February 8, 2018 — He will talk about how NPM, Grunt, Gulp, Sass and Travis CI with Github can help us automate some of our tasks and improve our development process. Attendees will leave understanding when and why they’d want to use these tools in a WordPress theme-specific context, and how they play together in a real-life workflow.

February 8, 2018 — The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this taIk Maja will show some examples of good and bad design in terms of accessibility. She’ll give tips on how you can make your site more accessible by following some simple design rules and integrating accessibility from the beginning on into your design process.

February 8, 2018 — This talk is about very heavy database schema / information architecture topics:

– Some anecdotes of slow WordPress / WooCommerce sites, examples to illustrate the need to talk about this
– Rundown on why they were slow
– Detailed explanation of what indexes are, how they work conceptually and what MySQL does if they aren’t available
– Rundown of WordPress / WooCommerce database schema
– Common scenarios of user / client wishes and why the same doesn’t work in a large site (query / order by postmeta values for example)
– What can be done about it (WooCommerce 3.0 data accessor classes, custom database tables, indexing)
– References / links to learn more about this

February 8, 2018 — Have product. Must sell. WordPress + WooCommerce make it easy enough to create your online shop in a matter of minutes. Facebook + promoted posts make it easy enough to market directly to your target audience and get them to your website. But how do you quickly gain their confidence and trust and get them to actually make the purchase?

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February 8, 2018 — Discussion about Gutenberg

February 8, 2018 — Antonio Villegas, cofundador de Nelio Content, habla de cómo mantener un blog y otorga las pautas necesarias para hacer del mismo un blog exitoso, pese a los problemas y dificultades que siempre suelen surgir.

February 8, 2018 — I will be sharing my WordPress story and journey. How WordPress can be a source of happiness to ones life when one wakes up every morning. How one can make a living with WordPress if one is ready to put in the work. How one can fit into the WP community and be inspired to do more. Most importantly, how to fall in Love with WordPress, how I did and how you can too.

February 7, 2018 — Explore actionable items to kick start your WordPress side hustle, allowing you to pursue creative passion projects, expand your skill set, build your freelance or live out entrepreneurial dreams. This talk covers a thorough list of dos and don’ts, resources, project management tips and how to successfully build and maintain strong client relationships so you’ll be ready for your next step. Peppered with personal, relatable stories of how Katie lived and breathed the process from going in-house, freelance as a side gig to full time and now running a successful boutique agency.

February 7, 2018 — A talk on 4 ways using WordPress enabled and empowered a community to find each other online, meet offline, share knowledge, raise awareness and win a Sussex Digital Award!

February 6, 2018 — This is the first of FOUR interviews we are doing in February 2018. This series is focused on the upcoming new block-based editor coming to WordPress 5.0, named Gutenberg. In this first interview, we chat with Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast.com about how he and his team are preparing his pluins for Gutenberg. There is a 25 minutes interview, followed by an AMA section from our AWP members.