Website Design, Search Engine Optimization

08.48

It looks like each session is 15 minutes long #wcsf. That could be a good thing.

09.04

10 Things to make your WordPress Website Faster with @chriscoyier #wcsf

09.09

Steve Souders is the web performance guy. #wcsf 80% of the time it takes a site to load is front end stuff 20% backend

09.12

#1 turn on http compression #wcsf GZip gzipwtf.com

09.15

go  to .htaccess file and add Gzip compression #wcsf WordPress Yoast SEO plugin also has it

09.16

2. Cache stuff #wcsf  server cache W3 total cache plugin

09.19

3. losslessly your images #wcsf

09.20

4. combine css and js files #wcsf

09.28

The cool Sheri Bigelow #wcsf Hidden Gens: Little known Facts about publishing with wordpress

09.32

wordpress is getting faster #wcsf comment moderation, upgrades post-slug-only permalinks, WP-Query …

09.33

Keyboard Shortcuts built into WordPress mouse over the editor buttons #wcsf See hot keys

09.37

Comment Shortcut keys for moderating your comments. #wcsf Auto embeds put the video right into the post and it will display now tweets are auto embed. Use the http address for entering the tweet.
You can rearrange your edit window move the widgets around.

09.38

Press This #wcsf Great for interacting with other things on the web and adding content into your site

09.42

Adding pagination into your site <—next page –/> #wcsf

Adding columns to your post for a gallery Use the column code.

Slugs will redirect automatically

Sheri says wordpress is making it easier for you to publish and write.

09.43

Header Images #wcsf adding directly from your media library. Add flexible widths and heights. new in 3.4.1

09.46

Customizer #wcsf do a live preview in the theme appearance to see what a theme redesign will look like before going live.

09.50

@designsimpy Colourlover backgrounds very cool in her presentations. Happy bright and cheery

09.51

That last post should have been @designsimply #wcsf color backgrounds check them out

09.56

Up next is BBPress which is forum plugin for WordPress, I really like #wcsf

10.01

John James Jacoby the master of bbPress. #wcsf  bbPress and BuddyPress can go together like peas in a pod

10.15

there is a converter for bbPress 1.0 to 2.0 #wcsf that is huge!  You should be able to covert your data over easily.

10.16

Turnkey way to start a community use bbPress before BuddyPress. #wcsf

10.27

Making Plugins Faster #wcsf only load the code you need,  run the code ou need and hook the actions

10.29

Use Core for plugins #wcsf  Wordpress is Feature rich, fast, compatible and maintained

10.31

Now we are getting geeky talking about benchmarking #wcsf running from command lines …

10.34

#wcsf XD Bug output for profiling something shows how long things have taken nice visuals

10.35

P3 plugin that shows how long your plugins are taking.#wcsf Oh boy this is a developer talk but good for all to know.

10.37

Matt Mullenweg is up next for State of the Word 11:00. He usually has good slides #wcsf

10.39

Obviously with all the media & size of websites speed is an issue #wcsf slides at http://x.co/wcsf12 Kurt Payne

11.01

State of the Word with @photomatt #wcsf

11.05

with Matt Mullenweg @photomatt

11.07

#wcsf New ability for people to put headers in the plugins in wordpress.org

11.09

Also ability to favorite plugins and later download. in WordPress.org #wcsf

11.12

Bringing plugins and themes to international communities #wcsf is the future

11.13

The customizer editing your blog while looking at it. Big change in WordPress #wcsf

11.15

What is next in WordPress  3.5 #wcsf the 2012 theme. Full retina support,

11.17

Upload multiple images simultaneously. 3.5 #wcsf

11.17

wordpress 3.5 will be available on 12/5. They will be on time. #wcsf

11.18

New is “Get Involved” button  the wordpress collaboration space will be within WP dashboard. #wcsf

11.20

Applause for many of the people that have gotten involved with WordPress. #wcsf From all over the world. Open Source opportunity

11.22

#wcsf Parity between .com and .org, introduced JetPack. Lot more features coming to it.

