March 9, 2015 — You have the urge. You have the content. You have the will. You feel the call to write and share your message with the world. This is your time! Even better, you’ve decided on WordPress, since you are brilliant. You also realize you want the site to look good. Really good. Awesome good. What do you do? You start researching and learn about “themes” & “frameworks” – but there are so many variables. Child themes, Headway, Genesis, Divi, responsive, retina, mobile, multi-column, squeeze pages, wrappers – you are overwhelmed, to say the least! You even consider Weebly… don’t do it! I’ll break
everything down for you: where to look for in a WordPress theme, how to find a good one, best practices, and then some!

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March 9, 2015 — Orlando-based WordPress developer Adam Soucie will share his story on how two years ago he quit his job in sales to follow a career in web development and provide the road map for how you can find similar success using WordPress as your vehicle.

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March 7, 2015 — Exploring the science behind irresistible WordPress products and services, and how to achieve results (almost) every time.

January 27, 2015 — This session will dive in deep into the proper way to include files from plugins and themes. We’ll learn everything from including a script the easy, proper way, to dynamically calling custom scripts in dynamic situations.

January 23, 2015 — When first getting started with customizing the design and layout of a WordPress site there is a lot you need to know. This presentation covers all the important components of WordPress themes and describes how they work and what you need to know. In addition, examples are given of theme customization requests and the numerous options for fulfilling those requests with best practices being considered.

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January 4, 2015 — This talk covers a few key “Aha” moments that you should have about the way WordPress works. Michael talks about things like the template hierarchy, what’s going on in wp-config, where WordPress content is stored (the database vs file system), how posts and pages and custom post types are represented in the database, what folks are talking about when they talk about hooks and filters, and just generally review the “behind the scenes” mechanics of how WordPress works

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December 9, 2014 — Foundation Day – Beginner’s Workshop

November 15, 2014 — Are you a front-end designer who searches the free WordPress theme directory, finds something similar to the design you’re looking for and then modifies it to suit your needs? A lot of WordPress theme designers start off this way, but soon it’ll be time to take it to the next level. This presentation gives you 6 specific tips to boost your WordPress theme building skills.

November 14, 2014 — Lighting Talks: Unscary Tech
How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.

November 9, 2014 — Over the past few years, my company has built multiple large (500+ site) multisite networks for companies in the financial services industry, and consulted on a number of high-traffic multisite installs. In this talk, we’ll talk about what makes a good multisite network and when you should look at other solutions, and I’ll go over the issues that we faced and the lessons that we learned.