Schedule

Speakers, times, and locations are subject to change. Please check back often.

All day Friday, March 14th and Saturday, March 15th: The Happiness Bar is Open!

The WordCamp Happiness Bar is a wonderful place. If you’ve never experienced it, you are in for a treat.
The Happiness Bar is a live help desk, where WordPress professionals sit, and wait, for you to ask them a question. Often populated with WordCamp speakers, organizers or volunteers, a rag-tag group of WordPress professionals are always around to HELP YOU WITH WHATEVER YOU NEED. Come prepared with your questions, conundrums, quagmires, and more…

If you’d like to print the schedule, landscape orientation looks best.

Track Key
Everyone WP Professionals
Beginner Designer
Beginning Developer Geek Developer
Room Key
Ballroom CAnn Cramer
PMark C. Pope DPaul Duke

Check out the floorplan to see where each room is located.

Friday, March 14th

Time Everyone Ballroom Everyone Ann Cramer room Everyone Mark C. Pope room WP Professionals Paul Duke room
8:00 AM
Doors Open – Registration in Lobby
9:00 AM
Keynote Speaker Syed Balkhi
Favorite session: Keynote Speaker
10:00 AM
Using Your Website to Engage, Persuade & Sell Tom Tortorici
Favorite session: Using Your Website to Engage, Persuade & Sell
Creating Systems in Your Business: Why it’s Critical to Your Success Desiree Scales
Favorite session: Creating Systems in Your Business: Why it’s Critical to Your Success
Cain & Obenland In The Morning Konstantin Obenland, Michael Cain
Favorite session: Cain & Obenland In The Morning
Go Far Together – Tips from six years Cory Miller
Favorite session: Go Far Together – Tips from six years
11:00 AM
Keyword Clinic – How to get your WordPress website found on Google Jenny Munn
Favorite session: Keyword Clinic – How to get your WordPress website found on Google
WordPress Business Toolkit Marna Friedman
Favorite session: WordPress Business Toolkit
Accepting payments on your WordPress site Naomi C. Bush
Favorite session: Accepting payments on your WordPress site
Web Development Trends for 2014 David Laietta
Favorite session: Web Development Trends for 2014
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
How to Monetize WordPress with AdSense Sean Malseed
Favorite session: How to Monetize WordPress with AdSense
Ninja Forms: A case study of the freemium plugin model James Laws
Favorite session: Ninja Forms: A case study of the freemium plugin model
Video SEO 101 Scott Williford
Favorite session: Video SEO 101
Powering Professional Services Growth Joellyn ‘Joey’ Sargent
Favorite session: Powering Professional Services Growth
2:00 PM
The smarter you get the less money you make. Why? Jason Swenk
Favorite session: The smarter you get the less money you make. Why?
Food Blogging: Steps and Tips for Success Renee Dobbs
Favorite session: Food Blogging: Steps and Tips for Success
Content Marketing Workshop: How to Plan, Optimize, and Analyze Your Efforts Jenny Munn
Favorite session: Content Marketing Workshop: How to Plan, Optimize, and Analyze Your Efforts
Get Started in Professional WordPress Design & Development Cliff Seal
Favorite session: Get Started in Professional WordPress Design & Development
3:00 PM
How to Build a Following Around Your Favorite TV Show or Movie Rosemary Jean-Louis
Favorite session: How to Build a Following Around Your Favorite TV Show or Movie
Understanding My Site’s SEO: SEO Essentials & Helpful Tools Travis Smith
Favorite session: Understanding My Site’s SEO: SEO Essentials & Helpful Tools
Large Multisite Networks: Our experiences in Enterprise Sam Hotchkiss
Favorite session: Large Multisite Networks: Our experiences in Enterprise
4:00 PM
How to run promotional campaigns and build your list using WordPress Wade Kwon
Favorite session: How to run promotional campaigns and build your list using WordPress
7 habits of highly effective WordPress developers Micah Wood
Favorite session: 7 habits of highly effective WordPress developers
Social Media Uses for WordPress Sites Jake Aull
Favorite session: Social Media Uses for WordPress Sites
All the stuff we wish we’d known about when we started developing for WordPress Adam Williams
Favorite session: All the stuff we wish we’d known about when we started developing for WordPress
5:00 PM
Happy Hour | Noni’s Deli | 357 Edgewood Ave Southeast| (404) 343-1808
Track Key
Everyone WP Professionals
Beginner Designer
Beginning Developer Geek Developer
Room Key
Ballroom CAnn Cramer
PMark C. Pope DPaul Duke

All day Friday, March 14th and Saturday, March 15th: The Happiness Bar is Open!

