December 28, 2018 — Join us for an open-ended question and answer session with a panel of our speakers and WordCamp Toronto organizers, moderated by Robin Macrae. The one topic we will discuss is adoption strategies for individuals, business and enterprises and other practical issues in the changes brought by Gutenberg.
Come and tell us whether you’re stressed, elated and/or resigned and we’ll do our best to put Gutenberg into perspective for you.

December 27, 2018 — A department within a state government recently launched a new site on WordPress, using Gutenberg as the primary editor.
This talk will showcase some of ways Gutenberg was used to provide a custom editing experience that would have been much more difficult without Gutenberg. We’ll also look at how using GraphQL, via the WPGraphQL plugin, with Gutenberg led to performance and developer experience enhancements while delivering custom blocks.
After this talk, developers and users of WordPress should feel excited about the possibilities of Gutenberg, but also have realistic caution about jumping all-in with the new editor and be aware of some real pain points, but also some proposed solutions and workarounds to said pain points.

December 27, 2018 — Creating content to serve your target market takes up a significant amount of your or your team’s time. Content curation is a strategy that gives you lots of fresh ideas to share on your site without requiring a lot of writing. Curating thought leaders within your niche will both provide value to your community and initiate great industry relationships at the same time. It’s the most amazing win-win content activity that anyone can get started with in a few minutes time.

December 27, 2018 — You’re not always sitting in front of your computer when inspiration strikes. Sometimes you need to write a post in a place that isn’t in front of your desk – like on a train, in your car, or just from your living room couch. We always have our mobile phones or tablets with us it seems – so why not use the WordPress mobile apps to run your site?

WordPress for Android and iOS provides a great experience for site admins for running your site. The editor is fully featured as well for short and long form posts! In this talk you’ll get a really good overview of the capabilities of the mobile apps so you can see just how easy it is to be mobile and still in control of your site.

December 27, 2018 — A mother with a wailing baby in her arms – maybe the baby has an ear infection. A trainer at the rec center who is overwhelmed with requests for team building exercises. A gifted data scientist who just. needs. to. focus. An executive with the future of a three billion dollar company on his shoulders.

These are all people who use the intranet web site my team builds. The code we write affects their daily lives, their work, their health, and the company we all work for.

The developer to end user relationship is very direct. We are in the perfect position to advocate for site users, and ensure that the site we build is compassionate in its design, because we write the code. We are the gatekeepers, and we have a both a responsibility and an opportunity to help, and not harm, the users of our site.

December 27, 2018 — State of the Word QandA

December 27, 2018 — State of the Word

WordCamp US 2018

December 27, 2018 — Small companies can gain a lot from strategic partnerships with larger organisations, and this is also true in the WordPress space. But if you run a small company or agency and your cold emails and pitches aren’t even getting a reply, it might be time to review your approach. As Key Partnership Manager at SiteGround, I develop relations with large companies, from which I want something, and I also deal with small WordPress business owners that want something from me. The truth is, if I receive an email that is too vague or requires too much follow up, the partnership becomes less attractive. Luckily, there is a right way to do this. In this talk, I’ll share my strategy for writing a winning partnership proposal that will get you noticed and yield the best results. I’ll share practical tips and guidelines to help companies of any size articulate the benefits of a partnership for both sides and increase the success of the collaboration.

December 25, 2018 — In this talk John will introduce you to Git Bisect and show you real-world use cases. He’ll cover using it to identify the cause of regressions, how it can save you time, and how to hook it up to automated testing.

December 25, 2018 — This talk will help you get started on your journey to modern JavaScript WordPress development by sharing resources, tips and lessons learned from developing custom WordPress blocks.