August 17, 2016 — We’ve all heard something along the lines of this before from a potential client: “We want a simple website, 5 or 6 pages and 3 navigation tabs. A shopping cart and a contact form”. Hmm…Okay. Yeah, sure you can build that. Great. But are you offering solutions to this client’s colorful challenges online and offline? Probably not. Which means this website is doomed to fail.

A website does not stand isolated from the many aspects integral to good business planning: marketing, Company mission/message, target audience, social media, mailing list… Like a holistic practitioner takes into account all the Chakras, you should be addressing all your client’s business aspects to produce an online presence that is solid and effective. Just building a site does not solve your client’s challenges: which are ultimately to get more exposure, sell more products, save money, reduce wasted man hours or an infinite variety of problems. If you concentrate on offering SOLUTIONS for your clients’ CHALLENGES then you are more likely to see a web presence with measurable success and happier, enlightened clients!

In this session I will inspire you to elevate from just a website builder to the higher plane of “Solutionary”!

Get ready to clear some Chakras, yo!

August 17, 2016 — As a website designer, you can drive yourself crazy with the on-again, off-again roller coaster of building websites. The opportunity for you to engage clients beyond the website build exists and can lead to long-term stability.

Here is some of what participants will learn:

How SEO can to turn a one-time website build into a long term opportunity with their clients
The critical point when you must introduce SEO in order to create happier clients and more referrals
SEO secrets you can use right away to wow your clients and keep them coming back for more
How to turn SEO into profits – whether you do it yourself or outsource it to an expert

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August 17, 2016 — It’s 2016 and eCommerce has grown tremendously, almost everyone now shops online. Still a lot of WordPress site developers don’t want to build eCommerce websites or webshops because they find eCommerce plugins and online payments complex.

And that’s a shame, because it could be really interesting to add eCommerce to your list of web development skills. Luckily, the good news is, you can learn how to implement online payments, allowing you to also benefit from the growing market.

In this talk I’ll tell you all you need to know about online payments for Belgian WordPress sites. We will discuss the entire process, starting with the software (WordPress, WooCommerce etc.) to the first payments. We’ll talk about MisterCash/Bancontact, but also the Dutch iDEAL (because the crazy Dutch like shopping over their border!).

And there will be room for questions!

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August 17, 2016 — Get to know more about how to create faster themes in this workshop presented by Andrés Cifuentes.

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August 17, 2016 — Introduces design, development and blogging app resources that allow WordPress users the freedom to manage a business, team, multiple websites and other assets while on the go.

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August 17, 2016 — Contribute, contribute, contribute. Forums, GitHub, or Core pick one or all. A brief overview of how to start contributing to WordPress.

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August 17, 2016 — One of the awesome parts about buying a product always includes the test drive or the free sample. The same goes for Themes and Plugins. However, are Theme demonstrations being completely honest when it comes to showing off the goods?

in this WordCamp Orange County Session, we’ll be discussing the pros and cons to not having any coding standards when it comes to building theme’s and plugins. We’ll also be taking a deep dive into three WordPress Theme Demonstrations to show what they are really selling you on.

August 17, 2016 — Did you attend PreCamp? Did you leave with a wealth of information but feel like you need a little bit more? You’re in luck! This session will build upon the foundation that was established during PreCamp.

Even if you didn’t make it to PreCamp this year but you consider yourself in the early stages of your WordPress learning curve, this session is perfect for you too.

In particular, we’ll dig deeper into the following:

A Divi Demo – A popular WordPress page builder theme
Selecting specialized plugins based on your specific site requirements. For Example: E-Commerce, Directory Management, and Image/Event Heavy
Healthy website checklist for ongoing growth and success of your site.

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August 17, 2016 — For websites that have a variety of content, it can feel forced to stay within the confines of Pages and Posts. By tapping into custom post types, we can capture the essence of our different content types and showcase them each in their own way.

In this talk, we’ll show a method for creating post types in a matter of seconds, and we’ll discuss how you can choose one or more custom post types to represent your own unique types of content. We’ll also explore some ways to present different content types on the front end.

Take aways:

Break free from Pages and Posts.
Take control and define your own content types.
Learn techniques to use in your child theme for displaying different content types on the front end.

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August 17, 2016 — We want our code to be fast, to work well, and look good. But do we really need all the bells and whistles? Understanding the burdens we place on end users when we code, such as large plugins and themes with stringent requirements, is just as important as security.

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