\n\t\t\t\t\tA guide to sourcing and evaluating plugins\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Tim Nash<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t“Don’t dig latrines with a swiss army knife”<\/strong><\/p>\nAn antidote to Kimb Jones (inevitable and great) Wow Plugins talk. Not every plugin is a “wow” plugin most just do a single job and some do them really well, often not glamorous but essential these plugins are the backbone to millions of site but how do you find these day to day plugins? How do you work out if they do what they say? How do you check if they will slow your site down or even harm it? Good Questions, guess we need a talk on sourcing and evaluating plugins to answer them?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tA Web Designer’s Law Update\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Heather Burns<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tRegardless of CMS or platform, web designers and developers have to comply with national and EU laws affecting our work.<\/p>\n
Most of the resources about these laws are written for lawyers, by lawyers, and these resources offer little insight for those of us who are obliged to implement the laws on client sites. So once again Heather has taken it on herself to translate the legal gobbledygook into practical insights that the web community can implement.<\/p>\n
A new EU law, The Consumer Rights Directive, takes effect on 13 June 2014, replacing the 1990s trading law that currently governs e-commerce transactions in the UK. All web sites offering goods or services online must comply, and failure to do so cancels the e-commerce transaction or contract.<\/p>\n
Heather’s talk will deliver a plain English explanation of what web site owners need to do to bring their WordPress e-commerce operations into line with the regulations.<\/p>\n
Heather will also give an update on recent legal developments including domains, cookies, and databases which directly affect our work as web professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tEasy, Lazy WordPress SEO\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Jessica Rose<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tBetween WordPress development, content production, editing, publishing and keeping your plugins and themes in order you’ve already got enough on your plate.<\/p>\n
This presentation will focus on how to optimize your WordPress site for search without adding another full time task to your schedule.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll take a beginner-friendly look at how to optimize your site, your content and manage the off page factors that all impact where you show up in the search ratings.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll also look at the fundamentals of how search engines rank content to lend a better understanding of how these optimization processes work. In the interests of keeping costs down we\u2019ll take a quick tour through free tools you can use as you optimize your sites.<\/p>\n
The session will also touch on some of the dangers of getting carried away with your SEO, touching on Google penalties and how best to avoid them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tLightning Talks\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of two sessions.<\/p>\n
Lightning talks are a great way to share your experience or thoughts, without doing a full session on your own.<\/p>\n
There will be eight 10-minute slots for you to share anything you like. No slides, just you sharing something that might be of use to your fellow WordPressers.<\/p>\n
The lightning talk submissions will only be accepted on the day and will be a first-come first-served basis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tLightning Talks\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne of two sessions.<\/p>\n
Lightning talks are a great way to share your experience or thoughts, without doing a full session on your own.<\/p>\n
There will be eight 10-minute slots for you to share anything you like. No slides, just you sharing something that might be of use to your fellow WordPressers.<\/p>\n
The lightning talk submissions will only be accepted on the day and will be a first-come first-served basis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tMaking your WordPress site more shareable\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Carolyn Jones<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThis talk will be suitable both for those running a personal blog, or a business website on WordPress. It will look at:<\/p>\n
\n- How you can leverage and optimise for the main social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & Linkedin as well as some other more specific platforms such as ManageWP.org.<\/li>\n
- Understanding Follow vs. Share vs. Like.<\/li>\n
- Sharing buttons, the official and other options.<\/li>\n
- Social meta data like open graph tags and twitter cards & the benefits of implementing them.<\/li>\n
- Testing and previewing social meta data – Plugins as well as manual options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tManaging a Multi-Author Blog\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Sam Berson<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tI run the site www.wpcontent.co.uk<\/a> with roughly 35 authors who each\u00a0submit monthly content for review and publication.<\/p>\nThe talk will cover how I find the authors (emails, other blogs, freelance sites), how I manage the authors (using Trello), how I edit the posts (and keep the same quality and formatting standards for all the posts), and how & when I publish the content (keeping a schedule etc.).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Candid Developer. Developing and Maintaining A Successful Plugin… Is Scary\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Kevin Stover<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tWe’ve all heard the same talks: a very calm, hip developer talks about working on or releasing some cool project. They’re bold, confident, and appear to have everything under control. If you’re like me, you don’t feel that way at all. You’re terrified of letting anyone else see what you’re working on. You assume that everyone is smarter than you, and that you have no business trying to start a business.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s strip away the false pretenses and talk frank about how we really feel. Releasing a plugin to the public can be a very scary prospect. Charging people for the privilege of using your code is even scarier. When do you release? How often do you update? Will you make any money? If your plugin is open source, how do you get people to commit to your project?<\/p>\n
