April 23, 2019 — Tips and techniques that can dramatically increase your site performance:

• Why speed matters.
• How you can measure it – Tools to measure your page speed.
• Ways to improve it – Best practices for optimisation.
• I’ll also discuss Google – Mobile Page Speed Update 2018 and if you should AMP-lify your web site.

April 23, 2019 — The practice of branding can be traced back to 50.000 years ago. The concept of marketing branding to 4000 BC.

And with the (r)evolution brought forth by Internet and Social Media, today we are all brands‚ and as such, we all need to be aware of how a brand is best managed.

This talk is a primer on the origin and the evolution of the concept of branding, so to better understand and care for our brand(s), regardless of their being a company, a product or a personal one.

The talk will highlight key aspects of quality branding, and serve as a theoretical introduction for the workshop where I will teach the basics for building, tending and grooming a brand.

April 23, 2019 — Abha Thakor, from Non Stop Business Support, will present a short overview of things to consider when working with images on the web.

April 23, 2019 — We use the term edge cases, it’s time to stop using that and switch to saying stress cases.

It’s time to stop dismissing and make sure those stress cases are exactly what we do focus on creating the experiences for.

By building for the stress cases, we create a better experience for everyone.

April 23, 2019 — WordPress is known to be a powerful and versatile tool for rapid proof-of-concept web app development.

During this WordCamp presentation, we will investigate why WordPress may be the best tool to help create your next web app. We will look at different examples of business cases where WordPress is the best option, and also where it falls short. I will illustrate how I have solved the most common UI patterns required by web apps using plugins, web resources and occasionally code.

We will walk through one of the apps I’ve built from idea to development to production to see the patterns in action. Finally, I share other considerations from my experience like deployment, syncing dev environments, AJAX, the REST API and iterating on feedback.

After the presentation, the audience will have a better understanding of WordPress for web app development. They will be ready to build a minimum viable product (MVP) web app on top of WordPress even if they have limited coding experience.

April 23, 2019 — When looking at how small WordPress plugins and themes businesses operate, only a small handful of them takes advantage of SEO to grow their business.

It’s tricky though because when you’ve got other things to worry about in your business, it’s not a surprise that SEO is not a major priority. In fact, it can be overwhelming to find out what you need to do…even for me, and I do it for a living.

But can you really grow your business with zero or little traffic? Especially if you are providing plugins and themes, which requires online engagements?

Whether you are new and scaling your business, or you are looking to boost your existing business, it’s time to look at how SEO can be a major investment in your business.

In this talk, we will look at the essential ways you can do that with the help of some actionable tips and strategy which you can apply today.

April 23, 2019 — Sure you think you’re going to be around forever, but one day, somehow, you will not be working on that website.

How do you make life easier for your clients, your colleagues, your replacements, and yourself?

Discover the power of documentation!

April 23, 2019 — If you have an idea for a blog or a website, don’t hesitate and start it.

WordPress has the features to make it an easy task for you.

Hear from a person with no web experience who has been running their own website for the past 6 months.

April 23, 2019 — Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a concept related to user experience especially for mobile users, where the focus is to deliver websites that are Reliable, Fast and Engaging.

PWA became so popular the past year but how can we apply it to our WordPress projects?

On this technical presentation, We are going to apply step-by-step features as home screen button, service worker, cache API and accessing native features as a native APP in a real project.

April 22, 2019 — “Cómo desarrollar un tema para WordPress, bien desde cero o bien creando un tema hijo”. Nati hará un recorrido por los elementos necesarios e imprescindibles para crear nuestro propio Theme para WordPress y de la importancia de crear un Child Theme y como hacerlo, pero tranquilos, que no va a ser una ponencia muy técnica, así que si os apetece dar ese “paso adelante” no os la perdáis.