February 7, 2019 — This talk describes an ongoing developmental project for building a bespoke theme for a faculty. It includes the description of project requirements, the planning stages, and the actual development. It highlights the uniqueness of building a theme for an academic setup, and shares some of the difficulties in managing projects amidst other workloads.

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February 7, 2019 — Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a new way to enhance user experience that reach our website. 3 components of PWA:

1. Reliable – Load instantly and even when you are offline.

2. Fast – Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky scrolling.

3. Engaging – Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.

WordPress as default doesn’t support PWA out of the box. By bringing performance first approach and enrich our user with PWA way, could bring better experience for our clients and users.

February 7, 2019 — I will share my experience on how I scale the machine to handle large amount of user during the peak season. I have a “pain” experience on how we solve the sudden high traffic while we launch our GE14 campaign (unidrabu.com) to do the cloud funding for free buses service to the voter.

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February 7, 2019 — I will share my experience on the most common UI mistakes that Designers and Bloggers unknowingly make that could turn off the user, customer and readers. We will also cover practical ways fix those mistakes.

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February 7, 2019 — In this talk I’ll share the troubles I’ve faced when asked to host 1:1 chats with Jetpack paid clients on a regular basis. The journey was full of uncertainties, and I questioned myself as a Happiness Engineer. Eventually, it helped me overcome my fears and get the best out of the products I provide support for.

Starting with the pain points of a product, this talk offers a different perspective on face-to-face interactions and pre/post-sales opportunities with potential and/or ongoing clients. This talk is for anyone interested in how to leverage customer service to increase customer loyalty and happiness.

February 6, 2019 — 1. What is a headless (or decoupled) CMS
2. Why use WordPress as a headless CMS
3. Tools and process of building a headless site
4. A basic example and some gotchas we found
5. The Future is (probably) headless

February 5, 2019 — Content Security Policies are another tool we should have in our security toolbelt to help protect users of our sites. In this session you’ll learn what they are, why they’re needed, how they work and the limitations on what they can & cannot do to protect users.

You’ll see a demo of attacks a CSP will block, you’ll see a site broken by a CSP, show what the different CSP directives & options will do and be introduced to some of the tools available to help with implementing a CSP on your sites!

February 4, 2019 — In an ideal world everyone would automatically feel safe and welcome in tech spaces, both at events and in the workspace. But, in reality, creating an inviting space requires work. This talk covers some principles and practices that can be implemented to make a space welcoming for everyone.

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February 4, 2019 — How getting involved with the WordPress community changed my life.

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February 4, 2019 — Have you ever wanted to contribute to WordPress, but just don’t know where to start? In this panel we will bring together a group of experienced WordPress contributors to discuss all the varied ways that you can easily become involved in the WordPress project.