170 Radio Stations: WordPress at Scale with Peter Chester This is Your Server On Drugs – The goal is to reduce the load on PHP and mysql by delegating wherever possible. Strap on your helmets kids.
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andrewbehla
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andrewbehla
I just met David Henzel from NetDNA. If you don’t want to change your hosting plan, but speed up your site using CDN, this looks like a great solution.http://maxcdn.com/ or http://www.netdna.com/
Use Coupon CODE WHT for 25% off – Thanks David!
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andrewbehla
Design, SEO and Selling WordPress
Create video tutorials using iShowU or SnapzPro X for your customers to have a reference video on how to use their site. Yup, I can attest to this.
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Tips for monetization of content:
Tease the content right ask for registration first make it easy don’t make them leave the page
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Hey Newspapers, NEWS FLASH: Metered model for paid online content typically generates about 1/3 the revenue of other models.
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Don’t undervalue your content! People WILL pay, especially if paying is easy.
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andrewbehla
Building a Sustainable Online Presence – Four strategies you can start using today:
Strategy #1 Rock Your Niche Strategy #2 Decide What you Want Measure – conversion, likes, comments, page views, Strategy # Expand the Funnel – facebook, twitter, lInkedin, guest post to other blogs Strategy #4 Pace Yourself – have a strategy, but be flexible to adjustments
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Ema-Byteofgreen
The Third WordPress went a little long, so Digital Subscriptions to Your Content is just starting now upstairs.
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Ema-Byteofgreen
WordPress as a Service… BRILLIANT!
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Frosty
Recent slides have been added up on he main site: http://2011.la.wordcamp.org/
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toan
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adam mclane
Austin- here are mine: http://www.mclanecreative.com/2011/creating-an-online-presence/
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Ema-Byteofgreen
http://videousermanuals.com <—-paid, but can imbed training videos in your wordpress backend for users. NICE!
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Frosty
Super awesome!
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andrewbehla
Creating an Online Presence: Three Timeless Principles for Building a Sustainable Online Presence
Principal #1 Be Consistent Principal #2 Be Remarkable – Say Something! Principal #3 Be Open
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toan
building your strategy 3 of em#1 rock your niche’ – narrow blogs focus to one or two topics gary v – the wine guyjeff bounce’s blog from 80 visits to 4000 proof of narrowing your niche strategy works#2 decide what you want to measure - have to like it (Facebook) -1000 uniques -engagement strategy#3 expand the funnel -twitter and Facebook expands it#4 Pace yourself - stick to it at least for 30 days to see if it works adjust accordingly to what works - measure results weekly or monthly not daily (bigger picture)-
adam mclane
Here is the blogger I referenced, Jeff Goins. http://goinswriter.com/
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andrewbehla
Read Smashing Magazine and be a better designer: http://smashingmagazine.com
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Ema-Byteofgreen
remember way back when you first looked at the WP dashboard? (I know…I don’t either) but it really is daunting for a new user!
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Frosty
Upstairs: the Third WordPress “Premium Multi-site” Marty Thonley
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Frosty
bam!
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andrewbehla
Creating an Online Presence Adam Maclane Three Timeless Principles for Creating and Sustaining an Online Presence
“Focusing on building a tribe around your content”
“Your blog is a blip on the screen, like flying over an island. How do we engage the audience so that it’s a solid, reputable site or a solid, reputable business? How do I stick out when there is so much content out there?”
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toan
are slides available and or a video for this talk?-
toan
1:5:10 rule useful to remember. like the 80/20 rule normal flaming worth remarking—pull them in- how can i leave a comment its like on youtube— the top youtube partners ask something or question of the day — guys like ray williams johnson of equals three-
adam mclane
Here you go. http://www.mclanecreative.com/2011/creating-an-online-presence/ Thanks for your notes. Awesome! If people email me I will send them a PDF. You, engagement.
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andrewbehla
I tweeted @mclanecreative to see if Adam can post the slides.
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Coming up on the DevTrack : The Third WordPress
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andy
sweet ‘cache buster’ deployment trick for cloud servers: put your new release in a different directory and use a symlink to pick it up as your main code directory.
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andy
Gabriel: “nobody is offering an out of the box solution for WordPress scaling.” business opportunity?
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Ema-Byteofgreen
http://codex.wordpress.org/HyperDB <—-gives you more WP database control
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andrewbehla
Boston University and Penn State using wordpress to run their edu sites.
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Wp_filesystem <—- gives you a way to proxy filesystem commands
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Ema-Byteofgreen
S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability over a given year. <—that's epic
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toan
wtf
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andy
Upstairs: Anatomy of a high volume, cloud-based WordPress architecture Gabriel Koen
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andrewbehla
Greg Taylor session”You can work with 4 different analytic tools and get 4 different results” (from audience) Greg replied: “Look for trends. Test it, use trial and error, nothing is set in stone, Just go ahead and DO IT.
SEO Smart Links plugin might be too smart and you might get better results by being more hands on. It’s all about the strategy. That’s a preference, it doesn’t work for me.”
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adam mclane
Great stuff Greg. I think you’re so right… trial and error is a great strategy.
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andy
break your theme up and call get_template_part() as needed to assemble the theme. much easier to maintain.
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andrewbehla
Winning The Search War With Content with Greg Taylor
How to develop content that works: Use google analytics webmaster tools authority labs SEO Moz Google Trends MKTGPress Content Construction Worksheethttp://scribi/SCLA_content-war
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toan
link does not work
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Ema-Byteofgreen
“I’m a cowboy themer, and you won’t get me to change my wild ways” RIGHT ON!
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Frosty
Awesome.
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Frosty
Follow me on GitHub https://github.com/mfields and I’ll follow you back
- Michael Fields
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Cody L’s slides from his talk on “Designing Success for WordPress” http://t.co/PgwBpsJ
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andrewbehla
@grtaylor2 is speaking on SEO. “Strategic Content is King.”
Traffic, conversion, metrics, branding, community all play a part in the overall strategy for SEO. How is your content laid out?
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Ema-Byteofgreen
http://codex.wordpress.org/theme_unit_test <—- dumps data into your theme to essentially try to break it. Good stuff!
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Ema-Byteofgreen
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check <—-best wordpress plugin ever. Checks your theme coding. If you are a programmer you can fix it, if you are not…you can either get a new, better theme, or have someone help you fix it.
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andy
theme-check plugin — most important plugin ever!
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Ema-Byteofgreen
right now….open your wp-config.php file and change wp_debug to ‘true’
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andrewbehla
WordPress Multi Site Wes Chyrchel
You can see the slides here from Wes’ excellent presentation.http://www.slideshare.net/weschyrchel/wordpress-multisite-tips-tricks-hacks
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andy
plugin to check out for site migration – advanced export for WP
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Ema-Byteofgreen
and http://fontsquirrel.com gets yet another shout-out. SQUIRREL!
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Responsive design resource: http://tinyfluidgrid.com
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Ema-Byteofgreen
Facebook and YouTube don’t support IE6…so really, do you need to?
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Justin Dorfman
Even MSFT want’s everyone to stop using IE 6 http://www.ie6countdown.com/
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toan is discussing. 
