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Sunday Lunch with Abokichi

Abokichi is an extraordinary Caterer and the creator of a wide assortment of delicious Japanese- and fusion snacks, meals, condiments and other goodies. Everything is prepared holistically and local food sources as used extensively to provide sustainable, nutritious ingredients for some seriously awesome and unique food. Unless you were at last year’s WordCamp, you will not have experienced anything like it.

Lunch and snacks on both the Saturday and Sunday are being provided entirely by Jess, Fumi and the Abokichi team and will be different on both days. Our lunch session are extra long to ensure that everyone gets a chance to sample and enjoy this delicious treat.

At other times, you can visit Abokichi at the Annex Hodge-Podge at 285 Dupont Street. Other venues that carry Abokichi’s products include the Liberty Village Live Market, the OCAD student cafe, and a wide variety of Farmer’s markets across town during market season.

Saturday Lunch with Abokichi

Abokichi is an extraordinary Caterer and the creator of a wide assortment of delicious Japanese- and fusion snacks, meals, condiments and other goodies. Everything is prepared holistically and local food sources as used extensively to provide sustainable, nutritious ingredients for some seriously awesome and unique food. Unless you were at last year’s WordCamp, you will not have experienced anything like it.

Lunch and snacks on both the Saturday and Sunday are being provided entirely by Jess, Fumi and the Abokichi team and will be different on both days. Our lunch session are extra long to ensure that everyone gets a chance to sample and enjoy this delicious treat.

At other times, you can visit Abokichi at the Annex Hodge-Podge at 285 Dupont Street. Other venues that carry Abokichi’s products include the Liberty Village Live Market, the OCAD student cafe, and a wide variety of Farmer’s markets across town during market season.

WordPress Media Tools for Creatives

with Denise Williams in the User / Admin track

Put your masterworks up on a solid pedestal. Whether you need to build a home page for your band, a portfolio for your art, or a viewing hub for your videos, there are native and external WordPress tools for hosting, embedding, and presenting your multimedia content in ways that are easy, responsive, and cost-effective.

-WordPress.com portfolio post types and related themes
-image gallery options: what’s included in .org and .com, and what you can customize using Jetpack or other plugins
-audio and video: embeds and hosting
-promotion tools: widgets, plugins, and subscription services for interacting with outside content networks (like bandcamp, spotify, pinterest, more)

For beginner and intermediate bloggers and beginner site developers.

How to take a free theme and make it yours

With James Strang in the User / Admin track

Not everyone can afford to have a custom designed theme for their WordPress website. Often we have to resort to the themes that are available for free or cheap. But how do we avoid having the website look the same as everyone else’s who used the same theme?

I will show you how to take the most common WordPress.org themes and turn them into the unique look you want. Google Chrome or Firefox recommended. No coding knowledge is required, but you will learn some basic CSS.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify an item in the source code
  • Add and edit the CSS files using the WordPress editor
  • Create a basic child theme (optional)
  • Change colours and sizes of display elements
  • Insert their own graphics into a theme using CSS

WordPress 101

With Al Davis in the User / Admin track

This presentation is aimed at those who are new to WordPress and want to get a guided headstart. We’ll be looking at the WordPress landscape, some basic terms and terminology that will really help you get started, and tips and tricks acquired over years of teaching WordPress in a classroom setting.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com and know which is appropriate for you
  • Understand the basic components of WordPress content and how you should use them to create the blog or website you want
  • Leverage plugins and themes to customize your blog or site’s visuals and functionality
  • Gain useful tips and advice that will help you in the early stages

WP Front-End Editors

With Jacques Surveyer in the User/Admin track.

Drag and drop Visual Designers have a checkered history in software development: too proprietary, too complex to learn, generate low-performance spam code, etc. But there is no doubt that Visual Design tools like Microsoft Visual Studio,various versions of Eclipse, NetBeans, Sencha Visual Designer, and others retain allegiance among very large groups of developers.

Now in the past 3-5 years WordPress has seen the emergence of frontend Visual Theme Designers that can be applied to both posts and pages. Headway Themes, Pagelines DMS, Ultimatum and Bakery’s Visual Composer are among these tools.

This presentation will examine the question – is there a rock solid WordPress Visual Designer?

All attendees will benefit from the general review and demo of WordPress Visual Design tools. WordPress designers and developers will get specific insights on the features and methods used by the major tools:

  • The top 4 WordPress Visual Design tools
  • The common features provided by all the tools
  • The unique features and component/widgets provided by each tool
  • Each tools support for mobile and responsive designs
  • Each tools support of popular eCommerce plugins and server-side connections
  • An assessment of the costs and trade-offs of each tool
  • Futures including Automatic designating one tool as preferred interface creation tool

19 Plugins You Should Be Using

With Renee Moore in the User / Admin track

Slide deck from the presentation

This talk will cover 19 of my favorite plugins that are especially useful for those who are selling products or services from their WordPress website.

Learning outcomes

  • promote their content on social media sites easily
  • create and post beautiful sales pages
  • publish a podcast
  • capture more emails from visitors
  • design amazing forms to collect data
  • keep out hackers
  • chat with customers on your site
  • get paid
  • backup their site on a regular basis and more!

Congratulations! You’re having a WordPress site!

With Joe Rozsa In the User/Admin track

Slides

Congrats. You’re having a WP Toronto

Description

I’ve often found when people first start to use WP that frustration sets in very quickly. It’s not the fault of WP, but more by the fact that these new users and admins haven’t been shown how things are done within the WP dashboard. When I do presentations I like to try to tie a real life experience into what I’m presenting about WP. This session compares having/launching and new WP site to having a baby. There are so many unknowns that you need to find out about both. It’s a fun, light-hearted session about not getting frustrated. No one really knows how to change a diaper, but they learn quickly. The same holds true with many things associated with a new WP site. Hopefully by the end of the session, I give new users hope that the frustration is only temporary.

Learning Outcomes

I want people to leave my session knowing that things that they don’t know about WP are only temporary and there’s no need to get frustrated. I will have explained and compared things within WP to those of having a new born baby. Once they get the hang of things and how to do them, they become second nature.