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Women of WordPress
This is not a session talking about “all the hardships women have in a male dominated field”. I’ve spent most of my educational and professional life avoiding groups like this… Men are welcome to this talk (I would hope that’s … Continue reading Women of WordPress
K-12 Education and Higher Education Interactive Talk
Main topics will include: Where is WordPress helpful in education? Integration with LMS Fundraising Integration with Social Media Plugins vs. Themes – seem to be a lot more plugins in education, not really themes – still searching for the perfect … Continue reading K-12 Education and Higher Education Interactive Talk
Freelance WordPress Lessons Learned
Making a living as a WordPress professional is a lot of work, but it’s not only possible, it can be a lot of fun. We’ll cover some simple guidelines on how to make the commitment, market your services, communicate with … Continue reading Freelance WordPress Lessons Learned
Creating WordPress plugins from jQuery Plugins
Presentation Overview: Issues of inserting JavaScript/jQuery into a theme file. Intro in using the wp_enqueue_script and wp_register_script when using jQuery/JavaScript, and the jQuery’s CSS file Setting up a WordPress Plugin Creating the Plugins Options page Testing/Troubleshooting the new plugin Conclusion … Continue reading Creating WordPress plugins from jQuery Plugins
SEO for WordPress: How to Avoid Penalties from Google and Bing
With the recent onslaught of algorithm changes from Google, many website owners and web professionals are wondering what they can do to ensure their website remains visible in the search engines. In this presentation attendees will learn about the reasons … Continue reading SEO for WordPress: How to Avoid Penalties from Google and Bing
Here’s BuddyPress, Install It Maybe
An introductory look at the BuddyPress plugin for WordPress. Discover what BuddyPress is and determine if the features of the BuddyPress plugin meet your feature needs. This session takes you through a quick discovery of the features and components of … Continue reading Here’s BuddyPress, Install It Maybe
24 Ways to Make WordPress Fast
We all know WordPress is slow out of the box. This talk provides 24 ways to make WordPress faster. We’ll start with basic theme optimizations and work our way up to server configurations. There’s something for everyone. So if you … Continue reading 24 Ways to Make WordPress Fast
WordPress User Tools and Best Practices to Increase Efficiency
To share best practices and tools I have found In developing WordPress themes, child themes, and modifying CSS + PHP code of existing themes. Some tools / best practices I would like to go over are: Beyond Compare and notepad++ … Continue reading WordPress User Tools and Best Practices to Increase Efficiency
Maintaining Responsive Integrity In Theme Development
Responsive Web Design has it’s own challenges but once mastered it is extremely rewarding. That is until you hand over your design as a WordPress theme to a User Admin. Admins don’t necessarily have the skills or the knowledge to … Continue reading Maintaining Responsive Integrity In Theme Development
Optimizing WordPress for Speed and Scale
This talk will encompass ways to optimize your website to make it fast, and then how to make that speed scalable. It starts at the beginner level with basic ways to get the most from WordPress, and will go all … Continue reading Optimizing WordPress for Speed and Scale
