Category Archives: Program

First Session Videos Posted!

Matt’s State of the Word was available on WordPress.tv the day after it happened, but what about the rest of the WCSF sessions? We’ll be rolling out a few more every day as the video is processed, but so…

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Propose Sunday Lightning Sessions

Saturday’s lightning sessions were fun, 5-minutes pockets of information, and we’ll be doing something similar today following lunch. We have 30-minute time blocks (one for each track) designed to let you — seriously, it could be you! — share as…

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Friday – Lighting Sessions

Developer Track (Downstairs)

1:30 – George Ortiz “With so many people on the same WordPress platform,we can easily aggregate and push information across those sites in a variety of contexts. One instance I’m working on at Storefront Themes is the…

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It’s Time To Propose Lightning Sessions!

Although most of WordCamp San Francisco will hum along smoothly, like a well-oiled machine, we’ve left a few blocks of time for scheduled surprises: Lightning Sessions. Following lunch on Friday and Sunday we have 30 minute time blocks…

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Speaker Spotlight: Andrew Nacin

Debugging and Juggling with Nacin

WordCamp San Francisco is very special to me. Fifteen months ago, it was my first WordCamp. I was pretty terrified as a new committer to WordPress core, hoping that I would be able to keep…

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Speaker Spotlight: Dianne Jacob

It’s summer in the Bay Area, my favorite time of year, when our 50 or so farmer’s markets are bursting at the seams with local produce at the height of flavor. At the Berkeley farmer’s market, I was…

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WordPress Core Hack Day on Thursday

We’re so happy that so many WordPress contributors are in town for the WordCamp. On Thursday, starting at 11am, the WordPress core team will be at the Automattic lounge at Pier 38 for a WordPress hack day. If you are…

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Speaker Spotlight: Mike Adams

Embedding your widgets/gadgets/thingummies* into other people’s sites exposes you and your users to security vulnerabilities you may not be familiar with.

In developing features for a future version of Jetpack, we at Automattic found no convenient library to protect our…

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Speaker Spotlight: Stratton and Campbell

On Saturday, August 13, Aaron and I will be discussing contributing to the WordPress community with our session’s audience. We’re not just talking about a laundry list of chores and maintenance, but progressive actions that benefit everyone in…

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Speaker Spotlight: Mark Jaquith

Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My!

WordPress runs much more than just small personal sites. But a grown up, professional site needs grown up coding, deploy, and scaling strategies. As a freelance WordPress consultant, I’ve seen every manner of…

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