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BWPM Mar12: Design, UX, Content Strategy and SEO...

by Annie Smidt (@anniesmidt) Learn about the intersections of design, content strategy, user experience (UX) and search engine optimization (SEO) that you can use to make your WordPress sites more compelling, professional and effective (not to mention looking good). I'll be talking about both big picture ideas about the disciplines in the title and some concrete, non-coding ways to bring these ideas to your WordPress sites. Annie Smidt is the owner and creative director of Durable Creative. Du...

BWPM Apr2012: Prototyping Web Apps with WordPres...

Presented by Blaise Freeman and Ned Lomigora (@zeeenmedia) In this presentation we'll share how our startup—Zeeen—is using WordPress to quickly prototype and test novel web applications for promoting books. We wrote a plugin to simplify and accelerate creation of promotional platform for authors, which may have a wider application. We'll walk you through tradeoffs we made while building this plugin. We will make this plugin available the WordPress community at large and welcome any feedback.

BWPM Apr2012: WordPress and Ecommerce [Beg]

Presented by Brian Piccolo (@amp_agency) Learn how to sell your stuff through WordPress as we walk you through some of today’s most popular Ecommerce solutions within WordPress. We’ll take a look at some of the more popular WordPress plugins to help get the job done and take an in depth look at the new WooCommerce plugin from WooThemes. We’ll show you the easiest ways to sell physical goods, affiliate products and downloadables. This session will cater to beginner/intermediate users however we...

BWPM Mar2012: WordPress - What Would Core Do?

Presented by Jake Goldman (@jakemgold) Most complex WordPress plug-ins and themes need to add new features to WordPress administration, from special post meta boxes, to new widgets, to whole new administrative options and pages. When you build your administrative extensions, do you stop and ask "WWCD" - what would core do? Do you really need a whole new options screen for two new options? Does your theme options page feel like it could have shipped with WordPress? Can your users tell where Wor...

BWPM Jan2012-BEG/Int: Restoring your WordPress s...

WordPress is one of the best CMS engines out there, but it is only as good as it works. If a plugin, theme or update causes an error on your WordPress site, what do you do? I'll show you a couple of ways to save your site, and your content and how to restore it.Kurt Eng is a scientist by day and a rabid gamer and cook by night. Kurt has been very active in podcasting and video, publishing free content for others to learn. Kurt focuses on the beginners of WordPress and blogging, empowering them...

BWPM Jan2012-DEV: WP_Query, pre_get_posts, and e...

At the heart of WordPress is the WP_Query class, used to retrieve practically all content from the database and prepare it for display. In this presentation, I?ll discuss the myriad arguments available with WP_Query, the various properties and methods that are automatically populated, and the advanced queries made possible through filters within the class. I?ll also review the pre_get_posts action, detail how it can be used to modify standard WordPress queries and completely eliminate query_po...

BWPM Nov2011: Caching, Scaling, and WP.com VIP [...

Caching, Scaling, and What I've Learned Programming for WordPress.com VIP by Erick Hitter WordPress provides two great caching frameworks in its transient and object caching APIs. Used internally and available to developers, object caching can introduce many performance enhancements simply by activating a plugin such as Batcache or W3 Total Cache. But what about adding extra caching in a custom theme? Or building upon existing internal caching? Working on high-traffic sites both on the WordPre...

BWPM Nov2011: WordPress, HTML5 Adoption, and Int...

#1. WordPress, HTML5 Adoption, and Internet Explorer 9 & 10 by Chris Bowen No doubt you've been hearing quite a bit about HTML5. There are many new features to help improve user experiences, but how do you use them today while still supporting the spectrum of browsers, old and new, in use today? We'll focus on practical strategies, libraries, polyfills, shims, etc. for WordPress designers and developers to adopt HTML5 today. We'll also take a look at how Internet Explorer supports HTML5 (and r...

Ten Must do Steps to Convert to Wordpress

Presented by Alan Bergstein (An update of his session presented at WordCamp Boston 2011): http://2011.boston.wordcamp.org/2011/07/08/ten-must-do-steps-in-converting-to-wordpress/ It happens all the time. You’ve got a site that was brilliant four years ago, and the site developer has retired to a beachfront Internet cafe in the Cayman Islands, and you forgot or just never really knew how to use Dreamweaver. So how do you take that dusty old site and do more than just port it over to a WP platfo...

Advanced Theme Performance Techniques - Frederik...