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Check out the folks who attended WordCamp Tampa 2014:
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James Tryon
Research and Discovery Phase
Making a website is more then making pretty picture and some sales jargon. You have to fully understand the project, your audience, current traffic trends and the even more important – the business goals before every writing a line of code.
Blain Barton
WordPress and Microsoft Azure
Discuss Microsoft’s Public Cloud Services running WordPress. Show how the Microsoft Cloud works with WordPress, then demo the Microsoft Azure Portal and show what WordPress looks like in the Microsoft Cloud.
Steven Sorenson
Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual
Chrissie Scelsi
Ps and Qs of Intellectual Property, Privacy Policies and Open Source Licenses
Copyrights, trademarks, privacy policies and open source licenses, oh my! From copyright and trademark concerns to determining how to comply with the range of open source licenses software publishers use today, the number of issues that a web developer can face in trying to determine how to comply with it all can become daunting. This session will present best practices to avoid some of the common pitfalls, and how to make the process a bit less painful in the future.
Mark Jaquith
WordPress Performance Workshop
This technical, hands-on workshop with WordPress performance expert Mark Jaquith will teach you how to massively speed up and scale your WordPress sites. You’ll learn the techniques and tools required to break past the 100ms barrier and get pages that load instantly and sites that scale to millions of page views. Come prepared to participate, with problem sites and examples of performance bottlenecks you have hit.
Robert Neu
Lessons from the Brink of Failure
Over the past couple of years, I’ve worked on a lot of projects. None of them have been successful. They’ve all been profitable enough to keep our heads above water, but none of them ever “took off”. I’d like to give a talk on the things I’ve learned by trying and failing in the hope that other people might not make some of the same mistakes that I’ve made. I promise it won’t be a bleak, hopeless 45 minutes. LoL
David Bisset
Customizing BuddyPress And Impressing Your Friends
Over the past few years BuddyPress has become a popular choice for creating social interaction on WordPress. But sometimes it’s capabilities, flexibility, and compatibility with the plugin ecosystem are not fully realized. This presentation is crafted for those new to BuddyPress and developers eager to see some straightforward and helpful code examples. If you laugh at David’s bad jokes you will get a free cookie.
Chris Jenkins
WordPress and the Enterprise: API Driven Business System Integration
Most business systems in the enterprise include some sort of API, including homegrown solutions using the .Net framework. WordPress business sites can and should take advantage of that fact to provide deep integration of those business systems, including dynamic lead handling, event or process management, help desk services, and many other internal functions.
Lisa Melegari
Spring Cleaning: How to De-Clutter Your WordPress Content
There’s a thin line between a content-rich WordPress website and a content-cluttered one. When your list of posts or pages goes beyond a few screens, it’s a sign that you might want to do some spring cleaning. In this talk, I’ll share strategies to reviewing your existing content, purging or updating old posts, and how to re-structure your content plan to help keep things organized in the future.
David Laietta
WordPress Empowerment: Moving from Idea to MVP
WordPress is an easy way to get started building your minimum viable product. We’re going to discuss a few examples and ideas of using WordPress to quickly create a new project. We’ll then cover a few ways that you could get started, even with little to no PHP knowledge.
Willie Jackson
Against the Grain: Success in Publishing by Breaking All the Rules
To successfully market your product or service, you have to follow all of the rules, right? Be active on social media, publish regular updates on the blog, make your site look like bigger brands, and so forth? It’s becoming evident that the widely-accepted rules we’ve internalized are nothing more than suggestions made by companies that might have succeeded in spite of their tactics rather than because of them. In this talk, we’ll discuss how to build loyalty and trust into your marketing strategy by harnessing your best strength: who you are and what you do.
Sarrah Vesselov
WordPress Fundamentals: Women Who Code
Get started with this WordPress 101 workshop. Find out what you need to do to get on board with self-hosted WordPress, custom themes and learn where to discover resources for learning WordPress.
David Parsons
Automating Your Repetitive WordPress Development Tasks
For many of us, the development process can be a very time consuming. A world where we are constantly nit picking our code in order to create a customized and unique experience. However, this can cause our developers to perform several tasks over and over again without extensive testing. If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over again? Let’s do ourselves a favor and build it right the first time. In this talk, I will be covering many techniques on how to reuse code with automation techniques, new languages, and tools such as Grunt that allow us to perform many many of our common development tasks when building WordPress themes and plugins. In the end, this produces products that are more secure and quicker to build.
Jesse Petersen
Everything Isn’t Awesome
You want every project to be awesome and to go from start to finish how you have planned, but crap happens. Previous projects take longer than expected and ruin timelines. Clients are poor communicators. You picked the wrong plugin/theme/approach. You got sick. What to do when it’s your fault, their fault, and out of everyone’s control.
