Be prepared! Whether you are responsible only for running a single site for yourself, or maintaining dozens for your clients, you should know how to take reasonable precautions to secure WordPress against common attacks. We will review the types of active threats that WordPress sites face, how and why a site gets targeted, and then look at a variety of techniques for improving security.

• Some areas we will cover:
• Access controls
• Htaccess recipes to block specific attack types
• Moving key WordPress files to spoil scripting
• Obfuscation methods
• File permissions
• Coordinating with a web host system administrator
• Responding to an apparent hack

The overall goal will be to make your site(s) less attractive to opportunistic exploits, and give you a better sense of how to respond before (and, if necessary, after) a security breach.

Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site. Notes can be found there as well.

Responsible sites.

Responsible site owners and builders.

What do those ideas even mean?

Let’s take a look at:

Devs’ role in the process.

• Ethics
• Performance
• Accessibility.

WP-specific:

• Tricks
• techniques
• considerations

Finally, we’ll explore some ways we work to stay responsible on projects for our Collective.

Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site.

Managing WordPress Projects – Let’s get better on this!

Developers and Designers love to use their creativity to build amazing things for their clients with WordPress , however it’s not always that they are able to delivery those on time. WordPress is a wonderful tool that allow us to have a powerful website up and running in a couple of hours, so why do we need to be worried on how we manage our projects? I’m pretty sure you have tons of reasons to be worried about it…

We all know how hard it is to keep the expectations of our clients in a proper level over the course of the project. How difficult it is to maintain the scope, and if it changes, how to identify the impact before the “go live” date? I would like to present some basic concepts of Project Management applied specific to WordPress projects, using the experience I got managing projects for my company.

Intended Audience: WordPress Freelancers and Startups

Presentation slides are available on the speaker’s Slideshare.

The number one reason businesses in the US fail is profitability. After freelancing for 5 years and having solid revenue while “winging it” financially, I decided to firm up my financial processes and planning so that my business didn’t become one of the statistics.

I will share with other aspiring and established freelancers a financial model they can follow to help plan and predict sales, profit, salary, and more….so that they can keep doing what they love.

Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site.

“Having toddlers as coworkers” and other life lessons from the 314 team.