February 17, 2016 — It’s not enough to just create great content on WordPress. You want people to find your posts in search engines. But how exactly do you control the metadata that Google consumes before sending readers your way? You need to use WP SEO by Yoast. Widely seen as the top plugin for optimizing WordPress web sites, WP SEO by Yoast goes deep and broad with features that include a page edit tool. Mari Kane will show you how to used that page tool, as well as other features of Yoast that help optimize your site for search engines.

February 16, 2016 — Posłuchaj o ścieżce od pasjonata dobrej kuchni i „niedzielnego blogera” do właściciela dużego serwisu internetowego o tematyce kulinarnej, a także o tym jak przy okazji WordPress stał się sposobem na biznes.

Tomasz przedstawia od kuchni wypracowane w ciągu tych lat pracy sposoby i sprawdzone schematy budowy jakościowej treści, dzięki którym bez wsparcia w postaci SEO (Search Engine Optimization) udało mu się zbudować zasięg na poziomie miliona odwiedzin bloga miesięcznie.

Podstawą będą konkretne przykłady jak za pomocą darmowych narzędzi i pluginów, bez ponoszenia wysokich kosztów pracy programisty, można zbudować skuteczne narzędzie do tworzenia świetnie zoptymalizowanych treści i pracując na bazie takiego schematu sprawnie rozwijać projekty bazujące na unikalnej treści.

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February 16, 2016 — Pratik has been working on WordPress since 2013, and is a huge fan of the platform. He led the workshop on how to conduct theme reviews on WordPress. Sweta Shrestha and Suwash Kunwar provided their assistance in the workshop.

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February 15, 2016 — Workshop:
Starting a website is easy with WordPress, but having a clear goal in mind is vital for determining design, structure and content. In this workshop we’ll first focus on setting clear goals, before we in the next step will translate that into a better website. We’ll look at different types of goals like personal blogging, sharing portfolio, revenue gain, community building, and so on. Together we’ll discuss what would be the best approach for each of those specific goals.

This workshop is ideal for WordPress beginners who’ve never built a website or those who want to take their website to the next level.

February 15, 2016 — WordPress in Africa

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February 15, 2016 — eCommerce panel discussion.

February 15, 2016 — In this session, Drew will be sharing insight into how a WordPress release happens, including an overview of all the moving parts, teams, organization, and execution. A lot of people have this idea that the core team is solely responsible for new versions of WordPress getting released, which couldn’t be further from the truth – it’s an intricate ballet of multiple contributor teams coming together and executing a broad vision.
He will talk about how a release cycle is structured, how and where the decision-making happens, as well as all of the various contributors and teams that play their own part in a successful release. It’s very much opening the black box of how a release works.

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February 15, 2016 — Backwards compatibility is a cornerstone of WordPress core development philosophy. It is, unfortunately, not something nearly enough plugin or theme developers take seriously. When a plugin or theme project gains 10s or 100s of thousands of users, backwards compatibility can be crucial to the overall health of the project.

Ensuring backwards compatibility is more of a mental mindset than anything. Developers have to mentally make the commitment and say to themselves “I will NOT break installs during upgrades”.

February 15, 2016 — In a world where poverty, hunger and unemployment are rife, where we are constantly reminded that we live in a time of turmoil on a planet that we are slowly killing, can we actually make a difference?
We take a look at some of the people and organisations who, along with the local WordPress community, are using technology to make a real difference.

February 15, 2016 — A talk on how Anthropology and other human sciences can be applied to identifying customer journeys and improving customer experience as a whole. Marcela will focus on behavioural principles and how these are applied to marketing and user research projects.