April 9, 2016 — In this session Mitch will go over the inner workings of WooCommerce, an eCommerce platform built into WordPress. From initial setup to customization, he’ll cover everything you need to know in order to successfully run a WooCommerce installation. Finally, he’ll go over some great plugins and code snippets (in use on client sites) that have taken WooCommerce from “good” to “amazing”.

April 9, 2016 — People are doing amazing things with WordPress every day. Whether it’s your friend at an agency down the road, or a designer across the world, WordPress is transforming peoples lives. It’s empowering. Whether you’re looking for ways to grow your business or trying to get more connected in your city, I believe that the tools to be successful exist within the WordPress community. I’m going to share insights from my experience at over 30 WordCamps, and teach you ways in which I believe you can build key business relationships while helping contribute your own story to the WordPress community. You showed up today, don’t you want to make the most of your weekend?

April 9, 2016 — Whether you’re a freelancer, an agency delivering services, or a product company – the reality is that you’re probably great at the technical side of your job. But being great at the tech side of WordPress work won’t necessarily get you more customers. It’s a different effort, with different required skills. Here are my observations from coaching WordPress companies over the last four years.

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April 8, 2016 — Je vous propose un retour d’expérience sur l’organisation et les process de travail de nos agences pour la gestion des projets complexes WordPress : devis, gestion des clients, type de réunions, livrables, outils, workflow, méthodes de conception et de développement, etc

Quelles sont les erreurs à éviter, les best practices à appliquer afin que les projets soient rentables et les clients satisfaits ? Comment fait-on pour suivre les planning ? Doit-on reprendre les projets d’autres prestataires ? Comment gérer en plus de la production la maintenance et les mises à jours ?

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April 8, 2016 — Come and learn the usability rules for home page design that will keep people on your website. Then we will take volunteers who want valuable user feedback and apply the rules that we just learned in giving actionable advice for improvement. This is a fantastic way to see web design problems and what to do about them in the wild. Fun and eye opening for all.

April 8, 2016 — We’ll have a panel of local SEO Experts Tom Nguyen, Jenny Munn and Mickey Mellen, answering your questions and discussing the latest changes and techniques to help get your site to the top of Google.

April 8, 2016 — WordPress, tout le monde peut l’installer en moins de 5 minutes sur n’importe quel hébergement. Mais qu’est ce qui fait la différence entre un WP qui réussit et celui qui échoue, alors que les deux utilisent la même technologie et le même outil Open Source. Ces sites rencontrent des problématiques très différentes les uns des autres, mais elles sont toutes pénalisantes : sécurité, référencement naturel, gestion des utilisateurs, ergonomie ou temps de chargement. Lors de cette conférence, nous aborderons ainsi les étapes clés de création, de gestion et de développement d’un site WordPress, le tout en se basant sur des cas clients concrets.

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April 8, 2016 — As a developer I’ve never been a big fan of page builders. If you want something done, do it yourself was my mindset. Now that I can’t build as quickly as a client wants I have been forced to use page builders. I’ll be comparing some of the good, bad and ugly ones.

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April 8, 2016 — Composer is a command line dependency management tool designed for PHP.

Come learn how Composer can help you:
– Simplify new project creation
– Minimize duplication of code in your project repositories
– Quickly install and update plugins and themes in bulk
– Manage versioning within your project
– Follow best practices when reusing and managing code across projects

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April 8, 2016 — Ho un blog che parla dell’autismo di mia figlia. Aprirlo è una scelta che mi ha aperto una strada per comunicare con chi condivide la mia stessa esperienza. Vorrei parlare di come secondo me bisogna affrontare l’avventura di un blog, smettendo di pensare a «saper scrivere bene»: pensando solo alle persone con cui si desidera comunicare, cercando anche nell’introspezione più spinta di condividere qualcosa di utile o nel quale le persone possono rispecchiarsi almeno un po’. E facendolo in casa propria, non «on rented land».

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