Most of the time, it feels like you’re building a plane in mid-flight. I speak from experience. In two years, our main product, Ninja Forms, has now been downloaded nearly 350,000 times, and we average $28,000 a month in Ninja Forms extension sales. I think anyone would say that\u2019s pretty successful. From the outside, it might seem like we have everything together and that we\u2019ve got it all figured out. It’s taken two years to get here, and trust me, we’ve made plenty of mistakes.<\/p>\n
In this talk, we’ll have an open discuss about the pitfalls of managing and supporting a premium WordPress plugin when your user-base is growing very quickly. Some points we\u2019ll cover: Overcoming the fear of releasing a plugin. Our experiences with support. Tales from a terrible update. Leading a group of open-source committers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
Technical Track<\/h2>\n
Jump to general\u00a0track<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tA Journey into Underscores\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Tammie Lister<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tUnderscores is a starter theme, but what does that mean? Why should you use Underscores, also known as simply _s?<\/p>\n
In this talk I\u2019ll go through why at Automattic we use it to create our themes. I\u2019ll also show you why and how you can too. Along the way we\u2019ll take a look the past, present and future of Underscores.<\/p>\n
Underscores is a project on Github anyone can contribute to and I’ll also show you how you can get involved. So join me on a journey into Underscores !<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tConsuming External API with WordPress\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Kathryn Reeve<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tThis talk\u00a0will give a brief introduction into the WordPress HTTP request API which can be leveraged to request data from most APIs.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tCreating microsites – a 1 day job down to 30 mins\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Steph Cook<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tI worked on a WordPress site for a client which required the creation of microsites.<\/p>\n
Each microsite collected together all the content about each supplier from all over the site. It had been hacked together using a large amount of plugins, tools and widgets which meant it took about a day to set up a microsite for a new supplier and required a whole heap of knowledge about the system.<\/p>\n
I will talk about some of the tools I used to bring the setup time down to around 30 minutes with the added benefit of consistency, including custom post types and a great plugin called posts2posts.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tEasy Extensible Plugins\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresented by Mark Wilkinson<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tExtensible plugins are often the ones the WordPress community consider to be the best as they take advantage of the WordPress license and allow developers to build on and edit them.<\/p>\n
In this talk I will outline some of the methods which can be used to make your plugins extensible, allowing others to edit and build upon them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tHow to get your first Child Theme off the ground\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Presented by Tim Nash<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t “Don’t dig latrines with a swiss army knife”<\/strong><\/p>\n An antidote to Kimb Jones (inevitable and great) Wow Plugins talk. Not every plugin is a “wow” plugin most just do a single job and some do them really well, often not glamorous but essential these plugins are the backbone to millions of site but how do you find these day to day plugins? How do you work out if they do what they say? How do you check if they will slow your site down or even harm it? Good Questions, guess we need a talk on sourcing and evaluating plugins to answer them?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Heather Burns<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t Regardless of CMS or platform, web designers and developers have to comply with national and EU laws affecting our work.<\/p>\n Most of the resources about these laws are written for lawyers, by lawyers, and these resources offer little insight for those of us who are obliged to implement the laws on client sites. So once again Heather has taken it on herself to translate the legal gobbledygook into practical insights that the web community can implement.<\/p>\n A new EU law, The Consumer Rights Directive, takes effect on 13 June 2014, replacing the 1990s trading law that currently governs e-commerce transactions in the UK. All web sites offering goods or services online must comply, and failure to do so cancels the e-commerce transaction or contract.<\/p>\n Heather’s talk will deliver a plain English explanation of what web site owners need to do to bring their WordPress e-commerce operations into line with the regulations.<\/p>\n Heather will also give an update on recent legal developments including domains, cookies, and databases which directly affect our work as web professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Jessica Rose<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t Between WordPress development, content production, editing, publishing and keeping your plugins and themes in order you’ve already got enough on your plate.<\/p>\n This presentation will focus on how to optimize your WordPress site for search without adding another full time task to your schedule.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll take a beginner-friendly look at how to optimize your site, your content and manage the off page factors that all impact where you show up in the search ratings.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll also look at the fundamentals of how search engines rank content to lend a better understanding of how these optimization processes work. In the interests of keeping costs down we\u2019ll take a quick tour through free tools you can use as you optimize your sites.<\/p>\n The session will also touch on some of the dangers of getting carried away with your SEO, touching on Google penalties and how best to avoid them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t One of two sessions.<\/p>\n Lightning talks are a great way to share your experience or thoughts, without doing a full session on your own.