April 21, 2020 — Many WordCamp attendees are remote employees. Most will tell you how great remote working is and that it works incredibly well for a lot of businesses. But let’s be honest, it’s not for everyone. While several large companies have tried it and failed, in this talk, we’ll reveal what often gets forgotten: what a business needs to do to make it work. Further, how individuals can decide if remote work really is the future of working for them.

April 21, 2020 — Page builders like Beaver Builder and Elementor are immensely popular because they let you create sophisticated layouts quickly and with minimal code knowledge. But are the web pages they produce accessible? I take both builders for a spin to see whether their templated content meets accessibility standards and what room there is for improvement.

April 21, 2020 — One of the most common misconceptions about WordPress is that it does not scale well and is only for small sites. This assumption is untrue, but it exists because of wider misconceptions about the use of WordPress and its purpose. With good planning and consideration before and during a WordPress project’s lifecycle, we can ensure that the project scales well and has the flexibility to add new features without too much scope creep or performance impact. By avoiding waste, using coding standards, and adopting a serious software development mindset to WordPress projects it is easy to build WordPress sites that will scale effectively. This talk will introduce these concepts.

April 21, 2020 — Lighting, audio and storytelling are all essential when creating video-based content. However, captions are often forgotten, even though it can benefit more people than you think. You might assume that it’s just for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing people. But there are other benefits: learn a new language, access to different culture, improve SEO, watch in quiet environments, increase social media engagements. But even more people can benefit, like those who are autistic, have learning disability or have attention deficits.
From sharing my own personal experience as a deaf person, combined with my experience in digital marketing and content marketing, I combine the two to share stories on how you, as a content creator, can maximise the impact of your videos by making use of captions.
But it’s not just about writing “whatever is said”. It is an art. So let’s make captions, not just a necessity, but also beautiful…for everyone!
 

April 19, 2020 — In this discussion we will discuss 7 tips to help increase visibility while launching your product or service. We’ll discuss strategies for increased visibility and conversions via social media.

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April 19, 2020 — Learn how I built an online presence for a Serbian technology company so that they could sell their product in the Canadian market. This will include the development of a WordPress microsite to create a Canadian entity. This will cover all steps from understanding the product to executing a local demonstration event in Canada, including: • Strategic Planning Session • Technical Overview of the Product • Competitive Analysis • Website Content Development • Website Design • Social Media Outreach • And more!

April 19, 2020 — Twelve years ago I wrote a small plugin (Duplicate Post) for a project of mine, and I put it on WordPress.org. Slowly but steadily, it grew to pass 3 million active installations and it has become one of the most popular free plugins. And all that in spite of huge mistakes, months of neglect, epic fails and (obviously) bugs.
A brief history of what I learnt about WordPress, its amazing community and the power of sharing.

April 19, 2020 — In order to know how to protect your site, you have to know your weaknesses and know your enemy. Applying the Art of War precepts will help giving perspective of the problem and understanding how to move effectively when something bad happens to your website or e-commerce.
Presenting the way a WordPress could usually be hacked, the layer-based model of security and some examples I have gathered during my years at Sucuri, I’ll try to make the audience conscious of this problem, give some examples of what could happen and how, and give some countermeasures to avoid this to happen as much as possible.

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April 19, 2020 — For many projects SEO is hands-down the most important, and sometimes only, marketing channel. It’s incredibly powerful in driving a lot of highly relevant traffic to a website. It’s also a very elegant way of doing marketing, as with a good SEO strategy, we help our target audience by answering questions, providing valuable content and not bombarding them with unwanted advertising.
However, some topics, markets or audiences require other marketing channels as well. If there is no search volume, a very limited group of decision makers, or no awareness of the offering – be it a product or a service – we don’t get very far with a purely search-based channel such as SEO. In those cases, we have to adapt a broader strategy involving various other marketing channels.
I’ll show case studies that cover the entire spectrum – from only SEO, to hardly any SEO – and talk about the limitations of search-based campaigns. Even then, SEO can play a very important supporting role, when done right. 

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April 19, 2020 — Currently, it is very difficult to translate your WordPress into different languages. Many plugins have different ways of solving Multilingualism and even the core has something in store for us in the future.
But not every website needs to have a translation into every possible language, translations do not automatically open you to other markets.
I want to present shortly the current translations plugins ; I want to talk about phase 4 of Gutenberg (Multilingualism in core); I want to give examples of problems that can occur if you are not prepared for a multilingual website;

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