April 30, 2019 — I will be sharing my experience on how learning even a little bit of code can make WordPress even easier to use as well create more unique designs and also overcome road blocks while making you productive. This talk sheds more light on why WordPress is available to all. There are a lot of people out there writing series of code to make WordPress as simple as it is and easy to use. Hence, learning to code just to make WordPress even better isn’t a bad idea at all.

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April 30, 2019 — Is your website running slowly? If you’ve had a WordPress site for a few years, it could be the MySQL database—the silent killer of WordPress performance. For many of us, the database is the most intimidating optimization challenge, leaving it to make sites bloated, expensive, and ready to crash under high traffic. But it’s actually not that scary. Using WordPress plugins and phpMyAdmin, we’ll build the skills to diagnose database issues, go over some common problems and weird edge cases, and learn how to safely fix and maintain the database for top performance.

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April 30, 2019 — New development workflows can be scary. Want to create your first custom block but don’t know where to start? This talk will help you get started on your journey to modern JavaScript WordPress development by sharing resources, tips, and lessons learned from developing custom WordPress blocks.

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April 30, 2019 — One of the exciting things about Gutenberg blocks is that they can serve a similar purpose to many shortcodes that generate a “block” of content, but with more flexibility and a much more user-friendly interface. Creating Gutenberg versions of your shortcodes is also a good step in future-proofing your plugins and sites. This talk shows how some of the custom shortcodes from WordCamp.org have been adapted into Gutenberg blocks.

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April 25, 2019 — Being a developer of an open source software in a third world country is a marathon. Too much competition around the world and not enough resources in your own country to fight fairly. In this talk i’ll cover: -Internet issues and how we overcome them -Power issues and how we overcome them -Manpower issues and how we overcome them -Code thieves issues and how we had to let this one go -Quality assurance issues and how we’re still struggling to fix this

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April 24, 2019 — I had my first brush with accessibility in 2002. My boss was in a panic that our web application was not accessible, and that we would lose government funding.

Since that experience, I’ve found myself arguing for more accessibility in web design and development. More often than not, I lose that argument.

My professional activism on the topic has caused others to label me an expert on the topic. But I don’t consider myself a practitioner. I am a vocal and heartfelt advocate.

This talk will intertwine the history of web accessibility with my own personal story of how I evolved in my views on accessibility.

I will also discuss the role the open source community has to play, for an accessible web.

April 24, 2019 — Measurable outcomes: Key tools the you can employ to create a successful inbound marketing strategy combining WordPress and 3rd party applications.

Discussed Sections:

• WordPress – website
• Tawk – Site chatbot or similar
• GetResponse / Mailchimp / SendinBlue – Email marketing system and WordPress integration
• GetResponse / Thrive leads – Landing pages to attract leads to give their email in exchange for information and how it can integrate into WordPress
• CRM system – manage leads with WordPress integration

April 24, 2019 — Today’s WordPress environment generally results in numerous organisations managing either our data or the hardware and software that it relies upon.

Although we subcontract out parts of our WordPress infrastructure we are still accountable for the data processed by our Websites.

This talk takes a look at a typical WordPress set up and follows the journey that a user’s data might take and some potential threats at each point on its journey.

It looks at what we can do to minimise our exposure to risk of outsourcing management of our infrastructure, the considerations we should make and what questions we should be asking of our hosts.

April 24, 2019 — WordPress has become a valuable tool for community media outlets such as VIEWdigital.

We believe that Word Press can help save the media by becoming the number one tech tool for community media outlets.

April 24, 2019 — Lightning Talk
The good, bad and the ugly of contributing to open source.

Ulrich has been contributing to open source for the last 6 years in different ways, from support to documentation to bug fixes, and organising events.

He will talk about how this has helped him but also about the challenges involved to contributing to open source.