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So your new site’s launched: great content, beautiful design, and SEO’ed like whoah. But when a visitor comes in for one particular page, how do you encourage them to engage further with your content rather than leave? The Yet Another … Continue reading →

WordPress has tons of features that can make life easier for developers and designers. This talk will look into some of the nooks and crannies that you might not be familiar with, and we’ll also explore creative uses for features … Continue reading →

Move over social media, making room for QR Codes in your WordPress site enables quick scanning of key topics and features.  It can be as easy as a vCard, a coupon, link to an event, or something else.  Understand the … Continue reading →

It’s a dangerous Internet out there, and your WordPress site needs a reliable backup. In this talk, we will discuss why a backup is so important, the 5 musts of a solid backup strategy, a comparison of free and premium … Continue reading →

How to become responsive. We will go over the various methods & styles used to make your site responsive. We will discuss CSS media queries, FitText.js, FitVid.js and responsive slideshows.

WordPress makes AJAX easy and all too often developers write their own code for handling AJAX.  The purpose of this presentation is to walk developers through the process of implementing basic AJAX functionality in themes and plugins.  Topics covered will include best … Continue reading →

Code is Poetry. You may have noticed this phrase in the footer of WordPress.org or printed on a t-shirt or sticker. It’s a beautiful metaphor, but what does it mean? During the course of this talk, I’ll be looking at … Continue reading →

Developing WordPress themes from the ground up is time consuming and costly to sustain, as version iterate.  Using a theme framework such as Thesis or Genesis can speed up development time and drastically reduce site maintenance over time.