September 2, 2020 — Rajnish talks about WordPress Scaling Challenges and preparing WordPress for High Volume Traffic.

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August 31, 2020 — You have prepared endlessly and proudly pitched your client. Now you wait, only to hear they have selected another agency or maybe a freelancer. When faced with rejection, how do you keep yourself focused and motivated to continue? This talk will focus on ways to stay positive while continuously improving your pitch (and yourself).

August 31, 2020 — Pictures and logos are a necessity on a website, but not all images are created equal. The wrong images could slow down your site or even worse, cause users to leave before your page loads. Speaker Kim White will walk through the basics of the most used image format types and some optimization techniques. She will also do a review of what WordPress does when you upload your image file.

August 31, 2020 — In an effort to deliver a beautiful site for clients at a reasonable cost, some designers rely quite a bit on the intuitive interface of page builders. Working this way has several advantages, but it is not without its problems. In this session, graphic designer Lou Fuiano will share some of these experiences and hopes they will lead to a lively discussion.

August 31, 2020 — Settings, widgets, HTTP requests, shortcodes… WordPress gives plugin developers more than a dozen PHP APIs. Using these APIs enables developers to write extensions the “right” way, using methods, actions, and filters that make plugins forward-compatible, maintainable, and extensible. We’ll take a tour of these APIs, exploring when and how to use them to build a WordPress plugin.

August 31, 2020 — Google Data Studio allows you to build beautiful custom dashboards for a variety of data and analytics. You can pull in data from Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Search Console and even from other products such as Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. In this talk, we will walk through how to create your first dashboard and connect it to multiple sources.

August 30, 2020 — ¿Tienes algún problema con un proyecto WordPress?, ¿quieres probarte a ver cuanto sabes de WordPress?, ¿encallado en algún asunto wordpresero?
La sesión de agosto será una merienda fresquita para ir dando solución (o no) y todo lo que se plantee. Es una oportunidad para recibir consejos de la comunidad sobre eso que tienes en la cabeza y tienes que sacarlo.

August 27, 2020 — Do you constantly feel like you are hacking code together? Do you find it difficult to maintain, adapt or even read code you’ve written previously? Chances are, you are not taking into consideration some of the basic principles of software architecture. Come learn how some simple habits and changes in perspective can transform you from a 1x developer to a 10x developer!

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August 25, 2020 — In this talk we will discuss how to how to activate the know, love and trust factor using social media.

August 25, 2020 — The Yoast plugin adds powerful SEO functionality to WordPress. This talk will show you how to use it effectively in order to get the most out of it, from beginner to advanced features. Step-by-step instructions will provide valuable takeaways for you to take home and implement on your WordPress sites.