October 10, 2015 — This talk discusses Varoujan’s experience with WordPress and how he started to get familiar with themes and plugins. He will discuss the challenges he faced when tweaking or modifying layouts. Although initially coding is not required when designing with WordPress; he will eventually have to learn CSS, PHP and HTML, which will become necessary to fine tune the functionality of the site.

October 9, 2015 — Did you ever wish you could go beyond what index.php, page.php and single.php have to offer. Have you ever wondered what taxonomy.php in your premium theme actually does? Have you ever had the need to target a blog category or a custom post type with a unique layout?

Well, it might be high time to put the WordPress Template Hierarchy to work for you.

I will take you on a little tour of this powerful aspect of WordPress development. Learn how to the hierarchy is structured, how to create a custom post type template, how to drill down and create a template for even a specific page or post and more.

October 9, 2015 — WordPress is evolving, and a big part in that is the REST API that soon will be shipped in a WordPress installation near you. This is a presentation of what, why and how to use the API with some concrete examples and findings from the Swedish media startup KIT that recently launched their site based on WordPress as “just a backend.”

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October 9, 2015 — Every web designer should know how to build a responsive website using some fancy CSS3 features. But dealing with different browsers and with constantly changing clients request can be a huge hassle.

This introduction session will give you a brief overview over the features of SASS. You will learn how to utilize SASS to speed up your development and handle those clients’ requests with ease.

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October 9, 2015 — Andreas Ek is a consultant specialized in web production automation based on open source solutions such as WordPress. His passion is business automation and he has experience from building administrative web solutions for various industries, including education, publishing, and government.

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October 9, 2015 — If you make WordPress sites for a living, you’ve probably worked with clients, and you’ve probably been through the occasional tough project. Collaborating with your clients and forming a true alliance with them is delicate art. But, this talk won’t focus on what seems to go wrong with these collaborations –– it will focus on how to get it right.

We’ll compare assumptions that developers and clients often bring to a project, and look at how they are similar in some ways (e.g., the excitement of creating something new) and different in others (e.g. features that may strike clients as simple, but are actually difficult to build, and situations where developers assume a content management task will be easy for the clients, when it’s actually heinous).

We’ll also talk about a comparative wish list of skills and attitudes developers and clients tend to wish the other had, and we’ll talk about the anatomy of an ideal collaboration and the sorts of shared ideas and exchanges that can happen at every phase of a typical web product cycle, especially the initial discovery phase, where we identify the known knowns, the known unknowns, and as many of the unknown unknowns as we can.

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October 9, 2015 — What will happen to your website when it gets hit by a huge traffic spike? It will almost certainly go down if you are not prepared. Discover how to set up WordPress on Amazon cloud, covering vertical and horizontal scaling. Amazon offers many different components, but testing them can be time consuming and exhausting. Learn how to choose the right instances’ types and sizes, how to separate web server and database tier, and how to make them highly available with auto-scaling.

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October 9, 2015 — WooCommerce is a popular and powerful e-commerce platform, but it adds an advanced layer to your WordPress-powered website. Keeping the installation up to date requires more of you as the administrator than a blog or a basic website does. In this presentation, we give you practical tips and advice on how to build an online store that works well and will function over time.

The presentation is intended for those who have basic knowledge of WooCommerce and want to learn more about how to build an online store according to current recommendations. You don’t need to be an advanced developer to keep up with the examples we will go through.

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October 9, 2015 — All websites we build have a goal, usually to convince a visitor to do something we want in one way or another. Optimizing websites for conversion requires knowledge about how we humans work, how we make decisions and how we can predict our irrational behavior and use it for good. In this session, we’ll explore working techniques and methods of high converting websites and landing pages, building ourselves a tried-and-tested toolset to make our website achieve business success.

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October 9, 2015 — As working remotely is getting more and more popular in the WordPress industry, many of us are choosing to work from co-working spaces. But is everyone familiar with co-working etiquette?

In this talk, Franz will present some insights on how to be a good co-worker, boost your productivity in a co-working environment and nurture the co-working culture. He will share the most common challenges he has encountered whilst working from a co-working space and how he overcame them.

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