Author Archive

  • Karl Hudson Phillips: Getting Started With Multilingual Websites On WordPress

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Karl Hudson Phillips

    October 1, 2017 — Launching a multilingual website might sound ambitious, but it’s well within your grasp, especially with WordPress. Implementing a multilingual WordPress website can expand your reach exponentially if you implement it correctly.

    During this talk, we’ll cover a few options to accomplish the task, go over a few items you’ll need to consider, and go through a quick demo and/or case study.

    Takeaways include: Why one should (or shouldn’t) consider making a site multilingual; the various options for making a site multilingual, what’s involved, the pros and cons; additional items to consider (plugin compatibility, SEO, etc)

  • Sasha Endoh: Practical Accessibility For Inclusive Web

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Sasha Endoh

    October 1, 2017 — Accessibility can feel overwhelming with lots of scary-sounding legal language and complicated requirements. We’ll take a quick look at the laws around accessibility so they don’t sound so scary. Then we’ll go over the basics of making accessible WordPress websites from the perspective of both design and development. We’ll go over practical examples of accessibility requirements. Finally, we’ll discuss tools you can use to help you get comfortable thinking about accessibility and testing for it on any website, including your next project.

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  • Bindu Dadlani: Unleashing the Power of JetPack in WordPress

    Wordpress Meetup BostonSpeaker: Bindu Dadlani

    September 30, 2017 — How a non-tech person leverages the power of Jetpack and WordPress happiness engineers support team to take a site from an old slow user interface to a new re-themed, responsive, mobile friendly, secure, SEO, backed up and faster site. Protection, spam filtering, back ups, image performance, downtime monitoring, awesome plugins, stats, security and on-demand scans with automated one-click resolution are a just “step” away. Integration of Jetpack PRO with Vaultpress, Akismet, SEO Yoast Premium and WooCommerce payment gateways like Paypal, Stripe, and Apple Pay. From business to WordPress and from WordPress to business. All things possible. https://bindupowercoaching.com is a blog, a business site, and an e-Commerce store.

  • Emilie Lebrun: Conquérir le World Wide WordPress

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Emilie Lebrun

    September 30, 2017 — Quand on commence sur WordPress, on peut penser parfois qu’on a pas le niveau nécessaire. Et encore plus quand on est une femme, ou qu’on a peu de connaissance technique. Qui ne s’est pas senti intimidé au point de ne pas oser se lancer dans des métiers du web, sur WordPress ni aller à un WordCamp ?
    Syndrome de l’imposteur, ou plafond de verre, de nombreux freins invisibles nous empêchent parfois de faire ce que l’on souhaite réellement.

    Comment trouver sa place dans la communauté WordPress, par où commencer ? A travers mon histoire personnelle et ce que j’ai observé depuis 3 ans, je souhaite partager mon expérience, mes conseils et aider à se lancer toutes celles et ceux qui n’osent pas le faire.

  • Jonathan Perlman: WooCommerce Fundamentals

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Jonathan Perlman

    September 30, 2017 — What is eCommerce? It’s selling something (physical or digital) on the internet.
    To a lot of people, developing eCommerce is a very scary thing. “It is only for the Advanced Developers,” some people say.
    Let’s break down those walls together, as I show you the basics of building an online store

  • Francesca Marano: Get Involved

    WordPress Meetup TorinoSpeaker: Francesca Marano

    September 30, 2017 — Introduzione all’open source, introduzione a WordPress.org, Make: la centrale della contribuzione e introduzione dei diversi team da parte di lead torinesi e non.

  • Peter Nikolov: WordPress API – минало, настояще и бъдеще

    WordCamp Varna 2017Speaker: Peter Nikolov

    September 30, 2017 — Една от тенденциозните теми в последно време е WordPress REST API. В тази лекция Петър ще ни запознае с различните видове WordPress APIs — вътрешни, вътшни, стари и нови подходи за работа с WordPress.

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  • Анна Ладошкина: Как помочь пользователю быстрее увидеть ваш сайт

    WordCamp Moscow 2017Speaker: Anna Ladoshkina

    September 30, 2017 — Анна расскажет о том, что такое воспринимаемая производительность, или perceived performance, и как заставить пользователя поверить, что ваш сайт «летает», даже если это не так.

    Поговорим о метриках, способах оптимизации, о том, почему высоких показателей в тестах трудно достичь и что можно сделать уже сегодня на живом проекте для улучшения пользовательского опыта, не «сломав при этом мозг»!

  • Миша Рудрастых: Интернет-магазин на WooCommerce за 5 часов

    WordCamp Moscow 2017Speaker: Misha Rudrastyh

    September 30, 2017 — Миша поделится пошаговой инструкцией, как запустить интернет-магазин на существующем или новом сайте на WordPress.

    Начиная с настроек магазина, подборки плагинов и обзора систем оплаты и заканчивая кастомизацией checkout page и оптимизацией собственной темы под WooCommerce.

  • Vanina Ivanova: A WordPress Blog as an MVP for Starting a Business

    WordCamp Varna 2017Speaker: Vanina Ivanova

    September 30, 2017 — How to start a new business with just $41.60 and a bottle of wine. Vanina shares her experience and gives some advice.

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