April 24, 2018 — In 5 years of creating content on my WordPress website I’ve seen it all.

During the first 2 years I wasted time and energy to write blogs no one would read. Then I found my inspiration, my path, my content strategy – and in the last 3 years website traffic has risen from 0 to 15,000+ users per week. Now my blog is my only source of sales leads.

In this presentation, I’ll first and foremost describe what mistakes I made (what about saving 2 years of your life?) and then I’ll proceed to list the “10 Commandments of Content Marketing” – 10 simple tips you can take away to increase your website traffic and focus on the only purpose of content marketing: teaching.

In the final part of the talk, each commandment will be “translated” into WordPress. I will recommend plugins and WordPress strategies to implement the whole system – in fact, I’d consider this a failure unless you go back to your office and take action!

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April 24, 2018 — Because you can’t always start from scratch.

Modern Tribe took on this impervious task head-on.

In this speech I share the knowledge the team working on “The Events Calendar” plugin suite collected along the way, the practicalities, the “gotchas””, the pitfalls in human and development terms.
I will also go into the details of down-to-earth examples, findings and tools we used to do it.

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April 23, 2018 — Yoga and mindfulness from the comfort of your own desk chair.
Discover ways to help your body and mind during your working day, no fancy equipment, no change of clothes, no change of location necessary. Henrietta will guide you through some simple mindfulness techniques as well as yoga that can be done simply whilst sitting at your desk. Give your body the movement, and your mind the break they both need, and perhaps notice your productivity at work grow and grow.

April 23, 2018 — Still think browsers are only capable of parsing HTML, CSS and JavaScript? Think again!
Browsers have become much more powerful and contain numerous APIs that can enrich the user experience or are just plain fun.

This talk will introduce you to some of them (like battery, speech, audio, location, …) and show you how easy it is to unleash their power with JavaScript.

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April 19, 2018 — Tips and techniques that can dramatically increase your site performance:
– Why speed matters.
– How you can measure it – Tools to measure your page speed.
– Ways to improve it – Best practices for optimization.
– I’ll also discuss Google’s Mobile Page Speed Update 2018 and if you should AMP-lify your web site.

April 18, 2018 — What impact will the new GDPR (AVG) privacy regulations have on WordPress websites? And how do you make your WordPress sites compliant? This presentation is setup in a highly practical way so you can get started straight away as well as understand how to help your WordPress customers to become GDPR compliant.

April 18, 2018 — Everyone is a creative. Not only the designer or art director. Working in digital means you depend on the creativity of others to make a project a succes. Creativity gets even more important if you are aiming for the next level. In design, but even more in technique, UX, content, etc. Combining this creative power means we can realise the best result. So challenge yourself and show it to the world: everyone is a creative.

April 18, 2018 — Ever been hesistant to upgrade to a newer WP version as you weren’t sure whether the theme and the plugins you use would be compatible ?
Or wondered whether installing a certain plugin would open your site up to security risks ?
Or maybe whether you would be able to present your customer with an interface in their language for a certain plugin ?

No matter whether you are a developer or you can’t tell divs from eval’s, PHP Codesniffer and the WordPress Coding Standards can help you. Let me tell you how…

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April 18, 2018 — In this talk we’ll explore how and why you should say goodbye to the frontend frameworks you use.
Through live coding demo’s we’ll explore how new css techniques like CSS Grid and Flexbox can help you create more original, better and easier-to-maintain weblayouts in a fraction of the time.

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April 18, 2018 — Brand is a popular buzzword, lately. And yet, it is an old and established concept, one that tugs to some very remote and deep strings within us.

So, HOW did we become brands? And how should we tend to our “personal brand”?

In this talk we will discuss what brands are, how they are built, and what we need to pay attention to, both to care for our own public image as well as to “see through” some of the glamorous limelight that may surround others.

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