May 1, 2025 — Presentado porShirley Madeley Sosa Muro La charla está enfocada en cómo aplicar principios de UX en WordPress para crear sitios que no solo se vean bien, sino que por sobre todo funcionen, conviertan. Te compartiré estrategias prácticas, errores comunes a evitar y herramientas esenciales para optimizar la experiencia de navegación y desarrollar webs con un enfoque centrado en el usuario que marque la diferencia.

May 1, 2025 — Andar nas redes sociais como pequeno negocio ou emprendedor é unha aventura constante. Que se cambios de algoritmos inesperados, novas redes que aparecen e desaparecen máis rápido do que tardamos en entendelas, bailes virais imposibles de seguir, e unha audiencia que parece que nunca está contenta… Ás veces dá a sensación de que sería máis fácil emigrar ao monte e dedicarse ao pastoreo dixital, non si?

Pero non desesperedes! María Sierra, xornalista e especialista en comunicación dixital baixo a súa marca Pasquino Comunicación, vai ensinarnos como non só sobrevivir, senón prosperar neste mundo cambiante. Descubriremos con ela como crear contido que realmente funcione, como usar WordPress para facer webs que comuniquen e vendan, e sobre todo, como facer un plan de comunicación adaptado ao voso xeito, porque cada negocio é único e merece o seu propio camiño dixital.

Con humor, moito sentido práctico e unha chea de exemplos reais, María axudaranos a perderlle o medo ás redes sociais e a aproveitalas ao máximo sen perder a nosa identidade nin a nosa saúde mental.

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May 1, 2025 — In today’s interconnected world, businesses have the unique opportunity to tap into global talent pools, especially in emerging markets like the Philippines. But how do we ensure our hiring practices remain ethical, sustainable, and empowering? Drawing from personal experiences navigating the intricacies of remote work and local talent, this talk will explore practical steps for creating win-win situations. We’ll discuss cultural sensitivity, fair wages, and fostering professional growth while avoiding common pitfalls that exploit or marginalize workers. Let’s build a better global workplace together—one hire at a time.

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May 1, 2025 — In a world where remote work relies heavily on chat, email, and video calls, clear and concise communication is essential. Yet, miscommunication and inefficiencies often plague even the best teams. These challenges are magnified when remote-first teams interact with traditional office-based teams, whose reliance on in-person conversations can clash with the structured, asynchronous methods of remote collaboration.

This talk draws inspiration from the high-stakes communication systems of the military, aviation, and maritime industries. These fields, forged through decades of experience and hard lessons learned from catastrophic failures, have perfected methods that prioritize clarity, brevity, and precision. Attendees will explore how these principles can be applied to improve communication in remote work environments.

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May 1, 2025 — “From Code to Customers: SEO-Driven Strategies to Scale Your WordPress Products and Services Globally” is a session designed for WordPress developers, agency owners, and product companies looking to transform their technical expertise into a thriving global business. While many excel at building innovative plugins, themes, or services, they often struggle with sales and marketing. This session bridges that gap by providing actionable SEO and marketing strategies tailored for the WordPress ecosystem.

Attendees will learn how to:

Position their products/services for global markets by identifying niches, understanding localization, and leveraging global SEO trends.
Drive organic traffic and sales through keyword research, on-page optimization, and technical SEO fixes specific to WordPress.
Build a content marketing strategy that attracts backlinks, engages audiences, and converts leads.
Leverage social media and communities to amplify their reach and build a loyal customer base.
Scale their business with monetization strategies, analytics, and growth hacks tailored for WordPress professionals.
Packed with real-life case studies, actionable templates, and interactive Q&A, this session will empower attendees to take their WordPress products and services to the global stage. Whether you’re a student, developer, agency owner, or product company, this talk will equip you with the tools to turn code into customers and scale your business like never before.

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May 1, 2025 — In this insightful talk, the speaker shares their experience implementing five game-changing strategies to boost revenue for WordPress products. Covering everything from optimizing exit-intent popups and crafting high-converting newsletters to experimenting with pricing models, the session dives into what worked, what didn’t, and why. Whether you’re a product owner, marketer, or developer, you’ll gain actionable takeaways that can be applied directly to your own business.

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May 1, 2025 — This session will introduce the audience to Large Language Models (LLMs) and provide an intuitive understanding of how they work. Once that foundation is set, it will feature a demo of an example application that applies these concepts—integrated with WordPress—such as a tag generator or a content-aware chatbot.

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May 1, 2025 — Autumn Fjeld Candy Tsai February 22, 2025 10:00 AM Meeting Room 12 – Balagtas (Room 3)​​With recent Gutenberg advances in block patterns, block bindings, and the Gutenberg Editor there is a new interface paradigm for custom post types and custom fields on the horizon. We’ve been experimenting with these block technologies to create an entirely Editor based approach to custom data management, including exporting a “take it to go” data model plugin. Let’s discuss!

May 1, 2025 — The Automattic Special Projects team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations have a great experience with WordPress. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general. This session will showcase both the front and back-end of a range of website builds, highlighting how the team uses the latest WordPress features to push the boundaries of block theme design, and how these projects contribute back to Automattic and the WordPress community at-large.

May 1, 2025 — Let’s face it, usability testing can seem daunting. When should you do it? How do you conduct tests and extract useful information? And, perhaps most pressing, how much time and money will it take? As a UX certified professional with the world-renowned Nielsen Norman Group and a WordPress agency owner for the past six years, I’m intimately familiar with these questions, and now I’m going to share with you my secrets of how qualitative user testing can help you take a WordPress website from good, to great.

In this session I’ll provide answers to the main questions that website owners (or creators) need to answer when it comes to usability testing: What even is usability testing and what does it test for? When should I test my site, and how often? How can I run usability tests without a gigantic budget or team? How much time or money will it cost me? Join me and learn about the most cost effective UX research method at your disposal, and learn how to leverage it to build stuff better.