Category Archives: Sessions

Session Spotlight: Plugin Vulnerabilities – How to Secure Your Code with Dave Jesch

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Learn how to secure your plugin code with Dave Jesch at 10:40 AM on June 6th in the Salt Creek Trail track.

Prevention is the key to plugin vulnerabilities. Learn what to look for in your own code to help safeguard from potential issues. A step-by-step guide will be provided on how to avoid vulnerabilities and make your code more secure. With the generosity of popular plugin authors, we will review some recent vulnerabilities found, share how they fixed the problems and discuss the best methods for getting the word out about your plugin once it’s been securely updated. Yes, there will be code.

Session Spotlight: Blurred Lines – A Workflow for Responsive Projects with Natalie MacLees

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Join Natalie MacLees in the Trabuco Trail track at 9:50 AM on June 6th for her talk Blurred Lines: A Workflow for Responsive Sites.

Responsive design is so much more than a flexible grid and a few media queries. A responsive web site project requires a whole new approach to the way we think about web sites – and involves a serious blurring of the boundaries between design and development. In this talk, Natalie will cover some new workflows and how designers and developers can better collaborate in a responsive world.

Session Spotlight: SEO Simplified with William Bay

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Let William Bay show you the ropes of Search Engine Optimization at 9:50 AM in the Salt Creek Trail track on Saturday, June 6th.

William Bay has trained many small business owners on how to get their websites ranked on search engines without overwhelming them with information.

What you’ll learn in this presentation is:

  • How Google determines to display the pages it does.
  • How best to set up your WordPress site to maximize the chances of getting ranked.
  • Show you how to choose the right keyword, and introduce you to competitive analysis.
  • Walk through using the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin on a Page and Post to set you up for rankings.
  • And discuss links and why they’re important. Also why some links are very bad.

You’ll come out of this presentation with a clear understanding of what you need to do to get your pages ranking higher than they have in the past. And you’ll find that you didn’t need that magic wand to do it after all.

Session Spotlight: Beginner’s Workshop with Adam Silver, Kathryn Presner, Gregg Franklin

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Join Adam Silver, Kathryn Presner, and Gregg Franklin for our Beginner’s Workshop, starting at 9 AM on Saturday, June 6 in the Crystal Cove Trail workshop track.

It’s not a WordCamp without a good grounding session for beginners. This workshop will help people understand the basics of WordPress. They’ll cover everything from initial setup to publishing posts, adding categories, tagging content, and much more, including the entire Dashboard, sharing all the useful tools and providing tips along the way.

They’ll also review what to look for in a WordPress theme, how to find a good one, best practices and more.

How do you determine what’s a safe and effective plugin without being overwhelmed by choice? They’ll look at when to use a plugin and clarify the difference between widgets and plugins, plus how to make an informed decision about which plugin to use – and explore how to troubleshoot any conflicts that may crop up.

Session Spotlight: How NOT to Submit a Plugin with Mika Epstein

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Join Mika Epstein at 9 AM on Saturday, June 6 in the Trabuco Trail room for How NOT To Submit Your Plugin: a tongue-in-cheek review of the things you can do to make your plugin submission make the review team cry, from pestering everyone and their mother about the speed of a review to simple mistakes that make the process take longer than it should.

Developers, now there’s no excuse! Mika is letting us in on plugin submission secrets.

Speaker Spotlight: Google Analytics for Website Owners with Mike Hansen

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Having a website is a great, but if you don’t know what’s working and what isn’t, are you getting the most out of your site? Mike Hansen’s presentation will review the Google Analytics dashboard and describe how best to use it, as well as create a list of things to do right now to improve your data like setting up site search, custom filters to remove common spam referrers, setup goals and automating your reports.

See Mike’s presentation, Google Analytics for Website Owners, at 9 AM on Saturday, June 6 in the Salt Creek Trail room.