January 6, 2019 — Voor grote festivals gebruikt men zware setups met veel servers, ondersteund door grote budgetten… Echter heeft slechts een beperkt percentage toegang tot de budgetten nodig om zwaar te gaan schalen. Het gros van de sites trekt namelijks slechts enkele weken of dagen per jaar een piekbelasting. En laat net die piekbelasting net te veel zijn voor je shared hostingpakket… In deze talk neem ik jullie mee op onderzoek en gaan we samen ontdekken hoeveel traffiek/bezoekers je kan accomoderen met een maandbudget van enkele tientjes. Hiervoor kijken we naar database replicatie (via het naar mijn mening zwaar ondergewaardeerde HyperDB), caching strategiëen en andere tweaks.

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January 6, 2019 — “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen” – Do you know the spiritual song? This talk will cover a personal journey how working with WordPress saved my life. My very first touch with the thing internet I had at the end of the year 2000. My third daughter was a five-month-old baby girl when we went online. My first child was born when I was at the age of 18. Now I am a mom of five children and a grandmother of a cute baby. Today I am a successful working mum and happy with my outcome. But I struggled with some issues over several years. Mostly health issues caused by stress during and after the divorce, as well as some deaths in the vicinity. Nothing severe, but not ignorable. Hey, I survived a burnout after the hard times of divorce fights. I thought… But at the end of summer 2016, I got seriously ill. Not the right place for details here, but let me tell you what happened to me to stay alive. WordPress is part of my life since its beginning. Shortly after the first release, I played a lot with this piece of Software which let us enjoy great WordCamps and making friends. Being a part of such helpful and friendly community can help to survive and overcome real-life rock bottom events. Let me share with you the lessons I’ve learned.

January 6, 2019 — In this session, we’ll be looking at bleeding edge CSS techniques and some of the cool properties that are available today or just around the corner.

Our Speaker, Keith is the co-founder of Highrise Digital – a specialist WordPress development team.

As a serial community starter, he is the founder of the WordPress London meetup group, co-founder of codeHarbour – a web meetup in Kent – and started Folkestone Cycling Club. Keith has been building WordPress sites for over eight years and has worked with agencies and clients of all size.

January 6, 2019 — WordPress draws a lot of its success from the fact that it jumps through hoops to maintain backward compatibility. Most WordPress sites can be smoothly updated to the latest version of WordPress Core with the click of a button. However, this compatibility comes at a steep price: through this absolute priority on backward compatibility, the project sets itself up to continuously accumulate technical debt in the process. The effects of this are an increasing effort to maintain the codebase and an increasing difficulty to add new features. Let’s examine how these two factors interrelate and what this means for WordPress’ current state and future evolution.

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January 6, 2019 — I will talk about a study we did comparing mouse tracking to eye tracking showing that mouse tracking is not the best way to go to base design decisions on. Furthermore, I’ll talk a bit about new online analytics approaches as eye tracking and emotion tracking as well as heart rate tracking and how they can be used to actually test UX and not just usability.

January 6, 2019 — In this talk, we’ll consider what makes WooCommerce a great platform for eCommerce sites of all kinds. We’ll compare it to other platforms and dig into why it is so flexible.

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January 6, 2019 — Desde la Comunidad de WordPress Granada queremos verte antes de que acabe el 2018. Y por eso vamos a tener una Meetups + Tapas

La charla se va a centrar en las diferencias entre WordPress .ORG y WordPress .COM
Cuales son las ventajas e inconvenientes que tiene cada una de ellas. Personalización, precio, mantenimiento, … y todas esas cosas.
Intentaremos solventar todas las dudas que siempre surgen sobre este tema.

Y luego nos tomaremos algo “fresquito” para despedir este gran año 2018, que ha sido muy importante para la Comunidad WP de Granada.

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January 6, 2019 — Whether you’re writing a client proposal or documenting the success criteria of your web presence, explicitly accounting for accessibility provides benchmarks to measure the success of your project against and establishes important expectations. This talk will discuss when, where, and why to account for accessibility in projects or an organization.

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January 5, 2019 — Understanding your users’ behavior will help you improve the user experience of your site or product as well as how you market to new users. In this talk, you will learn how to use different types of surveys to learn about your users. We will discuss:

Using surveys to segment your audience
Creating survey questions without question bias
User research surveys
Post-sale surveys
Experience surveys
When to survey your audience and users
and more…

When you walk away from this talk, you will have the tools and resources needed to begin understanding your users and using that data to improve your site or product.

January 5, 2019 — I will explain what GDPR is, how it will affect businesses and the steps to ensure evidence of compliance.

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