June 5, 2019 — As the owner of a WordPress agency, I find myself in need of good tools, and one important tool for my business is a Project Management system.

Choosing a Project Management system can be an overwhelming and daunting task. I get asked frequently which project management software they should use for their company, or even which system is my favorite.

This talk will discuss why I chose different setups for different companies I have worked with over the years, and the pros and cons to each.

June 5, 2019 — It can take as little as .29 milliseconds to crack a simple 7 character password. That is fast. I am here to help walk you through some of the tips and tricks of the trade to creating and storing secure passwords that will help defend not only your WordPress site, but also your personal life. I will walk you through some through some of the history behind passwords, what constitutes a strong password safe from compromise, and what is takes to securely store some of these incredibly unique and defensive passwords. We can make the web a safer place one site at a time, one password at a time.

June 5, 2019 — Colors and Typography play vital roles in modern web design and have a great impact on the audience. The Color, font and text all come together to make the brand distinct in the eyes of the user. Informed decision of color palette and typefaces for a website transforms into faster brands acceptance.

June 5, 2019 — I don’t want to say I’m old, but this was the most amazing tech going when I was in design school.

So I’ve tried all the new design tools! (Mostly). I’m a big fan of thumbnail sketches.

And I’ll do some sample layouts in Photoshop or XD or Affinity.

But as soon as I can, I head for the browser.

For a reality check? Sure.

But there’s also a heap of serendipity in them dev tools!

— For my vet, I stumbled on great typography just by hitting the Up and Down keys and seeing where they take me.
—Gutenberg and some new options in the Genesis Framework are making it easier than ever to build without thinking much about templates (the php kind).
— And you can hook your code editor right up to Chrome and see your changes (Local changes, of course!) come to life in real time!

So come take a look! If you love CSS like I love CSS, you’ll love designing elements and posts and pages — even entire sites — right in the browser!

June 5, 2019 — These days you’d better keep the requirements of SEO in mind before and while you create your piece of content. This doesn’t mean you should make your content machinelike – it’s about understanding how your article’s vocabulary and structure can influence your rankings.
We’re going to talk about four aspects a writer should consider in 2018 in order to write a good piece of content that will also attract more organic traffic.
– Topic research
– TF-IDF
– Featured snippets
– Mobile-focused keyword research

June 5, 2019 — Discussion Points.

What is REST API?
Routes and Endpoints.
WordPress Rest API Authentication.
WordPress Predefined API Endpoints.
Create your own API Endpoints.

Speaker Bio:

Prakash Singh a WordPress Theme & Plugin Developer living in Kolkata West Bengal.

For five years he has been building custom WordPress websites for businesses and individuals. He specializes in crafting easy-to-use backend experiences so my clients can easily manage their own website. He loves doing research, writing, travel, exploring life.

Intended Audience: Developers

Talk Type: Lightning

June 5, 2019 — In 2012, Matt Mullenweg stated his concern about how we get more women involved here in the WordPress Community. And during the last six years, attempts have been made to balance the number of men and women working on WordPress, but the reality is far from this ideal.

We know that this is not a unique problem in the context of WordPress but of the tech world in general. Therefore, in this talk, I will summarize what I’ve found in research articles on the numbers of women involved in technology. I will also summarize the evidence shown in a large-scale study of gender bias, comparing the acceptance rates of men’s and women’s contributions in an open source software community. Finally, I will also provide similar figures in the context of the WordPress Community.

This issue is too complex to provide easy solutions. So this talk is only meant to give a vision that can serve as a starting point for us to feel more comfortable discussing and working on finding solutions to something that interests us all.

June 5, 2019 — Eight years ago I was a one Gal Band running my WordPress business on lots of coffee and late nights and systems held together by a wing and a prayer and a bit of sellotape. This had to stop. Since then I’ve scaled my business with people, policies and systems, so I work with more clients in a less stressful way, and enjoy life an awful lot more!

In my session I will focus on:

– making your first hires – considering off-shore? I’ll share my experiences, good and bad!
– when to grow your team – spot when you are ready!
– cutting down on confusion – developing robust communication and planning systems for your team and clients to minimise miscommunication as you expand.
– creating your business manual – sounds dull but is the lifeblood of your business – I will show you how to create a living document that grows with you.

Learn from my mistakes while I share my own short cuts to avoiding burnout and loving your WordPress business more.

June 5, 2019 — Have you ever had a situation where you needed the same content on multiple websites, with just one place to edit it? Maybe in a network of WordPress sites?

In this talk I will outline how we built a content syndication system for a network of WordPress sites, meaning that content required on all sites could be edited once and deployed out to one or all of the thousands of sites in the network.

I will talk about the technologies we used to accomplish the task, the development challenges that were involved and how we overcame them.

These systems are great for businesses which have lots of divisions, regions or franchises which need the same default content on each site.

June 3, 2019 — This year’s keynote is a panel featuring Lee Drozak, Joe Howard, Beth Soderberg, and Tara Claeys. They’ll discuss building their businesses in a discussion moderated by organizer Charlie Reisinger.