May 8, 2019 — We will look at a few of the many ways Google Data Studio can help you as a WordPress user. All the examples will be made available to attendees to steal, er… use on their own sites.

How to start with free templates – Steal from the best!
How to see an overview of all your sites in one report.
Uncovering traffic mysteries on your site.
Finding your audience questions from Search Console in 5 minutes.

The plan is to have plenty of time for audience questions also.

May 7, 2019 — SSH is a powerful tool that gives us an easy way to deploy our code and access to our remote server.

We will have a simplified overview of how it works and how to set it up.

After we got familiar with SSH, we’ll have a look at how we can benefit from using SSH and some WordPress tool that use it.

May 7, 2019 — Open source matters to the future of design. It enables more people to have access to design. Open source matters to the future of us all. Designing in open source isn’t always easy and in this talk I’ll draw on my background along with experiences in the WordPress project. What are the challenges and why does it matter to have design in open source? How can we create spaces that encourage design thinking? How can we all unite in an open source future?

May 7, 2019 — Providing Better Customer Support is very crucial in WordPress Business. In this session, we will discuss some smart practices to respond quickly while reducing the support tickets and ways to handle refund tickets and get good reviews at the same time. We will also discuss some WordPress Support Forum Tricks.

May 7, 2019 — React and WordPress is this hot couple that is the talk of every conference and meetup. This talk takes the audience through a journey. A journey from wanting to build a simple SPA (Single Page Application) using React and WordPress REST API to actually building one. Along the journey, we will learn some basic React concepts and common pitfalls.

May 7, 2019 — If you haven’t jumped in yet, this quick presentation will teach you the basics of Gutenberg block creation.
Learn how blocks can improve workflows for you and your customers, and start taking advantage of everything the new WordPress editor has to offer.

May 7, 2019 — Good software engineers can be found anywhere, and embracing remote working enables you to tap into that global pool. But just because you *can*… does that mean you *should*? In this talk, I’ll go through some dos and don’ts, talk about some pitfalls, and hopefully guide you towards doing remote the right way. I’ll include some stories that draw on my experience working in technical recruitment for clients who have been on both sides of the do/don’t scale, as well as Automattic’s decade-plus experience as a fully-distributed company.

May 7, 2019 — Colors and Typography play vital roles in modern web design and have a great impact on the audience. The Color, font, and text all come together to make the brand distinct in the eyes of the user. Informed decision of color palette and typefaces for a website transforms into faster brands acceptance.

May 7, 2019 — The WordPress community is comprised of people and their relationships with one another and the open source CMS itself. Combined we are a global neighborhood, complete with volunteers, freelancers, employees, a marketplace, and a multitude of opportunities; opportunities for relationships, working, learning, teaching, sharing, volunteering, and more.
At its foundation, its most fundamental part, this neighborhood is built by every individual member. We are each an integral part of this growing, morphing phenomenon, so it is up to us to ensure that it is a robust living organism.
How do we do that?

For Myself: by making sure I stay healthy both physically and emotionally
For You: by checking in on my friends and coworkers to help where needed
For Us: by contributing to the community in thoughtful and deliberate ways

This talk will share ideas to keep us all healthy, learning, and flourishing, for the betterment of ourselves, each other, and the WordPress neighborhood.

May 7, 2019 — What is Travis CI and how is it used to automate the developer workflow and save a lot of time.