Author Archive

  • Sarah Hines and Jen Ecker: Getting the Job Done – WordPress Developers’ Toolkit

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018Speakers: Sarah Hines, Jen Ecker

    February 2, 2019 — Curious how other WordPress professionals build sites, and what tools they use to get the job done? Two seasoned developers, one frontend, one backend, will go take you through how they approach building WordPress business sites from scratch (including from a starter themes), what priorities matter to them and why, and what software/techniques they use to build great sites.

  • Tim Howe: Promote Products and Increase Conversions with WooCommerce Core Features

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018Speaker: Tim Howe

    February 2, 2019 — The topic will cover WooCommerce core features that help store owners improve their site performance and sales. Often underutilized or overlooked we are going to look at these features, how to use them, and empower store owners.

  • Alain Schlesser: Design Patterns through Practical Examples

    WordCamp Porto 2018Speaker: Alain Schlesser

    February 1, 2019 — Design Patterns in software engineering are a huge help for developers, providing a common, shared vocabulary across languages and platforms that facilitates communication and reasoning. Due to their very nature, they are rather abstract and difficult to properly assimilate and apply in a practical context. This session will discuss the construction of a real WordPress plugin while using several of the more common Design Patterns to demonstrate their real-world usage and highlight the benefits they provide.

  • Claudio Sanches, Rodrigo Primo e Tiago Noronha: WooCommerce – Do Gutenberg ao futuro

    WordCamp Porto 2018Speakers: Claudio Sanches, Tiago Noronha, Rodrigo Primo

    February 1, 2019 — A equipa do WooCommerce abordou o relacionamento do plugin com o Gutenberg, apresentando o WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block e respondendo a questões sobre este assunto e sobre o caminho futuro do WooCommerce.

  • Panel: WordPress Security

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018

    February 1, 2019 — Panel: WordPress Security

  • Pratik Ghela: Our 6 months journey around AMP, WordPress and AMP Stories

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018Speaker: Pratik Ghela

    February 1, 2019 — Google AMP was announced in 2015 and has been in the headlines for past few years. Many developers find it pretty difficult to adapt this latest technology. Pratik aims to make it simple and easy to understand Google AMP and will walk you through his journey where he and his team built a website using Native AMP and now developing a product that helps you build AMP Stories.

  • Tara Johnson: How to Keep Your Clients on Track, Engaged and Singing Your Praises

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018Speaker: Tara Johnson

    February 1, 2019 — Do you struggle to hold your clients’ interest and keep them on task? Do you suffer from scope creep, money chasing and project fatigue (aka, the project the NEVER ENDS!)?

    Clients need (and crave!) boundaries, deadlines and – dare I say – gentle harassment. Learn how to automate the process of content collection, nurture your clients throughout the entire web build process and protect your business from committing to another project that never ends!

  • Bradley Maravalli: WP Time Management

    WordCamp Portland ME 2018Speaker: Bradley Maravalli

    February 1, 2019 — At my job as a web developer at GreenBananaSEO, the senior web developer without notice left the company due to stress. It was now up to me to take on his work and lead the web department. My time management skills were put to the test in order to become the most productive web developer I can possibly be.

    The first half of the lesson will be the tips & tricks learned from from the popular time-management books ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen and ‘Eat That Frog’ by Brian Tracy. These tips & tricks can be used by anybody – designers, bloggers, designers, developers, etc.

    The second half of the lesson will be how I implemented time management in WordPress development: task management, web maintenance, web development, theme development, plugin use & recommendations, launching sites, creating your own checklists, and more. All of this in order to increase productivity while continuing to build quality sites.

  • Miguel Fonseca: Gutenberg, uma visão de criação de conteúdo

    WordCamp Porto 2018Speaker: Miguel Fonseca

    February 1, 2019 — A inclusão do Gutenberg no WordPress é um destaque do ano. O novo editor promete um paradigma centrado na noção de bloco, ferramentas modernas, e palavrões como JavaScript, React e “semântica”.

    Mas o que advém para o escritor, a jornalista, o costureiro? E para o programador? Esta palestra considerará a experiência de criação e edição de conteúdo, do texto corrido à composição de elementos ricos numa página completa. No seu decorrer, desfar-se-ão mitos, revelar-se-ão ângulos mortos que todos temos na nossa relação tradicional com conteúdo WordPress, redefinir-se-á a relação entre cliente e agência, e ilustrar-se-á a visão Gutenberg através do que é possível no presente e no porvir.

  • Marieke van de Rakt: Why site structure is important for SEO

    WordCamp Porto 2018Speaker: Marieke van de Rakt

    February 1, 2019 — Site structure is a vital aspect of your SEO strategy. After all, the structure of your website shows Google what articles and pages are most important. You can influence which articles will rank highest in the search engines, with your site’s structure. So, it’s important to get it right! It also is a very actionable part of your SEO strategy. You can all start improving your site structure today! In this talk, I’ll explain the importance of site structure for your site’s SEO and I’ll give three quick tips on how to start improving your site’s structure.