The WordCamp Happiness Bar is a wonderful place. If you’ve never experienced it, you are in for a treat.
The Happiness Bar is a live help desk, where WordPress professionals sit, and wait, for you to ask them a question. Often populated with WordCamp speakers, organizers or volunteers, a rag-tag group of WordPress professionals are always around to HELP YOU WITH WHATEVER YOU NEED. Come prepared with your questions, conundrums, quagmires, and more…

Saturday, March 15th

Time Beginner Ballroom Designer Ann Cramer room Beginner Developer Mark C. Pope room Geek Developer Paul Duke room
8:00 AM
Doors Open – Registration in Lobby
9:00 AM
Unleash your design potential with CSS for beginners Michael Earley
Favorite session: Unleash your design potential with CSS for beginners
Information architecture has everything to do with your theme Steven Slack
Favorite session: Information architecture has everything to do with your theme
Comfortable Under the Hood – WordPress Files and Databases Judi Knight
Favorite session: Comfortable Under the Hood – WordPress Files and Databases
Getting Sassy with SASS Suzette Franck
Favorite session: Getting Sassy with SASS
10:00 AM
Migrating a website with BackupBuddy Aaron K. Altman
Favorite session: Migrating a website with BackupBuddy
Anatomy of a WordPress CSS File Charly McCracken
Favorite session: Anatomy of a WordPress CSS File
Introduction to self-hosting WordPress Carel Bekker
Favorite session: Introduction to self-hosting WordPress
Modernizing your wordpress workflow with Grunt & Bower Alan Crissey
Favorite session: Modernizing your wordpress workflow with Grunt & Bower
11:00 AM
Tweaks & Bling: Making your DIY website shine Lisa Richardson
Favorite session: Tweaks & Bling: Making your DIY website shine
How to create a child theme and why you must do it Brian Colin
Favorite session: How to create a child theme and why you must do it
The WP Way Aaron Reimann
Favorite session: The WP Way
Nginx, Varnish and Memcache – How to make WordPress fast Evan Volgas
Favorite session: Nginx, Varnish and Memcache – How to make WordPress fast
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Finding the perfect themes and plugins Bryan Petty
Favorite session: Finding the perfect themes and plugins
Designing in the browser Andrew Searles
Favorite session: Designing in the browser
WordPress Navigation in Responsive Design Erick Arbé
Favorite session: WordPress Navigation in Responsive Design
Rockin’ local development with Vagrant Russell Fair
Favorite session: Rockin’ local development with Vagrant
2:00 PM
WordPress Security – It’s all about the basics Tony Perez
Favorite session: WordPress Security – It’s all about the basics
The Customizer Konstantin Obenland
Favorite session: The Customizer
Genesis Extender Melanie. G. Adcock
Favorite session: Genesis Extender
Hardcore URL Routing in WordPress Mike Schinkel
Favorite session: Hardcore URL Routing in WordPress
3:00 PM
Launch your WordPress site in one hour Bret Phillips
Favorite session: Launch your WordPress site in one hour
Smart Design: icon fonts, svg, & the moblie influence Sara Cannon
Favorite session: Smart Design: icon fonts, svg, & the moblie influence
Custom Post Types or Choose Your Own Adventure Evan Mullins
Favorite session: Custom Post Types or Choose Your Own Adventure
Rapid Development with WordPress Josh Mallard
Favorite session: Rapid Development with WordPress
4:00 PM
Wrap Up with Jen Mylo and WCATL Organizers
5:00 PM
Happy Hour | Noni’s Deli | 357 Edgewood Ave Southeast| (404) 343-1808


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