June 25, 2019 — Whether you manage a large site or a small one, if you write your own code one of the most tedious parts can be getting started. This talk will show you techniques such as scaffolding tools and others to get you a fully functional WordPress plugin with unit tests, continuous integration, a local development environment and more with just a single command. It will help you stop rebuilding the wheel so you can focus on the functionality you need and can be extended to themes, libraries or whatever else you need.

June 25, 2019 — You know security is important and want your site to be secure, but what will actually help? There’s so much information to be found on securing your site, but what are the myths and what actually helps? Find out how to avoid the myths and implement real security.

June 25, 2019 — Teaching yourself how to code is difficult. Even today, after working as a professional front-end developer for 6 years, I’m still struggling to keep up to be able to create what I want. In this talk, let me take you by the hand and give you insight into how I took my first steps as a front-end developer. Starting off with HTML and CSS, 15 years ago, using Microsoft Frontpage. Upon today where I’m teaching myself React to build Gutenberg blocks. During this journey, I will show you how and where you can start off to become a front-end developer. I will talk about recreating examples, where to find the information you need and why asking questions can save you dozens of hours!

June 25, 2019 — An introduction to the WordPress plugin for LikeCoin that leverages the blockchain

June 25, 2019 — The new editor experience has been introduced into WordPress and folks have been able to use it to create beautiful and media-rich posts. However, most don’t realize that blocks can do much more than that.

In this talk, we’ll go over just how powerful Gutenberg blocks are and how to use them to power experiences in native apps, games and video generation.

Presentation Slides »

June 25, 2019 — Lighting Talk from WordCamp Manchester 2018. A short, 6 point introduction to Google Data Studio.

June 25, 2019 — Panel Discussion

June 25, 2019 — Whether you’re running a business or a blog – relevant, timely and remarkable content can create a magical experience for your audience.

Creating content that creates magic is a 3 step process:
1. Understanding your audience’s problems
2. Creating unique content that solves your audience’s problems
3. Putting content in front of your audience

During this talk, I’ll discuss these 3 steps with real-life examples.

June 25, 2019 — Realistic ideas of optimizing your (self hosted) WordPress website, without the slide that says move your site to a VPS

June 25, 2019 — SEO is a scary term for a lot of people, it has a sort of shady aura around it, however, not the tricks or hacks are the ones which moves the needle in the long term, common sense helps.

I would try to debunk some myths, as well give specific tips on how you can grow your traffic from search engines, based on my experience with growing two of the most popular WordPress blogs.