Saturday Schedule

Presentations will be in four main rooms: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.

Saturday, August 2nd

Time	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Manhattan	Queens
8:00 am	Registration Opens
9:15 am	Tools to Better Manage and Grow Your Blog Syed Balkhi Favorite session: Tools to Better Manage and Grow Your Blog	Designing WordPress: A Drama in Four Parts Siobhan McKeown Favorite session: Designing WordPress: A Drama in Four Parts	Introduction to Plugin Development Craig Ralston Favorite session: Introduction to Plugin Development	JavaScript Performance: Fundamentals, Tools & Techniques Max Cutler Favorite session: JavaScript Performance: Fundamentals, Tools & Techniques
10:00 am	Follow The Yellow Brick Road: Avoiding Dangerous and Low-Quality Plugins and Themes Rami Abraham Favorite session: Follow The Yellow Brick Road: Avoiding Dangerous and Low-Quality Plugins and Themes	Designing Dashicons: what I learned about icons and the web Ben Dunkle Favorite session: Designing Dashicons: what I learned about icons and the web	WordPress Examples Toolkit: Keep it Simple and Learn by Example Richard Dinh Favorite session: WordPress Examples Toolkit: Keep it Simple and Learn by Example	Put a little Backbone in your WordPress! Adam Silverstein Favorite session: Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!
10:45 am	Leveling Up: From Bashful Beginner to WordPress Warrior Beth Soderberg, Courtney O’Callaghan Favorite session: Leveling Up: From Bashful Beginner to WordPress Warrior	Building and Managing Large Multisite Networks Sam Hotchkiss Favorite session: Building and Managing Large Multisite Networks	Bootstrapping your plugin Marko Heijnen Favorite session: Bootstrapping your plugin	How To Read and Write WordPress Media Code Scott Taylor Favorite session: How To Read and Write WordPress Media Code
11:30 am	From housewife to hero: giving back and moving up Andrea Rennick Favorite session: From housewife to hero: giving back and moving up	Getting Sassy with WordPress Tracy Rotton Favorite session: Getting Sassy with WordPress	Customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework Kevin Miller, Steve Bruner Favorite session: Customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework	Code Philosophy Daryl Koopersmith Favorite session: Code Philosophy
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing Boone Gorges Favorite session: Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing
2:00 pm	Blogging Basics (Dangerous Writing) Mary Beth Coudal Favorite session: Blogging Basics (Dangerous Writing)	Beyond the Code Noel Tock Favorite session: Beyond the Code	Best Practices for Plugin Development Jake Goldman Favorite session: Best Practices for Plugin Development	Advanced Advanced Custom Fields Jared Novack Favorite session: Advanced Advanced Custom Fields
2:45 pm	Throwing Your Blog’s House Party Without Breaking Your Mom’s Vase Jeanne Brooks Favorite session: Throwing Your Blog’s House Party Without Breaking Your Mom’s Vase	6 Ways to Up Your Theme Game Tracy Levesque Favorite session: 6 Ways to Up Your Theme Game	The Road to the Right Membership Plugin Chris Lema Favorite session: The Road to the Right Membership Plugin	High Performance WordPress Mikel King Favorite session: High Performance WordPress
3:30 pm	Troubleshooting Common WordPress Problems Kevin Cristiano Favorite session: Troubleshooting Common WordPress Problems	Unit Testing WordPress Plugins with PHPUnit Daniel Convissor Favorite session: Unit Testing WordPress Plugins with PHPUnit	NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress Cal Evans Favorite session: NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress	Accessibility Beyond Coding: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility Svetlana Kouznetsova Favorite session: Accessibility Beyond Coding: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
4:15 pm	Your Business Blog Matters! M. Shannon Hernandez Favorite session: Your Business Blog Matters!	WordPress for your Content, CiviCRM for your Contacts Dana Skallman Favorite session: WordPress for your Content, CiviCRM for your Contacts	Supporting Your Themes While Staying Sane Kathryn Presner Favorite session: Supporting Your Themes While Staying Sane	Advanced Topics for WordPress Development Andrew Nacin Favorite session: Advanced Topics for WordPress Development

Happiness Bar

Got a burning WordPress question you want answered? Having trouble with your site and want some expert help? Then the Happiness Bar is the place for you!

WordPress experts will be available to help you with your questions all day on both Saturday (except for lunch and the keynote) and Sunday.

Beginner Workshops

If you’re just starting out with WordPress (or don’t know where to start), this is the place for you. There are two workshops on Saturday, each divided into two sections:

9:15am – 12:15pm – Introduction to WordPress

WordPress 101
Presented by: Shanta Nathwani

.COM vs .ORG
Themes & Plugins
Pages & Posts
Categories & Tags

Overview of the WordPress Dashboard
Presented by: Marc Benzakein

Overview of the Dashboard menus
Common WordPress settings
How to create/edit posts & pages
Adding users
How to manage comments
Managing menus & widgets

2pm to 5pm – Customizing WordPress

Choosing & Customizing Your Theme
Presented by: Jamie Schmid

What is a theme?
Where to find themes
Choosing your theme
Installation & activation
Customizing/theme options

Adding Functionality to your site with Plugins
Presented by: Kiko Doran

What can plugins do?
Finding and Installing Plugins
Useful Plugins
Troubleshooting tips

While a computer isn’t required, we recommend you bring your own laptop to follow along.

WordCamp NYC 2014