April 21, 2016 — WordPress ein Blog? Schon längst nicht mehr! Wie wir WordPress als App-Framework nutzen können, möchte Birgit uns anhand unterschiedlicher Ansätze zeigen. Eine zentrale Rolle spielt hierbei die WordPress REST API. In ihrem Vortrag möchte sie zeigen, was notwendig ist, Plattform unabhängige Apps mit WordPress zu entwickeln und welche Voraussetzungen erfüllt sein müssen. Es werden Plugins, Onlinedienste (SaaS) und mobile App Frameworks vorgestellt. Die Inhalte des Vortrags richten sich an Fortgeschrittene WordPress Anwender sowie Entwickler, die sich einen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten verschaffen wollen.

April 21, 2016 — When your website is accessible, all users can access your content no matter their abilities. Visually-impaired users can visit your website using a screen reader. Those who can’t use the mouse can navigate your site using a keyboard or other input device. Some accessibility features might also improve your SEO. When your site is inaccessible, research shows you could be excluding up to 20 percent of your users. This talk for all skill levels will review tools and techniques you can use to test and improve your site’s accessibility.

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April 21, 2016 — Materialbereitstellung für den Schulunterricht, Vernetzung einer pädagogischen Fachcommunity, Technischer Support für Fort- und Weiterbildungsinstitute – all das realisieren Jörg, Frank und ihre Kollegen mit WordPress und BuddyPress. Wie sie dazu gekommen sind, wie sie arbeiten und was die anstehenden Entwicklungsschritte und Herausforderungen sind – das möchten sie uns in dieser Session erzählen.

April 21, 2016 — For the past year, Adam has helped run his family’s restaurant, Grandaddy’s. In this lightning talk, he’ll share how whether your selling waffles or widgets, you need to relate to the customer, build a rapport, and anticipate their needs before they even ask.

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April 21, 2016 — All smart marketers know that building an email list is crucial for growing your business. In this presentation, Syed Balkhi, renowned online marketing expert, shares his top tips on how to grow your email list.

April 21, 2016 — Effizienz im Web mit WordPress: Wie Nicht-IT-Ler und Nicht-Redakteure mit schmalem Geldbeutel mittels WordPress effizient Content-Marketing und eCommerce betreiben können. Hierzu möchte uns Jochen die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von WordPress als CMS, Blog und Shop aufzeigen.

April 21, 2016 — What does it mean when someone has abused your WordPress environment? How would you even know? We’ll explore the meaningful impacts as a website owner and attackers abusing your site, your brand, your audience and ultimately: your wallet.

I’ll touch on the following key items:

The types of attacks that can abuse a WordPress site (defacement, re-directs, phishing, etc.)
How a compromise can abuse your visitors and Google’s involvement in this process.
How does this affect you financially? I’ll convey stories on clients who lost massive income from the smallest of hacks.

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April 21, 2016 — Having a fast website is essential but not many people know how to optimize their WordPress or don’t feel the need to. Learn how to tackle speed optimizations of your site and get control over your pages performance.

In this presentation, you will get information about the latest practices and technologies that you can use and practical tips how to:

– Properly test your site and find speed problems
– How to prioritise tasks and make an optimization plan
– Take the most out of your server – PHP7, HHVM, HTTP2 and more
– Use the diferent sorts of caching you can use and implement
– Optimize your multimedia content
– Handle and optimize JS and CSS scripts
– Properly implement a CDN service in your site

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April 20, 2016 — We all have to start somewhere. You might be new to WordPress, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have something to say. In this talk, I’ll share my journey from WordPress newcomer to experienced speaker and how everyone, regardless of their skill level, has something valuable and worthwhile to share with the community.

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April 20, 2016 — Designers and developers are both required to build world-class websites, but sometimes it can feel like a struggle for us to work together in a truly collaborative way. In this session, we’ll share a variety of strategies to bridge the gap between design and development ranging from optimizing workflow between designers and developers with unique skillsets; replacing responsive mockups with side-by-side collaboration; creating clean, grid-based, developer-friendly design files; and developing new layouts and features in a way that respects the original design. We’ll cover these approaches and more as we share the process we use to (happily!) work together as a designer/developer team.

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