July 14, 2015 — When we think about making our site, theme, or plugin welcoming to users around the world, we often focus on translation. While very important, there’s more to localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) than just that.
This talk covers some of the many cultural and practical differences that should affect our design choices, our code, and how we reach out to our global base of users and customers.

July 14, 2015 — What does a researcher have to say about the WordPress source code and the community behind it? Join us on this talk on unusual “WordPress analytics” and see what we can learn, and improve!, from the way WordPress (and the plugin and theme ecosystem around it) is developed nowadays.

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July 14, 2015 — Once you’ve installed WordPress, what now? For new users, that’s just one of a multitude of inevitable questions. What’s a post? A page? A theme? Where should I start first? In a short attention-span world, first impressions are everything, and WordPress is making it harder than it needs to be for new users.
There’s a case to be made for helping to guide users through the process of post-install set up. In fact, there’s user testing data that makes the case for us.
The goal of this talk is to examine that test data – taken against existing and potential wp-admin flows – and form conclusions about how WordPress can get out of its own way to improve the new user experience. We’ll talk about solutions that exist in the community right now, and opportunities to get involved in reshaping WordPress’ first impressions.

July 14, 2015 — Akki hat sich vom absoluten Laien zur semiprofessionellen Bloggerin entwickelt. In einem Interview möchten wir gerne mehr von Akki erfahren:
Wie bist du zum Bloggen gekommen?
Welche Veränderungen haben sich in den letzten 2 Jahren in
deinem Blog ergeben?
Wie wächst man als technischer Laie in die Nutzung von WordPress herein?
An wen wendest du dich, wenn du zum Beispiel Fragen zu Themes hast?

July 14, 2015 — Passend zu unserem Motto “Erweitere Deinen Horizont · Teile Dein Wissen · Erlebe die Gemeinschaft” gibt uns David einen Einblick in den CMS-Garden.
Der CMS-Garden ist ein Zusammenschluss von ca. einem Dutzend der bekanntesten OpenSource Content Management Systeme, darunter die “großen Namen” wie WordPress, Joomla!, TYPO3, Drupal und Contao.
All diese System haben sich im Garden-Projekt zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam Marketing- und Lobbyarbeit zu betreiben, voneinander zu lernen und Wissen zu teilen.
David möchte das Projekt vorstellen, zeigen, welche Erfolge sie erreicht haben, wo man sich engagieren kann und gleichzeitig ein wenig Schleichwerbung für die anstehende CMS-Garden Konferenz im Oktober machen.

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July 14, 2015 — Okay, so you have a blog set up.. now what?
What are the guidelines for Google?
How to get your readers to sign up.
What are dofollow links?
Ad what? Using Adsense and other sources to monetize your site.
Depending on the audience, either start with the basic setup and plugins needed to run a blog on your site or take things to a higher level with affiliate links, ads and sponsored posts.

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July 13, 2015 — Custom Fields, Post Formate, Custom Post Type, Custom Taxonomie, Standard-Taxonomien (Kategorien, Tags), Seiten und Beiträge. – In ihrem Vortrag erläutert Monika, was diese Organisationsmöglichkeiten unterscheidet, wo ihre Grenzen sind und was deshalb wie eingesetzt werden sollte.

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July 13, 2015 — This talk focuses on my five key tips and tricks to creating better product photos for social media, marketing, and website use. While we will focus heavily on the photography side of things, there will be social media tidbits thrown in along the way.

July 13, 2015 — In this session, I plan to solve the “pages vs. posts” mystery. Many new users of WordPress get confused by this. What’s the difference. When to I post, when do I add a page. We’ll dawn our best Scooby Doo hats and solve this mystery once and for all.

July 13, 2015 — Vagrant is a fantastic piece of software that allows developers and testers to create portable, reusable and easily reproducible development environments. This session covers the functional aspects and a quick demo of the workflow of using Vagrant specifically for WordPress development.

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