December 2, 2018 — Richard is joining us to discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up web streaming from a WordPress site, including equipment, licensing issues, and adventures with Gutenberg.

Websites are now expected to be media rich as well as responsive – but how do you use WordPress to present and maintain such content, beyond embedding YouTube files? Richard will be answering this, and much much more.

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December 2, 2018 — When I started my business, in 2011, I didn’t think I needed a business plan, I only needed clients, tons of clients. Even though my title was web designer, I took every job that was asked of me: web sites, of course, but also graphics, print, social media management, training, basically anything!

In less than eight months I had to go back to work as an employee because I managed to spend way more money than I earned.

I kept doing some freelancing on the side with no direction whatsoever and finally I realised that I needed a plan. After implementing a proper business plan, I was able to recognise and concentrate on a niche market, become much more successful, raise my prices, and greatly increase my income.

It doesn’t matter what your financial goal for the year is, or what your mission for your small business is, having measurable goals and a clear strategy will allow you to do what you love and make a living out of it.

Together we will go over the basic sections of a business plan and we’ll learn a creative way to make one that represents you and your business.

December 2, 2018 — Stephen has been working with the Wordfence Site Cleaning team part-time since early 2017, Fast-forward to the middle of 2018 and he’s recently stepped back from cleaning to join the Wordfence team full time as a developer, so now it’s time for him to tell us his story.

He’ll share stories from the more memorable sites he’s cleaned, revealing his all-time favourite WordPress malwares, and the epic tale of the persistent attacker that almost thwarted them completely.

Scattered throughout will be tips and ideas to help protect your site from compromise and keep everyone (except the bad guys!) happy.

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December 2, 2018 — Toni, a self-confessed “Crazy Lady” is joining us to give us her take on a Beginners guide to WooCommerce, she’ll be covering many of the questions new-comers to WooCommerce will be asking such as How do I start?, How do I get paid?, What shipping options exist? and many many more.

Based in Harvey Bay, Toni started with her first website over 20 years ago in 1996 with nothing more than Notepad and a couple of HTML tutorials. Much more recently she’s written a training manual for a training course in WooCommerce delivered to indigenous startups by the QLD government.

December 1, 2018 — Michael, who until a few years ago was a decade-long Joomla user, is joining us to talk about the 10 things beginners forget when setting up their WordPress website. He’ll be covering common questions such as How do I speed up my website?, My images are slowing down my website, how do i fix that?, How do I SEO?, How do I get google to visit my website? and many many more.

But are these really questions that should be asked afterwards? Not having these things done at the time of creating your website can make it harder and more costly to do later on.

This talk will lightly cover the above topics, and focus on the questions that can be asked ahead of time to reduce the pain later on, such as how to choose quality hosting, themes and page builders, WordPress settings and image compression plugins, and implementing SEO the right way from the start.

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December 1, 2018 — Mandy, Australia’s ‘Fundraising Whisperer’ is joining us to tell us about the lessons she’s learnt building communities. She’ll share some of the best plugins she’s used, discuss her distaste for ‘funnel’ marketing and pressure tactics, and speak about how providing free content has made her happier and her business stronger.

Joining Mandy is her web developer, Paul Dunstone from OSE who will briefly cover the more geeky elements of customising a WordPress site to within an inch of its life. He’ll also share the pain of what it’s like to have an app addict as a client!

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December 1, 2018 — WordCamp Turku Opening Words

December 1, 2018 — Craft stunning themes using a modern WordPress development workflow. This talk will provide an overview of Sage 9 as a quick boilerplate, Boosting development speed as well as load speed, Modern integrations like Blade Template Engine, build tools/compilers etc and most of all DRY templating.

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December 1, 2018 — ¿No sabes como rentabilizar tu proyecto con WordPress? Acompáñame y repasaremos técnicas para la monetización de tu sitio, pequeño o grande. Seguramente no te vas a hacer rico pero, ¿por qué no sacar rendimiento económico a parte de tu trabajo monetizando tráfico o usuarios?

November 30, 2018 — Sam will be joining us to talk about tips, truths, and lessons learned from his 7+ career of being a professional freelancer.

Sam is a Freelance Web developer who has worked in development for over 12 years, and has freelanced for the last 7. He’s done everything from server management to front-end development, but is most happy solving ugly problems with elegant solutions.

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