Schedule

Schedule for Friday, Saturday and Sunday below.

Friday, June 28th

Time	101	201	301	401
7:30 am	Registration / Check-In
8:00 am	Domains & Hosting Suzette Franck Favorite session: Domains & Hosting	Control What You Can Control: On Page SEO Sud Shanmugabaskaran Favorite session: Control What You Can Control: On Page SEO	HTML & CSS Foundations Brad Parbs, Josh Broton Favorite session: HTML & CSS Foundations	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
9:00 am	Components of a Good Website Kari Sharp Favorite session: Components of a Good Website	E-Commerce Functionality Brad Griffith Favorite session: E-Commerce Functionality	Type on the Web Andy Christian Favorite session: Type on the Web	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
10:00 am	About WordPress, Navigating the Dashboard & Getting Started with Your Blog Andy Nathan Favorite session: About WordPress, Navigating the Dashboard & Getting Started with Your Blog	Type on the Web Andy Christian Favorite session: Type on the Web	Template Hierarchy Brad Parbs Favorite session: Template Hierarchy	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
11:00 am	Planning and Implementing Your Navigation, Creating Pages & Posts John Wondrasek Favorite session: Planning and Implementing Your Navigation, Creating Pages & Posts	Simple CSS Modifications Using Inspector; Intro to Child Themes Nick Pelton Favorite session: Simple CSS Modifications Using Inspector; Intro to Child Themes	What’s Your Query? Jarrod Pyper Favorite session: What’s Your Query?	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
12:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm	Defining Plug-Ins & Widgets; Setting Up Your Sidebar Joshua Alexander Favorite session: Defining Plug-Ins & Widgets; Setting Up Your Sidebar	Template Hierarchy Brad Parbs Favorite session: Template Hierarchy	Create Great User Documents Gloria Antonelli Favorite session: Create Great User Documents	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
2:30 pm	Setting Up Your Custom Home Page with Widgets & Slider Kari Sharp Favorite session: Setting Up Your Custom Home Page with Widgets & Slider	Successfully Migrating WordPress Collin Matthews Favorite session: Successfully Migrating WordPress	Understand the Black Box of Arrays and Objects: DEBUG! Dusty Filippini Favorite session: Understand the Black Box of Arrays and Objects: DEBUG!	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Preparing & Using Images for Your WordPress Site Helena Denley Favorite session: Preparing & Using Images for Your WordPress Site	Text Widget for the Non Coder Gloria Antonelli Favorite session: Text Widget for the Non Coder	Git’ting Started: Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask about Git Mike Van Winkle Favorite session: Git’ting Started: Everything you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask about Git	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees
5:00 pm	Resources for Reaching Your WordPress Potential Suzette Franck Favorite session: Resources for Reaching Your WordPress Potential	The Path to Becoming a WP Developer Kari Sharp Favorite session: The Path to Becoming a WP Developer	Object-Oriented Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Post Meta Matthew Boynes Favorite session: Object-Oriented Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and Post Meta	Topics to be picked by attendees John James Jacoby, Jeremy Felt, Zack Tollman Favorite session: Topics to be picked by attendees

