We’ve finally been able to get presentation slides pulled together! The links below are provided by our speakers, so if anything breaks, please reach out to them directly. 🙂

• Systematic Holistic Speed (Paul Bearne)
• WordPress Accessibility (Jordan Quintal)
• Managed WordPress Demystified (Alex Sirota)
• Modular Sass (Michael DeWitt)
• Speeding Up Your WordPress Site (Alan Lok)
• Using CSS3 in WordPress (Suzette Franck)
• Using Actions and Filters in WordPress (Brian Hogg)
• You Have Two Hands (Shayda Torabi)
• Google Analytics for Objective SEO & Diagnostics (Alycia Mitchell)
• Building & Maintaining a Remote Workforce (Jennifer Fisher)
• Make a Living with WordPress Without Knowing Code (Andrea Zoellner)
• Ecomm 101 (Al Davis)
• How To A/B Test with WordPress (Brendan Sera-Shriar)
• Mystery Solved: Pages vs. Posts (Joe Rozsa)
• Creating Customizer Options (Rick Radko)
• Gaining User Trust in WordPress Ecommerce (Andrew Wikel)
• HTTP 2 and You (Zack Tollman)
• A Noob’s Journey To The Core (Ryan Welcher)
• Introduction to Content Strategy (Jamie Schmid)
• Don’t Let Content Hold Your Website Back (Jai Sangha)
• Multilingual Content with WordPress (Desaulniers-Simard)
• Best Friend / Worst Enemy: WordPress Multisite (Taylor McCaslin)
• Writing Secure Code for WordPress (Shawn Hooper)
• Systematic Unit Testing (Scott Grant)
• Speed Up Your WordPress Site (Meagan Hanes)
• Here Be Dragons: Debugging WordPress (Rami Sayar)
• Introduction to WordPress Unit Testing (Carl Alexander)
• Bringing Clients Into The Iterative Web Process (Swartz/Farley/Aikman)
• Practical Tips for Designers from a WordPress Developer (Dara Skolnick)
• WordPress Image Grid Plugins (Jacques Surveyer)
• Delightful Design with the Kano Model (Jesse Rosario)
• User Experience Design and Business Innovation (Christine McGlade)
• API Simple Talk (Ting Yang)
• REST APIs with WordPress HTTP API (Daniel Pataki)
• Piecing Together the WordPress Puzzle (Mary Anne Shew)
• Community Consultation Creates Compelling Content (Chrissie Pollock)
• WordPress Development for Non-Developers (Jessica Gardner)

First up: We’ve got photos! You’ll find them in the photo gallery. Special thanks to Mike Day from The Art of Weddings, our afterparty photobooth team at FunPhoto, and additional thanks to Shanta for contributing some great shots.

View the photo gallery.

Secondly: Feedback survey results are in! Here’s what we’ve learned:

• Venue is great, but distance from the city core is a big challenge.
• T-shirt design was awesome.
• Streaming is awesome.
• Schedule timing was good.
• Gluten-free, vegan- and diabetic-friendly food is a must for next year.
• Bring back juice/bottled water as an alternative to fillable water bottles.
• Provide more transparency into how sessions are chosen.
• Get speakers to post slides in advance whenever possible.
• Get microphones for speakers who have trouble projecting.
• More live code examples. More prep and diversity in panels.

Read on for more details.

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That’s a wrap! Yup, another weekend of WordPress is behind us. This year we brought together over 400 attendees and 50 speakers for two days of WordPress goodness. A great big thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, volunteers, organizers, and attendees. #WCTO wouldn’t be possible without your involvement!

How did we do?

Please take a few minutes and fill out our feedback survey. (It would mean the world to us!) We’ll publish the results on the site and use the data to guide future WordCamps.

Take The Survey

What’s next?

• Slides will be posted as we receive them from speakers.
• Videos are being worked on. For now, check out the stream recordings.
• View our speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees.
• Join Toronto’s WordPress meetup group! We meet at least once a month.

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Site clinics and code reviews have been finalized from Saturday’s sign-up list!

Please look up your name and arrive 5 minutes ahead of your time slot. In consideration of your fellow attendees, please limit your time to 15 minutes.

Code reviews are in the morning (11 – 1) and Site clinics are in the afternoon (2 – 4).

All reviews and clinics are in the “fishbowl” rooms near the Happiness Bar (near the coffee table) in the common area.

It’s a first for WordCamp Toronto: we’re streaming! A huge thanks to Pasada Media for providing the capability to pull this off.

Watch The Streams

WE SOLD OUT! There was a mad rush of registrations this morning. 30+ tickets sold out in less than 10 minutes. (Pretty crazy, eh? I think that’s a first!)

But we’re not done just yet. Oh no. We’ve added another 25 tickets for folks to grab. There’s no telling how long these’ll last though, so register quickly if you want to attend! (We may not be able to squeeze more folks in after this.)

With a little over a week to go we’ve finally locked down the schedule for WordCamp Toronto 2015. This year we’ve got a weekend packed full of informative sessions, case studies, hands-on workshops, discussion panels, and multiple perspectives on similar issues.

Will sessions be recorded?

Video has been a massive pain point for our event over the last five years. While we’ve been able to record sessions in the past, the quality has been poor, and following through on editing has been challenging.

We’re thrilled to have Pasada Media providing A/V support for 2015, including editing. High-five Pasada’s Greg Mount (co-organizer) and his team of volunteers (working the cameras) when you see them!

View the WordCamp schedule