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Jonathan Desrosiers – Performance is something at the forefront of every site owner’s mind. A slow site will always scare off impatient users and customers. But how can you make your site faster without adding hardware? The answer: caching. Let’s…

Ken Gagne – WordPress makes hosting a website easy—but there’s a lot more to website management than the CMS! From finding a domain name to troubleshooting a slow page to creating attractive social media posts, these 25 free, online tools…

Matthew Boynes – What makes a database query fast or slow? Are WP_Query’s taxonomy queries fast? What about meta queries? In this talk, we’ll dig into the WordPress database schema, talk about what factors influence query performance, and learn how…

Greg Kristan – This presentation will be basic SEO tips to help improve your WordPress site’s ranking in Google and Bing. Also go over SEO tools I use along with plugins to help in WordPress achieve better SEO results. Bio…

Jonathan Desrosiers – A code review process has lots of benefits. In addition to the many technical and organizational benefits, there are also invaluable opportunities to set team members up to grow and succeed when an effective code review culture…

Kelly Dwan – Bio Kelly Dwan is a developer in Cambridge, MA. She works on the WooCommerce team at Automattic. In her spare time, Kelly develops themes and contributes to the WordPress project. She’s on Twitter at @ryelle.  

JJ Rohrer – Description: This presentation will go over the fundamentals of how to use Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF) and Gravity Forms to collect data on your website. These techniques can be used to collect data from your visitors,…

Tom Shapiro – Many WordPress designers, developers, and site owners rely on Google Analytics for insights into their site visitors. The problem is that GA provides you with only half of the story, such as traffic source, number of visitors,…

Jim Reevior – Nine years ago, I was just starting out as a full-time developer when I heard about a brand new volunteer opportunity. New England GiveCamp set out to develop websites for charities over the course of one weekend.…