February 10, 2020 — With the release of WordPress 5.0 imminent the future of WordPress is brighter than ever. From personal blogs to the enterprise new capabilities and new ways to approach the WordPress platform are helping users of all sizes to make the most of the technology and their careers. This talk will provide a glimpse of that future and our places, as a WordPress community within it with a focus on the future of WordPress as a platform where we can do more than just participate to get the most out of it.

February 10, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

February 5, 2020 — Google Data Studio allows you to build beautiful custom dashboards for a variety of data and analytics. You can pull in data from Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Search Console and even from other products such as Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. In this talk, we will walk through how to create your first dashboard and connect it to multiple sources.

January 29, 2020 — We used to control our online identities, content, and experience. We now share Twitter names instead of domains; even web developers tweet and post on Medium instead of their own sites. We scroll social media and feel empty instead of reading news & blogs to feel informed and connected. Algorithmic feeds amplify rage & conspiracies, enabling tribal ad-targeting to polarise and spread misinformation, threatening democracy itself.

What happened? And what are we doing to fix it?

That’s a big question that will require all of us, our communities, our employers, to shift. I don’t want to wait, and you probably don’t either.

What can you do for yourself, today?

Own your domain. Own your content. Own your social connections. Own your reading experience. IndieWeb services, tools, and standards enable you to take back your web.

January 24, 2020 — The talk and demo will focus on how to deploy WordPress on Amazon Web Services. The talk is not very technical and will include what AWS is and the benefits of deploying on the cloud service.

January 24, 2020 — Should you start a blog? Ever thought about how much you can accomplish with a blog? You probably have had this idea for some time now. But what’s keeping you from getting started? In this session, Daniel will be sharing reasons you should start your own blog.

January 24, 2020 — In this session, I will be showing the audience how to scale and use WordPress for schools. From normal school blogs to a full-blown educational website for the school. I will also be giving tips to starting a school SaaS with WordPress.

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January 24, 2020 — I would be discussing the role of e-commerce in our current digital world and how it can help businesses scale up and do business online.

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January 24, 2020 — Daniel is showing how he built his business (Careerpoint Solutions) using WordPress. This will be both, a technical and inspirational talk. He’s also sharing how WordPress enabled him to have an online presence, generate traffic and monetize. He’s also sharing the best online business model that generates money in Kenya.

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January 24, 2020 — What are podcasts? Why exactly are podcasts growing in popularity? What advantages do podcasts have over video and other mediums? How can one use WordPress to host podcasts and what are some of the plugins would one require? What equipments will you need to set up your podcast? and how do you get an audience

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