11.24

wordpress.com, Mobile app Blogs | Follow #wcsf

11.26

Posting to tablets is the future and how we interact with the web #wcsf Developing for mobile platform

11.27

Web developers should start getting more involved with mobile #wcsf That may be a hint for me.

11.30

2012 WordPress Survey #wcsf 66% using wordpress as a CMS. Now they have more than just a blog.

11.33

WordPress on average small biz website cost is 00. Large business enterprise 00 #wcsf

11.39

WordPress has gone from Blog > CMS next is becoming an APP engine #wcsf

11.40

16.7% of top websites using WordPress up from 14% last year #wcsf

11.41

WordPress Challenges: Media, galleries, tagging, zooming #wcsf

11.42

WordPress Challenge: More timely releases #wcsf Like to have 3 releases a year.

11.44

WordPress Challenge: UI do a lot more testing. #wcsf How do people use the dashboard? Watch more reg. users using the site.

11.45

WordPress Challenge: Community Summit, bringing everyone together, particularly from international. Smart Iteration, Updates, Updates.

11.47

WordPress Challenge: Updates, it just all works. Much like Chrome.

11.48

One click upgrades from web hosts  will automatically upgrade WordPress if you opt in. #wcsf

11.51

This is the moon shot, real time editing. #wcsf Much like on Google Docs. Now big Applause State of Word ended.

12.02

VaultPress will help your WordPress site from getting hacked through backups. #wcsf

12.06

ooooh you can not control the Q & A’s. #wcsf

13.32

Back from a great Lunch at #wcsf first afternoon session Custom Post Type Relationships #wordpress

13.42

@randyhoyt works at treehouse presenting about relating Custom Post types with custom fields (wp_postmeta table)

Plugins that can do this are Plugin Pods and post to Posts 2 Posts plugin

Parent / Child relationship (post_parent column) – subordinate post type

WooCommerce creates separate variations for products.

13.52

Created a plugin “Subordinate post type helpers” to help create these post types. #wcsf  Slides at randyhoyt.com/wcsf
the code is at github.com/randyhoyt/subpost

14.09

Next Session #wcsf Extendable Extensions w/ Michael Fields is a theme wrangle for Automattic
Plugin – wp core contributions widget , imports the code into your site for you to use and customize.

Themes:
Portfolio Press by Devin Price, custom post type

• Registered in theme
• moved into a plugin
• users can now switch to new themes
• other themes can now add support

“Looking at plugins and themes as words that can form sentences”

The integration and separation at the same time. Plugins and themes work together. Playing well on the WordPress playground.

14.31

Next Zen of WordPress Development with Daniel Bachhuber from Portlandia (: #wcsf

14.40

Striving for elegant solutions. #wcsf Zen comes in when you think about the API fully

• Be intimately aware of your environment
• Know thy codebase, know the rules and how it opperates
  core files: formatting.php , post.php, rewrite.php, query.php, pluggable.php
• Master the tools of the trade
  developer plugin: developed by automattic
  Debug Bar Cron – scheduled cron events
  User Switching
  Rewrite Rules Inspector – useful for debugging
• Best practices are healthy ingredient for your code
• Prefix everything
• Commit wisely
• Focus on choosing the proper hooks for your APIs

14.57

The State of Themes with @RyanImel from WPCandy Where we have come and where we are going with themes

At wordpress there is a  theme review team WPTRT.

14.59

Premium Themes are themes you can buy also known at commercial themes. #wcsf Started with magazine style themes.

15.02

Customising your themes with Customizer in WordPress, Options Framework Plugin #wcsf

15.33

Next #wcsf session is  The Business of Code with adii pienaar co-founder of my favorite WooThemes.

