WordPress MSP – Thanks to the Sponsors
Every angle and level of WordPress subject was delivered at WordPressMSP to blogger, designer, developer and hard-core-marketing types. The generous sponsors & partners made it possible. Thanks Best Buy for hosting!Also, thanks to ip•House, 9seeds, STUDIOPRESS, TECH{dot}MN, Oak City and Buca, SocialMedia Breakfast, digital tiki, WORD of Maus and...
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WordPress Performance – Mitchell HislopAnother lively presentation that substituted for a cup of coffee – a Google Analytics Demo.He taught us how to use in-page analytics to learn from traffic spikes. The key is to annotate any release of info or change in the Website. He coached us to not waste opportunity, convert any entrance into a visitor, who will interact with conversion events (contact, play a video, membership).Next we got to see how create a Custom Report . Using Intelligence Beta – alerts when a condition is met, you could receive an email at that point in...
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Beyond Hits: A look into metrics beyond the simple – Dave BuchananA quick poll at the beginning proved that barely anyone had to worry about large site problems. Problems like delivering to 80K readers, postponing updates for 2 years, and editors who change their settings and ruin performance. Dave has led the conversion to WordPress for the Dolan Company’s 25+ newspaper websites.Hard-hitting code developers and those who understand all the differences between servers, this was the speaker session for you.
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WP-E-commerce – Justin SaintonThis plugin no longer sucks! We were told that WPeC is a platform. The speaker session was lively, we were engaged and had a chance to win a bag of Caribou coffee. Looks like you need to pay for premium stuff to extend this one; groupon plugin – $300, membership plugin – $50. Download it at getshopped.orgWhy I should dump oscommercecustom post types will improve performanceAdditions of hooks and filters, plus work by Adam BrownTaxes are completely overhauled – easy to use and flexibleVariations in product line are addressed (i.e.,...
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Rapid Theme Development using a Theme Framework – Ptah DunbarIt will be hard for me to pretend I understood the stuff in this speaker session, but thanks for the trip!Beginning with Action hooks. Then Ptah Dunbar showed us some option-based themes offering drag and drop layout editing, easy design customization, and developer friendliness; Headway, Builder (layout), Genesis. Next he presented some Sandbox themes; Starkers, Whiteboard.He developed “the Ultimate WordPress Theming Framework”, WP framework. It has nice features like:UI with organization panelsa...
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This speaker session was on a subject close to my heart. Thought I knew about it, but this added a nice dimension to Working with Images, Galleries, and Lightboxes – David Hedrick SkarjuneSee sample portfolio Website at Infobrat.com and download the slide deck. There really is an image model.Images are attachments to postsGroups of images are galleriesMetadata is in the center of this orbitFollow this process for best results;Edit images in psd, picknic, gimpUpload image (or bulk upload) from computer (8MB limit)Attach a group of images to create a galleryEnter metadata...
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