“How do I keep my WordPress site secure?” Logan’s workshop will the audience through the structure of a WordPress site’s security posture, dispelling common misconceptions and elaborating on perceived security overlaps. The session explains the differences between plugin-based security and external solutions, as well as how they best work together. In easy-to-understand terms, Logan will also touch on basic hosting configuration best practices and security control spheres. Whether just getting started in WordPress or a seasoned developer, this talk has something for every WordPresser.
Don’t miss this workshop that’s suitable for beginners to secure your website. Join Logan in the Comet at 10 AM on July 10.
Logan has been an intermittent WordPress user since “Strayhorn” 1.5 in 2005 and has used WordPress as a primary platform since “Coltrane” 2.7 in 2008. Logan has over seven years experience in the website hosting and security technology field, starting with three years at GoDaddy, followed by four years at SiteLock. Logan most recently served as SiteLock’s Lead Security Analyst before taking his current role as a Product Evangelist – WordPress earlier this year.
Heroes? Pricing tables? THE GRID? Why *do* all websites look like the same? Starting with a well-organized theme framework and a little SASS, Brianna Privett’s talk will cover how to identify user experience patterns and stories that guide your visitors where you want them to go, while giving you the freedom to create new designs that stand out from the sea of sameness prevalent in today’s websites. We also cover how curating your own pattern library enables you to hit the cornerstones of successful web design – Accessibility, Responsiveness, Usability, and Conversion.
At WordCamp Orange County a couple years ago, Jon Brown spoke about setting work/lifestyle/travel goals and achieving them. This time around, his presentation will focus more on trials and tribulations of remote work. He’ll share things learned along the way that will help both aspiring digital nomads as well as experienced remote workers.
Don’t miss John Hawkins’ presentation at 2 PM in the Nebula on July 9 for tips and tricks to build a WordPress website that can run on its own.
Nathan Tyler of Tyler Digital will address the discussion of using WordPress as an app framework. In this talk, he’ll take a detailed look at the ups and downs of using WordPress to build a web app (hireotto.com) with:
SVGs provide designers, developers and users with an array of benefits including performance, styling and animations. In Jacob Arriola of Zeek Interactive’s talk, theme developers will walk away with the benefits of using SVGs in their themes, understanding the different approaches to rendering SVGs, and adding some styles and animation to help bring sites and applications to life.
This presentation by Andy Fragen will give you brief overview of how to start contributing to WordPress, covering the contributor forums, GitHub, and Core.
Our fast moving technology means that kids are using gadgets way earlier each year. Tabby Chapman will discuss how children can utilize WordPress.
WordPress provides a lot of convenience functions, and all too often, new developers reinvent the wheel when WordPress Core already has a function or utility to accomplish the same. In this workshop, Erick Hitter of Automattic reflects on when he first started building WordPress plugins, and shares the times he could have saved himself hours and anxiety if he had known where to look for a cleaner solution in Core.