December 6, 2016 — Det är lätt som en plätt att översätta!

December 6, 2016 — Version 4.7 of WordPress, named “Vaughan” in honor of jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.7 make it easier to set up your site the way you want it.

December 5, 2016 — The Customizer provides WordPress themes with a unique way to change your site without having to edit code. Non-technical users can customize the site and instantly see changes while working. Understand how to take advantage of the Customizer in your theme to create configurable, flexible theme for your editors and and admins to work with.

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December 5, 2016 — WordPress is a powerful tool we use on a daily basis. However, the WordPress Dashboard certainly lacks in terms of a powerful visual presence. The Dashboard is almost entirely text information where functionality is the number one priority. This means it requires special care when being shaped so that it can be processed as efficiently and as fast as possible. Along with setting modules and adding consistency both with type, shapes and whitespaces, we completely redesigned DashIcons, too. New DashIcons are all part of the same system visually and conceptually and it can be expanded at anytime. Since Dashboard has certain limitations we thought it would be creative, fun and practical to give it a new lease of life —a facelift to give this tool its much needed visual attributes.

December 5, 2016 — In today’s world, it is all about content marketing. Doing it right means thinking about a lot of different things. What should you publish? How do you make it converting? How do you connect it to analytics? What about SEO tricks?
Whether you are a user, developer or designer you will find this session useful. Whether as a reminder as to what’s important for the other groups and how to help work towards the common goal of a better website and effective business, or as a primer on how to boost your workflow.

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December 5, 2016 — Lightning talk Den svenska WordPress-communityn

December 5, 2016 — WordPress is now a stable, mature CMS suitable for any enterprise application. For media organisations it’s no longer the quick and dirty side project platform of choice, it also sits front and centre delivering business critical services. However, this means optimising to meet the needs of demanding specialist users. Ant and Dan will explore the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of creating professional editorial tools on the WordPress platform.

December 5, 2016 — An introduction to framework and the Genesis framework; and why I chose to use it. This talk is tailored for someone who is new to WordPress. You will learn to build a WordPress website powered by the Genesis framework, know about its plugins and other resources which will be helpful if you decide to use the Genesis framework

December 5, 2016 — Elobina is a service for eco friendly production on demand textiles. The service is unique in many ways and is transforming the way the textile industry work. Learn how we used WordPress and WooCommerce as a solid base for this development. By using the proven and working e-commerce base we could focus on what was hard for us without the need to build the parts that was already available. Elobina is built with WordPress and WooCommerce running in the Amazon Cloud. The service include advanced image handling with serverside processing of large print resolution images.

December 5, 2016 — Pro bono work is fun and rewarding. It is also a great way to level up your WordPress prowess and reputation, either as a freelance developer or as part of a digital agency. When you give back to society, you receive back as much, if not more.

In this talk, you will find real world examples of pro bono dev projects I’ve done over the years, how they solve different set of problems for the beneficiaries, and how they level up my skill set as a web designer and developer. I will also share some of the other good things I’ve gained by doing it, and it’s not just about having a better-looking portofolio.

So, whether you’re a seasoned pro or just a starting out WordPress professional, you’ll probably end up having plenty of good reasons to do pro bono work from time to time for the personal, professional and social benefits it brings.