November 12, 2017 — Ante Šepić encourages volunteers to participate in a WordCamp

November 12, 2017 — Informal education such as mentoring is an important aspect of web development culture — for both the mentor and mentee. Unfortunately, in Bulgaria, the topic of mentoring is not often explored. In this talk, Nikola Nikolov will address the ways mentoring benefits the mentor and common pitfalls they may encounter.

November 12, 2017 — WordPress has grown in more ways than we could have ever imagined, but what does the future hold? In his talk, Noel will make predictions about how our industry will change in 2018 and what it means for you and your business. From freelancers, agencies to product companies, there’s a lot going on you need to be aware of so that you can best plan for the upcoming year.

November 12, 2017

November 11, 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, you will learn how you can optimize your WordPress site for users and to be compatible with Google search engine. You will learn how search work, be given tips on how to do well on search and explore tools that Google offers which you can use to manage your online presence on Google Search, along with WordPress specific best practices. This session is suitable for website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about your website presence on Google organic search.

November 11, 2017 — In this talk I will be speaking about how to optimise your image heavy WordPress websites. I will talk about how I use WordPress for handling images, what tools I use and offering some general advice on how you can manage the slowdown that typically comes with hosting an image heavy site.

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November 11, 2017 — Gutenberg is the name for the new editor focus in WordPress. What is it? Why is it important? In this talk I will take you through a rough guide to the project. How it began and why it’s needed. Then, I’ll show you where the projects is currently at and finally how you can also get involved. Join me and get to know Gutenberg.

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November 11, 2017 — In his talk about WordPress REST API, Tomislav will give us some real life examples on how to connect mobile applications to WordPress to get the best of both worlds. With WP REST API WordPress became fully-featured application platform and it opened itself up to every other application and development environment on Earth.

November 11, 2017 — Don’t modify WordPress core; don’t modify theme files – make children instead.

Don’t be scared, don’t feel guilty – it’s easy. Then you can mould that child as you wish.

I will show you how to create a child theme, take advantage of the template hierarchy to enhance it and what to do when the parent theme isn’t fully child theme enabled.

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November 11, 2017 — Blogs are perceived as non-fee earners, as it were, and reasonable questions are asked about how blogging will add value to the bottom line. Can a business blog directly generate revenue and how? My presentation will discuss the essential role blogging plays in lead generation, community building, customer support and establishing authority. Blogging is about driving long-term results; so be patient and get your Blog On!