Schedule

Welcome to WordCamp Portland! If you’re looking for the livestream it’s you can find it here. Below is the schedule for the day. Enjoy!

Saturday, August 18th

Upstairs Ballroom Bergen Dining Hall (downstairs) Nordic Room (downstairs)
8:00 Doors open
9:00 Welcome & Unconference Prep
9:30-10:15 Blogging as a Platform: Making a Name For Yourself in Your Targeted Community
Kiersi Burkhart
_doing_it_wrong: Improving Your Development Skills Through Examining Bad Practices
Zack Tollman
Why We Click Publish: Advocating for User-Centricity through Interaction Design
Taylor Dewey
10:30-11:00 Must have plugins with @thetechchef No one trusts the plug-in repo. Now what…? Games: Promoting, Demoing & Selling Yours with WP
11:15-12:00 How to Build a Professional WordPress Business
Grant Landram
WordPress + E-Commerce = $$$
Justin Sainton
Don’t Put That In Functions.php! (Or, How to Write A Basic Plugin)
Kailey Lampert
12:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Town Hall Q&A with Matt Mullenweg in the Ballroom upstairs
2:15-3:00 Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask
Eric Mann
How to Blog Once a Day
Laura Kimball
How to Use WP-Cron
Ben Lobaugh
3:15-4:00 What you must know about WordPress Round 2: No one trusts the plug-in repo. Now what…? Migrating from Twitter to your personal WordPress
4:15-5:00 WordPress Security 101 (and beyond)
Robert Rowley
The Art & Science of Premium
Shane Pearlman
Frankenblog: Group Blogging with WordPress for Fun, Frustration, & Financial Gain
Robert Wagner
5:00 Closing Comments, Thanks, etc.