December 31, 2019 — Should a password be long and complex? What about a string of easy-to-remember words instead? Are password managers the best way forward? What about multiple factors? Is there a better way?

These are all questions your users have: learn how to answer them and how to make security easy by moving beyond passwords for your web app entirely with magic link based authentication! Your users just click a link; they don’t have to remember anything.

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December 31, 2019 — The idea of narrowing your business focus and positioning away from potential clients can be scary. It’s a fear that must be faced to maximize growth. While it’s natural to assume that becoming less of a generalist means doing less business, the opposite is usually true. By effectively positioning your business, you stand to grow exponentially.

This talk is great for owners of digital studios making WordPress sites but contains just as much value for other business owners trying to leverage their digital presence to grow their business.

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December 31, 2019 — Think you need to hire a CTO and build custom tech to vet your next big idea? Think again!

Learn how startups can rapidly prototype and test their ideas before sinking thousands and millions into proprietary tech. We’ll look at a handful of active startups leveraging WordPress in a variety of industries, how they’re handling scaling, and starting to build their own infrastructure on top using APIs and React/Native.

Learn how you can launch and test your next big idea, applying the Lean Startup model, best practices and some cautionary tales.

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December 30, 2019 — We’ve all heard, used and are here because of this awesome platform known as WordPress. In this session, I will show you how to make a living with WordPress, how you can make money with WordPress using practical examples.

December 30, 2019 — How to Plan your design on mockup to using frameworks in theming your WordPress website.

December 30, 2019 — This was a demo on how to integrate Ipay with Mpesa on your Woocommerce website and receive payments from customers with no extra hustle.

December 30, 2019 — We’ll talk about the 3 things WordPress does best and the 3 things MailChimp does best. And how to bring the best of WP & MC to create synergy for your website and business. We’ll cover MailChimp forms for WordPress, free opt-in offers, and drip campaigns.

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December 30, 2019 — WordPress agencies and freelance designers and developers can improve their client’s website projects by incorporating content-strategy best practices into their workflows. Anyone who has built more than one website has developed a good array of content strategy skills. I’ll show how to plug those skills into a proven framework for crafting an actionable, state-of-the-art website content strategy. If you’ve ever used “lorem ipsum” copy as you struggled to extract content from your client the day before launch, this talk is for you.

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December 30, 2019 — In this session, we will discuss translating WordPress verbiage into English so you can communicate between client and designer/developer. Communication is key when collaborating on a project with someone else whether you are the client or the one building the solution.

Topics Included:

Translating features as benefits
Translating common WP terms into client friendly terms
Breaking the technical communication barrier

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December 30, 2019 — You made a mistake months ago, and a part of the site is broken. No one noticed at first, but now the client is upset, so you need to fix it…and fast! But where in the code was this bug introduced? What if David told you there’s a tool hidden within Git to quickly find when a bug was committed and then fix it? Git Bisect allows you to comb through dozens of commits at once and find the culprit in seconds, even when you don’t know when it happened or what file was edited. Once you understand the basics, David will take it a step further with automation.