Lightning Talks: Unscary Tech

Choosing the Right Theme

Andrea Rennick

How to find a theme for your blog, where to look, what to look for and what kinds of themes are out there.

Thinking Inside the Box: Understanding the CSS Box Model

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
The web is made of little boxes, grouped together to form what we refer to as “web design”. Understanding the CSS Box Model – the system by which our code can tell a browser how to display these boxes – is a fundamental skill for anyone working on the web whether that be as a content creator, designer, or developer. Thinking Inside the Box is 5 minutes that will change the way you think about web content and web design: On the web everything is a box and once you know how to bend those boxes to your will you can do pretty much anything you want. Morten is here to show you how.

The Most Secure Platform: How the WordPress community makes us all safer

Brennen Byrne

The security of WordPress has become a vital topic for the entire Internet. Our platform has reached an unprecedented scale, powering more than 22% of the Internet, and has found a unique and powerful way to protect all of our sites. Heartbleed and other vulnerabilities have dominated the Internet news cycle for much of this year, but WordPress has emerged as a leader in security for one reason: the community.

The WordPress community has always been one of our largest assets, but the changing dynamics of security online have also made it our best defense. This talk will cover the threats facing the WordPress ecosystem and the Internet today, how the WordPress community is combatting them, and what you can do to help keep us all safe.

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