November 26, 2018 — Phillip works in the music and festival space, and they see the majority of the traffic within the first hour after the lineup announce. 18 months ago we launched a new WordPress site at 8am for the lineup announce only to have it drowned in traffic and crash instantly… for 6 hours.

He’ll talk about the codebase they’ve worked on for all their websites, so that they can be launched instantly without any fear of the site failing. He’ll cover how they have utilised OOP PHP with MVC in their WordPress environment to cope with high server load while maintaining low hosting costs.

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November 26, 2018 — Kate will be talking us through 10 key ways you can create conversational copy that sells with our shouting and persuades without being pushy.

We all know the deal, you’ve built a beautiful WordPress website, but now you need to replace that lorem ipsum with compelling, engaging, highly converting copy.
But if writing isn’t your strong point where do you start? And if the copy you have isn’t cutting it, what changes should you make?

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November 26, 2018 — Andrew, a WooCommerce plugin developer is joining us to talk about how to seamlessly integrate their online presence and their offline business applications to reduce data entry and streamline your business processes for online orders.

WooCommerce is one of the most popular eCommerce platform on the web, and has become the de-facto eCommerce option for WordPress. In this session Andrew will demonstrate how you can use the WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs to sync WooCommerce Orders to your internal CRM, sync Products and Images from your CRM of choice into WooCommerce, and receive instant notifications of new WooCommerce orders.

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November 26, 2018 — Sally, a published author from the Sunshine Coast is joining us to talk about how WordCamps are a great opportunity to learn, network, and strengthen the WordPress Community. While WordCamps can be a little daunting for first-timers (and introverts!) she’ll touch on the power of networking, how networking is about giving, how supportive the WordPress community is, and some self-care tips for introverts to help them maximise their experience at WordCamp without getting social burnout.

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November 26, 2018 — Leon, the Author of the WP Static Site Generator plugin is joining us to talk about static websites and the myriad of ways in which you can keep using WordPress as a great CMS but reap the rewards of static site hosting.

He’ll be covering a few questions such as What is a static website? and Why would I want a static website? along with covering some of the many different solutions including specialised hosting platforms, plugins, REST API powered websites and the old-fashioned manual methods.

Whether for security reasons, increased page load speeds or saving on hosting costs, you should come out with a better idea of the pros and cons of static website hosting for your WordPress powered site and a taste of the exciting world of static site generators in general.

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November 26, 2018 — Je vous montrerai en 10 points (et quelques bonus) une série de secrets utilisés pour structurer un processus de travail de rédaction qui vous simplifiera la vie. Le tout illustré par différents exemples « prouvant » les résultats obtenus avec la méthode

November 26, 2018 — In this presentation, a repeatable process for project estimation and pricing will be illustrated. The process manages to harness the black art of project estimation through a methodical approach and scientific tools.

November 26, 2018 — Marko Tanaskovic speaks about How to measure, analyze and optimize your WordPress website

November 23, 2018 — Gutenberg, el que ha sido llamado a sustituir al editor de WordPress, está teniendo una campaña de promoción e impulso sin precedentes. Desde Automattic se han puesto los recursos, las personas, los esfuerzos para que WordPress 5.0 sea Gutenberg o no sea ¿pero es esto bueno o malo?

No voy a hablar de cómo usar el nuevo editor Gutenberg, que para eso ya hay tutoriales y vídeos de sobra, sino de qué implica este proyecto para el presente y futuro de WordPress. Hablaremos de lo bueno, de lo malo, de cómo afecta a la comunidad de usuarios, al mercado, y sobre todo tendrás tu momento para contarnos también qué opinas sobre Gutenberg.

November 23, 2018 — Wil is joining us to talk about the many ways to contribute to WordPress – Many people think that the only way to contribute to the WordPress project is to be a core developer, but that’s not the case at all! There are many ways you can use your skills to contribute and be a community rock star.

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