August 5, 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 11 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.

Takeaways:

You will learn exactly what web accessibility and WCAG 2.1 are.We give you easy and actionable steps you can take immediately to help your compliance.We give you links to free software to audit your site and free software to help you be compliant before you get home.

August 5, 2019 — Leveraging Your WordCamp Experience for Better Social Media Engagement

WordCamp is an empowering experience for the WordPress novice, expert and everyone in between, but processing all the information at the end of the conference can sometimes be overwhelming.

Using humor and lots of hands-on techniques, this talk will help you elevate your WordCamp experience to a new level! You’ll learn how to gather, sort and apply all the great information you’ve learned from the conference! Plus how to effectively apply all this great knowledge and information for better Social Media engagement.

Takeaways:

Learn how to takes notes effectively to make it easier to sort through later.Interact with other attendees to network and share.Will learn what to post on social media from their WordCamp experience and use their devices to do real-time posting.

August 5, 2019 — This session covers how to analyze and identify slowdowns and bottlenecks in your website performance, use the right tools and plugins to optimize your website page speed, and leverage Javascript and the WordPress REST API to add fast, dynamic content on your newly speedy site!

Takeaways:

Performance analysis and debugging is the first key step in site optimization. This will guide the next optimization steps, such as caching, or image optimization. Often, there is much room for improvement, and complex sites can benefit from caching at several different levels.

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August 5, 2019 — You know the cliche about the reign of content- especially for search engine success- so I won’t repeat it. The problem: you have a boring business and can’t write content. Or, maybe, you are unable to get any of your content approved by difficult brand managers or lawyers.

Let me show you my process for coming up with topics for impossible companies and boring topics. I’ll show you strategies to get this content approved- by even the most persnickety members of your team. I’ll even give you some tips to make sure this content helps grow your SEO campaign in a way you never thought you’d see. As a bonus, I’ll help you produce content that will stand the test of time- even as Google moves toward voice searches.

Takeaways:

What makes content “good”?
Strategies to overcome boring industries or topics
Strategies to overcome difficult (legal/regulative) topics

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August 5, 2019 — WordPress support is a topic of epic myth scale. Agencies and freelances have different approaches on how to do it and in many cases it’s wrong. Why? It’s because not that they something wrong, but how the clients feel at the end and how their clients’ websites perform. This talk will discuss some good practices and how to make sure we have WordPress happiness.

August 5, 2019 — – Building the process
– The leading mantra & ideology
– Technical aspects – how, what & why; research & structure of content; technical onsite;
– Informational aspects – how we do NLP & intent-based research, keyword clusters, historical optimisation;
– Offsite optimisation.

August 5, 2019 — To democratize publishing, internationalization is just one of many barriers that WordPress needs to overcome. That’s why for 2020 and beyond, the goal is to find an official way to build multilingual websites. Up until now, this was considered to be plugin territory. But what is needed to make WordPress a true polyglot?
This talk covers the status quo of multilingual WordPress websites and shares some ideas — both from a technical and a user perspective — on how WordPress could evolve in this area over the next few years.

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August 5, 2019 — WordPress has grown in more ways than we could have ever imagined, but what does the future hold? In his talk, Noel will make predictions about how our industry will change in 2020 and what it means for you and your business.
From freelancers, agencies to product companies, there’s a lot going on you need to be aware of so that you can best plan for the upcoming year.

August 4, 2019 — Feeling overwhelmed as a freelancer? We all want to be as productive as possible each day. Learn some practical solutions for freelancers to maximize productivity while lower your stress level. We will talk about some tools and techniques to streamline your workflow.
Takeaways: List of Tools, Techniques, and Resources

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August 4, 2019 — As a developer in the WordPress ecosystem, you’re part of a large open source community; and being part of a community, being a good neighbour goes a long way. You’re thinking of or already developing components for WordPress, but developing is just the beginning: allowing your code to be used or modified easily will get you more goodwill within the community. That means documentation; meaning useful code comments, user manuals and API docs.

We’ll discuss documentation standards, best practices, and how to make your users and other developers sing your praises.