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WordPress Server Transfers – Server to Server and .com to Self Hosted (.org)

It’s almost inevitable that you’ll one day need to transfer your WordPress site from one server to another. Our goal in this session is to explain the basics of a server transfer so that you’ll have enough confidence to never … Continue reading WordPress Server Transfers – Server to Server and .com to Self Hosted (.org)

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170 Radio Stations: WordPress at Scale

We launched over 170 sites in 4 months starting from scratch. In this session, I will give an overview of what’s involved in producing and launching a high traffic (many million uniques per month) network of WordPress blogs. Architecting for … Continue reading 170 Radio Stations: WordPress at Scale

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Anatomy of a high volume, cloud-based WordPress architecture

This talk outlines our current Amazon Web Services-hosted environment, how and why we moved from our self-managed data center to the cloud, the problems we encountered and how we overcame them.

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Theming for the Massses

This talk will be a continuation of the talk I gave at WordCamp Seattle earlier this year. It focuses on my experience creating a theme for public release in the official WordPress Theme directory. The original presentation can be viewed … Continue reading Theming for the Massses

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