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Dan Petrovic is one of Australia’s most creative and leading SEO specialists. Dan is completely obsessed with search engine optimisation and all things that relate to Google’s wonderful algorithm, so much so that it only takes a trip to his office at Brisbane Technology … Continue reading Google, Angry Panda & WordPress →

Dion is currently one of a select few with the privilege of WordPress core commit access. Having made close to 300 Trac tickets, uploaded well over 500 Trac patches (as well as too many commits to count) and had over 200,000 downloads … Continue reading Dion Hulse – What I’ve Learnt From Working In Open-Source →

The growing popularity of WordPress has made it a target for hackers, online criminals and others who seek to cause mischief. This talk will outline a number of techniques to help you: *Harden your current WordPress installation *Avoid introducing security … Continue reading Securing Your WordPress Website →

In the history of WordCamp in Australia, there have been a total of 3 events. Anthony Cole has helped organise the two of these. WordCamp Gold Coast will be the first camp in Australia or New Zealand Anthony has attended without … Continue reading WordPress Plugin Development 101 →

Having provided custom WordPress solutions since 2007 and holding web management roles within Queensland Government for most of that time, Stephen Cronin provides insight into the challenges facing the adoption of WordPress by government within Australia. Issues covered will include: … Continue reading WordPress and Government – The Australian Perspective →

Most blog content is text, but with the emergence of camera phones and photo-sharing apps, visually immersive blogs are becoming increasingly popular. At WordCamp Gold Coast, Brett Morgan is going to show a vision of a new way of constructing … Continue reading Making Blogs Graphical (with HTML5) →

Japh Thomson will be giving a presentation on  various coding standards, best practices, and resources to help improve them. He will also be aiming to get some discussion and thinking going on helping each other maintain a high level of … Continue reading Code Quality Standards and Best Practices, Discuss →

BuddyPress can turn your WordPress site into a complete social network. BuddyPress comes with activity streams, forums, mentions (ala Twitter), friending and private messaging.  It can seem rather overwhelming, which is why Bronson is here to provide guidance on how to go … Continue reading Supercharging WordPress with BuddyPress! →