December 30, 2019 — Vladimír will give a 10-minute preview of common but not often-mentioned mistakes he saw during security scans of WordPress sites, specifically: Username and email leaking, full path disclosures, accessible backups, open .git repositories and DoS capable endpoints. He will also provide tips on how to reduce risks, where it is worth restricting access, how to enable Bcrypt password hashing and 2FA, and what configuration directives you need to check.

December 30, 2019 — Best way to be ADA compliant, or to show a level of compliance? Do it from the start. If you’re trying to be compliant after the fact, you could be in for a world of hurt.

In this discussion, we’ll go through a framework, active development, and how many things you could easily be doing during workflow from the start to make your website more accessible!

This doesn’t have to be hard! We are an open-source community, so let’s get everyone up to speed on how we can make our sites even more accessible.

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December 30, 2019 — What do perfectionism, not delegating and being a workaholic have in common? All are symptoms of Impostor Syndrome, a pattern of thinking that is ruled by the fear of being exposed as a fraud.

In this interactive talk, you will discover:

How to recognize Imposter Syndrome
3 ways to overcome feeling like a fraud
Skills for becoming more confident at work
Join us for this powerful experience and learn how to conquer your inner impostor.

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December 30, 2019 — Having just finished the Herculean project of having someone design an entire website off of an idea I had been sitting on for three years, I learned an important lesson. The finished website is not about you, and it’s not exactly just about the product, service, or resource you’re selling.

It’s really about the audience you are trying to connect with. It’s all about them.

Learn from Imei’s three-year journey into collecting the information, the aesthetic, and hiring the design company that would pull together her message to targets a specific audience, and why she insisted on having the entire website placed on WordPress so that she could better respond to the changing needs of her target audience.

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December 30, 2019 — Discover the #1 reason why 90% of companies fail in the first 5 years.

Wat maakt het verschil tussen bedrijven en ondernemers die succesvol zijn en hen die dat niet zijn?

Wat kan je zelf meteen veranderen en welke 7 stappen zou je kunnen nemen om bij de 10% succesvolle bedrijven, start ups en of ondernemers te horen?

In deze Keynote neemt Drs. Joyce Carols je mee op een reis langs deze 7 stappen en laat ze je zien hoe jij alles kan bereiken, doen of overwinnen. Haar verhaal is aanstekelijk, doorweven van neuroscience in voor iedereen begrijpelijke taal en doorspekt met haar eigen ervaring, bijzondere levensverhaal en handige meteen toepasbare tips voor de toehoorder.

December 30, 2019 — As a fellow WordPress designer, I know how much time it takes to work with a client and get a website created. It can feel like an eternity with the initial consult, getting the pieces together, creating the rough draft to their requirements, presenting the rough draft, going back and forth with updates, and so on.

While there’s no cure to make all of this automated, there is a way to shave countless hours and throw remedial tasks out the window. In this talk, I’ll go over my approach to streamline the WordPress design process allowing you to be more efficient, build sites quicker, and even handle more clients.

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December 30, 2019 — Design systems can be complicated to think about at the best of times. Then, try adding a brand new content editor to the mix… what can go wrong? Take a 45 minute journey with Redstamp’s Matthew Brent, discovering the highs and lows of implementing a dynamic design system in Gutenberg.

December 30, 2019 — In this anecdotal talk Richard Rudy takes you through how the history of modern music parallels many professionals’ journey from unrelated fields to web design. Dealing with Imposter syndrome, experimentation, and mad Google skills, stories from trenches on building a career in the web.

December 30, 2019 — The right plugins can make a huge impact on what you can do socially with your site. Make WordPress easier to share, reach and communicate.

December 30, 2019 — The WordPress community is comprised of people and their relationships with one another and the open source CMS itself. Combined we are a global neighborhood, complete with volunteers, freelancers, employees, a marketplace, and a multitude of opportunities; opportunities for relationships, working, learning, teaching, sharing, volunteering, and more.

At its foundation, its most fundamental part, this neighborhood is built by every individual member. We are each an integral part of this growing, morphing phenomenon, so it is up to us to ensure that it is a robust living organism.

How do we do that?

*For Myself: by making sure I stay healthy both physically and emotionally
*For You: by checking in on my friends and coworkers to help where needed
*For Us: by contributing to the community in thoughtful and deliberate ways

This talk will share ideas to keep us all healthy, learning, and flourishing, for the betterment of ourselves, each other, and the WordPress neighborhood.