August 21, 2014 — Join Michael G. Calvert from Disqus as he teaches you how to identify good content that tends to generate the most comments and keep readers coming back regularly. Learn how to quickly remove and filter undesirable content from your site and apply both technical and human approaches to develop a more active and constructive community from his 5+ years of experience working with sites from around the web. This talk gives you the practical do’s and don’ts for managing your community with Disqus on WordPress.

August 20, 2014 — Aram Zucker-Scharff walks through PressForward, a Sloan Foundation-funded open-source WordPress plugin designed to help WP users aggregate content across the internet. The plugin collects and archives content from across the web, allowing users to subscribe to RSS feeds, view lists of articles, read them in full, and then discuss and nominate items as a group.

August 13, 2014 — Dave Jensen (@elgrom) from Metro UK (hosted right here on WordPress.com VIP) explains how Metro continually experiments with their content algorithm to promote and feature the most interesting content for their readers and increase engagement on their site and mobile apps.

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July 17, 2014 — På bara några minuter kan du sätta upp en helt ny företagswebbsida med hjälp av WordPress. Vill du anpassa sidorna har du tiotusentals teman och extrafunktioner – där de flesta är gratis – att välja bland. Men själva anledningen till att användarna kommer till sajten, hur mycket tid lägger du på det? Det tar tid att skapa läsvärt innehåll. Texten är också det enda du inte kan återanvända mellan projekten. Så hur skriver du texter som besökarna bryr sig om och vill ha?

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July 8, 2014 — Learn how your blog can become more than a diary for yourself and how focus on a niche can lift you from blogger to authority and do wonders for your website traffic. Hear what choices you have to make in your development of the blog when it comes to content, technique and perhaps earnings. Find which downsides and possibilities, that comes with a successful blog and how to benefit from them the most.

May 18, 2014 — This session talks about the planning process involved in discovering how your website’s content should be structured – be it a small site of 10 pages or a large site of 10,000 pages – and then looks at the WordPress content types available to build our model into a functional, scalable, and author-friendly system. There will be no coding in this session, and it is appropriate to both beginners looking to understand content types, and seasoned developers looking to plan a thorough build process.

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May 9, 2014 — The lifeblood of any website is its content. This presentation covers how to take new and existing projects, identify what content is the most important, then design and present that information so your client’s site guides visitors in a clean and predetermined path.

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February 28, 2014 — Discover strategies to quickly create content that positions you as an expert and attracts new clients and customers and to re-purpose the same content for maximum leverage, visibility, and conversion. Plus, learn how to apply the same content strategies to the back end of your business to automate and streamline workflow so you can increase profits.

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February 3, 2014 — Content Rules! WordPress lets you easily update your web site even if you are not technical. This presentation goes over how to add pages and blog posts step by step, including text, images and other media. Learn the difference between pages and posts, when to use each, and understand WordPress terminology.

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October 29, 2013 — This presentation covers 30+ methods an average user can utilize to create more interesting content across your site, including tools, plugins, and more.

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