December 31, 2019 — We all take shortcuts sometimes. Whether you were swamped with client work and a corner had to be cut, or you’re stretched so thinly trying to wear every hat that something fell through the cracks, we’ve all encountered mistakes we made ourselves. While they’re mostly all forgivable, it becomes a bit of a different issue when a mistake leads to a security concern. In this talk we’ll look at three common security mistakes made by WordPress site owners every day, why they get made in the first place, and how to resolve them.

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December 31, 2019 — Using what we’ve learned today, Fellene will guide attendees through the process of building a working portfolio! We will cover a basic photo portfolio, and adding additional features to create an academic or professional portfolio as well. Access to the slides and additional artifacts from the session will be downloadable afterward.

December 31, 2019 — Creating and working with WordPress themes is a great way to learn more about WordPress as well as make your site look and function exactly how you want it. We’ll go over what goes into making a WordPress theme, as well as concepts like “the loop,” “actions and filters,” and the “template hierarchy.” By the end of the talk, you should have a good overview of WordPress themes, as well as places to go for further learning.

December 31, 2019 — This introductory session will cover the ways that people can contribute to the WordPress global community team, no matter what their background or experience.

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December 31, 2019 — WordPress supports a lot of “aging” ways of developing for it. The Roots.io family of projects attempts to modernize WordPress development by embracing newer tools in infrastructure management and PHP standards adopted by the larger PHP community. If you’re new to using Git, SSH, Vagrant, Ansible, Composer and WPackagist to help manage your WordPress projects, then follow me as we take a look at how the Roots team makes use of these technologies. The results of using these projects are easy to reproduce sites, tracked in version control, and built for modern, high performance needs.

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December 31, 2019 — You work hard to create your content. So how can you maximize its impact on your bottom line? Through repurposing. If you have a blog, you already have a good start. Your next step is to take all that awesome original content and repurpose the heck out of it. In this session, you’ll learn from a prolific content generator: how to create and push out and manage your content; how to keep your freshest content up front and alive, find unique ways to get the most out of your existing content and identify the right channels for repurposing it.

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December 31, 2019 — It’s no secret that one of the WordPress core team’s greatest barriers to entry is contributors feeling like they don’t have anything of value to offer; nothing could be further from the truth.

Every potential contributor has something to offer whether they realize it or not, and this session will give them many of the tools and advice they’ll need to succeed in helping to influence the future of WordPress.

Topics covered: entry points for contributors of all levels, whether they’re developers, designers, copywriters, or everyday users. We’ll briefly cover the process of joining the “Making WordPress” community, methods to have your voice heard, submitting patches and keeping trac tickets moving, bringing core down to the local community level, and more.

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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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