January 20, 2019 — The presentation will cover various code reading and searching techniques within the WordPress core to solve problems ranging from the simple to complex questions.

January 20, 2019 — Aside from obviously taking security a lot more seriously, the hacking changed my life. By totally re-evaluating my blogging philosophy: I resurrected my site, cooperated and collaborated with similar sites, and found a new career path.

January 20, 2019 — This talk covers strategies in Intermediate SEO.

January 19, 2019 — Providing support for WordPress users is often rewarding, but it is easy to make a mistake. Sometimes that mistake can cause a lot of pain for the user. This talk covers some real life experiences on how I messed up people’s sites, and what you can do to avoid the same problem(s).

January 19, 2019 — Gain a better understanding of how to triangulate analytics data by using Google Analytics, a CRM, and analytics from social media. As a developer, you might play a role in supporting content marketing; understanding how these pieces fit together will strengthen your position when you need to provide your expertise to building or improving your company’s or client’s digital presence.

January 19, 2019 — Quality Assurance is an important part of building a WordPress site, but it can be hard to find time to do a thorough QA review when you’re a freelancer or work in a small team. Maybe you have a pre-launch QA checklist that seems to be good enough for most projects most of the time … as long as it is followed. When lots of bugs and design flaws make their way to production, oh well. That’s what a warranty is for, right?

January 19, 2019 — A few months (okay, years) late to the party, I just finished reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo’s guide to the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing. I went through all the steps–sorting, discarding, storing–and while doing so, something occurred to me. Couldn’t I apply the same logic to a website? Better yet, an entire web presence?

January 19, 2019 — What does the future hold for WordPress, as a platform and as a community?

Will we see continued growth, from ~24% of the web to 50%? Will the REST API enable a whole new generation of powerful interfaces to content stored and managed by WordPress? Will Skynet become self-aware as a side effect of the introduction of Emoji? Will the customizer lead to a totalitarian state? Will we all join hands and sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony”?

Through the lens of various 19th, 20th, and 21st century utopias and dystopias, we’ll look at what the future has in store for WordPress, and what you can do to make it happen (or stop it).

January 18, 2019 — This talk is for you – even if you haven’t attended a contributor day before. The session will highlight benefits of contributing, provide recommendations on how to find your spot and build trust, and give insights on which traits are particularly valuable to have or pick up. You will furthermore learn how contributing to core is by far not only about writing code. The goal of this session is to prepare you for a beneficial long-term relationship as a core contributor so that you can make a significant impact over time.

January 18, 2019 — A quick talk about how Debug can be really helpful in identifying issues with your WordPress site and how it can help even beginner developers fix problems with their code.