Tualatin Lightning Talks

5 Easy Coding Tricks You Can Do in WordPress (Especially for Non-Developers) – Rocky Kev

For every WordPress user, there’s always a button that’s a bit off to the side, or a logo that doesn’t display correctly. This session will help you DIY types, who want a little more control but don’t want to spend years being a programmer. We’ll will show you a few tricks to fix common web design issues with certain plugins, with a bit of coding. We’ll do a tiny bit of HTML, CSS, and PHP, but don’t let that scare you, I’ve taught this to 50+ year old WordPress users who picked it up immediately.

DIY Content Strategy, Larry Swanson

WordPress agencies and freelance designers and developers can improve their client’s website projects by incorporating content-strategy best practices into their workflows. Anyone who has built more than one website has developed a good array of content strategy skills. I’ll show how to plug those skills into a proven framework for crafting an actionable, state-of-the-art website content strategy. If you’ve ever used “lorem ipsum” copy as you struggled to extract content from your client the day before launch, this talk is for you.

3 Security Mistakes You Didn’t Realize You Made, Mikey Veenstra

We all take shortcuts sometimes. Whether you were swamped with client work and a corner had to be cut, or you’re stretched so thinly trying to wear every hat that something fell through the cracks, we’ve all encountered mistakes we made ourselves. While they’re mostly all forgivable, it becomes a bit of a different issue when a mistake leads to a security concern. In this talk we’ll look at three common security mistakes made by WordPress site owners every day, why they get made in the first place, and how to resolve them.

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