August 21, 2014 — Your About page isn’t about your products and services; it’s not even about you. It’s about your customers and how you can solve their problems.
In this session we cover:
About Page Essentials that will make your customers like and trust you.
How to Use Your About Page as a magnet to capture leads you may have missed
The most common mistakes people make with their About Pages and How to Avoid them
The little known secret about Author Bios that most people miss
Making life all easier with WordPress Author Plugins
Come ready to take notes because we will be covering both practical application and theory!

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August 21, 2014 — This is a pre-built outline that helps people think through the business, creative, and technical elements they need to think about before they start a online business.

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August 21, 2014 — While a traditional waterfall workflow might have a designer handing static comps over to a developer, this no longer works in the age of responsive design and frequently causes friction between both parties. This workshop will help designers learn how to “design in the browser”, create a responsive style prototype, allow better communication with developers, and explain responsive design to clients. Stop making static photoshop comps and learn a more contemporary, agile workflow today.

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August 21, 2014 — Are you a front-end designer who searches the free WordPress theme directory, finds something similar to the design you’re looking for and then modifies it to suit your needs? A lot of WordPress theme designers start off this way, but soon it’ll be time to take it to the next level. This presentation gives you 6 ways to boost your WordPress theme building skills.

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August 21, 2014 — Andrew Nacin covers some advanced topics for WordPress development, and in particular, support for arbitrary domains and paths.

August 21, 2014 — WordPress is a content management system. What you do with it is your decision. This presentation goes over some general ways that any niche can leverage their business using WordPress. Some points that will be covered are:
What WordPress can do for you
Sharing some social media marketing tips
How blogging can be a great way to leverage your business
Explain how you should be more aware about website conversion, as well as tips
Some inspiration quotes by small business owners that are well known leaders in the WordPress community
This presentation is for both the newbie business owner, and the ones struggling to find their way. Oh, and for those who are making it already,

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August 21, 2014 — Join Michael G. Calvert from Disqus as he teaches you how to identify good content that tends to generate the most comments and keep readers coming back regularly. Learn how to quickly remove and filter undesirable content from your site and apply both technical and human approaches to develop a more active and constructive community from his 5+ years of experience working with sites from around the web. This talk gives you the practical do’s and don’ts for managing your community with Disqus on WordPress.

August 21, 2014 — In this presentation, a number of excellent best practices for developing WordPress sites are discussed involving custom post types, custom fields, database migration and more.

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August 21, 2014 — WordPress revisions got a jolt of Backbone and a complete interface overhaul in WordPress 3.6 (as did media in 3.5 and themes in 3.8). Hear the revisions rewrite story and description of the effort involved, plus a code overview and ideas for leveraging Backbone (and Underscore) in your WordPress project.

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August 21, 2014 — As of WordPress 3.9, the Heartbeat API is no longer experimental! It’s intended to help developers synchronize data between the browser and server without manually sending individual AJAX calls. Learn Heartbeat basics and have a quick run-through on how it’s used by WordPress’ core.

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