WordCamp Buffalo is excited to welcome some of our area’s best and brightest WordPress and web-savvy minds to speak in just a few short weeks. We\u2019re also excited to welcome speakers from outside our region, bringing just as much awesome knowledge and helping spread great tips and tricks.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re happy to formally announce those speakers<\/a> (and their talks) below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After The Install<\/strong> \u2014 Al Davis Content Strategy<\/strong> \u2014 Adrian Roselli Custo(my)ze<\/strong> \u2014 Joe Rosza Inbound Marketing with WordPress<\/strong> \u2014 Aaron P. Smith Creating a Child Theme<\/strong> \u2014 Laurie M. Rauch How to do better in Google: Optimizing your WordPress Site & Web Content for Search<\/strong> \u2014 Dawn Comber & Ruth Maude In our developer track\u2026<\/p>\n Building for the Theme Directory<\/strong> \u2014 Dennis Gaebel Responsible Responsiveness<\/strong> \u2014 John B. Hartley WordPress as a Web App Framework<\/strong> \u2014 Sam Hotchkiss Making Social Media I\/O Painless<\/strong> \u2014 Levi Neuland Taking the intimidation out of plugin development: How a developer and designer created their first WordPress plugin<\/strong> \u2014 Jen Witkowski & Dan Rabb We\u2019re also excited to welcome featured guest John James Jacoby<\/strong> (lead developer of BuddyPress, Automattic team member) to speak. His topic will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n We look forward to seeing you at WordCamp Buffalo on Saturday, October 20th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordCamp Buffalo is excited to welcome some of our area’s best and brightest WordPress and web-savvy minds to speak in just a few short weeks. We\u2019re also excited to welcome speakers from outside our region, bringing just as much awesome … Continue reading Introducing the WordCamp Buffalo 2012 talks<\/span>
\n\u201cI am going to walk you through 10 things you should do to improve your WordPress install while it\u2019s still got that new website smell going for it. There will be some security tips to keep you safe, as well as some SEO and productivity suggestions to help you get the most bang for your buck.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cA content management system can only take you so far. You need to have a plan to make it work with both blogging and traditional site content. Mapping out a realistic one to fit your team is necessary first step.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to live with graphic elements in a theme just because it\u2019s included in it. If you know a little bit (or a lot) about Photoshop and a little bit about WP, you can custo(my)ze your WP site.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWordPress allows you to start and maintain a website with ease. With over 555 million active websites on the Internet, how do you get your valuable content found? Learn the five steps of inbound marketing and how to put them into action with WordPress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cYou\u2019ve bought a fancy new WordPress theme, but now your site looks like everyone else\u2019s. So how do you make that fancy new theme look a little bit more\u2026 you? You create a child theme. Child themes build on top of the original theme, letting you change as much\u2026 or as little\u2026 as you want, while keeping all of the snazzy theme options and functionality built in to the parent theme.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn this session you\u2019ll learn the steps to take to help your site do better in search results. We’ll give you an overview of the WordPress SEO Yoast Plugin as we discuss tactics to optimize your web content for search.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf you want to submit to the theme directory, your theme has to conform to a lot of very specific needs. This session will walk you through the steps you need to take to keep your theme ship-shape for entry into the .org Directory, and one boilerplate that might make the process even easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cResponsive web design is becoming a staple in both designer and developer toolboxes, but with great power comes great responsibility. My talk will discuss \u201cdesktop-first vs. mobile-first\u201d development and some of the caveats of responsive design. Code snippets and real-time examples will help drive points home. A little theory mixed with a lot of usable snippets makes this a great talk for both beginner and intermediate. I will also tie in ways to use responsive design in WordPress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis talk is about using WordPress to rapidly develop complex web apps. Using your own Singleton class in WP, separating logic from your views, different, powerful ways to use post types and taxonomies and user accounts, and examples of all of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cCreating fresh content and promoting it through social media can be a full time job, and for most of us that\u2019s not an option. With proper workflow management we can take advantage of social media by making our WordPress sites more effortlessly ingest content and cross promote it. In this talk we\u2019ll review user workflows, identify useful 3rd party APIs, and integrate them into WordPress with custom modules.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOur talk will be from a beginners perspective on plugin development. We will talk about how we approached designing and developing our first plugin for WordPress\u2014a minimum quantity plugin for Jigoshop. Dan will talk about the development focusing on what resources he used and how he tackled learning WordPress functions, hooks & plugin limitations with little WordPress knowledge. Jen will speak about the design aspect focusing on the specific plugin behavior, user interaction and how it would integrate into the storefront.\u201d<\/p>\n