March 27, 2014 — Have you ever wanted to start a podcast? Did you think that it was going to be too hard for you to start? Did you think that you would need a ton of specialized equipment and know-how to get things up and running? With a computer, an internet connection, and an installation of WordPress you can publish your own podcast. This presentation covers the installation of WordPress and related plugins and feed configuration for iTunes along with best practices for audio file exporting and the use of YouTube for video podcasts.

March 27, 2014 — This session is geared toward beginners who are in the early stages of setting up their WordPress-powered site. The session is about how I have used WordPress to start my own news startup EasternIowaNews.com and used WordPress at United Way of East Central Iowa, a site that has won a national Content Management Association Spotlight Award in the WordPress category in 2012/13.

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March 26, 2014 — This talk formulates techniques for professional WordPress deployment using Vagrant, Git and GitHub. It demonstrates techniques on how to use Git to deploy to Linux servers. Following this introduction to deployment with Git, the talk continues to more advanced topics such as setting up Vagrant for WordPress development and using Vagrant for environment simulation and deployment.

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March 26, 2014 — This session shares some practical tips and tricks learned while setting up multilingual sites.
* Quick tricks for installing WordPress language files on exisitng sites.
* How to deal with a plugin that has been internationalized, but is not localized for your language. (and do it so it’s upgrade proof)
* What to do when an internationalized plugin has no text domain.
* Some useful backend plugins for managing sites and language files.
* How to create splash pages for a language choice.

March 24, 2014 — The WordPress theme market has grown and grown over the past few years. There are many great themes out there, but many customers find themselves disappointed, because they didn’t know what to expect, or get what they thought they were getting. This presentation gives you a roadmap to follow, to help you make better decisions, saving you time, money, and frustration.

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March 24, 2014 — Frustrated with building WordPress sites? I’ve been there. Travelling, I often find myself with unreliable internet, and I realized that my development process needed an overhaul. So, late one night working with the geckos in Cambodia, I set about optimizing the process. After a great deal of trial and error, I developed a series of tools that will allow anyone to better manage their WordPress development practices.

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March 24, 2014 — This presentation is about understanding different caching tools and techniques available to WordPress developers such as the Transient and Object Caching APIs and how/why they can make or break your site.

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March 23, 2014 — This session looks at a couple of different options as to how you can handle multiple authors, whether they be guest bloggers or regular contributors. It also looks at options for creating a full blown editorial workflow with WordPress — one that will allow you to establish clear guidelines and processes for any team, whether it be a one person shop to multiple writers and editors.

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March 23, 2014 — This presentation surveys the media landscape where blogging and journalism meet. And shows where a journalistic approach and a blog approach may differ. It explains how a writer can maintain a high commitment to journalism, while also employing storytelling styles which are more compatible with blogs and their audiences.

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March 22, 2014 — This presentation introduces PressBooks.com, and the PressBooks GPL plugin, and describes how we have repurposed WordPress to turn it into a professional book publishing tool that anyone can use (for free!).

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