October 29, 2019 — We explain what the WCAG 2.1 guidelines are and why they are so important to us as WordPress developers and agencies.

Then we offer our easy and actionable steps that you can do to your website as soon as you get home to help you become compliant.

We of course go through and explain each step we offer so you will understand clearly.

Finally, we offer some resources and links to completely free plugins that you can use to test your websites Section 508 compliance and help your compliance instantly.

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October 29, 2019 — Modern infrastructure technologies like serverless computing and real-time databases offer a huge potential for new and improved online user experiences.

In this session, we’ll go through a practical use case to find out how we can harness their power in the context of WordPress.

We’ll build a Gutenberg block that shows status updates, to be incorporated into a status page. We’ll use serverless computing to allow adding status updates via a Slack command, and we’ll use a real-time database so that all visitors receive these updates in real-time without any impact on our WordPress server.

October 29, 2019 — Decoupled/Headless WordPress sites allow WordPress to be at the hub of internet technology.

Rather than a ‘them and us’, WordPress can be the bridge for the non-technical client, allowing the decoupled site (which can be just HTML/CSS/JS) to integrate all the non-WordPress technologies.

The client can have the comfort and reassurance of WordPress CMS, the viewer can benefit from all the other non-WordPress technologies.

October 29, 2019 — You installed a security plugin, and you don’t get much traffic anyway since your business is small…so you don’t need to worry about getting hacked, right?

While there are several good security plugins that are a useful part of a security plan, securing a WordPress site requires more than a plugin. Plugins are handy tools but can give a false sense of security if the entire security landscape is not considered.

You may not have a lot of money to invest, but you can learn a framework and some basic actions to help you get a better grasp on security for your website – and your business.

October 25, 2019 — Mobile devices provide an extraordinary opportunity to deliver a superior mobile experience to every user, particularly around accessibility and offline/poor connectivity support. The WordPress Mobile Apps, developed as open source, leverages that opportunity to bring the best WordPress experience on the road.
This talk, by one of the developers involved in the development of the WordPress Mobile Apps, will contain first hand information on the way the team develops and test them to make sure that they provide the experience that the users expect, and how anyone can contribute to the effort, either coding, testing, contributing designs or documentation.

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October 25, 2019 — Ivan will explain the 7 methods to boost online sales for e-shops. He will also talk about some recommended plugins to achieve each of the 7 methods.

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October 25, 2019 — Henry will discuss how to hack and secure your WordPress installations.

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October 24, 2019

October 23, 2019 — Killian will talk about WordPress and SEO/Content Marketing in order for the audience the know the basic set-ups and extensions, and will present some case studies for the topic.

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October 22, 2019 — Have you ever wanted to build your own plugin? Or maybe you’re just curious as to how plugins work? We’ll take a look at some popular plugins, learn the WordPress hook system, then walk through building your first custom WordPress plugin from scratch.

https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/introduction-to-plugin-development/