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Jamie Schmid: Structuring Content In WordPress
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Jamie SchmidMay 18, 2014 — This session talks about the planning process involved in discovering how your website’s content should be structured – be it a small site of 10 pages or a large site of 10,000 pages – and then looks at the WordPress content types available to build our model into a functional, scalable, and author-friendly system. There will be no coding in this session, and it is appropriate to both beginners looking to understand content types, and seasoned developers looking to plan a thorough build process.
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Nick Ciske: Plugin Monetization Options
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Nick CiskeMay 18, 2014 — This talk covers Nick Ciske’s experiences with sponsored plugins, building premium plugins (while running a consultancy), working for a premium plugin shop, and other lessons gleaned from the WordPress community.
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Luca Sartoni: Remote working – one does not simply spend a year without pants
WordCamp Slovakia 2014Speaker: Luca SartoniMay 17, 2014 — Going to work vs. being at work, productivity 101 in a distributed environment, major challenges in a distributed environment, common mistakes and how to fix them and remote socialisation.
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John Heimkes and Thomas McMahon: So, You Want To Build A Theme
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speakers: John Heimkes, Thomas McMahonMay 17, 2014 — Maybe you are just getting into creating WordPress themes, or maybe you’ve been at it a while but still feel like you’re missing something. The good news is that WordPress themes can range from small to big and from simple to complicated — they are what you make them! This talk covers the essentials: template hierarchy, The Loop, custom queries, and how to get more information or guidance from the Codex when you’re stuck. Soon you’ll be writing themes faster than you can think them up!
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John Havlik: One Million Downloads – Lessons Learned Growing a Plugin
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: John HavlikMay 17, 2014 — Since adopting the predecessor to Breadcrumb NavXT in 2007, I have grown immensely as a plugin developer and maintainer. Along the way, I have faced obstacles, made mistakes, and had fun. This session covers what I have found that works, and the mistakes I made as I’ve grown Breadcrumb NavXT into a plugin that has been downloaded over 1 million times. Topics covered include: support and release strategies, workflow and tools, and WordPress plugin coding tips.
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Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko: Caching Small Big Things
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Andrey SavchenkoMay 17, 2014 — Performance has always been foundational to computing. This talk aims to dispell common myths about caching, and provides a practical method to implement fragment caching for WordPress.
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Paolo Belcastro: Around The World 80 Times Per Day
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Paolo BelcastroMay 16, 2014 — Paolo Belcastro describes the challenges, common mistakes and life lessons of managing a remote team. Working remotely since 15 years, he is currently leading a team of 30 spread across 4 continents and 17 time zones.
Read his related posts: On Communication Within A Distributed Team, The End Of Time, Is Working Remotely Hereditary?. -
Stephanie Booth: Blogging In An Imperfectly Multilingual World
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Stephanie BoothMay 16, 2014 — In personal blogging, running a true multilingual site with translations of everything is unrealistic. This talk demonstrates how it is viable to be imperfectly multilingual, as most humans actually are.
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Konstantin Obenland: Behind The Scenes Of The WordPress.com Theme Showcase
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Konstantin ObenlandMay 16, 2014 — A look at recent improvements in the WordPress.com Theme Showcase, the new WordPress.com Dashboard – Newdash – and the THX project.
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Silvan Hagen: Multisite On A Tight Budget
WordCamp Switzerland 2014Speaker: Silvan HagenMay 16, 2014 — Case study and lessons learned implementing a WordPress Multisite project on a tight budget. The talk covers project management, technical implementation and hosting.
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