Schedule

Important Note: Road construction is happening right outside of GVSU

The Fulton St Bridge is currently undergoing renovation and so Fulton St is closed immediately east of the GVSU campus. The posted detours will bring you to the right place without too much trouble. We also recommend parking in the GVSU Fulton St lot, which you can access via the Pearl/Lk Michigan Drive detour as well as from Fulton St.

Foundation Friday, August 15th

Time Foundation Friday – User Foundation Friday – Developer
9:00 am
Friday Registration
10:00 am
Getting Started: What you should do BEFORE you buy your first theme Andrea Napierkowski
Favorite session: Getting Started: What you should do BEFORE you buy your first theme
Fledgling WP Developer? Learn your PHP! Peter Shackelford
Favorite session: Fledgling WP Developer? Learn your PHP!
11:00 am
10 Tips for Turning Your WordPress Website Into an Traffic Driving Machine Rebecca Gill
Favorite session: 10 Tips for Turning Your WordPress Website Into an Traffic Driving Machine
Introduction to WordPress Hooks Ian Wilson
Favorite session: Introduction to WordPress Hooks
12:00 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00 pm
Don’t Fear the Code Kyle Maurer
Favorite session: Don’t Fear the Code
Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist Nicole Arnold
Favorite session: Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist
3:00 pm
Intro to WordPress Jared Olson
Favorite session: Intro to WordPress
Register, Enqueue, Confusion! The proper way to include files in WordPress Joel Worsham
Favorite session: Register, Enqueue, Confusion! The proper way to include files in WordPress

Saturday, August 16th

Time Front-End / Content Development Business
7:30 am
Saturday Registration
8:30 am
Keynote Chris Lema
9:15 am
Design Is In The Details: How Decisions Shape Communication Michelle Schulp
Favorite session: Design Is In The Details: How Decisions Shape Communication
Extremely Powerful Local WordPress Development with Vagrant and Friends Brad Parbs
Favorite session: Extremely Powerful Local WordPress Development with Vagrant and Friends
Building a Sales Funnel (that sells) with WordPress Dan Kaufman
Favorite session: Building a Sales Funnel (that sells) with WordPress
10:00 am
Designing for the First Five Seconds Ross Johnson
Favorite session: Designing for the First Five Seconds
Wrangling WP-Cron Chris Klosowski
Favorite session: Wrangling WP-Cron
WordPress in Schools – How We Saved Taxpayer Dollars And You Can Too Cameron Barrett
Favorite session: WordPress in Schools – How We Saved Taxpayer Dollars And You Can Too
11:00 am
Theme Customization Best Practices Kyle Maurer
Favorite session: Theme Customization Best Practices
Customizing the WordPress Admin Area Bob Orchard
Favorite session: Customizing the WordPress Admin Area
How WP Can Save Academic Freedom and Cure the Crises in Higher Education Jim Luke
Favorite session: How WP Can Save Academic Freedom and Cure the Crises in Higher Education
12:00 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00 pm
The Intersection of Clients + Design Taylor Vanden Hoek
Favorite session: The Intersection of Clients + Design
Keeping WordPress Under [Version] Control with Git Steve Grunwell
Favorite session: Keeping WordPress Under [Version] Control with Git
Learn From My Mistakes: 8 Years in the Game Ian Wilson
Favorite session: Learn From My Mistakes: 8 Years in the Game
3:00 pm
12 Tips For Better WordPress Content Creation Peter DeHaan
Favorite session: 12 Tips For Better WordPress Content Creation
AJAX : using JavaScript in WordPress Nate Reist
Favorite session: AJAX : using JavaScript in WordPress
Website Mistakes Small Businesses Make, and How to Fix Them Chad Warner
Favorite session: Website Mistakes Small Businesses Make, and How to Fix Them
4:00 pm
Be a Lean UX Team Machine Gloria Antonelli
Favorite session: Be a Lean UX Team Machine
Command Line Awesome Topher DeRosia
Favorite session: Command Line Awesome
The Traffic Data that Matters in Google Analytics Tim Yow
Favorite session: The Traffic Data that Matters in Google Analytics
5:00 pm
Closing Remarks
5:30 pm
Dinner (On Your Own)
7:00 pm
After Party

Sunday, August 16th, 10am-4pm

Join us for Contributor Day! From 10am–4pm we’ll be contributing to WordPress at The Factory, a co-working space in downtown GR. We encourage you to join us and contribute no matter your skill level! There will be space for developers to contribute to WordPress Core, expert users to contribute towards documentation efforts, and anyone who is willing to help answer as many questions as they can in the WordPress.org support forum. If you have no prior experience working in any of these areas, we will show you how to contribute.

If none of the above things sound right for you, we encourage you to join us anyway and use this time as a study hall to work on your own site. This is a great opportunity for you to immediately put to use the knowledge you gained on Saturday.

Please note: this is not the space for you to come and ask for help — we’ll have a Happiness Bar on Saturday just for that — instead, this is an opportunity for you to come and offer help in some capacity (chances are you will have learned at least one neat tip on Saturday that will help you answer someone else’s question in the WordPress.org support forum, at the very least).

Location: The Factory, 38 W. Fulton, Suite 400, Grand Rapids, MI 49503