October 27, 2016 — The WordPress website is the center a company’s marketing. Combined with blogging, social media helps with search engine optimization and driving traffic to the website. A well-set-up site has easy-to-find social media share and follow buttons as well as widgets to make it easy for visitors to do what you want them to do.

October 27, 2016 — Remkus interviews Sam Sidler, the man behgind the transformation of wordpress.org (forum, codex, plugin and theme repository and translations), about what has been changed and will change in the future.

October 27, 2016 — WordPress is a great platform to build a business that gives you the freedom to dream, create, and live the life you’ve always wanted. This session will be packed with practical tips on how we hacked a business from thin air and turned it into a profitable company that is making an impact around the world. You’ll learn about coding and life hacks, productivity & networking tips, and gain the confidence you need to get started building your business and making a dent in the universe today!

October 27, 2016 — As someone new to WordPress, getting all the answers to questions you have in building and enhancing your site can be a challenge. I am here to help break it down for you and give you some direction.

October 27, 2016 — This talk provides a framework for differentiating yourself by running a business with humanness, and understanding what clients actually want: care.

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October 27, 2016 — Woocommerce Workshop, by Luminus Olumide Alabi at WCBelfast 2016

October 27, 2016 — WordPress is open-source and we keep hearing about the open web, but what does it mean? Why does it matter? If it’s so important, how can we help? Come find out why a concept that’s been written about for nearly a thousand years is so important to the modern web!

October 27, 2016 — Panel discussion, bringing together our fantastic speakers: Ahmed Khalifa, Juan Felipe Rincon, Marcin Kilarski

October 27, 2016 — Panel discussion on WordPress Securityand Speed
With our speakers Paul Goodchild (WordPress security plugin author), Juan Felipe Rincón (Google Search Quality team) and Stephen Kinkaid (Big Wet Fish).

October 27, 2016 — Here’s the tl;dr version: you can make an off-the-shelf theme look as good as a fully custom design if you know what you’re doing. We can safely say that most people who use WordPress have used a consumer template at some point. Some use them build a personal site, make a few modifications, and never touch it again. Freelancers and agencies set new templates up on a monthly or weekly basis for clients. There are WordPress developers whose main source of income is from templates they’ve developed and sold through sites like ThemeForest or Template Monster. Using a prebuilt theme has huge advantages: time savings for developers by using prebuilt CMS features, client confidence from knowing beforehand how a site will look and behave, and user-friendly interfaces that have often been tested and improved over multiple versions. But despite their ubiquity, there is plenty of resistance to using templates. Many clients and designers think that a site that “looks like a template” is cheap, unrefined, and should be inexpensive – regardless of how much time was invested into feature development or customizations. So how do you get the benefits of using a theme, and still satisfy your freelance clients and website’s visitors with a unique, fresh design? In this talk we’ll go through the major hurdles and show you how to overcome them with confidence: – What does a “template-y” site even look like? We’ve heard that feedback before. We may have even said it as we surfed the web. But what styles, elements, fonts, colors, or UI patterns are distinctly “template-y”? Knowing is half the battle. – How to choose the “best” template for your project Most people browse template sites looking for something that looks like the site they want to build, but that’s the wrong approach. A prebuilt theme is a tool, first and foremost, and you wouldn’t buy a saw based on the color of the blade. You pick the right tool for the job. – The right kind of planning “Well begun is half done” Aristotle famously said. Once you’ve picked a theme and are familiar with its capabilities and limitations, you can plan based on what’s possible, rather than trying to make a site that fits into the demo layout. Let’s talk about how to do that in a modular, time-saving way. – Let’s talk specifics We’ve talked about what not to do, and how to get started off on the right foot. Now we’ll go through side-by-side comparisons using real templates to show you how common components can be used to deliver outstanding results. By the end of the talk, you’ll be able to sit confidently down in front of your next project with a better approach to planning and design, and produce a better website. Wow your clients! Impress your friends! And keep all the time-saving benefits of an excellent prebuilt theme, but don’t sacrifice how it looks or performs.

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