February 10, 2020 — Structure:
-Intro: A thing is useless if you don’t use it.
-I’m subscribed to 600+ lists. Here’s what I’ve noticed.
-You want to build trust and do something to turn your leads into customers. Here’s how to connect with your audience.
-Overview of the first 5 emails to write and when to send them out.
-What to write in each email (hooks addressing headaches, personal stories).
-Bonus: Painful lessons/tips.
-Conclusion/key takeout: Write your first 5 emails to send to subscribers.

February 10, 2020 — Understanding the types of hosting available, what their perils and pitfalls are as well as their benefits. With the eventual endpoint being that the viewer can choose great hosting that suits them without fear.

February 10, 2020 — He is a multidimensional octopus with WordPress coloured ink and tentacles across the full stack. As a enthusiastic and slightly opinionated rule breaker he is inspired to make WordPress easy

His session will guide us to:
Themes are dead, long live the theme! Creating a ‘themeless’ WordPress website using 2nd generation page builders – for non-developers interested in total layout and design control.

February 10, 2020 — His session will guide us to:
With the advancement of voice technology, the era of search technology over the internet is also varying. Nowadays, people have already preferred to use voice search technology as their primary mode of doing online searches. Voice technology is already creating a lot of publicity that affects people’s attention.

February 10, 2020 — At the end of 2000, I first became acquainted with the internet and I had no idea back then that a mother of 5 and grandmother of 1 could have built a successful life that literally saved my own.

For the last fifteen years, I’m proud to say that WordPress, and it’s thriving community, has been a large part of my life. I’ve enjoyed making friends, attending WordCamps, and being part of Make WordPress.

The Internet has been a place where we share our joy. But what happens when life is interrupted? There are many things that will interrupt your life. Death. Divorce. Illness.

I’ve experienced all three. In this talk, I’ll share some of vital the lessons I’ve learned from being a part of such helpful and friendly community. Please join me during this session to not only hear my story, that many of us have experienced, but also for practical advice.

February 10, 2020 — If you are a theme, plugin or core developer/designer you need to test your work for accessibility errors, but how to do this and what are the guidelines to follow?
In this talk I will give you an overview of useful test tools, how to use them and how to integrate testing your development workflow.
Also, I will give you tips on additional testing that can’t be automated, like using and testing your work with only your keyboard.

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.