May 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.

May 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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May 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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May 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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May 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?.

May 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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May 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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May 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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May 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.

May 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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