Schedule

We’ve got a packed schedule this year! Note that sessions are subject to change based on speaker availability and last-minute adjustments. We’ll do our best to communicate all changes on the site.

Saturday, October 3rd

Time	Content & Marketing (L1017)	Beginners (L1012)	Intermediate (L1005)	Security & Performance (L1004)	Developer (L1006)
8:00 am	Setup
8:30 am	Registration / Coffee & Carbs
9:30 am	Opening Remarks (Common Area)
10:00 am	Don’t let content hold your website back. Jai Sangha Favorite session: Don’t let content hold your website back.	Piecing Together the WordPress Puzzle Mary Anne Shew Favorite session: Piecing Together the WordPress Puzzle	Best Friend or Worst Enemy: Multisite Network Do’s & Don’ts Taylor McCaslin Favorite session: Best Friend or Worst Enemy: Multisite Network Do’s & Don’ts	Don’t Drop the Ball (WP Updates) Mike Dickson Favorite session: Don’t Drop the Ball (WP Updates)	Help Me Help You: Practical Tips for Designers from A WordPress Developer Dara Skolnick Favorite session: Help Me Help You: Practical Tips for Designers from A WordPress Developer
10:45 am	Morning Break 1
11:00 am	Grow Your Ideal Audience with Content Marketing Brian Rotsztein Favorite session: Grow Your Ideal Audience with Content Marketing	WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood Jessica Gardner Favorite session: WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood	Put a Map On It! Enhanced Geolocation and Mapping with Geo Mashup Jeremy Clarke Favorite session: Put a Map On It! Enhanced Geolocation and Mapping with Geo Mashup	WordPress Upgrades: Ready, Set, Go! Dustin Meza Favorite session: WordPress Upgrades: Ready, Set, Go!	Using Actions and Filters to Make Plugins Your Own Brian Hogg Favorite session: Using Actions and Filters to Make Plugins Your Own
11:45 am	Morning Break 2
12:00 pm	Content Doesn’t Grow on Trees – An Introduction to Content Strategy Jamie Schmid Favorite session: Content Doesn’t Grow on Trees – An Introduction to Content Strategy	Pages vs. Posts: The mystery is solved! Joe Rozsa Favorite session: Pages vs. Posts: The mystery is solved!	How to A/B Test with WordPress: Conversions Aren’t Just for Landing Pages Brendan Sera-Shriar Favorite session: How to A/B Test with WordPress: Conversions Aren’t Just for Landing Pages	Building a Better Security Posture Ben Martin Favorite session: Building a Better Security Posture	Developing WordPress Themes Using Modular Sass Mike DeWitt Favorite session: Developing WordPress Themes Using Modular Sass
12:45 pm	Saturday Lunch
2:00 pm	Digital Marketing with WordPress David Mackey Favorite session: Digital Marketing with WordPress	Using the Editor the Proper Way Seth Alling Favorite session: Using the Editor the Proper Way	Intro to WP-Cli Justin Howe Favorite session: Intro to WP-Cli	Your Theme, Plugin, Site Has a Security Vulnerability – Now What? Aaron D. Campbell Favorite session: Your Theme, Plugin, Site Has a Security Vulnerability – Now What?	Introduction to WordPress unit testing Carl Alexander Favorite session: Introduction to WordPress unit testing
2:45 pm	Afternoon Break 1
3:00 pm	Let Me Tell You A Story: WordPress As A Storytelling Tool Kevin A. Barnes Favorite session: Let Me Tell You A Story: WordPress As A Storytelling Tool	Multilingual Content and WordPress Élise Desaulniers, Alexandre Simard Favorite session: Multilingual Content and WordPress	How to build a Child Theme Laurie M. Rauch Favorite session: How to build a Child Theme	Speed Up Your Site! (Intermediate) Meagan Hanes Favorite session: Speed Up Your Site! (Intermediate)	Systematic Holistic Speed Paul Bearne Favorite session: Systematic Holistic Speed
3:45 pm	Afternoon Break 2
4:00 pm	Google Analytics for Objective SEO and Diagnostics Alycia Mitchell Favorite session: Google Analytics for Objective SEO and Diagnostics	Ecomm 101 Al Davis Favorite session: Ecomm 101	How to Use CSS3 in WordPress Suzette Franck Favorite session: How to Use CSS3 in WordPress	Speeding up your WordPress Site (Advanced) Alan Lok Favorite session: Speeding up your WordPress Site (Advanced)	HTTP/2 and You Zack Tollman Favorite session: HTTP/2 and You
5:00 pm	Agency Chat (Livestream) Favorite session: Agency Chat (Livestream)