Josh Eaton
Teaming Up: Going from Solo Development to Working with a Team
There are many things that solo developers do that break down when placed in a team environment. We’ll walk through some of the best practices and things to keep in mind when going from freelance to working in a team.
Chris Christoff
How to Improve Your Store and Make More Money
How to optimize your store to make you more money, from the guy who wrote the eCommerce plugin you’re probably using. You’ll walk away with a list of action items, and a good grasp on techniques and strategies for eCommerce sites that make a difference. This is NOT a technical talk and doesn’t require any programming knowledge. Instead, this talk is aimed at helping people at all levels make more money.
Lenny Gale
Performance Max: The Motivated, Productive, and Energized Remote Worker
What’s worse than a 9-5 office job? Hardly anything, right? But feeling isolated, unmotivated, and distracted as a person who works remotely isn’t much better. In this session, I’ll share my story about working remotely, first as a CPA consultant and now as a full-time blogger. Plus, we’ll talk about the three things I do every morning before 10am that keep me motivated, productive and energized throughout the day. Hint: only one of them is a drug.
Diane Kinney
Designing and Developing for Content
Stop plopping text on a page and think about new ways to present content. Create a library of design patterns that you can reuse (portfolios, testimonials, staff directories, and more) and pair them with Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and the Custom Field Suite. With a bit of prep work, you can create a reusable toolkit for building sites that more functional and purposeful while making your own work more efficient.
Nathan Hangen
Go Your Own Way – The Path of a Product Company
What does it take to build a successful product company, and more importantly, a company culture that you can be proud of, inside of an ecosystem that is so heavily saturated with companies and cultures of its own? In this talk, Nathan will describe the origin and evolution of IgnitionDeck as it sought to achieve success as WordPress outsiders, and share how they navigated the roadblocks therein. Topics to be covered include product launches, marketing, product development, acquisitions, growth, and achieving scale.
Syed Balkhi
Blogging as a Career (Everything You Need to Know)
Can you really make a living by blogging? How do you stand out in a noisy world? How do you get traffic? What are some ways you can make money from your blog? In this session, Syed Balkhi, a successful 7-figure blogger, reveals everything you need to know about blogging as a career.
Drew Barton
30 Things You Must Do Before Launch
As nearly one in four websites is powered by WordPress, there is an amazing responsibility to maintain quality control standards before launching your site. Southern Web’s Drew Barton will share in rapid-fire more than 30 tips that should be included in every WordPress site launch checklist. In order to provide security and maintain quality, these WordPress must-dos will help ensure you and your visitors will have a strong impression of WordPress as a blog, as a CMS and as a development platform.
Kelly Housholder
The Art of Web Design, for Print Designers
A web design talk geared towards print designers. I’ll cover items such as how to set up Illustrator files for web design, prepping files for a developer, the crucial differences between web design and print design, and how to transition from a primarily print design path to a competent web designer. (Hint: there’s lots to learn!) This talk will be geared toward designers who work with (or want to work with) WordPress developers to create websites.
Micah Wood
Improving your WordPress WorkFlow with Vagrant and Composer
A hands on workshop where you will learn the why and how of integrating Vagrant and Composer into your development workflow. Discover first hand how these tools can help you follow best practices when managing your code, make it easier to reuse your code, onboard new developers quicker and avoid surprises when publishing code. If your workflow is slowing you down, don’t miss this workshop!
Dave Clements
Putting things where they belong: child themes and functionality plugins
WordPress is great out of the box, but as soon as you want to make any style or functionality changes, you need to know how to do that correctly, so that your modifications work not only today, but into the future when you switch themes, update plugins and make other changes to your site. Learn how to set up a child theme and a functionality plugin, and how to use them to make changes to your site the correct way.
Chris Lema
Opening Keynote: WordPress Will Change Lives, If You Let It
They were all ordinary people – non-technical people really – that each learned a little bit of WordPress. What happened next was different for each of them, and yet, their stories are all the same. It’s the simple story you might find yourself in as well – first because WordPress has begun changing your life. But more importantly, you’ll discover it brings you the tools to help you change others lives – for the better.
John Hawkins
Y U NO TELL ME: Lessons learned building a WordPress development company
Turns out, there is no manual on how to start and run a successful business. Since starting 9seeds.com in 2009, I’ve learned a lot of what to do and, more importantly, what NOT to do. In my talk I will share with you several of the things I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully one or two of them will save you from having to learn the same lessons at the school of hard knocks.
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