September 11, 2013 — Five minutes of fast-paced, highly-engaging content.

Rolling your WordPress Support Character (Without Any Code)

September 11, 2013 — Five minutes of fast-paced, highly-engaging content.

The Future of WordPress Lies in the Past

September 10, 2013 — Five minutes of fast-paced, highly-engaging content.

Stop Tweaking (Setting Up a Blog Now for Success Later)

September 10, 2013 — Five minutes of fast-paced, highly-engaging content.

Social Photo Networking or Owning Your Content… Why Not Both?

September 9, 2013 — Five minutes of fast-paced, highly-engaging content.

How WordPress Saves Lives & Moves Governments

August 26, 2013 — This presentation covers how the Internet Archive is attempting to provide universal access to all knowledge by working with communities that have been digitizing, organizing, and serving books music and video for years. Hopefully the ensuing discussion will lead to new ideas on how the Internet Archive can help the WordPress communities and how the WordPress communities can bring even more rich resources to a world that is increasingly turning to the web as its library.

August 25, 2013 — This is an interactive session that reviews live websites from attendees, covering various website testing and usability techniques that can used to improve sales and customer engagement on your website. From simple content changes to more in depth issues, this presentation has practical takeaways to be put to work right away.

August 25, 2013 — It has happened to everyone – the dreaded call that the site is down and you are the only one who can fix it. While this can seem like the end of the world, fear not – there are a number of tools that can make your life easier. From monitoring to backups, command line to GUI, this presentation explores the most effective tools and tricks to get to the bottom of the most common server problems.

August 24, 2013 — This presentation explores the Rewrite API by example. Create some advanced permalink structures like adding taxonomies to post type permalinks and see how the Rewrite API makes it both simple and elegant. It goes through what happens when we change permalinks, how WordPress intelligently and automatically handles some redirects.

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August 24, 2013 — Capistrano is a Ruby gem which helps automate code deployment (in some cases, even on shared servers). This presentation goes over what Capistrano is, what you can do with it, and what it takes to get started using it. It also provides some starter resources to help you get going with automated deployments.
Deploy Capistrano Video

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