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 […]
Bindu Dadlani – How a non-tech person leverages the power of Jetpack and WordPress happiness engineers support team to take a site from an old slow user interface to a new re-themed, responsive, mobile friendly, secure, SEO, backed up and faster site. Protection, spam filtering, back ups, image performance, downtime monitoring, awesome plugins, stats, security […]
District Hall 75 Northern Ave Boston, MA Agenda • 6:30: Networking & Pizza • 7:00: Presentations Presentation 1: Unleashing the power of Jetpack in WordPress Bindu Dadlani How a non-tech person leverages the power of Jetpack and WordPress happiness engineers support team to take a site from an old slow user interface to a new […]
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 […]
Boston University – Colloquium Room 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor Boston, MA Agenda • 6:30: Networking & Pizza • 7:00: Presentations Presentation 1: Utility Plugins 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 […]
Henry Visotski – Presentation on technical SEO for WordPress developers, designers, webmasters, and content managers. None of that “content is king, keywords are everything, now go tweet” stuff. This presentation will be chock full of actionable tips, resources, techniques, best practices, and plugin info. Some of the points to be addressed will include: – General […]