WordCamp LA 2013 Sept 21 & 22

Import Your XML or CSV File to WordPress

WP All Import is simply a magical piece of WordPress-ery. Yeah, MAGICAL!! Don’t believe me? Are you made of magic? Last time I checked, the answer is NO!! However, WP All Import is made of magic!

It’s a wonderful plugin that does so much, so well that it’s hard to list all of the features. But I’ll tell you this, I was able to import the content of a pair of websites running the ModX CMS into a WordPress install in less than 30 minutes. No joke! Whether your aim is to import content from one site WordPress, or import a CSV file full of products from an online catalog WP All Import is your tool, my friend.

If you have an xml feed, or csv file you can get at the data and get it into the WordPress. The potential use cases for WP All Import are as endless as the sea of compliments I get about my hair and questions as to why it’s so nice. Importing RSS feeds from other sites, at scheduled intervals, scraping data from local directories to update your WordPress powered sites, importing data from complex CMS platforms… These are just a few ways in which you can put WP All Import to use for you. Definitely check out their site and get your learn on and pick up this fine plugin. You’ll thank me later!

The guys behind WP All Import are true supporters an champions in the WordPress community and we thank them for getting involved and helping bring WordCamp Los Angeles to the SoCal masses.

Thank you for your support!

Banner Management for WordPress. Simplified.

Alright kids, gather ’round the campfire and listen to a tale by Grand-Pappy McVasquez. Long, long ago there was this fella, possessed of awesome locks of Ruby Red Ringlets that were the envy of all who looked upon it. He ran a number of websites and on a few he looked to monetize the traffic. This was no small feat, you see. He fuddled around with HTML, CSS and hilarity ensued inspite of his amazing hair; he was the laughing stock of the community for his inability to wrangle CSS effectively.

Positioning Ad banners is a pain. It really is. Why writes lines of CSS to properly position these banner ads when you don’t have to? Don’t you have better things to do with your time!? Floating banner ads and getting it right will seriously harsh your vibe as your dreams of a 4 hour work week go down the drain…

I have a solution for you, though. The AdSanity Plugin. Yep. Not only are the developers of this plugin sponsoring our event, but they’ve actually made a plugin that just works. I use it on a few different sites and it works likes a charm. Positions groups of ads, or single ads and allows you to do it over a period of time. There’s hooks, there’s filters, the ads are custom post types, so you could even sell banner ad space using 3rd party plugins that create custom post types! You can use them in widgets, within your theme’s template files, or as a shortcode. ADS EVERYWHERE!!! When you start using this plugin, you’ll hear a magical voice shout out “ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!!!!” (not really). It’s downright silly, folks! If you’re not using this plugin you’re just not as cool as the kid sitting next to you who is. AdSanity makes life easier because it does one thing 100% better than anything else on the market.

We’re simply elated to be sponsored by such a fine product as AdSanity and give the developers our thanks for helping make WordCamp LA happen!

Thanks so much!

Our huge portfolio of WordPress themes covers most niches. All powered by our versatile WooFramework you get a beautiful site with incredible flexibility. The perfect building block for designers and developers.

Do these guys even need an intro? WooThemes is the premier WordPress theme and e-commerce shop to rule them all. Their hi-quality themes can be found almost anywhere you turn, online, anymore; they’re e-commerce plugin (WooCommerce) has over ONE MILLION downloads! Crazy, right? But I’m not surprised, every e-commerce project I do now uses WooCommerce.

The guys at WooThemes are great, the help out the community and provide excellent support with their products, definitely check out their themes and WooCommerce extensions!

We’d like to thank our friends over at WooThemes for helping out our WordCamp, in LA, this year! Your sponsorship contributions give so much to this community out there. We definitely appreciate your generosity!

Thank YOU!

Use DesktopServer to safely explore, test, and manage multiple projects.

There are few products I love more than ServerPress’s DesktopServer product. No lie. If you do WordPress development on a daily basis and you’re NOT using DesktopServer you’re simply losing time! Yep. I just said that. Desktop Server blows other local web server programs out of the water on features alone. I use this program every single day ending in ‘y’ and on some days ending in ‘x’ and I’m not even sure that last bit makes any sense! The short of it is, you need this if you develop a lot in WordPress.

The guys over at ServerPress are heavily active in the community and are great people that I am fortunate to know on a personal level. So please join me in welcoming and thanking the ServerPress team as a WordCamp LA 2013 sponsor! We can’t do this without the support of our community and awesome sponsors.

Thank YOU!

QUIT WORRYING AND LET US RUN WORDPRESS FOR YOU

WP Engine is pretty rad. That’s no surprise. I use them, personally, for a large number of sites I manage day to day. They handle sites for me from less than 100 hits a day to over 200k in a month. These guys mean business.

WP Engine is the industry standard-bearer for managed WordPress hosting. Performance and ease of use as well as their back end account managed work together to form their “secret sauce” of awesomeness. We couldn’t be happier to have WP Engine on board as a sponsor and applaud their efforts in the greater WordPress community. Join me in a hearty “thank you” to WP Engine for helping make WordCamp LA 2013 possible!

“At a time when the world is moving ever so quickly, the world is also ever so impatient. Studies show that your customers will not wait for long website load times which proves that site acceleration is key to you business’ financial success.”

If you’ve been working in the web and you haven’t heard of MaxCDN then you might just be living under a rock. MaxCDN is synonymous with speed and performance. In this day and age, every millisecond counts with search engines; you can’t afford to be slow.

We incredibly stoked to have MaxCDN on board as a sponsor for WordCamp LA 2013!! We want to say “thanks” to the entire MaxCDN/NetDNA team. Your support means so much to us!