June 16, 2016 — You took the dive, spent your money and now you have a brand spanking new WordPress website. Congratulations. Now what? Every day businesses face that very question. The daily care and feeding of your website is more important and more work, then its building. In Mark’s presentation he will talk about four factors that every website owner/manager needs to consider every day. We will talk about why you have a web site, the number one thing you can do to improve your site, how to tell if it is working and what to do about it.

June 15, 2016 — BuddyPress 2.6.0 is introducing Activity Embeds, watch this video for a demo!

June 15, 2016 — Content creation is *hard work*, especially if you’re a small business or indy blogger. Your resources — money and time — are very limited.

And what if you’re new at this? Figuring out where to begin can be an utterly overwhelming experience. (Seriously – a search for “how to create content” returns 1,970,000,000 results on Google!)

We’re going to keep it simple in this session by focusing on everyday activities that’ll get your content-creation process up and running.

No vague theories. No motivational speech. No sales pitch. Just a simple, step-by-step approach using WordPress and a handful of free tools.

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June 15, 2016 — Con la ayuda de WooComerce explicaremos como hacer de cualquier web construida con WordPress en una tienda online completa, donde poder vender productos tanto físicos como digitales. así como configurar distintas formas de pago. Y todo ello de forma fácil y sin complicaciones.

June 9, 2016 — As any project manager will tell you – successful websites don’t create themselves. In this session you’ll get an overview of how we run a web design project. We’ll also cover tough topics like how to manage scope creep and the art of communicating with clients.

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June 9, 2016 — I am lead developer on a project that involves Sport fishing and using the WP Rest api to send and receive data back and forth between our native app and a WordPress installation. We are also using the Rest Api to port the videos from the WordPress installation back out to an AppleTV app.

June 8, 2016 — Advanced Custom Fields isn’t just for tacking on an extra field or two to a custom post type: it’s a supremely powerful plugin — so powerful you can use it to replace many other plugins. Turn up your ACF PRO ninja skills to 11 by attending this talk, where you’ll learn advanced ACF techniques for things like making a slideshow with your JS library of choice, using ACF repeater fields to build flexible custom layouts, managing sitewide options in an options page, and managing complex, non-standard content on a page.

June 8, 2016 — With the power of open-source you can do just about anything with your WordPress site which means you can *sell* just about anything. I’ll be walking through how you can sell all the things. Physical products, digital products, subscriptions, bookable products, configurable products, donations, etc are all possible with your WordPress site. I’ll cover WordPress plugins, 3rd party services, and some best practices for building an e-commerce site.

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June 8, 2016 — WordPress.com can be a fantastic choice for business websites. This talk will cover:
* Why WordPress.com is a great choice for small business sites
* How to get your clients up and running in no time
* How to pass off all necessary credentials and ownership to your clients once you’re done
* How WordPress.com support can handle future assistance for your clients once your relationship with them is through

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June 8, 2016 — Bugs frustrate your clients and cause unnecessary costs for everyone. A bug caught by a client is more embarrassing and will take multiple times as long to fix as one found in development.

Find out how to increase your QA and decrease time spent on expensive bug fixes. In this talk, we’ll cover the workflows, testing methods, and tools that you need to keep bugs from making it into production. Everything from automated QA testing to why you should create your own in-house frameworks. You’ll walk away with a more accurate picture on testing and the ability to work towards eliminating all the bugs on your next project.

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