October 10, 2017 — As WordPress continues to represent a larger portion of the global Internet landscape, issues relating to web censorship, internet sovereignty and access for all people are becoming more common. With his experience working behind the Great Firewall of China, John will discuss how sites are often affected by web censorship in all corners of the world.

October 10, 2017 — The idea of building a business on open source software may be old hat for most technologists, but for many people in more traditional industries, the concepts around using and contributing to WordPress may seem quite strange. Can a program you get for free be any good? How does the licensing work and what the heck is a GPL? Who do we call if it breaks? Who’s in charge of this thing? Sharing technology with everyone, is that safe? Wait, you wrote some code for us, and now you want to publish it for anyone to use, for free? We’ll answer these questions and more in a discussion of how to get OSS buy-in from the whole newsroom — lawyers, executives, and IT departments included. Along the way, you’ll get a refresher on making the most of the open WordPress ecosystem, whether you’ve been a part of this community for 13 years or 13 hours.

October 10, 2017 — Mindfulness: “The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.” Security can seem intimidating and complex for many, but we shouldn’t (can’t) let that stop us from doing everything possible to secure our WordPress sites and ourselves. After all, our websites are often part of our livelihood.

In this session Adam Warner addresses the “big picture” of personal and website security and breaks down the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan online. He provides an actionable checklist on what audience members can implement immediately to better secure themselves online in addition to their WordPress websites.

After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of personal security online and how it affects website security as a whole, as well as steps they can take to mitigate risk in the future.

October 10, 2017 — In deze presentatie leg ik uit waarom meewerken aan WordPress zelf goed is, niet alleen voor WordPress, maar ook voor jezelf en je bedrijf. Matt Mullenweg, een van de co-founders van WordPress, noemt dit “5% for the future”.

October 10, 2017 — WooCommerce now powers over 30% of all online stores, both big and small. While the basic WooCommerce package covers a lot of needs, business use cases often require special attention. This talk with Gary Thayer will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce.

He’ll talk about:

* Building a streamline customer service experience for your business
* Keeping template files up to date
* Useful actions and filters
* Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations

October 10, 2017 — This marketing panel isn’t your ordinary Q/A session. We are extending the time of this panel so we can give our panel of expert marketers the opportunity to share some of their greatest success stories, experiences and strategies. We’ll also take a deep dive into those times when things go wrong, and how to recover from them.

Bring your questions because we are also going to give you an opportunity to ask your questions directly to the panel. Don’t have any questions then share your website! That’s right we’re going to do live website analysis on the screen so you can get detailed feedback on your work from some of the top WordPress marketers in the area.

October 10, 2017 — Join the development team of Technology Therapy, along with President Jennifer Shaheen for an advanced workshop where participants will learn how to turn their WordPress site into a fast and user-friendly Single Page Application using modern tooling and principles.

Topics to be discussed:

Integrating Vue.js
Creating custom endpoints for the WordPress Rest API
Live updating content: posts, comments, and notifications
Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Advanced

October 10, 2017 — So you can build a technically wonderful website, but does it appeal to your audience? Does it have finesse?

Who is it designed for: the owner, the designer/developer, or the customer/user? Are forms user-friendly?

This talk will show you the things that make a website more complete, user-friendly, and user-appealing. Topics will include favicons, custom 404 pages, form buttons, footers, colors, SSL certificates, and more.

Intended Audience Type: Beginner and Up (it’s marketing-oriented)
Intended Audience Experience: Any Level

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October 10, 2017 — For someone new to WordPress choosing the right plugin can be overwhelming and frustrating. In this session Reiko Beach will go over some simple tips to help make your selection process easier, highlighting popular plugins.

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October 10, 2017 — There’s a simple yet powerful API within WordPress to help developers cache all sorts of data, and in turn speed up load times. Transients are often misunderstood by developers and their powerful abilities can sometimes be misused.

In this session Ryan Kanner will uncover the inner workings of the Transient API, and learn how to properly leverage it’s abilities.