August 21, 2014 — In the Universe of the Internet, WordPress occupies and important and growing space. This session covers what WP is and is not, the differences between wordpress.org and wordpress.com, and how frameworks/themes plus widgets and plugins fit into the picture. It talks a bit about the WordPress ecosystem, from its core and the company that runs it to third-party services and the world of support available. This opening session will be in plain language, by a WP user who is not a developer.

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August 21, 2014 — WordPress is a CMS, a content management system. Anything you can do on a website, you can do on a WordPress website. WordPress allows you or your web firm to make quick, economical changes with your content without disturbing your design. The open source repository of plugins — pieces of software you can plug into your site — also allow you to have functionality that would be very expensive and time consuming if you had to have it built.

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August 21, 2014 — Speaker Russell Heimlich describes how he went about developing a new site design for the Pew Research site.

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August 21, 2014 — Hanni Ross will talk about what happens when you break your blog – and how to fix it.

August 21, 2014 — The presentation is about a ‘starter theme’ I’ve made. I’ll show what I’ve done, why I’ve done it, what I’ve learned and the advantages of using a starter theme instead of a framework or existing themes.

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August 21, 2014 — An entertaining and informative demonstration of a typical use case for WordPress development-, deployment-, and provisioning automation. Using technologies such as Vagrant, Ansible, Nginx, Ubuntu, and WP-CLI, there is a better way than using traditional development tools such as MAMP. This presentation is aimed at everyone with an interest in professional development environments for their WordPress projects, including developers, designers, project managers, as well as users.

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August 21, 2014 — Tips and hints on creating multilingual WordPress sites with WPML – how to do it right: Choosing the right settings, following Google’s directives, making it easy for end users, editors, translators and developers. Combining WPML with WooCommerce for multilingual webshops.

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August 21, 2014 — Hvad kan du gøre for at dit WordPress-websted kan bruges af så mange som muligt? Har du hørt om tilgængelighed? Med få tiltag kan dine websteder, og hele internettet, blive mere tilgængeligt for alle.
Vi kigger både “foran” og “bagved” et WordPress-websted. Præsentation henvender sig til alle – hverdagsbloggere og slutbrugere, samt dem der laver websteder til andre, fordi de kan lære ting til gavn for deres egne slutbrugere.

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August 21, 2014 — Chris Lema (virtual) & Karim Marucchi (local) talk about the tools and strategies they’ve leveraged as they’ve helped Crowd Favorite work 24 hours a day. Global virtual teams don’t happen by chance. Hear the tips and tricks for helping people feel connected, while also igniting a culture of performance.

August 21, 2014 — So you’ve had a plugin or theme accepted to the WordPress repository. Awesome! It doesn’t stop there. We discuss why great support matters and give 5 simple ways to get a reputation for excellent support without increasing your time spent.

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