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Choosing the right commenting platform is more than trivial. The direction you choose will impact your blog’s commenting activity. With the advent of Facebook comments, the popularity of Twitter, aggregates like Disqus and Intense Debate, and WordPress’ default comments, the … Continue reading Comments Are King: Ruling Over the Right Platform →

The goal of this session is achieve successful design principles overall for websites and how WordPress can help achieve this! We’ll be covering how to identify a bad design, how to plan for an efficient design, and cover best practices … Continue reading Designing Success for WordPress →

Pete will explain how WordPress core decisions are made and how you can be a part of the team and give back to WordPress.

The WordPress community is exploding and the value of a WP install is increasing by the second. Use this session to understand how network effects are changing the landscape of the WordPress in 2011 and how every new user is … Continue reading The WordPress Community is Coming to Get You →

Let’s assume you picked a domain name, hosting provider and even did one of those cool one-touch installs. Now what? Chris is going to show you his Launch List – a checklist of everything he knows and does to get … Continue reading Launching Your WordPress Site →

There’s a lot of amazingness packed into WordPress. Do you know where all the best tools are? This talk is targeted at beginners, but WordPress veterans might just discover a handy trick they’ve never thought about using before. Find out … Continue reading Hidden Gems: Little Known Facts About Publishing with WordPress →

This talk will cover several examples of sites that were originally built on stock themes and what factors lead to making the jump to a full custom theme. Why someone would want/need a fully custom WordPress theme. When branding, image, … Continue reading When is it Time to Graduate to a Custom Theme? →

It was just a little more than a year ago on May 25, 2010 that Ethan Marcotte wrote the seminal article titled Responsive Web Design that sent shockwaves through the web development industry from which we are just now experiencing … Continue reading Responsive Web Design With WordPress →