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Tom Shapiro – Many WordPress designers, developers, and site owners rely on Google Analytics for insights into their site visitors. The problem is that GA provides you with only half of the story, such as traffic source, number of visitors,…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.