December 19, 2017 — Author will present the result of three-months long experience in idea crowdsourcing for Croatian capital Zagreb. The public – general, expert and business – submits, comments and rates innovative ideas on free and challenge basis. City services check the submissions and evaluate them on technological and business feasibility. Development based on WP proved out to cover complete foreseen functionality , as well as new functions that emerged during the pilot in a very agile way.

Attitude towards the application as well as to process and content of different groups of users – citizens, moderators, decision makers – will be presented in the form of statistics as well as subsequent recommendations for operations in similar environment.

December 19, 2017 — The talk is focused on how to nurture client relationship, go over hurdles, missed deadlines and misunderstandings, and how to protect yourself while not appearing protective.

Idea of the talk is to go through an experience with one client, where we went from a simple website migration (due to the previous developer missing in action), that we nurtured and turned into one of our best relationship.

Also, I want to focus on another thing that most developers misunderstand – that you are not actually charging for your time, and actually, you are getting paid for delivering value to the customer and his business, and why that is different.

December 19, 2017 — What it’s like to work for the worst boss in the whole world – your self?
In this talk Tomislav will speak about personal growth while managing two parallel and completely opposite careers. Goal of this talk is to help people decide if freelancing is for them, and how help them with clear instructions on how to be a good one. He’ll draw from his own experience and tell all about the good and the bad, moments of being broke, sleepless and away from family and friends for weeks + a bunch of stuff in between and in the end – is it all worth it?

December 19, 2017 — The struggle is real. Managing WordPress core settings as well as other settings, like Advanced Custom Fields setup, and carrying those things over to other environments without completely wiping and replacing the entire database is a major pain point.

Maybe your production environment is holding your content where your client is entering data but your dev or local environments are still being developed and settings & configurations are still changing. You do not want to push up your entire dev database to your production environment and lose all the content your client is entering. That’s where configuration management comes into play!

We will cover what configuration management is, how you can start to use it and the concepts to take it even further.

December 19, 2017 — Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day. In this session, we will learn how to optimize our WordPress websites for users, and for Google searches.

We will also explore tools that Google offers for managing your online presence. This session is suitable for website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about Google organic search.

December 19, 2017 — Àngel Ayach nos habla de cómo monetizar un proyecto web y sacarle el mayor rendimiento, económicamente hablando.

December 17, 2017 — Si, esta Meetup es una terapia de grupo. Pensamos en invitar a un gurú que te contara los 10 secretos para forrarte haciendo webs o trabajos de diseño, pero Bill Gates estaba ocupado formateando su ordenador y Ellon Musk tenía que sacar a los perros, así que hemos llamado a Jesús Yesares para que dirija una mesa redonda.

Jesús pondrá sobre la mesa diversos temas en torno a la cosa de poner precios, presupuestar y negociar con clientes. Nos contará su experiencia, qué cosas le han funcionado y cuáles no, qué consejos dan los referentes del mercado, y discutiremos cada uno de los temas propuestos con el objetivo de aprender unos de otros.

Esta meetup está dirigida a todo tipo de público, desde estudiantes que estén pensando en tirarse a la piscina del freelancing, a profesionales con experiencia que quieran compartir sus vivencias (y pesadillas) con nosotros.

El formato es mesa redonda, el objetivo final es aprender todos de todos, y tomar el pulso al mercado en el que nos movemos día a día.

Trataremos:

• ¿Por qué este tema?
• Niño, ¿qué cuesta una wéhh?: ¿Precio/h o servicios paquetizados?
• Mi tesoooooorooooo. Publicar o no publicar las tarifas en la web.
• Presupuestos: Si mete a su gato en el microondas, no nos hacemos responsables de los desperfectos.
• Especialización frente al jarrillo lata.
• El adelanto. Un compromiso mutuo.
• Tiempos de trabajo, o cómo no pillarte los dedos con tu cliente.
• Mantenimientos ¿Ingresos continuos o trampa mortal?
• Te cobro por mi presencia, o cómo evitar una reunión tediosa.
• Urgencias.
• Otros temas: las agencias, administraciones públicas, y cualquier otras cosas que propongan los asistentes.

Presentation Slides »

December 15, 2017 — Up to this point, my relationship with WordPress has known many sides. I started as a WordPress.com blogger and then moved to WordPress.org. Step by step, while trying to customize my blog, I began to understand how flexible WordPress was. Besides HTML and CSS, I discovered that I was able to learn PHP by myself, by following WordPress tutorials and forum discussions. After a while of study and practice, I launched my freelance business and spent a few years building mostly WordPress websites for clients with different business types and from various parts of the world. Today, I handle product development for CaptainForm, a WordPress forms plugin launched in 2015.

I would like to walk you through the ups and downs of this journey, to share some of the insights that I’ve gathered along the way and, most of all, to express my deep passion for WordPress and for the beautiful things you can build with it.

December 15, 2017 — Ante is a self-taught web developer currently working at Agency,Mai?. His favourite language is JavaScript, and he enjoys working with it both on the frontend and the backend. When no one is looking, he also writes PHP. WordPress sparked his interest a few years back when he started creating his own websites. Most of his early experience comes from selling themes and plugins on the Envato marketplaces. Nowadays, he is mostly focused on experimenting with different JavaScript frameworks and frontend build tools. When not working or playing with code, he is either sleeping or trying to quit gaming.

December 15, 2017 — As lead of the Ongoing Client Support at CrowdFavorite I’ve worked with lots of legacy code on different projects. This session covers some of the lessons we’ve learned in the process and tips how to deal with the most common issues faster and more effective. It also shows how the legacy code can be actually fun.