Archive for 2020

  • Neha Patel: 404 Pages Are Inevitable, So Make The Most Out Of Them

    WordCamp Orlando 2017Speaker: Neha Patel

    January 15, 2020 — People are scared of 404 pages, but at times they overlook how important it is to optimize the 404 error page.

    Pages get renamed, content changes, links break and the inevitable happens, your visitor lands on a 404 error page.

    But, what if we could leverage it to start a conversation instead?

    In this talk learn why it is important to create custom 404 pages and how to monitor and analyze your 404 pages.

  • Andrea Cardinali: SEO per WooCommerce

    WordCamp Milano 2019Speaker: Andrea Cardinali

    January 15, 2020 — Cosa significa veramente fare SEO? Come farla in maniera efficace? Esistono molti falsi miti e false best practices che non portano risultati e possono addirittura danneggiare il posizionamento e le vendite del sito. L’ottimizzazione è un processo complesso e non è sufficiente utilizzare qualche plugin per ottenerla. In questo workshop vedremo quali sono gli interventi che portano veramente risultati e come applicarli al meglio su WooCommerce, con e senza l’ausilio di plugin, in modo da ottenere un ecommerce pronto per scalare le classifiche di Google e vendere di più.

  • WP Audit #3 – ein follow-up

    WordPress Meetup NürnbergSpeaker: Alexander Münch

    January 15, 2020 — Alexander berichtet davon, was er an seiner Seite umgebaut hat, nach dem sie von uns beim WP-Audit angesehen wurde.

  • Muhammad Johar Jaafar: Aku buntu! Perlukan Design Baru Tapi Bagaimana?

    WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019Speaker: Muhammad Johar Jaafar

    January 15, 2020 — Aku buntu! Perlukan Design Baru Tapi Bagaimana By Muhammad Johar Jaafar. As a designer or developer. You may or you may not encounter design inspiration problem. But it does happen in our daily life as Web Developer who use WordPress.

    This sharing session shared on how to get on path and acquire design inspiration, as well copy technique of getting similar website that we want.

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  • Sanjay Willie: 10 First Steps To Secure Your WP Assets (With demos)

    WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019Speaker: Sanjay Willie

    January 15, 2020 — 10 First Steps To Secure Your WP Assets By Sanjay Willie. In this talk, i’d like to share what are the essential 10 tips and tricks to secure any WordPress site to ensure you’re ready to share all the WordPress goodness to the world. These are “Do not leave installation without these” kind of nature. It’s simple, straightforward, least geeky and anyone can do them.

  • James Hunt: The Location Independent Developer

    WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019Speaker: James Hunt

    January 15, 2020 — WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019 Part 4 – The Location Independent Developer By James Hunt. A talk about going remote, digital nomads, and being location independent.
    Where to find remote work, how to convince your boss to go remote.What is a digital nomad and why be location independent. Tips tricks and lessons learnt after 5 years of being a digital nomad.

  • Matt Jaworski: The Future Is Now – The Importance Of Upgrading to PHP 7

    WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019Speaker: Matt Jaworski

    January 14, 2020 — WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019 Part 7 – The Future Is Now The Importance Of Upgrading to PHP 7 By Matt Jaworski. In this talk I explain the lifetime of PHP versions and how the recent major events (the end of life of PHP 5.x.x and 7.0.x) are impacting the industry.

    It’s a very relevant and important topic nowadays, as PHP is going through major shifts this year (PHP 5.6 and 7.0 lost the official support). Unsupported PHP versions will pose a security risk for all websites still stuck on old systems.

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  • Vince Aggrippino: Can I Make Money with WordPress?

    WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019Speaker: Vince Aggrippino

    January 14, 2020 — WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019 Part 8 – Can I make money with WordPress By Vince Aggrippino.

    An in-depth discussion exploring the pros and cons of several options for earning an income with WordPress…
    – Blogging with ads & affiliate marketing
    – Theme design
    – A regular job… What’s that?
    – “Traditional” Freelancing
    – Upwork et al… Freelancing with help
    – Fiverr … a slightly different take
    – Other ways… Are there other ways

    Closing.

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  • Dwayne McDaniel: Let’s Learn Git. No More Excuses.

    WordCamp Portland 2018Speaker: Dwayne McDaniel

    January 14, 2020 — Whether it is for re-using the same code or deploying a bug fix or just for better document management, one of the most important leaps any site builder will ever take in their path towards becoming a developer is learning a version control system. This talk will briefly explore the need for Git, the history and use cases. Then we will jump into how to get started and the basic organizational concepts. We will also examine Github, the web-based Git hosting service.

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  • Joshua Giowaya: Legos for Developers: A modular approach to WordPress Development

    WordCamp Portland 2018Speaker: Joshua Giowaya

    January 14, 2020 — Let’s explore the benefits of thinking in re-usable blocks. Atomic design, Modular Development, and D.R.Y. methodology improves productivity, enhances UI and empowers authors. We will explore multiple methods to achieve modularity in our WP themes, leveraging the WordPress templating system and Advanced Custom Fields or using blocks in the form of Gutenberg. Regardless if you are ready to learn Javascript deeply and embrace Gutenberg, or set in your ways and sticking with the classic editor.