Author: Reiko Beach

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 […]

Guillaume Molter – A lot of users have never heard of WordPress Multisite, and when they have, it usually comes with misconceptions about what it is and what it can do. In this talk I’ll do a full introduction of WordPress Multisite, its pros and cons, and show how small and large organizations, which usually […]

Josh Fialkoff – As more and more people make their own themes and customize off-the-shelf themes, we may be putting code in themes that goes far beyond design.There’s a better way to do this, so that changing your theme doesn’t break your site.The answer is utility plugins. We’ll show you how to set one up, what […]

Jonathan Desrosiers — Code can be a beautiful symphony, but it can also be a complete nightmare. The experience of hopping into someone else’s code can sometimes resemble trying to read their mind. Best practices & coding standards are here to help. Utilizing these standards allows you to take advantage of many benefits (including saving […]

Tom Shapiro — Out of every ten visitors to your blog, eight will read the headline yet only two will read the actual post itself. Learn to turn these numbers around through the crafting of can’t-miss headlines that drive clicks. Uncover ways to communicate more effectively through your headlines to the subconscious mind of your […]

Aaron Ware Mesh is yet another page builder, but simplified. Get the most flexibility to display content by adding multiple content sections within Pages, Posts, or Custom Post Types. Efficient and unobtrusive, Mesh was designed to simply extend the functionality of the normal page editor within WordPress to provide the flexibility of building pages in […]

John Eckman “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.” – Jeffrey Zeldman We’ve all heard that content is king, yet when it comes to designing web experiences we’re still stuck with lorem ipsum and placeholder images, as though the real content didn’t matter. We’re still designing web experiences […]