Language: English
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Beth Backen: How (and why) to Create a Child Theme
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Beth BackenMay 15, 2014 — In this session, Beth Backen discusses what child themes are used for and outline the benefits of using child themes, including a walk through of the steps to creating a child theme and demonstration of how to use FTP (file transfer protocol) to add the child theme to a WordPress install.
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Kyle Unzicker: Back To Square One: Building A WordPress Starter Development Kit
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Kyle UnzickerMay 15, 2014 — The back-end and front-end teams at Modern Tribe set out to create a WordPress starter development kit in order to speed up development and help keep uniformity among projects. So, how did we build it? Why didn’t we use “________” framework instead? What does the code look like? Is our universe real? What is true happiness? This session will attempt to answer at least 60% of these questions.
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WordCamp Dayton Keynote
WordCamp Dayton 2014Speaker: Cory MillerMay 15, 2014 — Cory Miller founder of iThemes tells his story.
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Jenny Munn: Content Marketing Workshop: How To Plan, Optimize And Analyze Your Efforts
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Jenny MunnMay 14, 2014 — You may love your blog posts and WordPress website content, but does anyone else? How do you know what’s working and what’s not? If your content marketing plan (or lack thereof) could benefit from a strategy planning overview, then this session will help you understand what kind of content your market is searching for, how to make it find-able and how to track what’s working and what’s not.
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Russell Fair: Rockin’ Local Development With Vagrant
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Russell FairMay 14, 2014 — Learn about Vagrant, a local development tool that’s way better than MAMP or WAMP, standardizes environmental variables and will make you a better developer.
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Travis Smith: Understanding My Site’s SEO: SEO Essentials And Helpful Tools
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Travis SmithMay 14, 2014 — This talk investigates essential SEO concepts for your site. Building on the basics of the essential meta tags and content, investigates how a site’s content organization and crafting determines good SEO. Then using real life WordPress examples, demonstrate helpful webmaster tools to analyze your site to determine improvement opportunities.
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Nick Ciske: Plugin Monetization Option
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Nick CiskeMay 13, 2014 — So you’ve released a free plugin, or want to release a paid plugin/add-on — what are your monetization options, and what are the pros/cons of each?
Nick Ciske covers his 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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Brennen Byrne: Passwords: The Weakest Link In WordPress Security
WordCamp Minneapolis 2014Speaker: Brennen ByrneMay 13, 2014 — When we talk about WordPress security, it’s easy to get caught up in the technical details that give us the craziest hacks that make the best stories. In reality, though, most WordPress sites are hacked because bad habits — and, more specifically, bad passwords. This talk covers the technology that is changing how the password battle is being waged. Background on botnets, two-factor authentication, SSL, and password rot will accompany actionable advice any user can follow to secure their WordPress site.
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Charly McCracken: Anatomy Of A WordPress CSS File
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Charly McCrackenMay 13, 2014 — This talk provides an overview of each component of a WordPress sytlesheet and how it outputs in the browser so that you can easily tackle the task of modifying your WordPress stylesheet using CSS.
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Sam Hotchkiss: Large Multisite Networks: Our Experiences In Enterprise
WordCamp Atlanta 2014Speaker: Sam HotchkissMay 13, 2014 — Over the past few years, my company has built two 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, I’ll go over the issues that we faced and the lessons that we learned.
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