WordCamp New York City 2009

November 14–15, 2009
...was awesome!

WordCampNYC brought together the New York community of WordPress-loving bloggers and developers.

With over 50 speakers, 8 session tracks, and 2 days of pure WordPress awesome, this was one of the largest WordCamps ever!

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Lightning Round Speakers

A few people have asked that I publish the names of the lightning round speakers from Sunday afternoon at mason Hall. I guess they were a little too lightning fast when they introduced themselves! Here’s the list:
Round 1
Andy Peatling: Intro to BuddyPress
John Hawkins: Canonical Plugins
Lin Chen: Harvard Gazette (CMS Use)
Jeremy Clarke: Using IDE
Scott Kingsley Clark: [...]

Fifty Sites, Ten Months, One WordPress CMS

Want to find out how to take WordPress beyond blogging and use it to publish a full-fledged, media-rich website?
Dan Goldman and Jamie Trowbridge discussed how WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in NYC) and Tierra Innovation, a leading strategy, design and technology firm based in NYC, collaborated to customize WordPress Multi-User as a CMS [...]

Theme/Plugin Competition Finalists

These teams will be on stage at Mason Hall today to get their entries judged:
Themes
1. A fork of the Thematic Framework (by Ian Stewart) and an original child theme.
- Daisy Olsen http://wpmama.com/ (Metro NYC)
- Ron Rennick http://ronandandrea.com/ (New Brunswick, Canada)
2. Italic Smile. This theme helps travelers or photographers easily create a site to share their [...]

Vote for your favorites!

We have a chunk of time tomorrow at Mason Hall for lightning sessions from today’s most popular speakers. Want to nominate a speaker you thought was awesome, or one you were super sad to have missed? Let us know in the comments who you want to see tomorrow.

Writing secure plugins

WordPress plugins are infinitely powerful. This power makes WordPress great, but it also gives plugin developers the ability to shoot themselves (and the users of their plugins) in the foot. This technical and code-heavy presentation will teach plugin developers the skills they need to write plugins that will never be a security liability to their [...]

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