15.47

Building a business around WordPress 8 lessons from @adii
Fusion between Entrepreneurship and development

• Learn to speak “geek”, learning to speak to these people
• Open – source economics, There’s no such thing as fast money or making easy money with WordPress
• Only clean code scales. Feature Bloat = live young, die hard.
  just adding features is not the way to go.
• Users pay for support and service. Technology and code are bonuses . Great technology and great code and supporting all of this. woo themes is great with support and service.
• Understand the ecosystem. The “community” is small in comparison. The WP ecosystem is larger and very diverse.
• Freemium is a distribution channel only. You need a real revenue model. Releasing a free theme is great but does not make us money. Converting free to paying is not a business model.
• Core Contributions are Special. Making core contributions is #warmfuzzies.
• Be a good ambassador. Stick to native code and UI Conventions. As a designer stick to doing things as natively as possible.

15.56

Theme Foundry developed the 2012 theme coming out with WordPress 3.5 #wcsf

16.10

How to design a wordpress default theme #wcsf

• Sketch first and share ideas
• Look at the work that has been done before.
• Make it look like a website tool or CMS not a blog
• Use a grid for designing, consistency and rhythm
• Use few colors and texture.
• Use the theme customizer, build in support
• Make sure the theme looks good on all devices
• Use percentage base widths. So that your design will scale.
• Use the rem (root em) unit. Set one value at the top of your style sheet and reference it throughout your theme. Will also need to use a pixel fall back
• Use CSS3 gradients instead of images
• Use Web fonts -
• Pre Processing, Sass is for style sheets. Free open source tool called Forge
• Get help from the wordpress community

twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com – link to check out demo of the theme

16.46

Designing for the future web. #wcsf Mobile devices will surpass desktop by 2015. The mobile web will become the majority

16.48

The mobile web is what we should be designing for. #wcsf It is not an after thought. Ultimately need to design for our content.
starting to take a mobile first approach.
Flexible grids / media and images are adaptive.
Retina is changing everything. Another thing we cannot avoid anymore.

16.50

Retina Display is changing everything and adding a lot more pixels to a tiny screen mobile  #wcsf

16.52

A good ratio of Speed vs. Awesomeness. 2G is the new dial up. #wcsf

17.03

OMG now we need to think about designing for retina display. #wcsf  How do your images look on retina … ?
Retina retina.js, plugin WP Retina 2x
Retinafy your websites & apps by Thomas Fuchs an ebook #wcsf

17.25

“How to Building an Audience as a Writer” Leo Babauta is a writer. #wcsf Started blog zenhabits.net. In one year built up to 26,000 readers.

17.26

Leo has no slides. First presenter without slides. Kind of nice. #wcsf

17.40

“Most stuff you read on line for bloggers and writers is mostly bullshit” #wcsf

• mountain of bullshit – don’t need to be in big city to do well. Basically just wrote.
• As a writer you don’t need to learn marketing, learn how to serve your audience. Create something so amazing people will do your marketing for you. People forwarded it for you.
• popups they are annoying and disrespectful to the reader. What you want them to read is your content.
• Mailing list – does not have one. Doesn’t believe in SEO
• Social media does not do it
• Ads, you don’t need them.
• Put your readers first and great content. Ask why would a reader want to come to my site.
• Great content is content that solves the readers problem. Figure out how to solve their problem.
• Figure out what your differences are. People are craving simplicity. What sets you apart from everyone else
• Monetize your content through ebooks, courses …

17.48

closing speaker today Pete Davies How to run a small country…using the P2 theme #wcsf

18.00

http://p2theme.com/ P2 theme, check it out download it. Great for team work and collaboration. #wcsf

18.01

closing remarks “the end” #wcsf

13.49

After introductions the WordPress Q&A from the group.#wpeb

Q: how to add feeds
A: Go to the website http://www.sillybean.net that has hidden WordPress feeds that you may not know about

Q: Good books for creating themes.
A: Beginning WP 3 has good information for building themes.
“How to be a WordPress Rockstar” – shows how to build a theme in photoshop and then turn into a WP theme

Q: Subscribing to the site options. (person is really not sure what they need. These are some of the ideas)
A: WordPress plugin called Subscribe To which is RSS to email. Membership plugins and people pay to be members. Feed Burner was also mentioned, people can subscribe to certain content.
MailChimp RSS to email. Ratepoint.com is easier to use than MailChimp. MailChimp can be a little quirky

Q: Backing up your blog and website what is the best
A: Files and database: Plugin BackWPup, latest version works best with 3.2. Not free “Backup Buddy”.  Be aware if your site is really big the web host can time you out during the backup, may want to stagger the backups.
Plugin: WordPress Database Backup also emails you a backup

Q: Web Hosting is good
A: EC2 – good webhost
Don’t use goDaddy. They are very slow. Only allows you to use their installer. Long operations it will log you out.

