April 11, 2019 — WordPress is known for pre-made themes that make it easy to get started. However, after a while you might wonder why certain design decisions have been made, how they affect your users, and what you can do to make the site better.

This is where User Experience (UX) design techniques comes in. UX is way of bringing together user needs and business goals through research, testing, and design.

This talk will introduce the concept of UX and provide practical tips for improving your site.

April 11, 2019 — WP-CLI has introduced new ways of working with WordPress via automated commands and scripts. Aliases allow WP-CLI commands to be run on remote servers. Put them together and you have a powerful foundation to run automated processes remotely on multiple servers.

This talk will focus on using WP-CLI to automate deployment of a WordPress database between a development and production website. WP-CLI commands will be joined together in a BASH script that can be executed from the command line.

April 11, 2019 — If you are a freelancer, adopting Coding Standards for the first time is a bit like taking up exercise: you know it’d do you good, but there’s always some urgent deadline or something else more important to do. After all, your code works, right? So, why bother?

In this talk, I will tell you why it matters, explain my experience of the process, including the ups and downs, and share a few tricks I have learned on the way that will make your work better and your life easier.

April 11, 2019 — In WordPress 4.9.6 a lot of new privacy features were introduced into WordPress that made working towards GDPR compliance just that little bit easier. In this talk, I will walk you through how I integrated the WordPress privacy features into my plugin.

April 11, 2019 — How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress?

With the rise of page builders and ‘block-based’ layouts, and the imminent arrival of Gutenberg – WordPress’ new block-based editor – we needed a solution for transitioning towards this new way of editing content while sticking with the mature and stable technology stack that we know and love.

We, therefore, set out to find another solution and this led to the development of the HD ACF Blocks plugin that we use on most sites today.

This talk introduces the plugin, how we built it, how it works, and how it provides value to our clients and our business.

April 11, 2019 — This talk is a hands-on workshop aimed towards new WordPress users. Kayleigh will walk you through the first time you login to WordPress, where to find popular features in the dashboard, and how to find some more hidden settings.

She’ll also cover how to install your first couple of plugins and include some tips on how to find good and useful plugins.

April 11, 2019 — I started working with WordPress 10 years ago – and I started my agency round about then too.

Join me for 30 minutes as I take you through the highs and lows of running a WordPress business. I’ll outline what I believe are some of the key things I did wrong, and I’ll provide you with a takeaway list of solutions to common problems, so you can avoid making the same mistakes I did.

I’ll be covering a wide range of topics including how we charged for work in the past and how we charge for work now.

This is a practical talk, for business owners who are starting out as freelancers, or transitioning between freelancer and small agency.

April 11, 2019 — From HSTS through to CSP and almost every acronym in between security headers, are simple HTTP Headers, sent with requests from your server to the browser but they can be a valuable piece in hardening sites if implemented correctly what’s more for most of them it’s simple to do. In this talk Tim going to go through various security headers explaining how and when to use them and some of the pitfalls. It’s a journey that will take us through HTTPS and into a world where we need to consider carefully what third party content is being used.

April 11, 2019 — With ‘only’ 56,000 plugins to choose from, how hard can it be to choose the right plugin for your WP project?
There is no magic button to press, no silver bullet.
But there are some basic tips you can follow that will help you decide if a plugin is going to actually do what it promises.
This talk is designed to walk you through the process and make your decision-making process much, much easier.

April 10, 2019 — “It is quite bewildering when a Software Engineer are inclined in creative off-beat niches like photography , radio or blogging!
But what people forget is that a Software Engineer will always think the Engineering way.
Working in a well knit Agile Development Environment , getting less time for side hustles , what I came up was an idea that changed my life…
Not only it can be applied to every aspect of life but also to Content Marketing and Blogging.
My Talk will discuss all about the Agile Framework in depth that can make blogging and content marketing interesting!”