As you might have already know I was fortunate enough to attend this years WordCamp Chicago. It was blast and I was able to learn quite a bit and it took me a while to get back into the swing of things. I’m just now able to go over my notes from the 2 day event and all the new sites/blogs that people tweeted me. So, let me break it down for everyone.
Saturday started off good and they did something unique this year by splitting up the sessions into developers (DEV) or users. According to the schedule I found myself sitting in the DEV side for the majority of the day.
The first one up was Brad Williams (@williamsba) talking about WordPress Security. What a GREAT source of information – I couldn’t stop taking notes esp after doing some awesome fist pumping
There are something I haven’t implemented on some of my sites that I KNOW will definitely help down the road.
Next up was Josh Byers (@joshbyers) speaking on WordPress for Client. A pretty good session on how to work with your clients and how to convert sites over to wordpress.
After lunch was Scott Robbin (@srobbin) on Making WordPress Faster Front-end Performance Tips. In recent Google news the quicker your site the better it’s ranked so why not optimize it to make it faster with some great tweeks. I was pretty impressed with the concepts he presented and plan on inputted them into my own client site plans.
Being the SEOer I am I headed over to the user side to hear Scott Stawarz (@scottstawarz) speak on Maximize the All In One SEO Plugin. A great plugin that has a TON of features and benefits to match. I watched more-or-less to see if there was anything I was missing regarding this particular plugin. I wasn’t – I’m not trying to come off cocky but…when you DO SEO then you should know the plugin. Nonetheless great presentation and back and forth with the audience.
Headed back over to the DEV side of the banquet hall to hear Dan Milward talk about WordPress and E-Commerce. Dan is one of the developers for the widely used E-Commerce plugin and highly recommend it to anyone. Extremely user friendly and not to mention SEO. Sadly I wasn’t able to stay the whole time as I was extremely worn out and from what I could tell it was fairly basic. However, he mentioned the new integration with BuddyPress but I got the idea.
Now…onto Day #2
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