Jim Reevior – Nine years ago, I was just starting out as a full-time developer when I heard about a brand new volunteer opportunity. New England GiveCamp set out to develop websites for charities over the course of one weekend. I volunteered to use my newfound skills to help non-profits, and I haven’t stopped since. […]
Reiko Beach – Over the 8 years building WordPress websites and training users I have found that even users that have had a WordPress site for years got some value from some of these tips & tricks. Some of the 20 tips are common, but worth a reminder, others I hope you will find helpful […]
Ed Perry – This presentation will discuss various options and techniques for the integration of social media into your WordPress websites. Most of the techniques discussed will leverage plugins and require very little coding knowledge. Topics covered include social share and following, social logins and comments, social broadcasting, social paywalls, and even how to create […]
Amanda Giles – Web Security is an increasingly hot topic. Google has long said they will give preferences to sites with SSL certificates and soon in Chrome they will mark all sites without SSL certificates as “Insecure”. We’ll go over the steps to secure your website using a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/). […]
Jonathan Desrosiers [standing in for John Eckman] Hopefully by June 25th the avalanche of privacy policy update emails will have slowed, and the initial panic over the May 25th GDPR deadline will have subsided, or at least returned to the quiet desperation of most legal compliance issues. If you’re like most people, though, you’ll still […]
Nitin Patil – – WordPress Plugin Development Overview– Coming up with plugin idea– Code development– Unit testing– Plugin Submission– Best Practices & Resources Bio A technology enthusiast and an entrepreneur with several years of experience in designing and implementing solutions in the areas of Cloud Computing, web and mobile applications. As someone who believes in […]
Aaron Bacon – Supporting content in multiple languages is easier than ever before, but there are several important decisions to make before you install a plugin. What languages will you support? Who is the audience for your content? Do you need a perfect experience in every language? Or merely to offer a translation when it […]
Matt Bernhardt – This talk is about how MIT Libraries use tools like GitHub, Travis, and Waffle to manage code development for WordPress. Bio Matt is a developer at MIT Libraries where they use these tools for WordPress development.
Jenn Nickerson – A lot of clients’ websites can suffer from a “set it up and walk away” mentality. You assume they are going to be logging in and keeping their site updating after that last check cleared right? Wrong, the average WP client doesn’t really have the time or knowledge to know what to […]
Jonathan Williams – What is the difference between a Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Asset Management (DAM)? Do people use WordPress for digital asset management? This talk explores ways in which the existing WordPress media library might be improved and extended to take on broader asset management challenges. Bio Jonathan Williams is an interactive […]