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  • Emmanuel Chekumbe: Making a Living With WordPress

    WordCamp Mombasa 2019Speaker: Emmanuel Chekumbe

    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.

  • Murad Swaleh: From Mockup Design to Theming WordPress

    WordCamp Mombasa 2019Speaker: Murad Swaleh

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

  • Ruth Kaveke: Ipay integration with Woocommerce

    WordCamp Mombasa 2019Speaker: Ruth Kaveke

    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.

  • Amy Hall: MailChimp & WordPress Goes Together Like Peanut Butter & Bananas

    WordCamp Seattle 2018Speaker: Amy Hall

    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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  • Larry Swanson: DIY Content Strategy

    WordCamp Seattle 2018Speaker: Larry Swanson

    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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  • Mitch Britt: Translating Tech Talk Into English

    WordCamp Seattle 2018Speaker: Mitch Britt

    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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  • David Needham: Find that bug you made months ago with Git Bisect

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: David Needham

    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.

  • Vladimir Smitka: WordPress through the bad guys’ glassed

    WordCamp Europe 2019Speaker: Vladimír Smitka

    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.

  • Rory m Heaney: Intro to ADA Development

    WordCamp Seattle 2018Speaker: Rory m Heaney

    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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  • Allison Kinnear: You Are Not a Fraud: Conquer Your Inner Impostor

    WordCamp Seattle 2018Speaker: Allison Kinnear

    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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