Archive for 2019

  • Jacob Crawford: The Nuts and Bolts of Becoming a Full-Time Content Writer

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: Jacob Crawford

    October 17, 2019 — Do you have a passion for blogging? Coding? Making silly pictures, GIFs, or videos?

    You should get paid for it.

    While it isn’t quite the easy-going, picturesque career most influencers proclaim it is, freelance content creation is an incredible job that allows you to express yourself in fun, exciting ways. And Jake wants to help you get started.

    In this talk, Jacob Crawford will share how he turned his blogging hobby into a full-time career and examine the pitfalls that plague most freelancers, such as time tracking, finding clients, determining rates, and filing taxes.

  • Martin Sauter: Mehrsprachige Websites mit WordPress

    WordCamp Zurich 2019Speaker: Martin Sauter

    October 15, 2019 — WordPress unterstützt zwar die Lokalisierung von Websites, aber keine mehrsprachigen Websites. Erst Plugins wie WPML, Polylang oder MultilingualPress machen WordPress mehrsprachig – und verfolgen dabei sehr unterschiedliche Ansätze. In dieser Session geht es einerseits darum, wie man eine WordPress-Website lokalisiert (inkl. Übersetzung von Language Packs), und andererseits darum, wie sich der Übersetzungsprozess mit den verschiedenen Mehrsprachigkeits-Plugins gestaltet.

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  • Sebastiaan van der Lans: From WordPress to blockchain: The future is 100% open source

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Sebastiaan van der Lans

    October 12, 2019 — What if businesses, planet earth, and the galaxy operated with the friendliness and openness of the WordPress community? We conquered the CMS market, why not take over everything else? In this 30-minute talk and Q&A, Sebastiaan will take you on a journey to a 100% open-source world! How open source and, specifically, the WordPress community can protect against the misuse of data, unfair distribution of wealth, and censorship from closed-source monopolies such as Facebook, Uber, and AirBnB. Also included is a sneak peak at a WordPress agency and WordPress freelancer in 2030. Spoiler: It will be cool, fair, and inclusive.

  • Nahuai Badiola: ¿Quieres montar una web? Descubre cómo hacerlo con WordPress

    WordPress Meetup TerrassaSpeaker: Nahuai Badiola

    October 12, 2019 — Comenzamos las charlas de WordPress Terrassa con una presentación de qué es WordPress y cómo puedes crear tu web con esta herramienta.

    Aprenderemos los conceptos básicos, veremos ejemplos de sitios más o menos conocidos realizados con WordPress y cómo se pueden ampliar sus posibilidades a través de plugins y temas.

    Tras la presentación tendremos un rato de networking para conocernos mejor los que formamos parte de la incipiente Comunidad WordPress Terrassa.

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  • Pascal Birchler: On multilingual WordPress sites

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Pascal Birchler

    October 11, 2019 — To democratise publishing, internationalisation is one of many barriers that WordPress needs to overcome. That’s why, for 2020 and beyond, the goal is to find an official way to build multilingual websites. Until now, this was considered to be plugin territory, but what is needed to make WordPress a true polyglot? Pascal will cover the status quo of multilingual WordPress websites and share ideas — both from a technical and a user’s perspective — on how WordPress could evolve in this area over the next few years.

  • Kathryn Lang: From Blog to Book

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: Kathryn Lang

    October 11, 2019 — Take actionable steps to find the right content from your blog and then turn that content into a book manuscript. After you have your manuscript ready, we will go through the steps to query to agents and publishers or to indie publish your book.

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  • Rob Hope: Understanding What Makes a Website Landing Page Convert

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Rob Hope

    October 11, 2019 — Attention spans are diminishing online, so we need to get to the point with our landing pages. We should start by identifying the user problem, then promote just one solution in an uncluttered and direct manner. This allows the visitor to make a quick decision, rather than sending them to a bloated website with many options. Rob covers the essential things to include on your landing page while encouraging a minimalistic design approach.

  • Rahul Bansal: The art of pricing

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Rahul Bansal

    October 11, 2019 — Whether you are selling a service or product, setting the right price for a globally diverse customer base is hard. Because WordPress is used by everyone from individuals to billion-dollar corporations, setting the price is even harder. So how do you master the art of pricing? Over 10 years, Rahul performed a number of experiments and learned lessons, sometimes the hard way. He will share his wisdom, the tactics he used, and real-life experience. Yes, all in 10 minutes!

  • Aida Marie Correa: Blogging, Even If You Think You Can’t Write

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: Aida Correa-Jackson

    October 11, 2019 — Have you ever wanted to start a blog, but were too reluctant to try because you don’t think you have the proper writing skills?

    Come learn about the different types of blogs you can start that can be fun, authentic and engaging to your audience – without being “spammy” – even if you’re not a traditional blog writer.

    We’ll explore different ways you can blog that don’t require phenomenal writing skills, but will still showcase your interests, knowledge or expertise. I’ll also share additional resources that will make getting started on your very own blog even easier!

    In the end, you’ll be so inspired that you might even start your blog right away!

  • Marco Berrocal: WP Query For Beginners

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: Marco Berrocal

    October 11, 2019 — WP Query is one of the most important components of WordPress. Learn how to create custom loops in order to fetch the information you need so that you can fine tune a query of posts for your specific scenario.