

November 9, 2014 — There are over 20 options for membership plugins available to people trying to build a membership site with WordPress. Come hear my six-point framework for evaluating them, and how to determine which is the right plugin for you. We’ll also leave a decent amount of time for questions, as decisions about membership plugins are always specific to your purposes.

November 7, 2014 — A designer’s perspective on working with clients of different sizes to form creative solutions that meet them where they’re at, and where they’re going.

Taylor will focus more on understanding the position of clients within their own business/organization and asking key questions to further understand their design requests in order to create effective design solutions.

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November 7, 2014 — A discussion of best practices for when and how to send out updates to plugins. The talk will include a discussion of deploying plugins from git to WordPress.org and how to best to use tags and branches to track stable releases, development releases, and past versions.

November 7, 2014 — Follow The Yellow Brick Road: Avoiding Dangerous and Low-Quality Plugins and Themes