Saturday, June 29th

Time	Foreman	Architect	Engineer
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks Aaron Holbrook
9:30 am	Stop Making Things Pretty & Start Designing Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Stop Making Things Pretty & Start Designing	No One Cares About Your Content (Yet) Cliff Seal Favorite session: No One Cares About Your Content (Yet)	Writing high-quality WordPress plugins Brad Griffith Favorite session: Writing high-quality WordPress plugins
10:30 am	Creating an agile WordPress design process Chris Ford Favorite session: Creating an agile WordPress design process	Putting WordPress in a Suit & Tie: WordPress in Corporate America Rachel Baker Favorite session: Putting WordPress in a Suit & Tie: WordPress in Corporate America	Grow Your Business NOW: Maximize Marketing Efficiencies With WordPress Erik Wolf Favorite session: Grow Your Business NOW: Maximize Marketing Efficiencies With WordPress
11:30 am	Rocking the Responsive Web Josh Broton Favorite session: Rocking the Responsive Web	[PANEL] Designers and Developers, Bridging the Gap Aaron Holbrook, Jessica Duenke Paterik, Dusty Filippini, Reid Peifer, Michelle Schulp Favorite session: [PANEL] Designers and Developers, Bridging the Gap	Link Building Techniques That WORK! Sean McGinnis Favorite session: Link Building Techniques That WORK!
12:15 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:45 pm	From pixel to user – creating themes that satisfy the design and are usable Becky Davis Favorite session: From pixel to user – creating themes that satisfy the design and are usable	Content Strategy for WordPress Stephanie Leary Favorite session: Content Strategy for WordPress	Interacting with External APIs Ben Lobaugh Favorite session: Interacting with External APIs
2:45 pm	The Overlap of Emotion and Usability Ross Johnson Favorite session: The Overlap of Emotion and Usability	[PANEL] Commercial Themes & Plugins Q&A Brian Richards, Adam Pickering, Jake Caputo Favorite session: [PANEL] Commercial Themes & Plugins Q&A	A Real World Design Process Reid Peifer Favorite session: A Real World Design Process
3:30 pm	Snack Time! (Join us at the Cupcake Truck downstairs!)
4:00 pm	Optimizing your site for (business) performance Monte Martin Favorite session: Optimizing your site for (business) performance	WordPress Town Hall Matt Mullenweg Favorite session: WordPress Town Hall	A Web Site is Not Enough: How to Build an Online Marketing Strategy and Measure Results Kathy Sharo Favorite session: A Web Site is Not Enough: How to Build an Online Marketing Strategy and Measure Results
5:00 pm	Design and Development Trends in WordPress Tomas Puig Favorite session: Design and Development Trends in WordPress	You’re a Professional: How to Avoid Overshoot & Lost Profits Chris Lema Favorite session: You’re a Professional: How to Avoid Overshoot & Lost Profits	Tales of a Plugin Developer (Don’t repeat my mistakes!) Tobias Bäthge Favorite session: Tales of a Plugin Developer (Don’t repeat my mistakes!)

Sunday, June 30th

Time	Foreman	Architect	Engineer
9:00 am	Accessibility & WordPress: Developing for the Whole World Joe Dolson Favorite session: Accessibility & WordPress: Developing for the Whole World	Land Bigger Clients While Working From an Island Matt Medeiros Favorite session: Land Bigger Clients While Working From an Island	Plugin Unit Testing for WordPress Tom Jenkins Favorite session: Plugin Unit Testing for WordPress
10:00 am	Why Your Website Isn’t “Set it and Forget it” Mika Epstein Favorite session: Why Your Website Isn’t “Set it and Forget it”	[Panel] The Zen of Freelancing Aaron Holbrook, Kyle Unzicker, Drew Poland, Andy Stratton Favorite session: [Panel] The Zen of Freelancing	Hi WordPress, Meet Vagrant Jeremy Felt Favorite session: Hi WordPress, Meet Vagrant
11:00 am	Running a WordPress Theme Shop Adam Pickering Favorite session: Running a WordPress Theme Shop	[PANEL] WordPress Face-to-Face: Fostering your local (and digital) Community John James Jacoby, Dusty Filippini, Andy Christian Favorite session: [PANEL] WordPress Face-to-Face: Fostering your local (and digital) Community	Enhancing Developer Creativity With Git Zack Tollman Favorite session: Enhancing Developer Creativity With Git
12:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm	WordPress Goes to College: A Case Study Gordon Wright Favorite session: WordPress Goes to College: A Case Study	Scoping Projects to Reduce Stress, Headaches and Angry Mobs Lisa Sabin-Wilson Favorite session: Scoping Projects to Reduce Stress, Headaches and Angry Mobs	JavaScript Performance Techniques Carl Danley Favorite session: JavaScript Performance Techniques
2:30 pm	Hiring and Working with a Developer Eric Lewis Favorite session: Hiring and Working with a Developer	[PANEL] WordPress Business Owners Heather Acton, Nick Pelton, Kiko Doran Favorite session: [PANEL] WordPress Business Owners	Building apps with Backbone.js and WordPress K. Adam White Favorite session: Building apps with Backbone.js and WordPress
3:30 pm	Free Speech, Free Press, Free Software Joe Boydston Favorite session: Free Speech, Free Press, Free Software	Designers and Developers: Creating New Revenue Streams using WordPress Gene Hammett Favorite session: Designers and Developers: Creating New Revenue Streams using WordPress	BuddyPress Rules – The Road to Rewrites is Paved with Pretty Permalinks John James Jacoby Favorite session: BuddyPress Rules – The Road to Rewrites is Paved with Pretty Permalinks

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