Q: update plugins do I have to do it
A: yes you should always update your plugins.

14.06

List of Social Plugins to add to your WordPress Site #wpeb

• Share and Follow: Has all the icons for different social media sites. Also has the side bar. Share and Follow also has a widget.
• Social Media Widget: Install it and then you have it in your widget area. Must be customized. They like it for the simplicity of the design.
• Social Plugin for WordPress: This is good so that users can sign in with fb or twitter to leave comments. No much known about it.
• Discus: Beware you do not own your comments. They own your data.
• Add This: Is a service that you go through.
• JetPack: bundled plugins from Automattic from WordPress.com. Some thoughts that it may later be a monitization vehicle later.

Types of sharing: You share your content and visitors share your content on their sites. The plugin that you use depends on your site

• Digg Digg: this shows you how many people have shared.

14.16

Twitter Plugins for your WordPress Site. #wpeb

• Tweet Old Posts: Will go through old posts and randomly post them on twitter. You can time them and the age of your posts, choose which categories to post and not to post, also age of the posts.
• WP to Twitter:
• 1-click/retweet/share/like
• Twitter Widget Pro
• BlackBird Pie: quote people’s twitter streams on your site

14.29

TwitterFeed is an external website. Feeds any RSS feed from any site (you don’t have to own it) #wpeb into it and have it auto feed into your twitter and facebook. #wpeb You don’t have to own the RSS feed that you use on TwitterFeed. Http://www.twitterfeed.com
These are basically automated tweets into your twitter and facebook. This is not specific to WordPress since you can do this from any RSS feed or site.

On the site the tagline is: Feed your blog to twitter, facebook and more ….

14.37

• Feed Delay – set it not to update your RSS or twitter. Until you feel good about your post #wpeb
• Push Press: Uses push subhub protocol. Publish a blogpost and have it immediately show up in our twitter feed. Auto posting service. Links Alpha supports Push Press

14.51

Moving onto facebook plugins at #wpeb for #wordpress:

• Simple Facebook connect: Allows people to login with their facebook. Problem is it is not that simple. Need to go into facebook and develop an application. Can have a link to your fanpage instead of your profile. This is mainly for the users to sign into your site with facebook.  Also sets up a like button and share button.
• Wordbooker: Like button, share button … will post your posts onto your facebook page. Comments from facebook to WordPress. Takes your blog post and pastes it on your profile page. Will also pass on images. Some of the people at the meetup really like this plugin. Wordbooker gives you a lot more control. One person for him this is the best.
• Embed Facebook: embeds part of your fb profile onto your wordpress website. Great for status updates and photos. An album or gallery in facebook and displaying it. Currently no way to get your wall feed into your site  ’cause facebook changed the API.
• Facebook Grabber: No longer works well. It was a mirror of your facebook wall
• Photonic: for bringing images from flickr and Picasa to display on your site.

14.54

Here is the link to the Blog Post for Social Plugins  Meetup for #WordPress #wpeb http://www.tonicarr.com/blog/connecting-wordpress-to-twitter-facebook-and-social-sites/

09.09

Text has evolved and is real text not images. Would never have seen this before web fonts.

The New Yorker is now using web fonts – every headline used to be cut images no longer with web fonts

Martha Stewart using web fonts

2008: 18 web safe fonts – kind of sad
Images are not the right way for creating fonts on the web

What is the right way

@font-face { font-family:   
src: url ‘ …..’}

All the major browsers now support this ability to link to web font files

09.12

Services like Typekit stepped in with a solution that protected the interest of the owners of the site.
They serve up the fonts and you pay a subscription fee.

