WordPress security & sanitation for beginners

Using WordPress and plugins can greatly increase productivity by allowing multiple actions to be completed at once, such as automatically posting updates to multiple social media sites with one plugin for only $12. There are thousands of plugins that can help do more with less time spent by searching online for the needed plugin and testing different options until the right fit is found, helping automate more website tasks.

JavaScript is arguably the most important language in the world. It comes included in nearly every desktop and mobile browser. It powers the client-side of apps like Facebook and GMail. It is the language of choice for mobile development environments like Apccelerator's Titanium and Apache's Cordova (aka Adobe's PhoneGap). It is even on the server now in Node.js. Yet when programmer's run into performance issue with JavaScript their first inclination is to blame its interpreted nature, not realizing that simple changes in the structure of their code can result in sometimes significant improvements in performance. In this session I will show five quick changes you can make to your JavaScript code to improve its performance and explain why they work.

1) The document discusses high-performance JavaScript and describes how the speaker's company, Plaxo, almost failed to launch their product because it was too slow. 2) It presents a mantra for high-performance JavaScript: be lazy, be responsive, be pragmatic, be vigilant. 3) Some techniques discussed include writing less code, loading JavaScript on demand, drawing UI late, yielding to keep the interface responsive, and profiling relentlessly.

1. The document discusses speed and security as the active and passive components of a WordPress site. It provides tips to optimize speed through good hosting, CDNs, minification, and caching. 2. For security, it recommends prevention through regular backups, security plugins, and hardening measures. Common vulnerabilities include outdated plugins/themes and lack of security updates or measures. 3. Testing tools like GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights can evaluate page speed, but their recommendations shouldn't always be followed. Ignoring site speed can lead to abandonment issues.

A WordPress 101 on plugins you might want to use when you first set up WordPress... works for most niche. WordCamp Kansas City 2014.

Using a Joostrap template, Philip will be explaining & demoing how you wire frame a website right in your browser and why it will save you load's of time. There are no fancy plugins here! This is wire framing for your client, built directly in your browser & saving you untold hours messing around in other software. It is so hard sometimes, trying to get across to a client with a few drawings how the functionality of something could work. Wire framing directly in the browser gives your client a working wireframe/prototype where they can interact with links, pages & concepts. Not only that, but after client approval, you just have to style your working wireframe/prototype or switch to the template that is using the same module positions... It's a win win situation!