***We will have pizza and it will be here at 7:00pm.  Networking will be from 7:00pm-7:30pm and then we will start opening remarks and then the talks.

This month's pizza is sponsored by 10up LLC who is a leading web agency focused almost exclusively on WordPress. Our clients  range from small businesses hosted on affordable shared web hosting to WordPress.com VIP clients like TechCrunch and Universal Sports. We're always looking for new and engaging projects. A distributed shop with 8 full time employees around the country, 10up is also always looking for new talent to join our team. Work from anywhere in the country with amazing developers, participate conferences, and build amazing sites with WordPress. We're hiring WordPress developers and a Marketing Coordinator.***

Session 1 for Developers:

What Would Core Do? Extending with Consistency & Classiness

by Jake Goldman (@jakemgold)

Most complex WordPress plug-ins and themes need to add new features to WordPress administration, from special post meta boxes, to new widgets, to whole new administrative options and pages. When you build your administrative extensions, do you stop and ask "WWCD" - what would core do? Do you really need a whole new options screen for two new options? Does your theme options page feel like it could have shipped with WordPress? Can your users tell where WordPress stops and your customizations begin? This session blends conceptual strategies for improving our plug-ins and themes with some practical coding tips and techniques.

Jake Goldman is the owner of 10up LLC, a web agency focused on awesome WordPress implementations. At 10up, Jake works on exciting and wide ranging WordPress projects, like TechCrunch, 9to5 Mac, Hip2Save (the official deal blog of NBC’s Today Show), and Trulia. Jake is a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine, teaches WordPress at Boston University, and has authored over a dozen highly rated WordPress plug-ins. Jake founded the WordPress Providence meet up, and has spoken at WordCamps around the country, including Boston, New York, Mid-Altantic, Chicago, and Miami.

Session 2 for Beginners:

Design, UX, Content Strategy and SEO

by Annie Smidt (@anniesmidt)

Learn about the intersections of design, content strategy, user experience (UX) and search engine optimization (SEO) that you can use to make your WordPress sites more compelling, professional and effective (not to mention looking good). I'll be talking about both big picture ideas about the disciplines in the title and some concrete, non-coding ways to bring these ideas to your WordPress sites.

Annie Smidt is the owner and creative director of Durable Creative. Durable does: branding, design, web design/dev, and crazy projects. Annie has been doing this professionally for about 17 years — and before that, she just did the crazy projects part.