June 7, 2015 — Marketing yourself or your business can be really scary when you’re an introvert who is more comfortable in front of a computer than in front of real people.
There are a lot of introverted folks in the WordPress community looking for freelance jobs, employment, or quality contractors to hire, yet many of us feel scared, directionless, isolated, overwhelmed, and hungry for work.
I share my experience growing from a timid one-person freelance shop to a more confident team of nine great people, including practical tactics for in-person networking, working with freelancers, finding the right fit, and community participation.

June 2, 2015 — Learn how to change the design of your website without hundreds of plugins or years of coding experience. Using easy to learn skills, you will unleash your inner designer, and become a WordPress master!

June 2, 2015 — How can I work out the value of a website? How is the website worth to a customer? How can you use options to increase the amount a customer will spend on on their website? Will customers choose me if I’m not the cheapest option? How do I set an anchor price? Does value pricing even work in the UK? I share my journey so far into value pricing and how are you too can adopt the approach to increase the amount of money you make from building websites.

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June 2, 2015 — The strength of WordPress is in its licensing under the GPL (GNU General Public Licence). What does the GPL really mean? How does it affect you, your creativity, and your work? How does it protect your freedom?
Get a method for talking about licensing with your “technophobic” clients, friends and family.

June 2, 2015 — From a part-time hobby to a full-blown agency, Brad has built WebDevStudios into one of the largest agencies in the world focusing 100% on WordPress development and design. In this presentation Brad talks through the history of the company, discuss challenges faced along the way, and shares tips on how he grew a hobby to a distributed company with 35 full-time employees.

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June 2, 2015 — Between WordPress development, content production, editing, publishing and keeping your plugins and themes in order you’ve already got enough on your plate. This presentation focuses on how to optimize your WordPress site for search without adding another full time task to your schedule. We take a beginner-friendly look at how to optimize your site, your content and manage the off page factors that all impact where you show up in the search ratings. We also look at the fundamentals of how search engines rank content to lend a better understanding of how these optimization processes work. In the interests of keeping costs down we’ll take a quick tour through free tools you can use as you optimize your sites. The session also touches on some of the dangers of getting carried away with your SEO, touching on Google penalties and how best to avoid them.

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June 2, 2015 — Charities and associations, especially smaller organisations without technical staff, often struggle to plan and manage a website. This presentation addresses some of the questions they might ask: how to find and work with a WordPress developer; what to put in the project brief; how can WordPress be used to create campaign and directory websites; and how to test, launch and promote a non-profit website. The talk is illustrated with examples from real life websites, with opportunity for you to ask questions and share your own experiences.

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June 2, 2015 — “Great White Buffalo — A term for “the one that got away”. Used without explanation in the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine”.”
By the end of my presentation I hope to have provided you (and your team) enough knowledge, tools and inspiration to start hunting for your Great White Buffalo.
If you’ve already found your Great White Buffalo, here’s an overview of some of the technical things I’ll cover:
How we use WordPress and BuddyPress for our social network
Project management solutions like Slack, Trello and GitHub
Social Media Strategy
Crowdfunding (IndieGogo) and accepting donations on your WordPress site

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June 2, 2015 — Mike Sales and Ann Thanaraj discuss the use of WordPress as a platform to run Virtual Clinics in academic and business settings. Our implementation takes advantage of the inbuilt multi-site capabilities of WordPress for the creation of individual clinics, along with third party plugins including MultiNetwork to manage individual institutions and BuddyPress to provide the tools uses by individual clinics.

June 1, 2015 — Taking stock of the world of WordPress themes as going into mid-year 2015. Topics to cover include: next-generation themes, looking at Twenty Sixteen and beyond; lessons learned from 5 years of default themes; business of selling themes in 2015; theme support and maintenance; accessibility; mobile and responsive; JavaScript and REST API in themes.