January 20, 2016 — You’ve probably seen it happen- someone complains because they just got a website, but they don’t know how to use it. Their designer or developer or project manager just left them high and dry without some type of direction or documentation.

Let’s face it, as a designer or developer or project manager, you’re definitely going to run into someone who isn’t really that familiar with WordPress. In fact, you’ll encounter all sorts of user levels when it comes to working with clients. How do you teach your client how to use their WordPress website? How do you figure it into your project’s scope? If you don’t like teaching them, what can you do to make sure your relationship with your client ends on a good note because you were diligent to give them the tools they need to continue on their own?

I’ll be going over strategies to help you put together a plan on teaching your clients how to use WordPress. Let’s decrease the frustration together and allow your clients to become enthusiastic WordPress users that are making money.

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January 19, 2016 — Designers and non-designers alike can get caught up in the aesthetics and functionality of a website, and forget that every decision made should be supported by an underlying strategy. We will discuss how to find your site’s primary call to action and create experiences that support that goal. We will also evaluate design choices of many well-known sites as we examine how they help (or hinder) common goals. Whether you’re a designer, developer, or a person maintaining a site, you will come away with a critical eye for evaluating design patterns and a process for narrowing down a design strategy.

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January 19, 2016 — Many WordPress developers start out learning PHP from playing around with themes and then slowly pick up the language and start moving towards writing their own plugins. However, it is common to find WordPress developers struggling to grasp the higher-level concepts and features of PHP. Let’s fill the gaps in our self-learning and break through to the next level of PHP programming by learning what PHP classes are and how they can be used to make your code simpler, easier to read and easier maintain.

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January 19, 2016 — Join us and find out best practices for user experience with websites. If you’d like to get some feedback or learn vicariously by watching critiques of other people’s sites, this is the place for you. Come prepared to with your website URL to get a boost on how to make your website rock.

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January 19, 2016 — WordPress is a magical system that turns any URL into a web page, dynamically. In this talk, aimed at beginning wizards, looking to develop new WordPress powers, we’re going to take a look at five major events in the transformation of a request to your site, into a web page.

This talk is for new plugin developers, or those looking to increase their skills in the art of custom site development. It is designed to show you where to look when you need to change WordPress’ behavior to fit your specific needs and increase your ability to make use of WordPress hooks.

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January 19, 2016 — Bryce Adams is a nomadic coder (currently based in Melbourne, Australia) working for Automattic on the biggest WooCommerce store in the world – WooThemes.com. He talked in detail about the freemium model, showing examples of freemium plugins like WooCommerce and demonstrating how you can do the same thing with your WordPress product.

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January 19, 2016 — 富山県魚津市で販売された「プレミアム付宿泊券」の発行システムをWordPressで構築しました。
WordPressでシステム開発を行うメリットや開発の進め方、開発チームについて、今回の事例に基づいて紹介します。
紹介事例の「プレミアム付宿泊券」は富山県だけではなく全国で販売されました。しかし先だって販売された他の自治体ではサーバが落ちるほどのアクセスが集中し「販売から数分で完売した」「二重に販売してしまった」というニュースも飛び込んで来ました。
エンジニアにとっては背筋の凍る思いのする案件となる中、WordPressでどうやって実装したかについてお話しします。

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January 19, 2016 — Roshan Bhattarai is a Tech Entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Proshore and is working as a CTO in the same. He talked about how he analyzed and diagnosed two major problems which he faced on his WordPress sites.

January 19, 2016 — “Online storytelling continues to evolve, with more complex and engaging forms appearing every year. What began as long-form online news articles has branched off in diverse directions, ranging from websites that expand the universe of an upcoming Hollywood movie, to a loose fabric of apps and sites that together reinterpret a classic Victorian novel.

This session will explore the boom in online storytelling and examine how both developers and users are leveraging WordPress to uniquely support such storytelling. We will touch on such WordPress solutions as the Aesop Story Engine plugin and themes specifically designed for storytelling, such as Storyteller, Longform and Radcliffe.

The intended audience consists of WordPress power users who want to tell engaging online stories, as well as developers interested in creating WordPress themes and websites geared toward storytelling.

Learning Outcomes:

Use WordPress to empower your storytelling efforts.
Compare and select a WordPress theme for your storytelling website.
Install and use the Aesop Story Engine plugin.
Understand how custom themes can utilize the Aesop Story Engine plugin.
Continue a 50,000 year tradition of storytelling.

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January 19, 2016 — Good plugins provide actions and filters to allow others (like you!) to modify some of their functionality without having to either create a whole new plugin from scratch or hack away at the original plugin, losing your changes when that plugin gets updated down the road. Learn how to find these actions and filters in other plugins, and use them to bend the plugin to your will.

Learning Outcomes:

Know what actions and filters are, and how they can be used.
Be able to create a functionality plugin to modify another plugin’s functionalities.

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