Archive for October, 2017

  • Jer Clarke: F******k Instant Articles: How Do They work?

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Jer Clarke

    October 6, 2017 — This talk will walk you through all the headaches iA gave me and help you avoid having them yourself while you get set up. We’ll cover the concepts behind iA, nuances of the Automattic iA for WP plugin, and how to make the most of the tools on offer in the plugin to make sure all your posts get delivered to your Facebook readers “instantly”.

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  • Kaylynne Johnson: WordPress.com VS WordPress.org: lequel choisir?

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Kaylynne Johnson

    October 6, 2017 — D’abord, c’est quoi WordPress? Comment ça marche? Quelles sont les composantes essentielles pour utiliser WordPress.org? Quelles sont les différences entre WordPress.com et WordPress.org? Comment savoir quelle solution répondra le mieux à tes besoins? Pas de panique! Viens voir ma conférence, on va démystifier ça!

    Mon atelier s’adresse principalement aux débutants, mais également aux utilisateurs intermédiaires et avancés de WordPress qui s’interrogent sur la façon dont WordPress.com peut être utilisé dans la cadre de leur pratique et dans quels cas il s’agit d’une solution envisageable.

  • Andrea Zoellner: Cinq façons d’utiliser la vidéo dans sa stratégie marketing

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Andrea Zoellner

    October 6, 2017 — Présentement, la vidéo est le médium le plus tendance en marketing. Il s’agit aussi d’un des types de contenu les plus dispendieux à créer. Dans cette présentation, je vais donner cinq exemples rapides de façons efficaces d’ajouter la vidéo à sa stratégie marketing, peu importe son budget.

  • Neha Patel: How To Determine The Effectiveness Of A Theme Before Using It

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Neha Patel

    October 6, 2017 — When it comes to choosing a theme, you have to consider many options as a site owner.

    A Good Theme can mean a lot of things, from site speed to site performance and User Interface which in turn is directly affecting your UX, website health and user engagement.

    This session is designed to give you an overview on how to determine if a theme will be effective based on a series of factors that will create an overall positive experience for your website visitors.

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  • Valérie Auclair: Rédaction SEO? Rédaction tout court!

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Valérie Auclair

    October 6, 2017 — La « rédaction SEO » provoque bien des cauchemars chez les blogueurs. Pourtant, un bon texte mène automatiquement à un bon SEO! J’explique les 4 attentes des lecteurs de blogues en les liant aux éléments de base de rédaction d’un texte. Objectifs : démystifier le méchant SEO et remettre la rédaction au cœur des préoccupations des blogueurs!

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  • Mike Dickson: All About Images

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Mike Dickson

    October 6, 2017 — This talk aims to pull back the curtain on how WordPress wrangles images behind the scenes. Topics include
    – intro to the media library
    – what formats are supported
    – where images are stored / why you should sort by date
    – what WP does with uploaded images
    – derived intermediate sizes
    – inserting images individually
    – inserting as a gallery
    – adaptive images in wp
    – what “regenerating thumbnails” does
    – questions

  • Josh Pollock: Our Hybrid Future: WordPress As Part Of The Stack

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Josh Pollock

    October 6, 2017 — WordPress has grown from blogging tool, to flexible CMS to an application platform. As the web development world embraces micro-services, how does WordPress, which is normally implemented as a monolithic solution fit in and evolve? In this talk, I will look at what makes WordPress a good choice for application development, as well as where it is lacking. To put these questions in context, this talk will be framed around a case-study of a hybrid web app, built using WordPress and other tools including VueJS, Laravel and Amazon Web Services.

  • Neha Patel: 9 SEO Health Check Points

    WordCamp Toronto 2017Speaker: Neha Patel

    October 5, 2017 — Before starting with keyword research, writing great content or even looking for links to reference your site, the most important thing is to make sure that your site has passed the health standards for SEO.

    SEO without implementing certain fundamentals will lack results.

    If certain health checks are not conducted on your WordPress site, it can completely destroy your SEO.

    In this session, we explore on what health checks and resources you need to review prior to launching your SEO efforts for your website. In addition, we go through a proper SEO execution plan that you can implement to help your WordPress site rank higher in the Search Engines.

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  • Luc Princen: Not Your Grandpas CSS Working With CSS Grid

    WordCamp Varna 2017Speaker: Luc Princen

    October 5, 2017 — CSS Grid is getting some major browser support these days. What is it? How can you apply it? and why should you care? We’ll handle these questions and look at how you can start to apply grid workflows in your WordPress themes the next day.

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  • Jeremy Josey: Add Some Sass To Your Next Project

    WordCamp Toronto 2017Speaker: Jeremy Josey

    October 5, 2017 — My intention is to introduce developers to Sass and task managers , which will make their lives a lot easier when designing their sites

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