June 20, 2019 — Jon is a payments expert and has spent the last ten years helping web hosts, software companies and developers earn recurring revenue by bundling payment processing with their core product offering as a value-added-service.

Jon attended 11 WordCamps last year and is passionate about empowering the community by educating store owners and store builders on how to lower costs through interchange optimization and increase security through best practices.

When he is not snuggling with his cats and cooking with his wife he loves to travel and enjoys seeking adventure in the places he visits through watching live music, rock climbing, trail running, hiking and surfing.

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June 20, 2019 — April 5, 2019, 2:30 pm WordCamp Santa Clarita 2019, Vasquez Rocks Room, University Center, College of the Canyons — Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client’s website doesn’t load quickly – within a just a couple of seconds – many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time & revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD. Everyone’s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues, but most are just guesses, and not based on real data. STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want a faster site, you need to KNOW exactly what is slowing things down, and how to fix it. Matt Kopala’s talk will show you how.

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June 20, 2019 — April 5, 2019, 9 am, University Center, College of the Canyons — With the new Gutenberg editor, WordPress has created a new format with blocks that do a lot of what page builders have traditionally offered. So why would anyone still want to use a page builder? Jason will talk about:
– The biggest difference between Elementor and Gutenberg and why I use Elementor for the foreseeable future;
– The advantages and disadvantages of using my favorite page builder – Elementor (free version). Other page builders are similar;
– How Elementor works with themes and which one should be used;
– Using free plugins to extend Elementor;
– A quick overview of how to use Elementor; and
– Build a quick example of a home page

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June 20, 2019 — April 5, 2019, 10 am Vasquez Rocks Room, University Center, College of the Canyons — Playing with Child Themes is an entertaining introduction to child themes, showing their usefulness and importance for beginner developers and designers.

Learn the why and how of child themes. Bill Weissbard will show you how to make a simple child theme and how to switch between different versions of a child theme to easily compare styling.

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June 19, 2019 — The CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 (CSS Grid) has given developers the tools to build complex layouts with relatively little code. It affords us complete control over layout behaviour and positioning of items in two dimensions. At the same time, it has given us many more CSS properties to learn and understand, which can be overwhelming. How do you figure out the best way to build a layout when faced with so much choice?

In this talk, Michelle will demystify some of the new terminology, properties, and functions that have arrived with CSS Grid. We’ll bust some common myths and look at how we can harness these new tools to build robust layouts, even with dynamic content. We’ll take an in-depth look at a real-world example of a complex layout, and in the process learn about the superpowers that Grid provides us with.

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June 19, 2019 — Are you struggling to know where to start and how to organise your components in a custom theme build? I’ve been building custom themes for WordPress for well over a decade and have been through countless iterations on file structures and techniques.

During this presentation, I’ll explain how I’ve developed a consistent, organised approach to theme building and structure, along with a few tricks and tips for budding theme developers.

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June 19, 2019 — Why use Multisite to create a network and real-life examples of it in use. Including examples, you may not have thought of.

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June 19, 2019 — April 6, 2019, 10 am Vasquez Rocks Room, WordCamp Santa Clarita, University Center, College of the Canyons — Whether you’re a current WooCommerce user or a WordPress user interested in adding eCommerce to your site, Kat Christofer will show you different ways to increase your bottom line:

– Add WooCommerce to your WordPress site
– Add features and functionality to an existing WooCommerce site
– Choose the right payment gatewayReassure shoppers – SSL/security
– Bring your imagination and questions!

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June 19, 2019 — April 6, 2019, 11 am Vasquez Rocks Room, WordCamp Santa Clarita, University Conference Center, College of the Canyons — Join Chris Lema as he talks about ways to use data to drive different incredible results for your store or the next store project you work on.

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June 19, 2019 — This talk uses personal anecdotes about my fear of flying to explain the brain’s response to perceived threat, and how this impacts the cognitive functions we want to be working well in the creative and tech sector. It goes on to talk about the brain’s reward system and how we can quite easily activate that in the workplace and why we (and particularly leaders) should care.

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