November 10, 2019 — One of the major reasons behind online driven frustration is because of a slow website. One would not want to visit such a website the second time. Right?
What if this is the case with your website? Won’t those low numbers on analytics dull your day? Are you not concerned about how and when did you website fail? If a website doesn’t load quickly, the user would probably leave it immediately. And, a dissatisfied user is worse than not having users at all!

This talk mainly deals with how one can speed up their WordPress website and make it faster for users, thus improving their conversions. This talk begins with educating about website hosting, latency and DNS. Then, shall be discussing about how you can optimize the performance of your WordPress website, having solutions for all sort of users, from beginner to advanced users, and for different hosting scenario. Further, discussion will be about different performance optimization strategies like cutting down your queries, tweaking the code base, caching mechanism, use of cloud services, scaling up and so on. All this together shall help a newbie or even someone who has their website slow and frustrating for users, faster and better optimized. Thus, saving their day.

November 10, 2019 — Otto Kekäläinen will give talk about „Technical SEO for WordPress – Installing Yoast SEO is not enough“.

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November 10, 2019 — Most freelancers and agencies who work in web knows that accessibility matters, but during the daily working life it is sometimes hard to include accessibility into the projects. At the same time accessibility seems like a huge area and it overwhelms sometimes to start with it. In this talk I will show some tools and resources about accessibility that makes it easy to start with accessibility. Also I will show the most common accessibility issues in web projects and provide simple solutions, that are easy to integrate.

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November 10, 2019 — This session will look at ways for making WordPress events more eco-friendly. Are we making our WordCamps and local Meetups as environmentally sustainable as possible? What can we as organisers and participants do to ensure our events are planned and delivered with sustainability at the heart? The principles discussed will equally apply to your other networks and work events.

Our speaker Abha Thakor is the co-lead of a cross team project on sustainability within the WordPress community. In this talk, she will highlight findings from ongoing research with WordCamps and Meetup event organisers and learning from commercial events. She will show how you can contribute to the creation of a sustainability toolkit and be a eco-champion.

November 10, 2019 — Sometimes the bad guys get in, despite all the protections and precautions. If that happens, there are many techniques that can be used to stop further damage, track down what the intruder did and how they got in. Finally the site needs to be cleaned up and re-opened for visitors. In this talk the most important techniques are presented along with real-life examples when they were used.

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November 10, 2019 — Ich möchte ein Talk über mein Setup halten und wie die einzelnen Teile sich perfekt zusammenfügen.
Die Reise beginnt bei Alfred und Composer geht über WP CLI zur Versionsverwaltung hin zu Deployment.

November 10, 2019 — Die Art und Weise, wie WordPress Themes funktionieren, könnte sich in den nächsten Jahren verändern. Dieser Talk zeigt, welche neuen Möglichkeiten WordPress mit dem Gutenberg Projekt plant und bereits bietet. Darüber hinaus wird darauf eingegangen, welche Einflüsse Frameworks (AMP, Gatsby, Frontity), Schnittstellen (Graph QL) und neue Web-Standards haben können.

November 10, 2019 — Das leidige Thema Recht wurde spätestens seit Umsetzung des DSGVO-Monsters für Jeden eine unumgängliche Angelegenheit.
Das Aneignen der unzähligen Fakten setzt gefühlt ein halbes Staatsexamen Jura voraus – noch dazu aktualisieren sich die Vorgaben regelmäßig und verschlingen dadurch ein immenses Zeit- und Geduldspensum.
Wir haben uns Gedanken gemacht und häufig gestellte Fragen zur Brust genommen, um daraus einen Vortrag zu bauen, der der Community hilft sich zu orientieren und im Falle eines Falles den richtigen Ansprechpartner zu finden, bevor es zu spät ist (und das kann dann unter Umständen ziemlich teuer werden).

November 10, 2019 — Die automatische Bereitstellung einer fertigen lokalen WordPress-Instanz, nicht nur für Entwickler.

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November 8, 2019 — Every superhero has an origin story that is unique and distinguishes them from mere mortals and even other superheroes. As a freelancer and/or a small agency, you too have an origin story that shapes and defines your business, and is different from any other.

In this presentation you will learn how to make your origin story a compelling sales tool and use it to position and grow your WordPress business.

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