November 14, 2016 — Lessons learned from WordPress VIP

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November 13, 2016 — Whether your site is five pages or 500, it needs a strong foundation that plans for growth. We’ll cover site maps, content strategy, user interaction and experience so you have a plan for your site now, and down the road. We’ll also touch on best practices for doing it all over again for mobile.

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November 13, 2016 — Plugins extend the functionality of WordPress and are a great way to add sophisticated features to your website—without custom coding. But with more than 45,000 plugins available in the WordPress repository and a plethora available independently, how do you choose? Andi will teach you what to look for when choosing WordPress plugins to ensure that your site does what it must, functions superbly, and remains secure–now and in the future.

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November 13, 2016 — Part 2

A couple of months ago I contacted Petya Raykovska of the Polyglots Team and asked if she had any issues with an idea I had to contact several of the teams that would be involved in the Global WordPress Translation Day 2, record a Skype video call and put them all together and publish them on WordPress TV. She was excited about the idea and gave me her blessing.

I used information that was available on the Polyglots Team page at make.wordpress.org to contact 25 random teams and tried to arrange times during the November 12th event to record a short video.

I was able to connect with 16 teams or people and this is the result. The locations and people I connected with are listed below.

Ogijima, Japan
Junko Nukaga

Zürich, Switzerland
Pascal Birchler

Pune, India
Rahul Bansal

Singapore, Singapore
Robert Sim

Athens, Greece
Takis Bouyouris

Johannesburg, South Africa
Trisha Cornelius

Cork, Ireland
Marcin Kilarski

November 13, 2016 — Part 1

A couple of months ago I contacted Petya Raykovska of the Polyglots Team and asked if she had any issues with an idea I had to contact several of the teams that would be involved in the Global WordPress Translation Day 2, record a Skype video call and put them all together and publish them on WordPress TV. She was excited about the idea and gave me her blessing.

I used information that was available on the Polyglots Team page at make.wordpress.org to contact 25 random teams and tried to arrange times during the November 12th event to record a short video.

I was able to connect with 16 teams or people and this is the result. The locations and people I connected with are listed below.

Bangkok, Thailand
Aum Watcharapon

Tampere, Finland
Daniel Koskinen

Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Mayorov

Istanbul, Turkey
Emre Erkan

Cape Town, South Africa
Jonathan Bosssenger

Sofia, Bulgaria
Vladimir Petkov

Turin, Italy
Laura Sacco

Belgrade, Serbia
Nemanja Cimbaljevic

Belguim
Pascal Casier

November 13, 2016 — Maybe you have heard of user experience (UX) but don’t know much about it? Or you want to better the experience your visitors have at site, but don’t know where to begin?

UX professionals from the Ladies that UX Durham group will do a 15-minute overview of UX then hold a panel to field your questions and ensure you walk out with practical ideas of how to use UX practices to improve your WordPress site.

November 13, 2016 — A breakdown of SEO concepts that help users drive traffic to their website. Including…

1. SEO Myths to Avoid
2. Overcoming Initial Fears
3. Choosing Better Titles for Content
4. Why Creating Beginner Content is Critical
5. Plugins to Help Optimize a Site

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November 13, 2016 — Optimizing Task runners for WordPress Development

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November 13, 2016 — Every day millions of websites, blogs and social channels create unique content that’s worth sharing – but how do you consume and share the best, most valuable and relevant content with your audience?

The answer is content curation.

In this session Adam will discuss the “why” and “how” of curating content from reputable sources, and how sharing that information in a centralized place adds value and helps to position your brand as a trusted news source for your niche.

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November 12, 2016 — Today, businesses small and large must develop a combined search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and social media marketing strategy. SEO and social media, once independent of one another, have converged and are now inter reliant. High quality back links in social media are now part of the Google Search algorithm, therefore, it’s important to understand how to use freely available tools to optimize your website or blog for SEO, but also for social media, so that you content appears correctly in search. Microformat metadata are also being used to display and return information about company, including reviews. Star ratings can make the difference in search.

In this session, we will walk through a case study and discuss the setup and connections you need to make to ensure that your site or blog content can be found in search, while also being optimized for social media. We’ll also show you how to get reviews and how your star ratings can appear under to a landing page link in a Google search engine results page (SERP).

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