A lot of web services now:

• Google web fonts
• FontSpring
• Font Squirrel
• Kernest.com

09.05

Good morning #wcsf setting up for my last day of live blogging.

09.15

Jeff Veen @veen #wcsf Talking about how beer has become local and some establishments are serving it warm.

How The Web Works – Talking about entrepreunerial experiences of the past relating to the making and distributing ice.

Now he is talking about the West Gold Boom – much like the internet boom

09.27

@veen started typekit Evolution of Fonts changed when browsers could link to a font #wcsf

Typographers worried about putting their fonts on the web the same as the music industry has worried about distribution of music on the internet.

WordPress.org plugins are available to use Typekit

09.38

Fundamental way the web has moved forward rough consensus running code @veen #wcsf

1993 the img tag with a source attribute was made available on mosaic this was rough consensus that got running code in front of users. Important to move from abstract to concrete.

“The velocity and responsiveness of your team to user feedback …

Showing development of typekit and how they developed the business model

09.42

Today @veen uses twitter everyday to search for their brand name to see how it is going #wcsf

Twitter has been good at listening to what their users are doing

Google first versions were not that spectacular but they got it out there quickly

Amazon is another one first site did not have books on it. Get it out there and get feedback.

Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration

09.43

“Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration” get your stuff out there on the web #wcsf jeff veen

09.46

Free software or open source software model that works today in a free and open way to move development forward #wcsf this makes tremendous change.

09.50

We need to protect the openness and freedom of the web. #wcsf Need to have belief the open and free web is the way.

09.59

Next up at #wcsf Sheri Bigelow Top 10 Features You Aren’t Using – But Should Be!

10.04

@designsimply works for Automattic – talks tips and tricks is designed for beginners#wcsf we will see

10.25

#wcsf See list here for top ten features http://www.tonicarr.com/blog/wordcamp-san-francisco-day-three/

• Zen Mode introduced in WP 3.2 Full screen button
• Kitchen Sink – A whole new row of buttons on the editor
• Keyboard Shortcuts for the Editor mouse over and it will give you the tool tips also look at the help button
• Short cuts for comments – has to be turned on. Use Help Tab for more info.
• Embed video – Auto Embed video links by just using the url. Just drop in the youtube link. Check media settings. Search WordPress AutoEmbed will show which services you can embed
• Screen Options – your space your way. For each screen you can turn things off that are on the page. Change the number of columns.
• Press This – It is a book marklet. In the tools section and drag up to bookmark bar. Any media can be dropped in. For super fast blogging.
• Pagination – More tag. Posts with a lot of content <!– nextpage–> Put in html of post Link to page styling in the codex
• Internal Linking – let’s you make links to past content. Link back to something. Use link icon and it will show past content.
• Single Column Gallery – put size in short code ie large
• Old Slug Redirects – wordpress is smart enough to know to redirect
• Drag and Drop – widgets, menu items, inside the gallery you can drag your images around and reorder
• Coming soon in 3.3: Drag and drop media file for uploading media into media thingee.
• Post Revisions: WP keeps track of your past revisions – you can do comparisons, then you can restore if needed

10.47

basetrack.org – WordPress site following Marines in Afghanistan #wcsf All pics with an iPhone. WP site pushed out to FB page to interact

11.04

In theory no censorship on basetrack.org reporting initiative. If info is removed there would have to be justification. #wcsf Later didn’t like to do it because then they would have to explain why removing content. Wanted to use journalist self sensor.

Operational security issue (LOL) marine is not fully shaved

FB page became the real problem. Families were speaking their hearts and minds. Families expressing stress, family members getting legs blown off. They wanted them to pull the facebook page. Security started to really like the WP site better than FB because they could not sensor. They did not shut down the FB page because they did not like the tone of comments. Bottom line they ended up getting kicked out.  “Marines Boot Social Media Pioneers From Afghanistan” .

Swarthmore College doing in depth conflict reporting on the project and exonerated the project.

