August 15, 2016 — Web analytics tools gather data and attempt to turn it into information about human behaviour. If you don’t know how Google Analytics does this, you’ll never know how reliable the information is. This talk will expose you to the failings of web analytics tools and raise your level of consciousness so you can see beyond the numbers.

August 15, 2016 — Developers and designers work together on a daily basis to bring custom WordPress builds to life, but sometimes the process can be a bumpy ride! Designers and developers both approach a site design and build from very different angles and this can cause issues. I’ll draw on my own experience of the good, the bad and the ugly to outline some ways that designers and developers can adapt their workflows to work more effectively together.

August 15, 2016 — Whether you’re using WordPress as a blogger, a brand or a social enterprise, placing your audience at the heart of the content you publish can make the experience more rewarding.

This talk explores why audience-led content performs better and gives you practical advice on how to create content that builds a relationship with your community of users.

It covers:

The principle of attracting, engaging and converting your audience by meetings needs
Implications of Google’s Hummingbird and RankBrain updates and Google’s Search Quality Guidelines
Understanding audience needs: how to mind-map intentions and tools to use to research search trends
Understanding user journeys: analysing trigger events and the decision-cycle
Tailoring content to mind-sets: how to use psychographic framing
Testing and refining: tools and metrics to use to analyse WordPress content performance and make improvements to increase engagement

August 15, 2016 — WordPress is well known for its culture of remote workers, with people from all across the globe collaborating on projects, often without ever even meeting each other.

The benefits are numerous, enabling organisations to access the best talent without geographic constraints and allowing individuals to balance their work and personal lives in ways that are not possible in a conventional office environment.

But collaborating as a team of remote workers also comes with many challenges. I will share tips from 9 years of remote working at Wholegrain Digital to hopefully inspire others to try remote working and to help them do it successfully.

August 15, 2016 — “This is a 15-minute Lightning Talk*

A last minute addition – Josh Levinson will talk about React and some simple ways to drop it into WordPress.

August 14, 2016 — Tammie Lister works for Automatic and resides in the United Kingdom. She helped organize WordCamp Brighton 2016 and works with the Design Team.
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August 14, 2016 — Podcasting and live streaming have gained in popularity. There is just a podcast for just about everything you can think of today. And, with YouTube, Periscope, and Mixlr, you can live stream audio or video. In this session, you’ll learn how to record, edit, and publish your podcast or live stream with WordPress, and how to use WordPress plugins to embed your live stream or distribute your podcast to iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and other podcast outlets.

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August 14, 2016 — I have been working a lot on building WooCommerce stores that scale. I built a server stack and plugins, which combined, deliver phenomenal performance and scalability – catapulting WooCommerce into the leagues of enterprise eCommerce stores.

I have helped Datafeedr and WP All Import optimise their plugins, and my WooCommerce plugin makes the /shop/ page load in 0.2 seconds compared to the standard 63 seconds for a 45,000 product store.

I’ll talk about:

How this level of performance is going to change the market place, making it possible and easy for store owners to massively expand their inventory – particularly through drop-shipping and affiliated products.
Best practices for selling stock alongside drop-shipped and affiliated products to maximise your store’s revenue and provide a better service for your customers that grows more quickly as a result.
How I have achieved such levels of code performance, the common performance bottlenecks that exist and how developers can make sure their plugins don’t cause the same mistakes.

August 14, 2016 — Why do so many websites look the same? As our tools have improved and we’ve been able to do more with the web, there’s been a growing trend toward websites that look exactly alike. Why did this come to be, and what can we, as designers and curators of the modern web, do to avoid it?

In order to answer these questions, we’ll touch briefly on the history of web design, and examine how modern tools and practises have contributed to a more homogeneous-looking internet. We’ll examine the web design process from two perspectives – the designer’s and the developer’s – and discuss how the blurring of those roles impacts the design process. Along the way, we’ll discuss the various merits of following or bucking trends. Finally, I’ll offer some constructive advice to help you – whether you’re a designer or not – add an individual touch to your design work.

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August 14, 2016 — 去年の12月Twentysisteenの子テーマ「Wilow」を公式テーマディレクトリに登録しました。
当時WordPress歴1年経たないぐらいでしたが、公式テーマを作ることでいろいろ勉強になりました。
本セッションでは、子テーマを作った方がいい理由や、公式テーマディレクトリに登録するメリット、公式テーマディレクトリに登録するのは思ったより難しくないよということをお話しします。
今年のWordCampKansaiのテーマ「for the future」にちなんで、
これからWordPressを学びたい人たちに聞いて欲しいと思っています。

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