April 23, 2019 — When looking at how small WordPress plugins and themes businesses operate, only a small handful of them takes advantage of SEO to grow their business.

It’s tricky though because when you’ve got other things to worry about in your business, it’s not a surprise that SEO is not a major priority. In fact, it can be overwhelming to find out what you need to do…even for me, and I do it for a living.

But can you really grow your business with zero or little traffic? Especially if you are providing plugins and themes, which requires online engagements?

Whether you are new and scaling your business, or you are looking to boost your existing business, it’s time to look at how SEO can be a major investment in your business.

In this talk, we will look at the essential ways you can do that with the help of some actionable tips and strategy which you can apply today.

April 23, 2019 — Sure you think you’re going to be around forever, but one day, somehow, you will not be working on that website.

How do you make life easier for your clients, your colleagues, your replacements, and yourself?

Discover the power of documentation!

April 23, 2019 — If you have an idea for a blog or a website, don’t hesitate and start it.

WordPress has the features to make it an easy task for you.

Hear from a person with no web experience who has been running their own website for the past 6 months.

April 23, 2019 — Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a concept related to user experience especially for mobile users, where the focus is to deliver websites that are Reliable, Fast and Engaging.

PWA became so popular the past year but how can we apply it to our WordPress projects?

On this technical presentation, We are going to apply step-by-step features as home screen button, service worker, cache API and accessing native features as a native APP in a real project.

April 19, 2019 — Our agency are working on their way to become a fully accredited accessible agency with every project being tested internally and externally for accessibility issues, it’s not been an easy road and we would like to share our experiences with you.

By providing live demonstrations and real world experiences James will talk through quick wins to help make your sites accessibility and help you agency move forward to only producing accessible websites without interfering with workflow.

April 19, 2019 — Blogging was always about writing, but in 2018 our readers have less time to consume content and more content to consume.

If you want to continue to reach and grow your audience you’ll need to think beyond words alone. That’s a realisation I had in 2016, it’s one that made me change the way I blogged.

Since then I’ve built stronger relationships with readers, won multiple awards for my blog and added new income streams to my business.

I’m going to show you what I did and how you too can supercharge your blog with audio, video and visual content.

April 19, 2019 — For years I held myself back thinking that because I couldn’t comprehend PHP there was a limit to how far I could go as a developer.

With WordPress and plugins like Toolset this is absolutely untrue. There is no data management problem I cannot solve with these two powerful platforms working together.

In this workshop , I want to demonstrate how quickly a front end form can be created and then how the data captured can be manipulated to create awesome solutions for our clients.

Any of the new form builders can be used, but Toolset is my go to as the support is unreal. To date I’ve built recruitment platforms, tourist portals, an entire HR Suite and much more using Toolset.

For WordPress users this knowledge could be very useful, for WordPress Developers this knowledge opens the door to lots of repeat business from their existing client base.

April 18, 2019 — The web has a dirty secret. Its carbon footprint is larger than that of global air travel. And the immense energy consumed by the Internet from non-renewable sources makes it the largest coal-fired machine on earth. For the first time, Mozilla’s 2018 Internet Health Report highlighted this growing problem, and stated that sustainability should be a bigger priority for the industry. This talk is about the practical steps that those in the WordPress community can take to reduce the environmental impact of their work and promote a better future.

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April 17, 2019 — In my talk I will cover a wide range of interesting WordPress API features. We will start with the basics like pulling dynamic content from pages and posts, moving onto using featured images and custom fields to a build a reusable banner as a chunk of php to call into our theme templates.

If any of that sounded worrying please remember I am not a PHP developer, WordPress just makes life easy for all of us if you know to to use it. We will also cover topics to give your end user move control like custom shortcodes, widgets areas, menus and author bios.

We will then dig into creating custom post types and advanced custom fields, all made easy with Toolset Types plugin. Then we will focus on how to pull post types into templates using wp-query.

Finally we will look at WordPress customise features giving your end user control over all the content we have built so far as well as the colours, logo image and style of the site. This will wrap up into a dynamic theme with a user friendly interface… and there might even be some free DLC resources I have been working on.

Please remember I’m going to keep this talk in a language and terminology that everyone can understand, I am not a backend PHP robot, I’m an experienced developer and trainer. Hope you see you there WP Devs!

April 17, 2019 — The session will introduce best practices of website security and how to implement them.

The goal is to help webmasters effectively identify and reduce risks or website compromise.