April 17, 2019 — In January 2017, I set 5 big business goals for the year. By May, I accomplished 3 of them… And then everything ground to a halt.

I didn’t move forward for six months as I battled depression, doubt, jealousy, imposter syndrome, shiny object syndrome, not-invented-here syndrome, and so much more.

You’ll hear about how I was finally able to identify what was stopping me, move past it, and what I’ve done to prevent a lot of this ever happening again. I hope you can learn from my mistakes!

April 17, 2019 — Open Source is an incredibly powerful concept that can be seen at the heart of progress and advancement in many spheres of life. The idea that people from every corner of the globe can come together to exchange ideas and build products that profoundly affect our lives is as crazy as it is exciting.

I’m fascinated by the fact that people who have never met can come together to form a community that produces software and/or hardware products like CMSs, cars, building equipment, AI appliances and apparel that help to enable whole swaths of people with limited financial, physical or other resources make meaningful contributions and improve their quality of life.

I talk briefly about the concept of Open source and specifically about how WordPress has played a significant part in taking this Nigerian university dropout around the world and exposing him to a community of the most incredible human beings at the forefront of democratising publishing and why Open Source should be near and dear to your heart.

April 17, 2019 — Doing manual code reviews is boring. People keep on making the same mistakes.

Ulrich will be showing how you can improve your code by using automated tools and what the positive effects of it are.

We will be looking at a few different examples how automation has improved the code quality in a team, and also in open source projects.

April 17, 2019 — Do you ask yourself “what kind of content I should write on my or my client’s site to attract more customers”? If yes, this presentation will show you a few ways of using the date to find relevant topics in any industry that these users are looking for.

I will try to help you replace a feeling of uncertainty that you might have when you are deciding what pages or articles you need to write next.

Instead, you will be confident that a large group of readers or potential customers are looking for them.

April 16, 2019 — We’ve all been there at least once: all of the sudden you get a blank page, or worse, a 500-error.

In this talk we’ll go over the step anyone can take to interpret the error, find more information about it, find the culprit and get it resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We’ll look into the wp_debug function, error logging on the server, php settings and of course some common errors, their causes and the necessary fixes.

April 16, 2019 — An introductory talk for people who are newer to WordPress and making websites in it. I will be going over how to use the dashboard to create a new website.

Topics covered will include how to create posts, pages, menus and how they correspond to the content displayed on your site. How to create galleries, and search for themes and plugins.

I will also talk about how to use Yoast and add a contact form to your site.

April 16, 2019 — The Customizer was introduced with WordPress 3.4, nonetheless it is a very underestimated feature.
In this talk we will discover what it is and which tools we have at our disposal and how to extend its functionalities with Customize API.
At the end of the speech you will have all the information needed to start integrating it in your themes and plugins.

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April 16, 2019 — When a large business decides to adopt WordPress as its main web platform, finding how to master, scale and optimize WordPress to support large traffic spikes becomes the challenge.

In this talk I will share the problems encountered, solutions devised and results of two years of successful employment of WordPress to run the website of a mobile operator.

April 15, 2019 — My talk will be about ways one can monetize their site and which is most likely to generate more revenue.

April 15, 2019 — In response to the GDPR which became enforceable in May, the U.S. has opened privacy and data protection conversations at a state and federal level.

If you or your customers are marketing or selling to the U.S. you need to know key similarities and differences between U.S. and E.U. law to avoid legal liability.

This talk is presented by a U.S. business and privacy attorney and is for anyone working internationally, with the U.S. that wants to avoid costly business mistakes.