Friday

NOTE – Friday only tickets are sold out. However, you can still attend Friday by purchasing the Full Weekend Ticket which includes Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Schedule

8:00 am – 5:00 pm Classes with one hour break for lunch
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Wine and Design Happy Hour at Gangplank
Submit Your Design
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Speakers and Organizers Dinner

LOCATIONS:

101, 201, and 301 registration is at the Chandler Community Center. (Directions and a map will be emailed)

401 registration will be held at Gangplank

*Schedule (including speakers and topics) are subject to change.

More information on “Foundation Friday”

WordPress 101

Crafted for the absolute website novice, these classes will be a hands-on start at the beginning and will cover everything from downloading, installing to setting up WordPress.

8:00 – 8:45

Intro to WordPress, Org Vs Com

9:00 – 9:45

Hosting and Domains

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10:00 – 10:45

Installing WordPress

11:00 – 11:45

Pages, WYSIWYG Editor & Image Editor

1:00 – 1:45

Posts, Categories & Tags

2:00 – 2:45

Themes

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3:00 – 3:45

Plugins

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4:00 – 4:45

Backups & Security Lite

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WordPress 201

Moving on from the basics, these intermediate classes will cover topics like intro to site mapping, content strategy, information architecture, design and user experience. You will learn to be a WordPress “power user” including how to backup, extend, promote and secure your WordPress installation.

8:00 – 8:45

Content Strategy – No one cares about your content (yet.)

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9:00 – 9:45

User Experience

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10:00 – 10:45

Building Community and Audience: From Zero to Hero: A Crash Course in Configuration, Content Creation, and Community

11:00 – 11:45

SEO Basics

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1:00 – 1:45

Security & Hackers

2:00 – 2:45

WordPress File Structure, FTP & MySQL

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3:00 – 3:45

Import, Export, Migrate

4:00 – 4:45

Child Themes, Hooks and Filters

WordPress 301

These WordPress classes bridge the gap between user and developer and will give you a solid introduction to developing for WordPress and the development environment.

8:00 – 8:45

Local Environment

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9:00 – 9:45

Inspecting, Development, and Testing Tools

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10:00 – 10:45

HTML

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11:00 – 11:45

CSS

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1:00 – 1:45

JavaScript

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2:00 – 2:45

Creating Themes

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3:00 – 3:45

Admin Creation

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4:00 – 4:45

Plugin Development

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WordPress 401

Advanced WordPress concepts for the seasoned developer. Topics will be selected by attendees, much like a developer unconference – whatever your super-dev heart desires – topics may include responsive width, supporting core, customizing the back-end interface or an in-depth look at WordPress’ inner workings.. These discussions will be moderated by two super savvy WordPress development hot-shots.

TBD

Eight sessions to be determined by developers in attendance.

View Slides: New APIs in WordPress 3.5

View Slides: Object-oriented Plugin Development

View Slides: Playing Well With Others

View Slides: CSS Preprocessors

View Slides: Develop, Stage, Deploy

View Slides: Git Patches, Plugins, Updates