June 4, 2018 — The idea of this talk is to provide some insight and show a possible way of using WordPress as a headless CMS and take advantage of modern JS frameworks. Part of the presentation will be focused on showing how to build a simple application using this approach and the cool possibilities of using React + WP.

June 4, 2018 — Security is important, but can also be complex, overwhelming, and downright scary. Thankfully, as a WordPress user you don’t have to do it all yourself. Find out what WordPress and the WordPress Security Team do to keep your websites safe, how you can help, and what you can do to compliment that security on your own site.

June 4, 2018 — We all want to improve our websites, but “best practice” guesses aren’t enough – we want real data to help us understand where to focus our limited time and resources. But so often, the data and stats are intimidating – and the complexity of tools like Analytics can reinforce that. In this presentation, we’ll discover seven specific ways our own data can narrow down for us where to optimise for the most impact. We’ll learn specific ways to tweak our analytics to collect more critical decision-making information and how to use that data to make SEO, conversion optimisation, page speed, and usability improvements for a more powerful, successful website.

discover what content our own visitors are begging us to write.
learn how fast our website pages really are for our actual users and which need improvement. Bonus: What if our site could notify us when important pages got slower?!
understand what parts of the site’s navigation/calls to action our visitors find helpful and which ones they ignore.
key in on the pages that would provide the greatest benefit if we worked to improve them. (And what is bounce rate really?)
and more, including teaching Analytics how to show you the important data you care about, instead of having to dig it out every time you want to check it.

Don’t miss this chance to get a better handle on how we can our own data to improve our websites!

June 4, 2018 — Joey Coleman discusses how he became one of Canada’s leading bloggers in the 00s, got hired by Macleans, and then decided to be Canada’s first local crowdfunded journalist, and how you can similarly use WordPress to be your online home instead of Facebook or another platform you don’t own.

June 4, 2018 — Go on the journey of a “mere mortal” (someone without a computer background) on how they learned WordPress, designed two business sites and opened an on-line store with Woo Commerce. Your trip guide will take you through the WP basics, identify tripping and stumbling points, direct you to where to get information, introduce you to the language of WordPress, where to “hotel” your site, and overview safety tips for your journey.

June 4, 2018 — Do you think accessibility is just about catering your site to a minority of users who have disabilities? Even though as many as 3.8 million Canadians (about 15%) have reported having a disability, find out how a11y improvements will help your site become more inviting to all users and will help to improve visitor retention.
We will also explore tools and extensions that can help you to meet WCAG 2.0.
This talk is geared toward designers and developers who are comfortable with basic vanilla JavaScript.

June 4, 2018 — So you have your website and you keep blogging and updating but no one other then your mother sees it? You need a bigger audience who are interested in not only what you have to say in your blogs but what you have to offer as a service or product. Posting on social media is not just about you it has to be a full integration with your website and marketing plan. I will share some of my favourite plugins and tools for integrating WordPress and social media together.

June 4, 2018 — This session will offer the beginner entrepreneur an outline of how to start their own WordPress website without feeling intimidated or overwhelmed. A how-to about taking your idea from your head, to having a functioning website that showcases who you are and why you do what you do. A step-by-step process that brings WordPress and your very own website into view and makes it feel achievable complete with resources, hosting information, beginner SEO, social media presence, and the Coach to get you there.

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June 3, 2018 — Difundir y formar en el uso de tecnologías como GraphQL en servicios web, como un sistema abierto y dinámico que se adapta y conecta con las necesidades.

Exploramos los conceptos de GraphQL, las estructuras de datos y WP-Graphql. Haremos demostraciones interactivas de uso de datos y conexión con WP a nivel de interfaces y de bases de datos.

June 3, 2018 — Cuando necesitas una funcionalidad adicional para tu WordPress lo habitual es buscar un plugin en los repositorios o crearte el tuyo e implementarlo en tu instalación.

El problema es que cuanto más cargues de plugins tu WordPress, corres el riesgo de hacer que tu sitio vaya más lento, aparte de tener que estar pendiente de actualizaciones, o de si el plugin esta correctamente diseñado.

En esta ponencia o taller (puedes ser en ambos formatos) veremos como con tres líneas de código podemos prescindir de 5 plugins, gracias a Google Tag Manager.