January 27, 2012

November 16, 2011

November 2, 2011 — You often hear about the two versions of WordPress – .com and .org. With the .com version users get a free, easy to use version that is limited in functionality and not very customizable. With the .org, users get a self-hosted version that is fully customizable but requires programming knowledge.

Developers have built an industry around the .org version creating and selling premium themes and plugins, offering membership to support sites, or creating custom sites for clients one at a time.
With the addition and growth of MultSite (formerly MU), WordPress is capable of a whole new way of doing things, bringing the best of the .com and the .org worlds together.

By creating a premium WordPress MultiSite installation targeted to a niche market, it is possible to provide an easy to use end user experience that provides premium themes and plugins and a level of customization tailored to that market.

November 1, 2011 — Online content creators struggle to monetize their content effectively with a pure advertising model. At MediaPass we’ve helped hundreds of publishers sell subscriptions to their online content, giving us a unique expertise in digital subscriptions. The subject of online paywalls is very topical right now. Unfortunately, however, there’s a lot of speculation and not a lot of data.

Topics to discuss:

· How and why you should be considering charging for some content

· Pros and cons of various subscription strategies

· What content is best for subscriptions and why it may not matter

· And more!

October 31, 2011 — There’s a lot of material out there to help designers and developers make their themes mobile-friendly, but it can be difficult to find all the best sources and be sure that you have all your bases covered. I discovered this recently while making a new theme for my own site, and decided to make a WordPress-specific checklist of all the code I would need to make sure that my theme would work reliably and consistently on tablets and smartphones.

My presentation will take the audience step-by-step through the necessary HTML, CSS, and Javascript, covering what the code does and where it should go in a theme. Time permitting, I’ll discuss the more challenging aspects of mobile design in more detail, such as the difference between virtual and device pixels, how the behavior of view-ports affect page layout, and the different ways of detecting a device’s screen size.

October 29, 2011 — how to optimize their WordPress sites for speed.

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