October 17, 2019 — Succeeding as a WordPress publisher entails many elements, including timely and engaging content, knowing your audience, outstanding SEO, listening to your users, amplifying your content, and others. In this talk, we cover the notion of Progressive WordPress which Google has been heavily involved in for the past 3 years. That is, bringing modern open web solutions to WordPress.

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October 17, 2019 — Charles will discuss plugins that he finds work well for donation-based model websites, and share ways to create a user experience to increase donations and awareness. Proper theme selection, SEO, and plugins not only enhance the way we tell a nonprofit’s story, but also build brand awareness and in turn create a sense of comfort for the donor that they are supporting a cause which resonates with them. Whether the cause relates to animal welfare, orphans or trafficking, a properly designed site can attract donor dollars and exposure that the organisation might not have otherwise.

October 17, 2019 — Being a blogger sounds like fun, but not when you are staring at an empty calendar you have committed to filling with content.

April will walk you through planning your content for the next 12 months, so you always know what you are writing about.

Walk away with a solid plan and the confidence to start creating great value for your readers.

October 17, 2019 — Do you have a passion for blogging? Coding? Making silly pictures, GIFs, or videos?

You should get paid for it.

While it isn’t quite the easy-going, picturesque career most influencers proclaim it is, freelance content creation is an incredible job that allows you to express yourself in fun, exciting ways. And Jake wants to help you get started.

In this talk, Jacob Crawford will share how he turned his blogging hobby into a full-time career and examine the pitfalls that plague most freelancers, such as time tracking, finding clients, determining rates, and filing taxes.

October 15, 2019 — WordPress unterstützt zwar die Lokalisierung von Websites, aber keine mehrsprachigen Websites. Erst Plugins wie WPML, Polylang oder MultilingualPress machen WordPress mehrsprachig – und verfolgen dabei sehr unterschiedliche Ansätze. In dieser Session geht es einerseits darum, wie man eine WordPress-Website lokalisiert (inkl. Übersetzung von Language Packs), und andererseits darum, wie sich der Übersetzungsprozess mit den verschiedenen Mehrsprachigkeits-Plugins gestaltet.

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October 12, 2019 — What if businesses, planet earth, and the galaxy operated with the friendliness and openness of the WordPress community? We conquered the CMS market, why not take over everything else? In this 30-minute talk and Q&A, Sebastiaan will take you on a journey to a 100% open-source world! How open source and, specifically, the WordPress community can protect against the misuse of data, unfair distribution of wealth, and censorship from closed-source monopolies such as Facebook, Uber, and AirBnB. Also included is a sneak peak at a WordPress agency and WordPress freelancer in 2030. Spoiler: It will be cool, fair, and inclusive.

October 12, 2019 — Comenzamos las charlas de WordPress Terrassa con una presentación de qué es WordPress y cómo puedes crear tu web con esta herramienta.

Aprenderemos los conceptos básicos, veremos ejemplos de sitios más o menos conocidos realizados con WordPress y cómo se pueden ampliar sus posibilidades a través de plugins y temas.

Tras la presentación tendremos un rato de networking para conocernos mejor los que formamos parte de la incipiente Comunidad WordPress Terrassa.

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October 11, 2019 — To democratise publishing, internationalisation is one of many barriers that WordPress needs to overcome. That’s why, for 2020 and beyond, the goal is to find an official way to build multilingual websites. Until now, this was considered to be plugin territory, but what is needed to make WordPress a true polyglot? Pascal will cover the status quo of multilingual WordPress websites and share ideas — both from a technical and a user’s perspective — on how WordPress could evolve in this area over the next few years.

October 11, 2019 — Take actionable steps to find the right content from your blog and then turn that content into a book manuscript. After you have your manuscript ready, we will go through the steps to query to agents and publishers or to indie publish your book.

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October 11, 2019 — Attention spans are diminishing online, so we need to get to the point with our landing pages. We should start by identifying the user problem, then promote just one solution in an uncluttered and direct manner. This allows the visitor to make a quick decision, rather than sending them to a bloated website with many options. Rob covers the essential things to include on your landing page while encouraging a minimalistic design approach.