October 21, 2015 — Nieuws.nl is een grote Nederlandse nieuwssite met een focus op lokaal nieuws. Nieuws.nl heeft een bereik van 1,9 miljoen unieke bezoekers en ruim 8 miljoen pageviews per maand. Het platform draait als WordPress Multisite installatie met 412 subsites, één voor elke gemeente in Nederland.
Met deze talk willen we laten zien hoe een complexere WordPress website in elkaar steekt. Waar zitten de uitdagingen? Wat voor soort maatwerk is er nodig om aan de wensen en eisen van een dergelijk platform te voldoen? Wat komt er bij de hosting van zo’n platform kijken? In deze talk is er veel ruimte voor vragen vanuit het publiek.

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October 20, 2015 — In this session you’ll hear about how my passion for WordPress helped me create an online presence for our family project turned multinational charity program and landed me my dream job, helping to protect WordPress sites at Sucuri. It opened opportunities, allows me to work remotely for an American company, while also providing enough time to manage the volunteers behind the ShoeBox Romania Project.

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October 20, 2015 — Voor veel plugin developers, zeker degenen die niet in teamverband werken, voelt user support vaak als een klusje. Iets wat gedaan moet worden, in plaats van een belangrijk onderdeel van het laten groeien van de user base (en uiteindelijk: het verhogen van sales). Ines verteld over wat er gedaan kan worden om je support proces te verbeteren en te vereenvoudigen, zodat je minder waardevolle tijd verliest.

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October 20, 2015 — WordPress plugins have changed a lot over the last couple years. People who build larger scale websites, often try to push the boundaries of what WordPress is capable of. To make your WordPress plugins compatible with such larger websites, there are a couple things you need to be aware of. Performance testing, security checks and many other tools have become a standard best practice during development.

In this presentation, Coen will guide you through the issues that WordPress is currently facing when it comes to adopting technologies like Composer in your WordPress plugins. Composer has become the number one package manager in the PHP world, but is near impossible to implement correctly in your WordPress plugins.

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October 19, 2015 — WooCommerce 2.4 comes with an intelligent onboarding wizard that will help you setup your webshop. Based on his experience building this onboarding wizard, Mike will talk about what user onboarding is. He’ll explain why it’s important, how you can improve it in your plugins, techniques you can use, and show some good/bad user onboarding examples specific to WordPress plugins.

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October 19, 2015 — eCommerce is an emerging tool in the world. Matty would like to re-introduce you to WooCommerce, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform. Matty will tell the story of the journey of WooCommerce, where it’s focus is and where it’s headed. Having recently been acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com), and exciting future awaits WooCommerce.

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October 19, 2015 — You never discuss rates with a plumber. You never try to pay them in visibility. You would never let your 13 years old cousin fix your leaking pipes. But your clients do that all the times with you. My presentation analyses why this happens and how a WordPress professional can become a better marketer, more professional, more profitable.

October 19, 2015 — Everyone wants more traffic to their sites. To get more traffic, your site needs to perform well in search engines. People need to share your stories on social platforms. To do be able to get both, you need a holistic SEO strategy. You need to be telling great stories, using the right keywords. You need a good User eXperience and a technically excellent site. Joost will give hints and tips to achieve all of this.

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October 19, 2015 — WordPress is a great content management system but keeping your frontend-code clean and well structured in WordPress can be very tough. In this talk we go through the steps of using WordPress mainly for the backend and we’ll be using tools like the new REST api, Backbone and Handlebars to create a theme that loads fast and is an absolute joy to build and maintain.

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October 18, 2015 — Working on projects, with other people, can be hard. Working virtually on these projects can make it even harder. However, there is hope! In this session participants will learn how to ensure everyone working on a project is working together to make awesome things happen. Having an understanding of virtual teams and how they work is imperative to building a great project team. Practical tools will be given on how to utilize technology to open lines of communication, what to do when things aren’t go well on your project, and what you can do to “get the job done.”