Sunday, October 4th

Time	Agency (L1017)	Beginners (L1012)	Community (L1005)	Design & Freelance (L1004)	Developer (L1006)
10:00 am	Getting Their Hands Dirty: Bringing Clients Into Every Step of the Iterative Web Process Linn Øyen Farley, Avery Swartz, Mark Aikman Favorite session: Getting Their Hands Dirty: Bringing Clients Into Every Step of the Iterative Web Process	Gaining (and not betraying) User Trust in e-Commerce Andrew Wikel Favorite session: Gaining (and not betraying) User Trust in e-Commerce	You Have 2 Hands Shayda Torabi Favorite session: You Have 2 Hands	How I Made a Living Using WordPress Without Knowing a Line of Code Andrea Zoellner Favorite session: How I Made a Living Using WordPress Without Knowing a Line of Code	Here Be Dragons – Debugging WordPress Rami Sayar Favorite session: Here Be Dragons – Debugging WordPress
10:45 am	Sunday Morning Break 1
11:00 am	Building and Maintaining a Distributed Workforce: A Startup Story Jen Fisher Favorite session: Building and Maintaining a Distributed Workforce: A Startup Story	Facet-nating! – Using FacetsWP Shanta R. Nathwani Favorite session: Facet-nating! – Using FacetsWP	WordPress Accessibility: Spreading the word! Jordan Quintal Favorite session: WordPress Accessibility: Spreading the word!	Managed WordPress Demystified Alex Sirota Favorite session: Managed WordPress Demystified	Systematic Unit Testing Scott Grant Favorite session: Systematic Unit Testing
11:45 am	Sunday Morning Break 2
12:00 pm	Gathering Sales Intelligence Through Web Design Jeremy Pound Favorite session: Gathering Sales Intelligence Through Web Design	Building defeatharper.ca: lessons from a first-time WordPress developer Don Booth Favorite session: Building defeatharper.ca: lessons from a first-time WordPress developer	Community Consultation Creates Compelling Content Chrissie Pollock Favorite session: Community Consultation Creates Compelling Content	User Experience Design and Business Innovation Mashups That Add Value Christine McGlade Favorite session: User Experience Design and Business Innovation Mashups That Add Value	Writing Secure Code Shawn Hooper Favorite session: Writing Secure Code
12:45 pm	Sunday Lunch
2:00 pm	Scoping and Budgeting Projects with Usage Modeling (Workshop) Tom Auger Favorite session: Scoping and Budgeting Projects with Usage Modeling (Workshop)	4 Step User’s Guide from Local Installation to Live Server Conrad Hall Favorite session: 4 Step User’s Guide from Local Installation to Live Server	A Noob’s Journey To The Core Ryan Welcher Favorite session: A Noob’s Journey To The Core	Delightful Design with the Kano Model Jem Rosario Favorite session: Delightful Design with the Kano Model	Learning About REST APIs through the WordPress HTTP API Daniel Pataki Favorite session: Learning About REST APIs through the WordPress HTTP API
2:45 pm	Sunday Afternoon Break 1
3:00 pm	Scoping and Budgeting Projects with Usage Modeling (continued) Tom Auger Favorite session: Scoping and Budgeting Projects with Usage Modeling (continued)	On the move, migrations made simple Jonathan Perlman Favorite session: On the move, migrations made simple	Contrib2Core – WordPress hackfest! Dejan Markovic, Tom Auger, Paul Bearne, Aaron D. Campbell, Ryan Welcher Favorite session: Contrib2Core – WordPress hackfest!	Please Design Responsively tracy apps Favorite session: Please Design Responsively	API Simple Talk Hector Jarquin and Ting Yang Favorite session: API Simple Talk
3:45 pm	Sunday Afternoon Break 2
4:00 pm	Developers and WordPress Monetisation (Panel) Andy McIlwain, Brent Kobayashi, Dejan Markovic, Benjamin Moody Favorite session: Developers and WordPress Monetisation (Panel)	Image Grid Plugins Jacques B Surveyer Favorite session: Image Grid Plugins	Contrib2Core Continues (drop-ins welcome!) Favorite session: Contrib2Core Continues (drop-ins welcome!)	How to Rank Your WordPress Site at the Top of Google Allan Pollett Favorite session: How to Rank Your WordPress Site at the Top of Google	Creating Customizer options for themes and plugins Rick Radko Favorite session: Creating Customizer options for themes and plugins

WordCamp Toronto 2015 is over. Check out the next edition!