May 30, 2018 — Mike Stott, Founder of Epic Plugins, Epic Themes and co-founder Zero BS CRM. He develops, support and market WordPress plugins, themes and recently a side project turned successful product – Zero BS CRM.
His topic will covered:-
* Getting Started with your Side Project (e.g. how to choose a name and whether to even bother)
* Deciding what goes into your ‘MMP”
* Growing your team and tracking metrics
* Why we chose WordPress to develop and sell our WordPress product
* Selling a WordPress Product using WordPress

May 29, 2018 — Descripción de las líneas directrices tras la estructura de datos de Gutenberg y para qué ha sido optimizado. Los beneficios para el usuario son los datos accesibles.

Artículo escrito por Miguel Fonseca sobre esta ponencia: https://lamda.blog/2018/04/22/the-language-of-gutenberg/

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May 29, 2018 — Child Themes are one of the most essential and neglected things when customizing a website. Quite often, people will customize a theme and get their site exactly how they want it, only to see it all wiped away by a theme update. This can be avoided. In this session, I will teach you when you should use a child theme (spoiler alert: it’s all the time), how to set one up and how to use it to customize your website. At the end of the session, everyone will be equipped with the knowledge of how to set up the child theme and also have the ability to download the Twenty Seventeen child theme that I built for WordCamp Buffalo as a starting point with a lot of comments in the style.css and functions.php to explain why I did what I did and how to do similar things to customize their child theme.

May 29, 2018 — Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Does your institution serve students that speak different languages? If so, maybe your website should too! In this session we’ll compare different solutions for publishing content in multiple languages using WordPress, and what impact having a multilingual site could have on your site’s content and design.
In this session, we’ll cover:
* Terminology used when working in multiple languages
* Popular plugins for supporting multilingual content
* Creating PO files to add your own language to your plugins and themes
* Contributing to WordPress’ Polyglot team

May 29, 2018 — Dat Hoang is Happiness Engineer at Automattic, focusing on the WordPress.org products. Before joining the company, he worked with the multilingual WordPress every day.
He talked about the possibility to have a multilingual WordPress site. He discussed the following points in detail:
* Multilingual website – why it is a worthy investment
* Considerations for a WordPress multilingual site
* Available plugin/solution comparison
* Tips and hints

May 29, 2018 — Over 15 million U.S. Internet users have some form of impairment that affects their ability to use the Internet.
In this talk, we will share some simple ways to improve your site’s accessibility. These changes help everyone. As an extra bonus, accessibility improves your search engine optimization (SEO).
By the end of this session, you will be able…
1. To understand why accessibility is helpful for everyone.
2. To help make your website better for the visually impaired.
3. To help make your website better for the hearing impaired.
4. To help make your website better for the mobility impaired.
5. To improve your website SEO.

May 29, 2018 — Gutenberg is so new and comes with many built-in blocks, but how do you create interactive, dynamic and advanced Gutenberg blocks? We’ll cover topics like API calls to 3rd party services, server side rendering, advanced settings, using custom React components and other topics to help attendees start making advanced Gutenberg blocks.

May 29, 2018 — This session will cover 4 different methods you can use to monetize the content on your WordPress site: display ads, affiliate marketing, sponsored content and paid memberships. We’ll give an overview of the method, explain who pays and how you get paid, what plugins help you use that method, and show some examples of each type of monetization in-action.

May 29, 2018 — You’re building websites, have a grand ol’ time, then it hits you: a copyright takedown notice. What did you do wrong?
The Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt aims to demystify copyright, fair use, and creative commons; what you can use on your website and when, be it images, videos, audio or text.
Come for the knowledge, leave with a prize for the team that finds the most items on the Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt!

May 29, 2018 — Learn how to boost your SEO to build a bigger community online with these 3 strategies: Keyword Research & Organization, Leveraging Competitor Insights and Writing Content that Resonates. This talk will cover the basics of each strategy to offer actionable steps to start using right away.