Author Archives: Heather Acton

About Heather Acton

WordPress engineer building custom themes and plugins for clients with purpose. Specialties include design (Figma/Sketch/Photoshop) to theme, admin usability, and WooCommerce / Woo Subscriptions performance and customization.

Official #WCChicago After Party – Saturday Night

June 4, 2010 by Heather Acton • 2 Comments

Join us for an official WordCamp Chicago after-party for networking & fun at Chicago’s upscale sports bar just blocks away from the Mart Plaza Hotel. Drink Specials*: Wear Nametag or say “WordCamp” at the Door $3 bud and bud light … Continue reading Official #WCChicago After Party – Saturday Night →

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WordCamp Chicago – Info you can use (please read)

June 4, 2010 by Heather Acton • 1 Comment

Heya WordCampers! We are TWO days away from WordCamp Chicago. Not that I’m complaining or anything — but, really??? Is it June, already? WOW – 2010 is a fast mover … but we’re happy to be sharing a few days … Continue reading WordCamp Chicago – Info you can use (please read) →

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Speaker Spotlight: Scott Robbin – Making WordPress Faster: Front-end Performance Tips

June 4, 2010 by Heather Acton • 1 Comment

Optimizing WordPress database queries and caching is an important part of improving site performance, no doubt, but did you know that 80-90% of a page’s response time is spent waiting for front-end components to load? In this session, we’ll look … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Scott Robbin – Making WordPress Faster: Front-end Performance Tips →

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Speaker Spotlight: Daisy Olsen – Retrofitting Old Themes with New Features

June 3, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Daisy Olsen – Retrofitting Old Themes with New Features

Nearly every major release of WordPress adds new features that allow for a more dynamic, interesting, and easily managed web presence.  WordPress 3.0 is no exception.  The additions of Custom Navigation, Custom Background, and other options are very useful and … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Daisy Olsen – Retrofitting Old Themes with New Features →

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Speaker Spotlight: Hal Stern – Parsing Strange, or URL to SQL to HTML

June 2, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Hal Stern – Parsing Strange, or URL to SQL to HTML

I’m Hal Stern, and I’m going to be talking about how WordPress parses URLs and turns them into SQL statements. Why do you care? SQL performance can greatly color user-perceived site performance. Understanding how WordPress generates a database query lets … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Hal Stern – Parsing Strange, or URL to SQL to HTML →

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Speaker Spotlight: Shannon Steffen – Simple SEO to Make Your Blog Stand Out

June 2, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Shannon Steffen – Simple SEO to Make Your Blog Stand Out

Hello everyone! My name is Shannon Steffen (@SKSDesigns) and welcome to what will be an introduction to the most easiest and quickest ways to increase your blog’s search engine rankings and authority online. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is both an … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Shannon Steffen – Simple SEO to Make Your Blog Stand Out →

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