October 16, 2013 — This talk discusses best design practices for a business website, how to promote the website, and how to use it to to generate leads and sales for both online and offline businesses.

October 15, 2013 — This presentation covers the important aspects of developing a Theme with Child Theme-friendliness in mind, including proper referencing of bundled Theme resources, incorporating template action hooks, making Theme functions pluggable and filterable, and making Theme options extensible.

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October 14, 2013

September 26, 2013 — This presentation focuses on how to employ “best security practices” for WordPress sites. It reviews current botnet and hacker schemes targeted at the WordPress platform, as well as current authentication models including one, two, multi-factor and passwordless.

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June 15, 2013 — Learn the tips and techniques to start video blogging in less time than it takes to write a post, for free and with ease.

May 29, 2013 — Kimanzi will teach you the power of story and how to use it in a way that get people’s attention and builds a loyal and active following to your blog or website. Learn how to truly connect with people in this session.

May 7, 2013 — This talk will showcase some of the awesome helper functions in WordPress core. These functions will break down into three categories:

1. Display helpers: This will cover some of the cooler display oriented helper functions
2. Data helpers: This will cover some of the useful functions for manipulating, getting, and returning data
3. Action helpers: This will cover some of the useful functions for executing functionality

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May 6, 2013 — Version Control lets you track your files over time. Why should you care? So when you mess up you can easily get back to a previous working version! I will take you through what version control is, why it’s important and how to start using it today on projects you’re already working on.

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May 5, 2013 — The next natural step in this WordPress evolution is that it will become a widely adopted web application development platform. With the vast improvements in WordPress 3.x and the introduction of custom post types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields, the sky is the limit as to the kinds of web apps you can build with WordPress. Find out how you can build your next web application using WordPress.

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May 3, 2013 — Implementing a WordPress site can become exponentially complex as more people are involved in producing content, structuring layout,designing graphics, and developing features. This Presentation navigates WordPress development when you are forced to work with a committee. Case Studies.