Schedule

Learn more about our speakers on the speakers page or by hovering over their pictures. Sessions descriptions are being added to sessions as they are developed.

Get the schedule (PDF) to keep on your laptop or bring a spare copy with you.

Friday – July 22nd

Pre-Conference Tutorial

Kurt Eng and James Coletti of the Boston WordPress Meetup will be offering a WordPress Beginner’s Workshop Friday from 1pm-5pm. Registration for the workshop is now closed. Proceeds from the workshop will be donated to WordCamp Boston.

Saturday – July 23rd

Technical Skill Level Key: Low | Medium | High

Time	Metcalf Small	Conference Auditorium	East Balcony
8:00 am	Registration + Coffee (sponsored by ZippyKid)
9:00 am	Opening remarks
9:30 am	How To	Development	Education
	Getting up and running with WordPress David Wells	Creating Plugins Kelly Dwan	Web strategy for higher education Jay Collier
10:15 am	Converting an old site to a fresh WordPress site Alan Bergstein	Stepping into Custom Post Types K. Adam White	WordPress as a Higher-Ed Content Management Solution Hanna Arnold
11:00 am	Tom’s Top Ten Tips for Blogging on WordPress Tom Catalini	WordPress Security – Facts & Fiction D.K. Smith	Mobile WordPress on Campus Kyle Dickson
11:45 am	WordPress Theme Construction Mike Susz	Customizing the Admin Interface Jake Rainis, Niki Brown	Synchronizing Creativity with Content Management Gregory Cornelius, Scott Dasse
12:30 pm	Lunch (sponsored by .tv)
2:00 pm	Making your WordPress Site Social Reiko Beach	Design	Simplifying Your Life With WordPress Multisite Christina Dulude
		Theming with Sidebars Ellie Roepken
2:45 pm	SEO Myths & WP Magic Casie Gillette	Theming & Mobile: Optimizing your WordPress site for Various Devices Sara Cannon	Enterprise
			Enterprise WordPress Do’s and Donts Arwin Holmes
3:30 pm	WordPress & Inbound Marketing: How to Generate Leads With Your WordPress Blog Karen Rubin	Exploding Your WordPress Theme with CSS3 Boaz Sender	Enterprise Publishing on WordPress.com VIP Chris Murray
4:15 pm	How to Market Your Blog (okay, Mom’s reading, now what?) Chris Penn	Advanced Theme Performance Techniques Frederick Townes	Scaling your team: managing the people behind a large site network Sam Napolitano
5:00 pm	Break
5:20 pm	C.C. Chapman on Video Content Rules

Saturday evening we’ll be hosting a reception at the Microsoft NERD Center, starting at 7:30pm, featuring a live taping of LiveWP.tv.

Sunday – July 24th

Time	Metcalf Small	Conference Auditorium	East Balcony
	Strategy	Advanced Development	How To
1:00 pm	How Blogs Are The Core to Any Social Media Strategy Joselin Mane	Plugins are Blueprints Marc Lavallee, Wes Lindamood	Creating Content With Shortcodes Jon Bishop
1:45 pm	Treating Your Readers Like Customers Douglas Hanna	Lean. Agile. Mobile. Social. Local. Organic. Pivot. WordPress. Andrew Nacin, Daryl Koopersmith	Improving Your WordPress Productivity Doug Yuen
2:30 pm	Managing the Multi-Voice Blog Christina Inge		Getting Started with WordPress as a CMS Jake Goldman
3:15 pm	Break (sponsored by A Small Orange)
3:45 pm	Next Time on Hoarders: Bloggers Without Content Strategy! Margot Bloomstein	jQuery Performance and New Features John Resig	Freelancing skillsz
			Helping Your Small Business Client Take On Maintaining Their Own Site Jonathan May
4:30 pm	Converting the Crowd: Understanding Conversion Optimized Design Ross Beyeler	Advanced WordPress Plugin Development – BuddyPress and bbPress John James Jacoby	You’re doing it wrong and it’s all my fault: dissecting the client relationship Andrew Norcross
5:15 pm	Don’t Be a Tool: Content (Management) Strategy John Eckman	Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and WordPress Plugins Dan Collis-Puro	Business Models For WordPress Designers & Developers Brian Casel