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Matt Banks: Strawberry Custom Fields Forever
WordCamp Philly 2014Speaker: Matt BanksAugust 8, 2014 — Learn how to leverage the power of WordPress custom meta boxes and fields to better organize your site, make it easier to update content, and manage your data more efficiently.
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Stacey Lane: How To Pick a WordPress Theme That Doesn’t Suck
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Stacey LaneAugust 8, 2014 — There are a lot of WordPress themes out there. Some are free; some are not. Some are chocked full of bells and whistles while others offer little to no additional features. But how do you know which one is right for you?
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Nick Pelton: WP-to-JS and Back Again
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Nick PeltonAugust 7, 2014 — WordPress is an amazing tool. JavaScript makes it even better. Learn how to push data from WP-to-JS and back again in this primer on AJAX.
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Trimming Videos with Avidemux
Speaker: Michael WigintonAugust 7, 2014 — Avidemux is a simple easy to use video editor used to trim WordCamp videos.
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Panel Discussion: Making Sense of SEO for WordPress
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speakers: Jennifer Bourn, Scott Eklund, Michelle Castillo, Heather Johnson, Joyce GraceAugust 5, 2014 — This panel discussion focuses on SEO issues specific to WordPress and, particularly, blogs. In addition, it illuminates the latest in Google goofiness and other peculiarities of SEO. It is not a basic tutorial in SEO, but is still a good choice for beginners.
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Kira Song: Heartbeat API Jumpstart
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Kira SongAugust 5, 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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Konstantin Obenland: Options, and Transients, and Theme Mods, Oh My!
WordCamp St. Louis 2014Speaker: Konstantin ObenlandAugust 5, 2014 — We will look at the difference between Options and Transients, in what situations plugin developers should use one over the other, and why one is not superior to the other.
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Kimberly Gauthier: I Started a Blog, Now What?
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Kimberly GauthierAugust 4, 2014 — You may be new to blogging or you may have hit a wall; we’ve all been there and here are 5 easy steps I took to get “unstuck” and moving forward.
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Nancy Thanki: Images for WordPress Done Right
WordCamp Seattle 2014Speaker: Nancy ThankiAugust 4, 2014 — Whether you’re setting up a portfolio page, a site for Realtors, or for a professional blogger, images are important. But how do you use images that look great and don’t slow down visitors to your site? What are some important considerations you need to have in mind? This talk covers things like how WordPress handles images and what you need to know about that (thumbnails, regeneration); how to compress your images; how and when to use progressive jpegs, for instance, or pngs; and what you can do to help images on your site load faster (Photon, CDNs, static asset caching, parallel downloading, etc).
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Brent Shepherd: Develop Very Mild Superpowers with Git
WordCamp Chicago 2014Speaker: Brent ShepherdAugust 4, 2014 — Git is a powerful version control tool every WordPress developer should include in their utility belt. But with great power comes great difficulty in learning how to use the darn thing!
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