WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.

Sponsors like this one make WordCamp Balitmore 2015 possible. Thanks, WiredTree!

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online.

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Sponsors like this one make WordCamp Balitmore 2015 possible. Thanks, Media Temple!

WordCamp Baltimore 2015 Details

Saturday, September 12, 2015

William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price.

Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

WordCamp Baltimore 2015 Details

Saturday, September 12, 2015
3:30 pm | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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This talk introduces a important things to know about learning PHP as it relates to WordPress. The talk covers coding standards, best practices and important concepts in both PHP and WordPress that new and intermediate developers will find helpful.

About the Speaker: Zac Gordon teaches WordPress for the amazing online school, Treehouse. Before that he taught WordPress, web design and web development at the high school and college level. In addition to teaching, Zac runs a web hosting company for students.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
3:30 pm | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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This talk is about fundraising on a WordPress site. I will draw on my experience of working with a house of worship and several other nonprofits to help you navigate the waters of taking donations on your WordPress site. I will discuss issues involved and solutions I’ve implemented and recommend. It’s time to move beyond the PayPal Donate button and take donations to the next level!

About the Speaker: Melodie discovered her inner geek working part-time in the computer lab while pursuing a music degree in college. She’s been working with computers and Internet technology ever since. She married a geek guy and they went into business troubleshooting and repairing computers. Along the way they had four geektastic kids. Melodie discovered WordPress in 2007, fell in love with it and never looked back. She launched out as a freelance web designer in 2010, and has been an organizer of the WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup since 2011. Melodie and her husband are now partners in PajamaWeb, a web design venture, and WP Night Owl, a WordPress managed services venture.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
2:00 pm | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Having a website that loads fast is important and we all know that. It can have a major impact on user engagement, conversion, retention and even SEO but for some reason, websites on the web continue to get bigger and slower. Why is this the case and what can we do about it?

This talk will primarily focus on the tools and techniques that can be used to create faster websites. Some topics that will be covered during this talk include performance testing, automations, mobile, design decisions and dealing with clients.

About the Speaker: For the past six years, Sang has designed, developed and maintained websites for many great companies, including DC Public Schools, SiriusXM Radio, Smithsonian Institution and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Currently, Sang works for 10up as their Front-End Engineer.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
1:00 pm | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Getting the graphics and content into your website are just the beginning. There are a lot of other things to set up and configure for your site to really get found and work as it should.

Get an overview of what else you need to do:

• Accessibility
• Measuring your traffic
• What is schema code or rich snippets? Why and how can you implement it?
• Determining how links to your site look and work when previewed on social media sites
• Does your site look good on mobile? Do your links help your mobile visitors?
• Performance, Speed, Backup, & Security

About the Speaker: Courtney Engle Robertson helps small business owners streamline their online marketing and provides training in Social Media, Local SEO, WordPress and Mobile Marketing. She podcasts at The Local Small Business Show. She has been a WordPress developer since 2.3 and lives in Chambersburg, PA. When not at a computer, she can be found in her large veggie garden.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
11:00 am | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Finding the right theme for your website can be a true challenge. The Genesis Framework offers a powerful foundation for a WordPress driven website. In Getting Started with Genesis, we’ll cover everything you need to get your website online with the Genesis Framework. We’ll also dig into the best plugins and resources that will help you make the most of your Genesis powered website.

About the Speaker: I’m Wes. I built my first website nearly 20 years ago and it wasn’t pretty. I’m talking The Globe and that’s just scary. For the past seven years I’ve been working with WordPress as my primary website platform.

By day, i’m a designer and creative for Johns Hopkins University where I manage a number of WordPress based websites. By night, I’m WordPress Wes offering freelance clients custom websites built using the Genesis framework. Basically, my life has come to be completely engulfed with WordPress.

When I’m not working on on web sites you’ll often find me with a camera in hand taking someone’s head shot or photographing totally random things.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
10:00 am | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Whenever a post is saved, a page is loaded, a comment is created or a template is loaded, WordPress fires off events that, as developers, we have loved and cherished. These events are hooks. While hooks have been the quintessential building blocks of WordPress for over a decade, they come with a cost. Often times, developers will hook functionality into the save_post event, for instance, to fire off a notification to an external service or perform some sort of background task. The more of these tasks are hooked into WordPress, the slower WordPress becomes.

In this talk, I will show you how to alleviate these bottlenecks with asynchronous hooks – hooks that can be used to perform the exact same tasks, but not block the rest of WordPress from running. Through a library created by 10up’s Eric Mann and John Bloch for TechCrunch on WordPress VIP, the overhead of running actions can be reduced to a negligible amount.

About the Speaker: Aaron is a Sr. Web Engineer with 10up. He was a co-founder of WP Engine and the author of the WordPress Bible. Aaron has been working with WordPress since 2004 and remembers hooks and pages becoming a thing. In his free time, he spends time with his 26lb terrier, likes to sample craft beer and exercises his photography. He lives right here in Mt. Vernon, Baltimore.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
9:00 am | Station North

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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How to Utilize Task Automation to Speed Up Your Workflow
In this talk I will showcase some of the tools I use to speed up my development process and some of the reasoning behind the way I have things set up. I will touch on subjects like developing locally, using git, the benefits of Sass and why everyone should be using it, running grunt tasks to compress your css, js, and images as well as using autoprefixer. I can also briefly touch on using frameworks if time and interest allow for it.

About the Speaker: Dustin Yoxall is CoFounder and Technical Director at Cake & Eat It Designs located in Easton, Maryland. He has over 5 years of experience building websites for clients and has spent most of that time developing on the WordPress platform. When he’s not developing he spends his time tinkering with Arduino boards and riding his bike. He is always excited to discuss workflow processes and how they can be improved!

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
3:30 pm | Downtown Track

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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