diff --git a/pinaxcon/settings.py b/pinaxcon/settings.py
index ae6999e10b61ff55b5196e923fc6d935309d2d8b..83eabe8850b51ea4fc762c71cfe717285b7362e4 100644
--- a/pinaxcon/settings.py
+++ b/pinaxcon/settings.py
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@ admin_email = os.environ.get("DJANGO_ADMIN_EMAIL", None)
 if admin_email is not None:
     ADMINS = [("Webmaster", admin_email)]
 
-
-# Use SSLRedirectMiddleware
-SSL_ON = os.environ.get("DJANGO_SSL_ON", True)
-SSL_ALWAYS = os.environ.get("DJANGO_SSL_ALWAYS", False)
-
 # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
 # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
 LANGUAGE_CODE = "en-us"
@@ -98,13 +93,6 @@ STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
     "compressor.finders.CompressorFinder",
 ]
 
-
-# Amazon S3 setup
-DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = os.environ.get("DJANGO_DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE", 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage') # noqa
-AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = os.environ.get("DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID", None)
-AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = os.environ.get("DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY", None)
-AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = os.environ.get("DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME", None)
-
 try:
     _dynamic_storage_root = os.environ['DJANGO_DYNAMIC_STORAGE_ROOT']
 except KeyError:
@@ -140,7 +128,6 @@ TEMPLATES = [
                 "account.context_processors.account",
                 "pinax_theme_bootstrap.context_processors.theme",
                 "symposion.reviews.context_processors.reviews",
-                "sekizai.context_processors.sekizai",
             ],
         },
     },
@@ -157,9 +144,6 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
     "django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware",
     "reversion.middleware.RevisionMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware",
-    "ssl_redirect.middleware.SSLRedirectMiddleware",
-    "pinaxcon.middleware.CanonicalHostMiddleware",
-    "pinaxcon.middleware.UnprependWWWMiddleware",
     "pinaxcon.monkey_patch.MonkeyPatchMiddleware",
 ]
 
@@ -186,7 +170,6 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "easy_thumbnails",
     "taggit",
     "reversion",
-    "metron",
     "sitetree",
     "pinax.boxes",
     "pinax.eventlog",
@@ -220,21 +203,6 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "pinaxcon.proposals",
     "pinaxcon.registrasion",
 
-    #testing
-    "django_nose",
-
-    # wiki
-    'django.contrib.humanize',
-    'django_nyt',
-    'mptt',
-    'sekizai',
-    #'sorl.thumbnail',
-    'wiki',
-    'wiki.plugins.attachments',
-    'wiki.plugins.notifications',
-    #'wiki.plugins.images',
-    'wiki.plugins.macros',
-
     # stylesheets and js
     'compressor',
 
@@ -344,26 +312,8 @@ ATTENDEE_PROFILE_MODEL = "pinaxcon.registrasion.models.AttendeeProfile"
 # in order to register.
 TICKET_PRODUCT_CATEGORY = 1
 
-
 INVOICE_CURRENCY = "USD"
 
-WIKI_ACCOUNT_HANDLING = False
-WIKI_ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_ALLOWED = False
-
-WIKI_ANONYMOUS_WRITE = False
-WIKI_ANONYMOUS_UPLOAD = False
-
-
-# Use nose to run all tests
-TEST_RUNNER = 'django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner'
-
-
-# Tell nose to measure coverage on the 'foo' and 'bar' apps
-NOSE_ARGS = [
-    '--with-coverage',
-    '--cover-package=registrasion.controllers,registrasion.models',
-]
-
 MARKDOWN_DEUX_STYLES = {
     "default": {
         "safe_mode": False,