Sunday Sessions

We will have a full slate of presentations scheduled on varying WordPress topics with three different tracks going throughout the day. We will have topics on Using WordPress, Design, Development, Marketing, Social Media, Business, and more. We will be serving coffee and water throughout the day and hopefully providing a lunch and snacks for your enjoyment.

Time	Ayrshire	Brown Swiss	Holstein	Jersey
9:30 am	Power Launch Formula: The Secret to Launching Successful WordPress Websites Gabe Wahhab Favorite session: Power Launch Formula: The Secret to Launching Successful WordPress Websites	WordPress Security: What you need to know Sam Hotchkiss Favorite session: WordPress Security: What you need to know	Taking a Look at Joomla! – Inspired by WordPress Michael Babker Favorite session: Taking a Look at Joomla! – Inspired by WordPress	Getting Started with WordPress Development Nikhil Vimal Favorite session: Getting Started with WordPress Development
10:30 am	jQuery: The good, the bad, and the anonymous Vasken Hauri Favorite session: jQuery: The good, the bad, and the anonymous	Be a Lean UX Team Machine Gloria Antonelli Favorite session: Be a Lean UX Team Machine	Sass Basics Greg Rickaby Favorite session: Sass Basics	How I Tell a Customer They are Wrong and Make Them Love Me Marc Benzakein Favorite session: How I Tell a Customer They are Wrong and Make Them Love Me
11:30 am	NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress Cal Evans Favorite session: NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress	Structuring Content in WordPress Jamie Schmid Favorite session: Structuring Content in WordPress	Usability matters: An innovative new way to make your site an accessible experience Rachel Magario Favorite session: Usability matters: An innovative new way to make your site an accessible experience	Do More with Your Traffic: Defeating Bounce Rate & Bringing Visitors Back with WordPress Zach Bowers Favorite session: Do More with Your Traffic: Defeating Bounce Rate & Bringing Visitors Back with WordPress
12:30 pm	Lunch (Provided) Favorite session: Lunch (Provided)
2:00 pm	Setting and Converting Goals with WordPress Dustin Drees Favorite session: Setting and Converting Goals with WordPress	Exploring the Design Process Stacy Kvernmo Favorite session: Exploring the Design Process	WordPress as an Enterprise Web Platform Regan Jacobson, Tamara Edmond, Mark Jacobson Favorite session: WordPress as an Enterprise Web Platform	Loving Linux Pat Hartl Favorite session: Loving Linux
3:00 pm	Ethics in Web Development Faison Zutavern Favorite session: Ethics in Web Development	Getting your first 1,000 blog visitors Latoya Freeman Favorite session: Getting your first 1,000 blog visitors	So I Married a Developer Alison Barrett, James Barrett Favorite session: So I Married a Developer	A Bike, A Bus, or an Automobile: My 5 Year Career as a Developer Dan Beil Favorite session: A Bike, A Bus, or an Automobile: My 5 Year Career as a Developer
4:00 pm	Managing the Business Blog Development Process Jim Moroney Favorite session: Managing the Business Blog Development Process	Local or Bust – An Intro to Google Local & All Things Links Rachel Howe, Renee Girard Favorite session: Local or Bust – An Intro to Google Local & All Things Links	WordPress without Themes!? David Kryzaniak Favorite session: WordPress without Themes!?	30 Second Videos David Kocol Favorite session: 30 Second Videos

 

 

 

Milwaukee WordPress Meetup

7:00PM – C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, 222 E. Erie Street, Suite 330, Milwaukee

For those who want to get in a little early on the WordPress fun, we are having our normal monthly WordPress Meetup on the night before WordCamp starts. We’ll chat about WordPress, get to know each other, and probably grab a bite to eat.

We will be meeting at our normal Meetup site, C2 Graphics. Please, join the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup and RSVP here if you plan to attend. C2 will be providing Pizza and refreshments for the night and we will have another great WordPress discussion.

Join the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup

Foundation Friday Workshops

Back by popular demand are our Foundation Friday WordPress Workshops. These workshops are meant to bring people up to par and ready for the weekend. We will be having intro workshops for Users, Theme Developers, and Plugin Developers. We listened to feedback from last year, and this year we will be having tables where you can work with your laptops and will be presenting a more structured curriculum to prepare you for your journey with WordPress. These workshops are limited participation with each one registering a maximum of 40 attendees.

