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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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Speaker Spotlight – Pete Mall: Beginners Plugin Development

June 1, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight – Pete Mall: Beginners Plugin Development

Pete is a self-described WordPress ninja and has been contributing to WordPress since 2005. He provides WordPress consulting services through Joint Forces Technology Solutions (jointforcestech.com). Pete has worked with multiple Fortune 100 brands, as well as smaller companies. He is … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight – Pete Mall: Beginners Plugin Development →

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Speaker Spotlight: Chris Ross – WP Developer 101

June 1, 2010 by Heather Acton • Comments Off on Speaker Spotlight: Chris Ross – WP Developer 101

Even with a formal education in and a decade writing commercial software, my first foray into working with the WordPress platform was..interesting.  But I soldiered on, thanks to a helpful community, good books and a lot of intellectual elbow grease. Three … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Chris Ross – WP Developer 101 →

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