<\/p>\n There will be eight 10-minute slots for you to share anything you like. No slides, just you sharing something that might be of use to your fellow WordPressers.<\/p>\n The lightning talk submissions will only be accepted on the day and will be a first-come first-served basis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t One of two sessions.<\/p>\n Lightning talks are a great way to share your experience or thoughts, without doing a full session on your own.<\/p>\n There will be eight 10-minute slots for you to share anything you like. No slides, just you sharing something that might be of use to your fellow WordPressers.<\/p>\n The lightning talk submissions will only be accepted on the day and will be a first-come first-served basis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Carolyn Jones<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t This talk will be suitable both for those running a personal blog, or a business website on WordPress. It will look at:<\/p>\n Presented by Sam Berson<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t I run the site www.wpcontent.co.uk<\/a> with roughly 35 authors who each\u00a0submit monthly content for review and publication.<\/p>\n The talk will cover how I find the authors (emails, other blogs, freelance sites), how I manage the authors (using Trello), how I edit the posts (and keep the same quality and formatting standards for all the posts), and how & when I publish the content (keeping a schedule etc.).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Kevin Stover<\/a> in General.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t We’ve all heard the same talks: a very calm, hip developer talks about working on or releasing some cool project. They’re bold, confident, and appear to have everything under control. If you’re like me, you don’t feel that way at all. You’re terrified of letting anyone else see what you’re working on. You assume that everyone is smarter than you, and that you have no business trying to start a business.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s strip away the false pretenses and talk frank about how we really feel. Releasing a plugin to the public can be a very scary prospect. Charging people for the privilege of using your code is even scarier. When do you release? How often do you update? Will you make any money? If your plugin is open source, how do you get people to commit to your project?<\/p>\n Most of the time, it feels like you’re building a plane in mid-flight. I speak from experience. In two years, our main product, Ninja Forms, has now been downloaded nearly 350,000 times, and we average $28,000 a month in Ninja Forms extension sales. I think anyone would say that\u2019s pretty successful. From the outside, it might seem like we have everything together and that we\u2019ve got it all figured out. It’s taken two years to get here, and trust me, we’ve made plenty of mistakes.<\/p>\n In this talk, we’ll have an open discuss about the pitfalls of managing and supporting a premium WordPress plugin when your user-base is growing very quickly. Some points we\u2019ll cover: Overcoming the fear of releasing a plugin. Our experiences with support. Tales from a terrible update. Leading a group of open-source committers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n Jump to general\u00a0track<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t Presented by Tammie Lister<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t Underscores is a starter theme, but what does that mean? Why should you use Underscores, also known as simply _s?<\/p>\n In this talk I\u2019ll go through why at Automattic we use it to create our themes. I\u2019ll also show you why and how you can too. Along the way we\u2019ll take a look the past, present and future of Underscores.<\/p>\n Underscores is a project on Github anyone can contribute to and I’ll also show you how you can get involved. So join me on a journey into Underscores !<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Kathryn Reeve<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t This talk\u00a0will give a brief introduction into the WordPress HTTP request API which can be leveraged to request data from most APIs.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Steph Cook<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t I worked on a WordPress site for a client which required the creation of microsites.<\/p>\n Each microsite collected together all the content about each supplier from all over the site. It had been hacked together using a large amount of plugins, tools and widgets which meant it took about a day to set up a microsite for a new supplier and required a whole heap of knowledge about the system.<\/p>\n I will talk about some of the tools I used to bring the setup time down to around 30 minutes with the added benefit of consistency, including custom post types and a great plugin called posts2posts.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t Presented by Mark Wilkinson<\/a> in Technical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t Extensible plugins are often the ones the WordPress community consider to be the best as they take advantage of the WordPress license and allow developers to build on and edit them.<\/p>\n In this talk I will outline some of the methods which can be used to make your plugins extensible, allowing others to edit and build upon them.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tA Web Designer’s Law Update\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tEasy, Lazy WordPress SEO\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tLightning Talks\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tLightning Talks\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tMaking your WordPress site more shareable\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tManaging a Multi-Author Blog\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Candid Developer. Developing and Maintaining A Successful Plugin… Is Scary\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
Technical Track<\/h2>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tA Journey into Underscores\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tConsuming External API with WordPress\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tCreating microsites – a 1 day job down to 30 mins\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tEasy Extensible Plugins\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\tHow to get your first Child Theme off the ground\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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