October 30, 2017 — If the thought of having to “sell” yourself or your services makes you want to dive into the back of your closet- this talk is for you. In 45 short minutes, we will remove the fear, and give you the plan to “close without selling”. A must for freelancers that don’t know how to fill the funnel.

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October 30, 2017 — In a world where diversifying your income and creating/publishing content are vital for success online, the developers at Elegant Themes have heard our cries for a code-free framework and answered with the theme Divi.

In this talk we are going to cover:

– What is Divi: Framework vs. Theme
– The pros & cons of the Divi theme for the code-free user
– Pre-made layouts & modules examples
– Review the options panel for setting up your website

October 30, 2017 — Great content takes a long time to create, sharing it on your social platforms shouldn’t! This talk compares several popular WordPress plugins for content scheduling and automating social media posting. It will also cover other useful, non-WordPress services to help create beautiful social graphics, build your blog following, link your social accounts and automate your efforts.

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October 30, 2017 — Ana and Marko Segota are a theme design team located in Germany. This is the first husband and wife team I have had the pleasure to interview at the same time.

You can see their website at https://www.anarieldesign.com

They had attended WordCamp Zagrb in Croatia in early September. They also attended WordCamp Europe. We discuss the pros and cons of attending large and small WordCamps, friends you make in the community and the welcoming, open atmosphere.

Ana and Marko also design times for charity or non profits organizations needing to establish a presence on the web. You can see some of these themes in the WordPress repository here: https://wordpress.org/themes/author/anariel-design/

October 30, 2017 — As a containerization platform, Docker offers a fast and powerful way to boost your local development workflow. By presenting our company’s DevOps strategy and sharing the tools we’ve built to efficiently manage over 100 WordPress sites, I explore various aspects of Docker-based WordPress development, from running your own GitLab instance to synchronizing your sites with a production server.

October 30, 2017 — Releasing a new version of a plugin for more than 200 000 websites is a sensitive process that needs to be carefully planned out.

In this presentation, I’ll talk about the structure & processes that our team has put in place for releasing a new version of WP Rocket, as well as the tools we use to plan, track & test to ensure a release as smooth as possible for our customers.

I’ll get into development workflow, but also everything that happens before and after: release scope, translations, communication planning & more.

October 29, 2017 — Iñaki Respaldiza nos explica cómo podemos generar nuestro propio entorno de desarrollo WordPress con Docker.

No te preocupes si nunca has trabajado con contenedores puesto que comenzará con una introducción a la herramienta, discutirá las ventajas y para terminar mostrará su propio centro de desarrollo dando algunos consejos para usarlo o generar uno propio.

October 27, 2017 — WordPress multi-site is a powerful tool which lets you run thousands of websites with just one WordPress installation.

Developing for WordPress multi-site, however, is a fine art which too few have mastered.

But it doesn’t have to be hard – it’s all about understanding the difference in behaviour between a single site WP install and Multi-site and knowing which WordPress functions to use, when and how.

Join in and beat the competition by making your plugins compatible with WordPress Multi-site!

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October 27, 2017 — You are stuck with a big corporate CMS. Change Requests can take up to 3-6 month. The process is slow and painful. Sometimes you have to make a bold move and change something. We did that change. We started to evaluate a new Framework for a content marketing platform of a big company in Switzerland. We decided to go on without any approval of corporate communication.

The website is live. Everyone is happy. And now we are on the move to integrate 2 more platforms on our new System. Which is indeed WordPress.

How we managed to get there. How we did find the right framework. And how we were able to convince the management that WordPress was the perfect choice I will show you in my short talk.

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October 27, 2017 — «Einfach losgehen» am praktischen Beispiel Die Idee war schneller als die Umsetzung: Eine Wanderung über die Alpen und live darüber berichten: Alles mobil, ohne Laptop, also Website mobil bespielen, den Podcast mobil aufnehmen. Dabei eine Menge Automatismen im Hintergrund laufen lassen: Intro & Outro, Rauschreduzierung, Feed-Generierung und iTunes-Anbindung und nicht zuletzt die Community per Social Media mitnehmen. Alles nach dem Motto: Einfach machen und beim Machen lernen und optimieren.

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