Ken Gagne – WordPress makes hosting a website easy—but there’s a lot more to website management than the CMS! From finding a domain name to troubleshooting a slow page to creating attractive social media posts, these 25 free, online tools will complete your toolkit, equipping you to solve any problem in and around your site […]
Matthew Boynes – What makes a database query fast or slow? Are WP_Query’s taxonomy queries fast? What about meta queries? In this talk, we’ll dig into the WordPress database schema, talk about what factors influence query performance, and learn how to sniff out potential performance problems before they ever give you a headache. Next, we’ll […]
Greg Kristan – This presentation will be basic SEO tips to help improve your WordPress site’s ranking in Google and Bing. Also go over SEO tools I use along with plugins to help in WordPress achieve better SEO results. Bio Greg Kristan has been in the SEO field for 8 years. He has his own […]
Jonathan Desrosiers – A code review process has lots of benefits. In addition to the many technical and organizational benefits, there are also invaluable opportunities to set team members up to grow and succeed when an effective code review culture is adopted by everyone. While working at Boston University’s Interactive Design department, Jonathan helped create […]
Kelly Dwan – Bio Kelly Dwan is a developer in Cambridge, MA. She works on the WooCommerce team at Automattic. In her spare time, Kelly develops themes and contributes to the WordPress project. She’s on Twitter at @ryelle.
JJ Rohrer – Description: This presentation will go over the fundamentals of how to use Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF) and Gravity Forms to collect data on your website. These techniques can be used to collect data from your visitors, register new users, and enhance your admin settings pages. We’ll advance through how ACF and […]
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, page views, etc. To uncover deeper insights, turn to behavioral analytics. Specifically, what are your […]
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 […]