{"id":623446,"date":"2014-03-17T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=623446"},"modified":"2014-03-17T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:47:21","slug":"survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2014\/survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We published a survey to ask people what they would like to see at WordCamp this year.  Here&#8217;s a summary of the results: if you&#8217;re thinking about speaking at WordCamp, this is a great starting place to get ideas!<\/p>\n<p>Topics people want to learn more about (topics marked with an asterisk were requested multiple times):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*How to choose plug-ins and templates that will best serve my blog<\/li>\n<li>Content strategy, marketing and business<\/li>\n<li>Marketing your theme business<\/li>\n<li>Theme design<\/li>\n<li>*Responsive design<\/li>\n<li>Integrating the theme customizer in your themes<\/li>\n<li>*Best coding practices<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s new with core WP<\/li>\n<li>*Innovative web solutions using WP (not blogs)<\/li>\n<li>Custom multiple loops, Pages and posts that do not need the loop.<\/li>\n<li>Starting a WordPress based business<\/li>\n<li>Working with \/ contracting Photographers<\/li>\n<li>Best Practices in &#8220;training&#8221; new clients how to use their site<\/li>\n<li>Best Practices in selling to people with horrible sites (out of date, poorly designed, etc)<\/li>\n<li>*Creating Membership sites<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining a WordPress site<\/li>\n<li>Moving blog from WordPress.com to self-hosted<\/li>\n<li>*SEO<\/li>\n<li>Step-by-step talks on development that start absolutely from scratch<\/li>\n<li>*Security in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Largely unknown uses of WordPress that are inherent in core (like Post Formats, or available WP Config lines of code that are being under utilized, and things that can be &#8216;turned on&#8217; or &#8216;off&#8217; easily to enhance the functionality and experience of just a core install &#8211; no plugins)<\/li>\n<li>*Multisite<\/li>\n<li>*Theme frameworks<\/li>\n<li>*Starter themes<\/li>\n<li>*Running a WP business, marketing, getting clients<\/li>\n<li>launching wordpress sites from stage\/local to live<\/li>\n<li>how to get my wordpress site lean and fast, not bloated<\/li>\n<li>Rich snippets for non-developers<\/li>\n<li>business planning and why you need to set goals before starting a website design\/build.<\/li>\n<li>Git and WordPress development<\/li>\n<li>wordpress core functions every new dev should know<\/li>\n<li>enqueue files\/scripts and how to clean up plugins that bastardize the function<\/li>\n<li>combine\/minify includes like JS and CSS<\/li>\n<li>*SASS and\/or Compass<\/li>\n<li>*WP-CLI<\/li>\n<li>Content creation<\/li>\n<li>Social Media<\/li>\n<li>*How to pick a good hosting company<\/li>\n<li>Does managing your blog from a mobile device make sense?<\/li>\n<li>Non-programmer&#8217;s guide to applying CSS to achieve desired effects<\/li>\n<li>How to create cookie-cutter WordPress websites<\/li>\n<li>Non-Core Contributing (theme reviews? documentation?)<\/li>\n<li>Third Party Server Best Practices for WordPress<\/li>\n<li>WordPress Small Business Best Practices<\/li>\n<li>WordPress in Seattle<\/li>\n<li>How WordPress integrates to enhance User Experience<\/li>\n<li>HTML coding<\/li>\n<li>Manipulation of themes, customization<\/li>\n<li>Best plugins, most used, popular<\/li>\n<li>WP as an app platform<\/li>\n<li>how to run a dev agency<\/li>\n<li>Using your blog as a resume to start a career<\/li>\n<li>frameworks versus themes<\/li>\n<li>are plugins good or bad?<\/li>\n<li>modern design trends<\/li>\n<li>important elements of business sites<\/li>\n<li>beginner troubleshooting<\/li>\n<li>How to leverage the built in JS libraries within WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Using WP as a RESTful backend<\/li>\n<li>integrating with other platforms<\/li>\n<li>Logo Design for Web Developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We asked what formats people prefer, and by far the most popular choices were lecture with Q&amp;A and workshop.<\/p>\n<p>If you have knowledge to share about any of these topics, head over to our <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.seattle.wordcamp.org\/call-for-speakers\/\" title=\"Call For Speakers\">call for speakers page<\/a> and submit your talk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We published a survey to ask people what they would like to see at WordCamp this year. 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