May 15, 2019 — Everyone should be a little bit worried about security of their site, and at conferences lots of security talks focus on practical steps people can take. In this talk Tim will flip the norms and instead focus on several real examples of sites being hacked but from the attackers perspective. We will see the whole attacks from the bad actors view identifying targets, analyzing vulnerable sites, adding payload, exploiting in doing so showing how sites are infected, how some tools do prevent certain attacks and how clever and indeed not so clever bad actors can circumvent lots of hardening done.

Each step we can analyze what could have been put in place to prevent and frustrate the attack and then look at how this can be implemented on your site.

May 15, 2019 — Part of building websites is the business of providing a professional service that helps your client solve problems. But it’s easy to fall into the trap of being eager to please and being too quick to say yes, thinking we’re providing good service to our clients. When it comes to delivering said promises, the once very happy client can turn into a big scary bear that wants you for breakfast when delivery doesn’t go as they expect. Nobody likes or wants to be a big scary bear.

In this talk we’ll have a look at some techniques on how to tame the bear. We’ll talk through why it’s important to take the time to set expectations upfront and how you can avoid creating a scary bear situation. We’ll explore the balance between poking the bear aka not being afraid to push back, and stroking the bear aka saying yes.

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May 15, 2019 — Many WP users think the only way to contribute is by knowing how to code or something special in other areas, but this is not the truth. As a WordPress pro user you have more than you think and could even use that to market your business too. I will show you on my own example how I managed to help thousands to build WordPress websites and learn more.

May 15, 2019 — WordPress is a great content and blogging platform, but it also makes a fantastic development framework, easily usable for systems where your client or users may never log into the CMS itself, or even be aware its there. Let’s take a look about how – and why – you might use WordPress without ever sharing the /wp-admin/ URL.

May 15, 2019 — There’s a plugin for that but does it need to be? Whether it’s performance or conflicts having too many can cause a lot of issues; with a few examples this talk will show a couple of simple ways to remove and replace plugins with your own stripped down code fully integrated with your theme to help stop these issues from arising.

May 15, 2019 — Back in 2009 I discovered the power of WordPress. In 2012 I met the WordPress community. In 2016 I relied on the community!

Let’s have an honest discussion about the challenges of running your WordPress business. Building your own business, no matter what size, can be one of the most rewarding, satisfying and freeing experiences you’ve ever encountered. It can also be one of the most terrifying, isolating and lonely roads to take.

Having successfully started, developed and sold businesses, Dan has first hand experience of both the positive and negative impacts on his mental health.

Dan will talk candidly about some of his experiences and giving you some insight into his decision to launch the charity: WP&UP.

WP&UP supports & promotes positive mental health within the WordPress community.

May 15, 2019 — Gutenberg. It’s real, it’s happening, and it’s terrifying because you don’t know how you’re going to do everything you do today. What if I told you that for the majority of the simple tasks out there, no only will you still be able to do them, they’ll be even easier? Let me show you how with the magical, repeatable, Gutenberg block.

May 15, 2019 — This session has a look at some small tweaks that developers can make when building WordPress sites for themselves or their clients.

The first part explores using SVG images in a way that ensures that screen reader (and other AT) users can access them successfully. Then we’ll progress to some CSS techniques that are useful for improving accessibility in websites – during the development stage, for content authors, and for the benefit of your site visitors.

Where possible, I’ll be demoing some of the techniques covered.

May 15, 2019 — Mi motivación para llevar esta charla a acabo, es la cantidad de veces que he tenido que restaurar un sitios sitio web hackeado, o dañado por pérdida de información.

Es impresionante saber la poca planificación que hay al mantener, asegurar y respaldar el sitios web realizados con WordPress.

Aprovecho la oportunidad para brindar mi experiencia como profesional, de educar y concientizar la importancia de establecer un plan de recuperación de desastres.

May 15, 2019 — Inbound Marketing is the new best practice in positioning both website and social media platforms to create and convert leads. My talk will be to introduce participants to the concept of inbound marketing and share how to make use of the 4 principles of Inbound Methodology: Attract, Convert, Close and Delight when designing a website and for their business or clients.

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