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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: Jeremy Harrington – WordPress UX Flight Check

June 1, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Jeremy Harrington – WordPress UX Flight Check

Hello, my name is Jeremy Harrington. I’m User Experience Design lead for Voce Communications developing innovative and useful experiences for an awesome group of clients using WordPress. Whether you’re developing your own custom site, customizing an existing theme or simply … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jeremy Harrington – WordPress UX Flight Check →

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