Mom’s are the best photojournalists. Mother’s sister’s wives were sending them photos

In theory project should be long over but the sites are still active and the FB page

They also have a flickr stream video’s on vimeo audio on sound cloud – The content is open source so you can use it in your work

contact info: teru@kuwayama.com | twitter/skype: terukuwayama

11.18

Next up @photomatt – then lunch I am hungry. #wcsf

11.36

State of the Word by Matt Mullenweg cofounder of Automattic. The growth the inovation and evolution. #wcsf

11.39

PressWork theme has front end editing #wcsf

11.49

What people like about WordPress #wcsf from WP poll

1. Ease of Use
2. Community – updated often, contribute with forums

Complaints

1. Plugins suck – 15,000 plugins in the repository

11.50

If a plugin has not been updated in two years they will start to hide them not delete. #wcsf

11.57

WordPress looking for the most elegant human user experience with the Zen Editing Screen #wcsf

12.05

WordPress 3.3-What’s to come #wcsf – Admin, NUX, Better Media Handling

• Make the admin responsive
• NUX- new user experience, people coming for the first time. Dashboard is intimidating start to guide people through
• Better Media Handling – likes uploading images in Google +. Dragging and dropping images from your phone

12.09

92% of people are using WP as a CMS. Hourly rates range from  -2000 people building sites. Avg hourly . Not in CA

12.10

WordPress is not only growing it is accelerating. #wcsf

15.16

e-commerce #wcsf presenter Jonathan is the lead developer of the Shopp e-commerce plugin for WordPress.

15.18

Start shopping cart Merchant Account process 3-6 mos. ahead of deadline. Don’t wait to last minute. #wcsf

15.25

SSL Certificate choices for e-commerce #wcsf

• Verisign – costly
• Comodo – moderate
• goDaddy – cheap
• NetWork Solutions – cheap

15.26

wordpress security best to use a pass phrase rather than word for website e-commerce #wcsf don’t use admin

15.28

For security keep everything updated, WordPress, Themes and Plugins BACKUP everything #wcsf

15.33

eCommerce alternatives for WP #wcsf

• WP eCommerce-has been around the longest. Can get paid add ons
• cart66.com – uses shortcodes in posts and pages, has a free lite version
• shopplugin.net – completely skinable

Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/ingenesis/ecommerce-word-press

15.45

SEO is more than optimizing page titles & a few plugins #wcsf Need right site architecture social signals domain authority site speed & more w/Sujan Patel

16.21

SEO for WordPress in 2011 #wcsf @sujanpatel

SEO Fundamentals:

• keyword research
  uses google search to discover new keywords
  find keywords around commercial intent
  Long tail keywords – have less competition, high probability of conversion
  good tool is AdWords, Keyword Discovery, Word Tracker
  First position get 18% then goes down from there done by independent study by slingshot
  Google Traffic Estimator to estimate number of clicks if you rank position 1
• content post panda-An update by Google to get rid on content farms or large content sites
  Released in early March and ongoing
  Good content is king
  Best to remove pages that are not getting traffic
• site structure and internal linking
  Good site structure good SEO – no page more than 3 clicks away from homepage
  Internal linking to pass seo value. Only link out when relevant
  good to only have two or three links per page
  canonicalization – don’t want to have duplicate pages in your site redirect non www to www pages
• social signals
  everyone sees different results and how your google account is tied to you social accounts
• Don’ts since Panda update
  use tags, stop using tags – cause duplicate content. They need to be no indexed.
  have broken links  or 404 pages- check on google webmaster tools
  have duplicate content on very similar posts
  too many ads or affiliate links
  irrelevant linking or link exchanges
  low quality pages (less may be more. Better to have quality pages)

SEO Plugins

• Yoast SEO
• RSS Footer- prevent scrapers from affecting your site. Allows you to add a text link to your rss so every scraper links back to you
• SEO Smart Links – Automatic Internal linking based on keywords
• Google XML Sitemaps – auto creates sitemaps every page/post you add. Good for all Search Engines
• Redirection – helps you to redirect 404 pages
• SEO Friendly Images – automatically adds “alt” and “title attribute”
• W3 Total Cache – Increases site speed by caching your site
• Social Media Buttons Digg Digg, Sexy Bookmarks, Get Social

Ways to get more traffic:

• Write list post 30+
• Infographics
• Guest Blogging
• Less Content
• Build relationships
• Comment on your favorite blogs
• Top Blogs in XYZ – know the top blogs in your industry and mention them.