Time	Theme Design and Development Workshop	Plugin Development Workshop	Business Site Management Workshop	Blogging Basics Workshop
8:00 am	Design Principles Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Design Principles	Actions & Filters Dustin Filippini, Dan Beil, Brad Parbs Favorite session: Actions & Filters	Intro to the WordPress Dashboard Emma Edgar Favorite session: Intro to the WordPress Dashboard	Intro to the WordPress Dashboard Emma Edgar Favorite session: Intro to the WordPress Dashboard
9:00 am	Intro to PHP Suzette Franck Favorite session: Intro to PHP	Custom Post Types Dustin Filippini Favorite session: Custom Post Types	Creating Posts and Pages Herb Ripka Favorite session: Creating Posts and Pages	Creating Posts and Pages Herb Ripka Favorite session: Creating Posts and Pages
10:00 am	Anatomy and Architecture of a Theme Julie Kuehl Favorite session: Anatomy and Architecture of a Theme	Custom Fields and Metaboxes Dan Beil Favorite session: Custom Fields and Metaboxes	Images in WordPress Jan Wilson, Becky Davis Favorite session: Images in WordPress	Images in WordPress Jan Wilson, Becky Davis Favorite session: Images in WordPress
11:00 am	Child Themes, Starter Themes, & Theme Frameworks Heather Acton Favorite session: Child Themes, Starter Themes, & Theme Frameworks	Advanced WP_Query Alison Barrett Favorite session: Advanced WP_Query	Selecting and Installing Themes Lisa Ghisolf Favorite session: Selecting and Installing Themes	Selecting and Installing Themes Lisa Ghisolf Favorite session: Selecting and Installing Themes
12:00 pm	Lunch (Provided) Favorite session: Lunch (Provided)
1:00 pm	Template Hierarchy Brad Parbs Favorite session: Template Hierarchy	Exploring the WP Database Dustin Hartzler Favorite session: Exploring the WP Database	Selecting and Installing Plugins Joshua Alexander Favorite session: Selecting and Installing Plugins	Selecting and Installing Plugins Joshua Alexander Favorite session: Selecting and Installing Plugins
2:00 pm	Basic WordPress Template Tags John Heimkes Favorite session: Basic WordPress Template Tags	Security for Your Plugins Brad Parbs Favorite session: Security for Your Plugins	Menus, Widgets, Page Templates, & More Kari Sharp Favorite session: Menus, Widgets, Page Templates, & More	Menus, Widgets, Page Templates, & More Kari Sharp Favorite session: Menus, Widgets, Page Templates, & More
3:00 pm	Intro to the WordPress Loop Eric Sherred Favorite session: Intro to the WordPress Loop	Intro to the WordPress APIs John James Jacoby Favorite session: Intro to the WordPress APIs	Writing Good Business Content Mike McCallister Favorite session: Writing Good Business Content	Becoming a Better Blogger Andy Nathan Favorite session: Becoming a Better Blogger
4:00 pm		Submitting Plugins to the Repo Sam Hotchkiss Favorite session: Submitting Plugins to the Repo	Social Media & Your Business Mary Jane Sanchez Favorite session: Social Media & Your Business	Content Architecture Shanta Nathwani Favorite session: Content Architecture

WordCamp Charity Hackathon

8:00am-??? – UWM SoCE & Bucketworks

We will join together to help out one Wisconsin based non-profit organization to provide a full web presence for their organization. WordPress experts will join forces to each provide their specific expertise to a WordPress project for a select non-profit organization. This is a great opportunity for any attendee to lend a hand while learning from other WordPress pros. Everyone is invited to come lend a hand, no matter your level of experience. More than just designers and developers are needed. We will also be looking for people to test the product, write content, help with social media, provide training, and more.

The Hackathon will begin at the WordCamp venue during the morning on Friday and continue throughout the day. After WordCamp workshops end, people are welcome to continue hacking on the site throughout the night at Bucketworks, only a couple floors down in the Grand Avenue Mall. Representatives from the non-profit will be on hand to learn about WordPress and work alongside those creating the site.

We will be posting an official announcement on the Hackathon and selected Non-Profit soon.

Speaker/Sponsor Reception

We’d like to thank our gracious sponsors and speakers. Our sponsors allow us to give you a great WordCamp experience at a very low ticket price. Our speakers have been gracious enough to volunteer their time to speak to you, some even paying their own travel expenses to visit Milwaukee. We plan to thank them with a special reception so everyone can get to know each other. This is open only to speakers, sponsors, and organizers.

