Our next “Big Cottonwood” sponsor is MOJO Marketplace. They offer WordPress themes, services and one-click installs. One of the advantages of MOJO Marketplace is direct integration with many of the world’s leading hosting providers like Bluehost and HostGator. These providers trust MOJO Marketplace, making it a great place for developers to sell their products. They not only sponsor our WordCamp but help the community year-round by hosting the WPSLC meetup.

Find Your Voice, Find Your Audience

If you own a website you likely want to be remembered. But finding the balance between getting found and sounding human seems impossible. In this session, explore what it means to sound like yourself on your blog without sacrificing your visibility online.

Missy Oveson is a blog coach and writer. While not helping bloggers take control of their blog, she spends her time in fairy tales, young adult novels, and twitter. Check her out at www.missybunnie.com.

Our First “Big Cottonwood” sponsor is WP Site Care. WP Site Care provides backup, security, performance improvements and support. They are also entering the WordPress theme space with their new product Flagship. They are bridging the gap between developers, users and their hosts. Working with WP Site Care is an investment for the future of your WordPress site. When it came to this years WordCamp, WP Site Care immediately expressed their interest to support the local community and our event.

Best practices in JavaScript and jQuery for WordPress

We’ll cover a range of common JS/jQuery pitfalls and best practices, including variable/function declaration and scope, closures, caching, naming conventions, and code linting. Whether you’re looking to get familiar with JavaScript in preparation for using the new WordPress JSON REST API (to be released in early 2015), or if you’re just starting out with front-end jQuery, this talk will provide you with some helpful tips and useful links for further learning.

Vasken has been working with WordPress professionally since 2007. Most recently, at 10up, a leading WordPress full-service design and development agency, as VP of Strategic Engineering. His experience with WordPress ranges from custom integrations with higher education user management systems to building sites for some of the world’s largest publishers and corporations.

Additionally you can find him

On Twitter : @vaskenhauri
Company Website: 10up
Blog: neverblog.net

Why Hacking WordPress Search Isn’t Some Big Scary Thing

Developers can be a stubborn lot. We like to focus on the things we know really well, and things we don’t deal with as often can be seen as “hard”. Search is one of those things that gets written off a lot, few devs I know will deal with it (voluntarily), and almost everyone will tell you “WordPress search sucks.” In this presentation you will learn that not only do you know more about how search works than you thought you did, but maybe give you a better understanding of how WordPress works as a whole, as well as showing you some cool tricks that you can do with WordPress search.

Chris Reynolds is a WordPress developer for WebDevStudios and has been a freelance web designer and developer specializing in WordPress since 2007. He has submitted plugins and themes to WordPress.org and is the author of numerous WordPress-centric online training courses for Pluralsight. When he’s not writing code or making videos, he makes electronic music and cheers for Real Salt Lake.

A huge thanks to Code Poet and DreamHost for all of their support in making our event the fantastic WordCamp that it is! We are counting down the days, and looking forward to seeing you all there.

Code Poet’s aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. They sponsor every WordCamp in the whole world as a WordCamp Champion, and we’re so very grateful for their support of this and every other WordCamp.

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites, and apps hosted. They sponsor all WordCamps in the US and Canada, including (and most importantly?) this one. We just can’t thank them enough.

WordCamps wouldn’t be possible without the sponsorship of companies who care about WordPress, and we are lucky to be supported by some great companies.

Did you know that Bluehost powers over one million WordPress sites? And did you know they sponsor every WordCamp in the whole entire world? Bluehost was the first company to sign on as multi-event sponsor when we debuted the program in March of 2013, and we’re so very grateful for their continuing support of WordCamp and the greater WordPress community.

We are happy to announce that the Hotel Monaco has offered our attendees a pretty great discount at their hotel. They are offering 25% off any room. Their hotel is within walking distance(half mile) from the event. All you have to do is go to their website and use the code “FFR” in the group code field during your reservation.

Hey all you WordCampers! Our tickets are now on sale!

We are currently reviewing speaker applications but will have a schedule up as soon as possible. We are planning on having two tracks: User and Developer. In addition to these tracks we are going to be having a support room where you can take your WordPress questions or problems and have them answered. There will be plenty of great hallway discussions as well. Snacks and lunch will also be provided.

Please note the lower cost tickets than previous years — this is to help offset the cost of parking. There is some free parking at the venue however most people will probably park in the parking garage across the street.

Buy Your Tickets Now!

With dates for WCSLC confirmed. We are now looking for great speakers. If you have the knowledge and would like to share, submit your application here.

We are looking for Speakers to present on one of two tracks: User or Developer. If you are not sure which audience will be better for your presentation. Don’t hesitate to submit and we will find the best place in the schedule for you.

Attendees, if you are interested in hearing a specific topic and are not willing to present on said topic. Please Contact Us and request a topic and we will try to find a speaker for the topic.