16.47

Panel Q&A Core Team Developers and Designers this is the panel #wcsf

• John Cave contributes to core for about a year
• Andrew Nacin  2 yr o
• Jane Wells 3 yrs.
• Mark Jakewith?
• Daryl Coopersmith also known as Coop
• Andrew Oz

MySql now being owned by Oracle, does that make you uneasy: Yes a little uneasy

How did you get on core team: Mark switched in 2004 to WP, started helping out on patches and moved through the ranks. Jane in 2008 running a usability and design lab in NYC Then Mat convinced her to come to WP. More answers went go into all of them.

17.24

• Talk about WordPress 3.3 is it in the works? 3.3 is taking place in trunk. #wcsf
  The core team is all very young in their 20′s except for Jane she will be 40 in december
• Code for the uploader, media uploader? To be able to upload multiple files. New has several different modules. It will scale. Mostly on the backend. It will support drag and drop uploading. Change UI to make it more intuitive . This is big undertaking and needs to be done to improve media.
• Use Microsoft hosting for big project? Long answer sorry I did not get it. Core liason with Microsoft, they are now reaching out to support WordPress. We want everyone to be able to use WP.
• Oz regarding media uploader,  Html 5 then  Silverlight then Flash why Flash last? This is how the PL uploader works. Problem with Flash requires more work to make it work.
• Weekly dev chat on Wednesday afternoon. The biggest priority now getting media into your site.
• Dropping support for IE7 in the next release? It is not happening for the next release. Best thing is to update your browser for best experience. Trying to push people forward but it is tough.
• What makes you want to continue  working with WP?  Most people do it because it is an itch by Niacin. We want to be challenged. The community is the big factor positive and vibrant. Makes publishing easier and free. Has anyone seen the philosophy we subscribe to those. From a code standpoint. Community is a big reason.
• Theme review team what about a plugin review team? Ask Matt this question tomorrow. It is alot to start with. OOPs Nacin can’t tell us something. Matt will tell us tomorrow. Plugin repository is 8GB it is huge
• Multi site what is the direction to make it better? It is on the list. It is really big to improve. They keep chipping away at it.
• Give back by answering questions in the forums.

15.43

Presenter Kevin Cheng How do you get a point across within 10 seconds? #wcsf Comics are a unique way to communicate, using both image and text to effectively demonstrate time, function, and emotion.

15.48

Google launches Google Chrome. Why did they do this? #wcsf Marketed with a comic book if had white paper very few people would have read.

15.53

Using comics to make sure something gets read and why they work. #wcsf @k SeeWhatIMean.org

You can learn something inadvertently It catches a persons attention and it is a happy medium

Four points why comics work

• Communication
• Imagination
• Expression
• Emotion

16.04

@k #wcsf People who can’t read can understand comics. Comics use a language one inherently understand.

Imagination is another piece that comics are really good at. A lot of comics choose to be on the more abstract side. Show just enough to give the person the idea.

Pixar is one of the best at creating expression in simple ways with body language and eyes. A stick figure can show expression.

Motion the passage of time and movement. Move the stick man up and down. Empty space can have meaning in a comic. Repetition can show passage of time. Can be difficult to convey in copy and words.  Once you understand how motion and time works you can do amazing things with comcs.

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Inspiration for comics – you are trying to tell a story and how do you choose to get the story across. This is the right tool to get this point across #wcsf

• bitstrips – create comics with templates
• designcomics.org
• Comic Life  plasq.com – people use this for blog posts

plugin called comicpress for wordpress

Infographics: ikea instructions, lego instructions

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Comic Version vs. Traditional is to do A/B testing #wcsf Comics are putting the user back in the user experience.