Here are the presentation slides from WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014.
Foundation Friday
User
- Getting Started: What you should do BEFORE you buy your first theme by Andrea Napierkowski
- 10 Tips for Turning Your WordPress Website Into an Traffic Driving Machine by Rebecca Gill
- Don’t Fear the Code by Kyle Maurer
- Intro to WordPress by Jared Olson (no slides or video)
Developer
- Fledgling WP Developer? Learn your PHP! by Peter Shackelford
- Introduction to WordPress Hooks by Ian Wilson
- Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist by Nicole Arnold
- Register, Enqueue, Confusion! The proper way to include files in WordPress by Joel Worsham
Saturday Sessions
Front-End / Content
- Design Is In The Details: How Decisions Shape Communication by Michelle Schulp
- Designing for the First Five Seconds by Ross Johnson
- Theme Customization Best Practices by Kyle Maurer
- The Intersection of Clients + Design by Taylor Vanden Hoek
- 12 Tips For Better WordPress Content Creation by Peter DeHaan (other resources, including tip sheet)
- Be a Lean UX Team Machine by Gloria Antonelli
Development
- Extremely Powerful Local WordPress Development with Vagrant and Friends by Brad Parbs
- Wrangling WP-Cron by Chris Klosowski
- Customizing the WordPress Admin Area by Bob Orchard (no slides or video)
- Keeping WordPress Under [Version] Control with Git by Steve Grunwell
- AJAX : using JavaScript in WordPress by Nate Reist
- Command Line Awesome by Topher DeRosia
Business
- Building a Sales Funnel (that sells) with WordPress by Dan Kaufman
- WordPress in Schools – How We Saved Taxpayer Dollars And You Can Too by Cameron Barrett
- How WP Can Save Academic Freedom and Cure the Crises in Higher Education by Jim Luke
- Learn From My Mistakes: 8 Years in the Game by Ian Wilson
- Website Mistakes Small Businesses Make, and How to Fix Them by Chad Warner
- The Traffic Data that Matters in Google Analytics by Tim Yow