WordCamp Buffalo 2016

Understanding the WordPress Hierarchy and how to make it work for you.

One of the most confusing concepts for WordPress beginners (and even some experienced users) to comprehend is the hierarchy and how it works. In this talk we will demystify the hierarchy and provide examples of how to make it work for you.

The talk will be filled with live active examples and loads of helpful tips, tricks, and resources.

WordPress TV was created in 2009 as a place to feature presentations, highlights, how to’s and behind-the-scenes looks from WordCamps around the World. Now you can find all the fantastic videos from WordCamps that you could not attend. See the presentations you missed and learn about topics for WordPress beginners to seasoned developers. Recently WordPress MeetUp videos have been added for even more awesomeness. See how videos are submitted, slides inserted and videos moderated before they are published to the WPTV website.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has changed. It needs to be considered part of your company’s online strategy not just a one and done type of thing. SEO is a living strategy, just as the algorithms are and your website should be. Everything depends upon each other for success now more than ever. Learn the Top 5 Things You Need to Know for SEO Success on Your Website, How to Find Out What people are talking about, What is SEO & How Social Media impacts your SEO.

Stop using the same pre-built themes as everyone else! Making your own isn’t difficult. If you’ve ever developed a website from wireframes or mockups to html, turning it into a WordPress theme is just a few extra steps. Watch how Andy and Ben do it, and take your web skills to the next level with your own custom theme.

Stop using the same pre-built themes as everyone else! Making your own isn’t difficult. If you’ve ever developed a website from wireframes or mockups to html, turning it into a WordPress theme is just a few extra steps. Watch how Andy and Ben do it, and take your web skills to the next level with your own custom theme.

A half hour of non stop fun, showing how to build a complete membership powered website for $30 in just 30 minutes.

At the end, you’ll have:

– a WordPress powered website;
– restricted, membership only content;
– pay to download digital content;
– a payment gateway;

This one’s a lot of fun, I like to have a stop watch running to see if I can get it all done in less than 30 minutes with plenty of time left for the inevitable questions.

With recent announcement that all code submitted to WordPress core (as well as themes) must meet WCAG 2.0 AA, proper accessibility techniques are more important within WordPress than ever. I’ll review some basic and fringe accessibility techniques you can use for your personal and client projects, as well as for contributing to WordPress core.

Putting the finishing touches on a shiny new WordPress site can give you the feeling of accomplishment. But unless the client has worked in WordPress before, your job isn’t done. Your next step should be to educate the client about WordPress and train them on how to update their site. In this session we’ll review some training tips that I’ve learned over the past years, and discuss how to approach educating your client about WordPress in away that encourages them to do their own research before calling you.

So you want to start selling premium plugins? So did I, so I jumped in with both feet. Hear how I got started, what I’ve learned (and am still learning) about selling my first premium plugin for WordPress and how you can get started too.

There are WordPress Features You May Not Know.

If you are like many, there always seem to be things you wish you could do with WordPress, but maybe can’t figure out. This session will provide you with some great tips and tricks for you to make working with WordPress even easier.

From changing the number of posts on the dashboard page, to adding a target to link to on the menu dashboard, there are many things that are easy to accomplish — if only you know where to look. Not only are there screen options on almost every dashboard page, but there are help pulldowns, too, helping to answer questions before you might even need to turn to help in a forum.

We will also cover shortcuts for use in the editor window, and a quick and easy way to save your favorite plugins to find at a click to upload to your site.

Although this topic isn’t WordPress specific, it does address something that everyone uses on their sites and that’s images. Many people think that they can search for images on the internet and when they find one they like, they can can grab it and use it. Nothing can be further from the truth and can often times cost a lot of money to rectify. In this session I’ll give examples of what not to do and what to do when it comes to choosing images or graphics for your site. And give real-life scenarios of how companies/organizations have gotten into trouble either by oversight or by “taking a chance.”

Showing how to setup and register custom sections and field types for the Customizer. Will have an example site setup and snippets to go over the functions and how they interact with each other. It will be a “how to get started” style talk geared towards developers looking for ways to do global content fields and template style updates using the Customizer.

A quick but thorough dive into building page templates and custom features using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Learn how to create easily editable custom content areas and add additional options to the WordPress admin dashboard. Say goodbye to page builder plugins and say hello to Advanced Custom Fields.

WineClubGroup.com is a WordPress-based affiliate site which, by reviewing and recommending wine clubs, has generated over $100k in revenue in 4 years. Eric will explain how the site was built, the tools used to maximize revenue and ROI, and how he would do things differently if he were starting today.

I would like to speak about creating posts in WordPress using ACF acf_form() function.

I previously used this on a user registration/forum style site to allow users to create/edit multiple custom post types with relational data linking the posts together, while never having to access the backend of WordPress.

Do you want to reach a bigger audience? Then you need to be blogging and sharing on social media. During this presentation, I will talk about why you should write a blog for your business, what to do first, how to draw traffic through social media, and how you can write for other blogs as a guest blogger. I will also share some of my favorite plugins and tools.

This discussion is geared to bloggers. People who use WP, as opposed to those that code WP (make themes, plugins, etc). Most users are not tech types, nor are they experts on monetization methods for their blogs/websites. The discussion is based on the concept to understand in general what’s available to generate revenue from the site, and specifically Affiliate Marketing and how to do it.

So you deployed your impressive WordPress site for your client, and now it’s slow to a crawl. How can you save yourself from the embarrassment and catch issues before they see it.

Learn how you can help the freelancer or agency you are hiring to create your new website. What can you provide to get a more accurate estimate and project plan? How can you help keep costs down? What to look for when interviewing a developer or designer for your project.