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  • Mark Wilkinson: Beyond FTP: My WordPress Development Workflow

    WordCamp Edinburgh 2015Speaker: Mark Wilkinson

    January 8, 2016 — We have all used FTP as developers to move files from editing them locally to our production server. Developers know the problems this can cause and why alternatives are needed. In this talk I will introduce my WordPress development process and how you can move on from FTP to a more robust development and deployment system. The talk is suitable for developers and designers who build complete sites, or work in teams in which they are responsible for delivering part of a project, collaborating with others.

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  • Valerie Adler: Your Website? It’s Not For You!

    WordCamp Edinburgh 2015Speaker: Valerie Adler

    January 8, 2016 — The hardest thing for many clients to understand is the PURPOSE of their website… who it’s for (their customers) and what it’s supposed to do (attract new or more business). In SEO terms, the most important thing is the matter of relevance. Valerie asks: relevant to what, relevant to whom?

    Understanding one’s client is the key to knowing how to present the content of the site. In this session, Valerie will discuss the importance of defining business objectives and identifying one’s target audience in creating content that both engages that audience AND satisfies Google’s directives on creating an SEO-friendly website.

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  • Alex Christensen: Plugins Part 2 – Ecommerce

    WordCamp Sacramento 2015Speaker: Alex Christensen

    January 8, 2016 — How to effectively start an ecommerce website with WordPress by selecting the correct shopping cart solution to keep your business focused on the foundations before expanding.

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  • Krzysztof Drozdz: Mity (nie)bezpieczenstwa

    WordCamp Krakow 2015Speaker: Krzysztof Dróżdż

    January 8, 2016 — Wokół bezpieczeństwa stron opartych o WordPressa narosło wiele mitów, a na ich podstawie cały czas powstają nowe.

    Część z nich jest niegroźna, inne prowadzą do bardzo poważnych zagrożeń, nie tylko dla Twojej strony, ale też pozostałych użytkowników internetu, a ich skutki bywają kosztowne. Warto więc zatrzymać się na chwilę i zweryfikować poprawność niektórych popularnych twierdzeń.

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  • Maciej Swoboda: Czy mozna zbudowac duzy sklep na WooCommerce?

    WordCamp Krakow 2015Speaker: Maciej Swoboda

    January 7, 2016 — To pytanie pojawiało się na każdym WordUpie, na którym miałem prelekcję o WooCommerce. Czas rozwiać te wątpliwości. Zmierzę się tym samym z mitem mówiącym: WooCommerce tak, ale tylko dla małych sklepów.

    Najpierw wytłumaczę co rozumiem pod pojęciem „dużego sklepu”. Czy duży sklep to duża liczba produktów, klientów czy może zamówień? A może duży sklep to duży ruch na stronie i obciążenie dla serwera?

    Prześledzę wyzwania, z jakimi należy się zmierzyć podczas optymalizacji dużego sklepu WooCommerce. Pokażę również, jak obsługiwać sklep WooCommerce z punktu widzenia admina i na co zwracać szczególną uwagę: jak obsłużyć dużą liczbę zamówień i nie zginąć w gąszczu liczb w raportach.

    Na końcu odpowiem na pytanie, czy sklep WooCommerce może być z powodzeniem użytkowany bez dodatkowych integracji z zewnętrznymi systemami do wspomagania sprzedaży i obsługi magazynu lub jakie są alternatywy, żeby je zastąpić.

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  • Linus Wallen, Per Gardehall and Carl Klingberg: Case study – sweden.se

    WordCamp Krakow 2015Speakers: Linus Wallen, Per Gardehall, Carl Klingberg

    January 7, 2016 — Sweden.se – this website is an official source for facts about Sweden. It is publicly funded, with four organisations behind it: the Swedish Institute (SI), Business Sweden, VisitSweden and the Swedish Government Offices, including the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications.

    Case Studies o stronie opartej na WordPressie, która jest oficjalnym źródłem faktów o Szwecji. Witryna sweden.se jest finansowana ze środków publicznych za pośrednictwem czterech organizacji: The Swedish Institute (SI), Business Sweden, VisitSweden oraz jednostek rządowych, m.in. Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, Ministerstwa Kultury oraz Ministerstwa Przedsiębiorczości, Energii i Komunikacji. Strona jest dowodem na to, że WordPress może udźwignąć naprawdę duże inwestycje.

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  • Joe Chellman: Let’s Debug for Real!

    WordCamp Orange County 2015Speaker: Joe Chellman

    January 7, 2016 — If you’ve written a line of code in any language, you’ve gotten into a state where you don’t necessarily know what the frig is going on. That thing – it’s right there in the template! Or right in that functions.php file, but nothing happens! Or the wrong thing happens! AAAAAAAARGH!

    Sure, you can try adding “echo”, “print_r”, “var_dumps” and the like all over the place, but it’s messy, and there is a better way. With a little bit of set up (but not much – seriously), you too can debug like a champ. If you’ve never seen a real debugger before, or if you’ve just dabbled with one, this talk could change your life substantially for the better.

  • Mike Hansen: Google Analytics for Website Owners

    WordCamp Orange County 2015Speaker: Mike Hansen

    January 7, 2016 — Having a website is a great but if you do not know what is working and what is not, are you getting the most out of your site? This presentation we will go over the analytics dashboard and describe some of the uses for specific areas. We will also go over a list of things to do right now to improve your data. This involves things like setting up site search, custom filters to remove common spam referrers, setup goals and automating your reports.

  • Jason Agnew: Open Source – The Story of Herbert

    WordCamp Edinburgh 2015Speaker: Jason Agnew

    January 7, 2016 — The story begins with a simple, but valuable, warning from experience: that even the best developers can fall victim to the pressures of routine. This talk discusses how results can quickly be replaced by burnout and imposter syndrome.

    The cure for Jason was a WordPress plugin framework, purpose-built to rediscover his confidence and fall in love with coding all over again. We follow his journey back to development bliss through the challenges of creating space for experimentation without the usual client pressures, transitioning from pet project to collaborative product, and learning to accept that it’s okay not to know everything.

    The success (and failures) of the experiment soon fed into the philosophy of Big Bite and began to influence everything from how they worked to the environment they created for their staff, as well as how they communicated with clients and gave back to the digital community.

    Learn the ways in which open source can be embraced, from the smallest acts of personal knowledge sharing to the broadest business practices.

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  • Kyle Maurer and Adam Silver: WP Battles: Plugins vs. Themes

    WordCamp Ann Arbor 2015Speakers: Kyle Maurer, Adam Silver

    January 7, 2016 — The classic contest. Themes against plugins. Which are better? Which can solve your problems, fix your site and grow your business? In this epic showdown we’ll explore the purposes and use cases, pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses of these two critical components of any WordPress website.

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