All posts by Michael Bastos

Announcing Designer Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Designer’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that have years or experience putting together some awesome design projects in WordPress. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Shaimoom from Exaktime that will blow you away.

Chris Ford – Finding Design Resources
Corey Ellis – Intro to Themes (Do’s and Don’ts)
Bobbie Wilson – Child Themes (How to choose and set one up)
David Sutoyo – Styles (What’s Under the Hood?)
Natalie MacLees – Designing for Responsive
Nikhil Vimal – Enqueuing (Properly registering styles and scripts)
Natalie MacLees, Dave Winter, Rick Knudston, Nikhil Vimal – Panel called “What’s your Workflow?” with host Shaimoom Newaz
Alicia St. Rose – Functional Design (Design Development)

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your Theme and Design friends for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

Announcing Admin Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Admin’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that have a long history of helping WordPress power users and are putting together some awesome talks. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Michael from Advanced WordPress that will blow you away.

Hristo Pandjarov – Why Is My Website Slow?
Christina Hills – Simple Solutions for Website Backups
William Bay – What You Need to Know About Local SEO
Vid Luther – SSL: How Does That Work?
Pamela Bey – Migrating Websites to/from WordPress
Mika Ipstenu, Matt Cromwell, Ansel Taft – Panel called ‘HELP ME! How to Help Others Help You’ with host Michael Bastos
Chris Weigman – Vetting a Plugin
Michele Butcher – Your Site Has Been Hacked, What’s Next?

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your coworkers and day to day WordPress power users for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

Announcing Beginner Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Beginner’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that as we speak are already working hard at putting together talks which will teach WordPress newbies in a manner rarely seen in WordCamps. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Hristo from SiteGround that will blow you away.

Heather Baker Steele – What is WordPress really?
Stephen Carnam – Installing WordPress Remotely and Locally
Jason Tucker – Understanding the WordPress Interface
Evan Scheingross – Switching Themes Like a Boss
Russell Aaron – When to Add or Not Add a Plugin
Matt Cromwell – Properly Setting Up your Site
Ben Fox, Devin Walker, Steve Zehngut – Panel called ‘Making Money With WordPress’ with host Hristo Pandjarov
Rob Marlbrough – WordPress Social and Tracking Tools

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your clients and family members which are new to WordPress for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

Call for Speakers

Wanted: Awesome speakers from the WordPress community that can communicate clearly and articulately, since we want to show off the local San Diego WordPress talent, most preferences will be given to local speakers who have not yet had a chance to present at a WordCamp.

Speaker applications are now closed
Decision will be made on speakers November 25th.

Track 8 of 8: Taking the Plugin Bootcamp

The most anticipated and truly unique thing that the WordPress community can provide to people looking to invest in WordPress is to spend some time sharing hands on real world experiences and examples that they can then take and use.

The goal of the Plugin Bootcamp is to do just that, the team will take you through start to finish how to build and release a brand new plugin from scratch.

So if you’re looking to get into WordPress Development and need some real world hands on plugin building experience, this is the track for you.