November 18, 2019 — Scores don’t matter. GTMetrix/Webpagetest, Certain things cant be optimized (3rd party scripts). What is important is TTFB and first contentful paint. Fully loaded time is not that important if you are running lots of tracking scripts. (provided they are async).
If using well-developed plugins, the plugin counts don’t really matter.
Only issues with using lots of plugins are the potential increase of plugin conflicts, and plugins to maintain.

What matters is your site converts. Nothing else matters if your super fast site doesn’t convert.

November 18, 2019 — Mobile devices provide an extraordinary opportunity to deliver a superior mobile experience to every user, particularly around accessibility and offline/poor connectivity support. The WordPress Mobile Apps, developed as open source, leverage that opportunity to bring the best WordPress experience on the road.

This talk, by one of the developers involved in the development of the WordPress Mobile Apps, will contain first hand information on the way we develop and test them to make sure that we provide the experience that our users expect, and how anyone can contribute to the effort, either coding, testing, contributing designs or documentation.

November 18, 2019 — Ahora que la mayoría de sitios y plugins han sido preparados para funcionar con Gutenberg, es momento de cambiar nuestra visión hacia las nuevas formas que tenemos disponibles para proveer una mejor experiencia al usuario. En esta charla mostraré ejemplos y consejos para aprovechar el editor al máximo.

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November 18, 2019 — This will talk will cover the following keypoints about WordPress Multisite:
– The Basics: What is WordPress Multisite?
– The Pre-requisite: When do i need and How do i set-up a WordPress Multisite
– The Verdict: Pros and Cons of having a WordPress Multisite set-up
– The Action: Demo to set-up a WordPress Multisite

November 18, 2019 — A story of learning and failing and learning more and succeeding with building websites, delving into the world of Pay Per Click advertising, and all the analytics that go with it.
The first time a website went down and how I handled it.
My first online shop and learning how to build it.
The world of free vs paid themes and my experiences with it (hint: I am leaning towards free).
The importance of persistent and consistent action and monitoring in Google Ads campaigns in order to improve their performance.
Highlighting the fact that I’m not a “web developer” (not even a WordPress developer), but I am still able to teach myself how to fully craft a functional website, and get better and better at it as a “WordPress website creator”. I like to think of myself as a technology consultant. Jack of all trades, Master of some. I also still like my day job and the Microsoft products I work with there, hence not going full time into the side hustle. In fact, I am a proponent of having a full-time gig that funds the majority of my needs, and having side hustles and personal passion projects, as many as I please, purely for the fun of it.
Lastly, a short checklist of things I do when I first create any WordPress website, including some particular settings I prefer, as well as the few plugins that I install on every single site (Wordfence, YoastSEO).

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November 18, 2019 — In this workshop, we’ll be looking at tweaking a homepage with the newest CSS3 trends. We’ll also focus on using custom classes for blocks that you want to stand out. Contrary to the other Extreme Makeover, we cannot guarantee tears of joy.

This is a workshop and we’ll all be using the same homepage so please make sure you have Stylus (browser extension for Opera, Firefox or Chrome) installed.

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November 18, 2019 — In any industry, you have peers. In WordPress, you have community. So what does community mean? Why is it important to be part of a community? How do you become part of the community when you’re new? And how can we have mentorship from the seasoned community members?

In this talk, I’ll discuss how we can include others. How new people can observe. How active members can include. And how we can have a truly diverse and and accepting culture — not just an inclusive label.

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November 18, 2019 — Analizaremos diez cosas que puedes hacer para acelerar su sitio, tanto para desarrolladores como para propietarios de tiendas.

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November 18, 2019 — “WooCommerce va bene per ecommerce fino a massimo X prodotti”, “WooCommerce non è sicuro”, “WooCommerce non può gestire traffico elevato”
Quante volte hai sentito almeno una di queste affermazioni?
Al termine dello speech sarai in grado di diffondere la verità sull’argomento e rispondere adeguatamente a questa e ad altre affermazioni infondate.

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November 18, 2019