November 13, 2019 — This is a lightning-session-length presentation that puts good coding practices, specifically WordPress coding standards, into terms that people can understand to make it easier to build sites with WordPress and contribute back to the WordPress community. My own background as a magazine editor and copy editor for 8 years before starting to develop with WordPress gives me the experience to present this material with confidence.

November 13, 2019 — You can look at your opponent’s brilliant, game-winning move and say, “Wow…that was awesome,” because you’re actually celebrating how they pushed themselves to think outside the box and overcome a tough challenge. (And besides, next time you’ll use their own idea against them.)

It doesn’t matter that you haven’t memorized the whole rule book, or that your last strategy completely blew up in your face. When you play a board game, you and your friends are encouraging each other to try harder and have fun at the same time.

We face many challenges when we create and work with websites. and all the skills involved would take many lifetimes to truly master. But rather than being frustrated by the obstacles, intimidated into doubting ourselves, or misled into believing that we’re on our own, we can shift our perspective and remind ourselves to have fun and grow together.

November 13, 2019 — Imagine if a single framework could be leverages for your stage presentations, sales letters, landing pages, and blog posts? Imagine if you could learn it in ten minutes and apply it for a lifetime. The good news is hundreds of others have already learned it and use it successfully today. And all I need to do is tell you a story.

November 13, 2019 — This session emphasizes ways web teams can rely on automation and standardization at one level of the hierarchy in order to move their focus to a higher level.

November 13, 2019

November 13, 2019 — In this talk, I’ll cover the basics of how to get to the bottom of technical issues, and to set up a workflow that prevents your site visitors’ experiences from being disrupted.

You will walk away armed with the tools you need to confidently click “Update” every time, without fear of bringing your site down.

As an added bonus, you will have an antidote for that voice in your head that says silly things like “but I’m not technical” or “I’m not a coder” as a way of avoiding leveling up.

November 13, 2019 — Joining such a welcoming and inspiring community as is the WordPress project can be exhilarating and makes people want to contribute their part to join the movement and strengthen their feeling of belonging.

The initial enthusiasm can easily lead to contributors slowly spiraling into overcommitment and a feeling of obligation and responsibility towards the project. There’s a cost attached to anything we do, even when we’re talking about unpaid volunteer work done in the spare time. And that cost will be paid in some way, no matter what.

We need to more openly talk about the adverse effects of doing open source contributions in an unsustainable way, destigmatize the money topic when it comes to “”free”” software and directly address immediate issues of frustration and burn-out as they surface.

Let’s all have our fellow contributors’ backs, and make sure we’re all in it for the long run!

November 13, 2019 — This talk provides a transparent account of why Bristol chose to do_action, what successes and challenges we faced, who it helped and how it made an impact.

November 13, 2019 — This session is for people who want to implement BDD in their WordPress projects. Through examples the role that each tool plays will be presented. The relationship among them and how they build on each other will also be exemplified.

By the end of it you will have an overview of how to use Behat, Mink, WordHat, and Selenium to write BDD tests for WordPress.

Learning objectives:

– How to set up Behat and WordHat to run tests for WordPress projects.
– How to write non-javascript enabled tests using driver Goutte driver.
– How to write javascript enabled tests using the Selenium driver.

November 13, 2019 — You might love your website — but does your target market? More importantly, are the people you seek to serve actually converting in terms of your website’s goals?

It’s easy to get caught up in bias when it comes to a project that you’re closely involved with. One way to get around this involves inviting unbiased third parties to try using your website, while narrating their experience. You may be surprised to see the major differences that come to light in terms of what you expected to happen versus how people actually navigate your website.

This process, known as user testing, can quickly become expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. With experience designing websites for 15+ years, UX enthusiast Maddy Osman will provide an actionable process (complete with tool suggestions) for performing user tests on a budget.