Saturday Sessions

We will have a full slate of presentations scheduled on varying WordPress topics with four different tracks going throughout the day. We will have topics on Using WordPress, Design, Development, Marketing, Social Media, Business, and more. We will be serving coffee and water throughout the day and hopefully providing a lunch and snacks for your enjoyment.

Time	Ayrshire	Brown Swiss	Holstein	Jersey
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks
9:30 am	Avoid Deployment Surprises and Frustration with Vagrant Joel Clermont Favorite session: Avoid Deployment Surprises and Frustration with Vagrant	WordPress Multisite Networks John James Jacoby Favorite session: WordPress Multisite Networks	Check & Double Check: Internal QA is Vital Lisa Sabin-Wilson Favorite session: Check & Double Check: Internal QA is Vital	Brain Based Conversions! Using Psychology & Neurology to Boost Website Conversions Luke Summerfield Favorite session: Brain Based Conversions! Using Psychology & Neurology to Boost Website Conversions
10:30 am	WordPress for Nonprofits Kevin A. Barnes Favorite session: WordPress for Nonprofits	How I Became a WordPress Hacker Mike Zielonka Favorite session: How I Became a WordPress Hacker	WordPress Security – Kill the Noise Dre Armeda Favorite session: WordPress Security – Kill the Noise	Using WordPress as an application platform. Dan Pastori Favorite session: Using WordPress as an application platform.
11:30 am	JavaScript Best Practices for 2014 Ralph Holzmann Favorite session: JavaScript Best Practices for 2014	Please Design Responsively Tracy Apps Favorite session: Please Design Responsively	WP Community Game Show Jen Mylo Favorite session: WP Community Game Show	Building Better Widgets Josh Leuze Favorite session: Building Better Widgets
12:30 pm	Lunch (Provided) Favorite session: Lunch (Provided)
2:00 pm	Co-Creating and Co-Designing Support Systems That Strengthen Your WordPress Business Josh Pollock Favorite session: Co-Creating and Co-Designing Support Systems That Strengthen Your WordPress Business	WordPress Wizardry Without Code – Customizing the Admin Suzette Franck Favorite session: WordPress Wizardry Without Code – Customizing the Admin	SVG is for Everybody Chris Coyier Favorite session: SVG is for Everybody	Creating and Promoting Compelling Content Through Blogging Scott Offord Favorite session: Creating and Promoting Compelling Content Through Blogging
3:00 pm	The WordPress JSON REST API Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker Favorite session: The WordPress JSON REST API	Design Is In The Details: How Decisions Shape Communication Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Design Is In The Details: How Decisions Shape Communication	Monetizing Your WordPress Blog (Beyond the Banner Ads) Syed Balkhi Favorite session: Monetizing Your WordPress Blog (Beyond the Banner Ads)	Stop Eating Resources and Optimize Your WordPress Site Jeff Matson Favorite session: Stop Eating Resources and Optimize Your WordPress Site
4:00 pm	Introduction to Custom Theming Heather Acton Favorite session: Introduction to Custom Theming	Creating Effective Content Penny Ross Favorite session: Creating Effective Content	Advanced Topics in WordPress Development Andrew Nacin Favorite session: Advanced Topics in WordPress Development	A Comparison of WordPress Hosting Companies Bridget Wessel Favorite session: A Comparison of WordPress Hosting Companies
6:00 pm	After-Party

WordPress Happiness Bar

Throughout the day, WordPress experts will be manning the “Happiness Bar” doing their best to make you happy. These experts will be available for questions on your WordPress site and any problems you may be having. Come ready with questions or volunteer to help out at the happiness bar.

WordCamp After-Party

Following a long day of WordCamp, everyone needs to let loose and relax while talking with fellow attendees. We will be having an after-party shortly after the last session ends so you can network with other attendees and speakers. This is open to all attendees and you will need to present your badge for admission.

This year, the WordCamp After-Party will take place at the Miller Time Pub, which is only blocks away from the venue. More info on the after-party will be posted prior to the event.

WordPress Happiness Bar

Throughout the day, WordPress experts will be manning the “Happiness Bar” doing their best to make you happy. These experts will be available for questions on your WordPress site and any problems you may be having. Come ready with questions or volunteer to help out at the happiness bar.