November 13, 2019 — You built a plugin. It was fun — until it wasn’t. Now the support takes away from your family time. If you stop supporting the plugin, it can weigh you down with creator’s guilt. So, what are your options? We’ve seen big products sell like iThemes to Liquid Web and Sucuri to GoDaddy, but is your product worth selling? Mike Demo breaks it down.

November 13, 2019 — WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites. You can use it to speed up maintenance and deployment tasks, and to aid in theme and plugin development. Join Diana Thompson to learn more about this powerful tool for managing and developing WordPress.

November 13, 2019 — Everyone in the WordPress community is talking about the new editing experience in WordPress. Wherever you fall in defense of or against the new editor, it changes how we interact with WordPress from a content editing and a development perspective.

In this talk, Chris Reynolds explores some of the ways Gutenberg changes how we build things as well as the types of things we can build to enhance and improve the WordPress editing experience.

November 13, 2019 — New to WordPress? Ever wondered what difference is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? Then this is the session for you!

Join Justice Anderson to learn the difference and get tips on how to build your first self-hosted WordPress Site.

November 13, 2019 — This talk is aimed at freelancing WordPress professionals and small WordPress agencies who want to grow their business into something bigger than a one-man band. Linda Gunn shares her story and lessons she’s learned over the decades – focusing on hiring staff, managing stress and creating processes to set yourself up for success as a scalable WordPress agency.

Linda began her company in her living room in the 1980s, as a single mother who needed to find a way to take care of her children. Now, her WordPress agency has 35 full-time employees working out of a beautiful two-story office in North Long Beach.

November 13, 2019 — Analicemos la situación actual de WordPress, el desarrollo con nuestro CMS favorito y los pilares fundamentales que hay que conocer en este entorno (Diseño, desarrollo, optimización y marketing).

November 13, 2019 — La mesa de debate de esta edición contará con la participación de cuatro profesionales y miembros de la comunidad WordPress. Ellos son: Sonia Ruiz, Marta Torre, David Perálvarez y Fran Torres.

Todos y cada uno, desde su experiencia, analizarán y debatirán sobre los retos actuales y futuros del desarrollo web, dentro del proyecto de código abierto más utilizado a nivel global: WordPress.

En resumen, esperamos que la programación del sábado de esta primera WordCamp para desarrolladores Sevilla 2019, cumpla las expectativas de los más exigentes y sea útil para el crecimiento y conocimiento del desarrollo web con WordPress.

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November 13, 2019 — While it is important to understand where SEO and accessibility (a11y) overlap in order to optimize correctly for both, it is important to note that optimizing for one is not necessarily akin to optimizing for the other. In other words, if you’ve optimized a page for search engines, it does not necessarily mean you made it accessible and visa versa. What it is very important to UNDERSTAND that there IS overlap – and if you understand the overlap, you can successfully optimize for both.

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November 12, 2019 — Everyone wants more enterprise clients, right? Seemingly endless budgets, cool projects, and on time payment of invoices without any question … or is that just a myth?

Roy Sivan talks about his experience(s) using WordPress in the enterprise sector, and what that looks like as a full-time employee, as well as what it may look like for a contractor / consultant. There are many great reasons to work with enterprise, but there are some things you should know first.

November 12, 2019 — Leading distributed teams can be complex, when looking from the outside. With the future of work being a distributed work culture, leading teams across the globe are now more relevant than ever before.

I’ll share a few principles, tips, and tools I’ve used while leading distributed teams since 2011, as well as starting points for applying a distributed leadership culture to your team and/or business.

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