January 19, 2019 — Gain a better understanding of how to triangulate analytics data by using Google Analytics, a CRM, and analytics from social media. As a developer, you might play a role in supporting content marketing; understanding how these pieces fit together will strengthen your position when you need to provide your expertise to building or improving your company’s or client’s digital presence.

January 19, 2019 — Quality Assurance is an important part of building a WordPress site, but it can be hard to find time to do a thorough QA review when you’re a freelancer or work in a small team. Maybe you have a pre-launch QA checklist that seems to be good enough for most projects most of the time … as long as it is followed. When lots of bugs and design flaws make their way to production, oh well. That’s what a warranty is for, right?

January 19, 2019 — A few months (okay, years) late to the party, I just finished reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo’s guide to the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing. I went through all the steps–sorting, discarding, storing–and while doing so, something occurred to me. Couldn’t I apply the same logic to a website? Better yet, an entire web presence?

January 19, 2019 — What does the future hold for WordPress, as a platform and as a community?

Will we see continued growth, from ~24% of the web to 50%? Will the REST API enable a whole new generation of powerful interfaces to content stored and managed by WordPress? Will Skynet become self-aware as a side effect of the introduction of Emoji? Will the customizer lead to a totalitarian state? Will we all join hands and sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony”?

Through the lens of various 19th, 20th, and 21st century utopias and dystopias, we’ll look at what the future has in store for WordPress, and what you can do to make it happen (or stop it).

January 18, 2019 — This talk is for you – even if you haven’t attended a contributor day before. The session will highlight benefits of contributing, provide recommendations on how to find your spot and build trust, and give insights on which traits are particularly valuable to have or pick up. You will furthermore learn how contributing to core is by far not only about writing code. The goal of this session is to prepare you for a beneficial long-term relationship as a core contributor so that you can make a significant impact over time.

January 18, 2019 — A quick talk about how Debug can be really helpful in identifying issues with your WordPress site and how it can help even beginner developers fix problems with their code.

January 18, 2019 — I didn’t think I needed a business plan, I only needed clients, tons of clients. Even though my title was web designer, I took every job that was asked of me: web sites, of course, but also graphics, print, social media management, training, basically anything!

January 18, 2019 — How to be a successful WordPress freelancer or agency owner while living a full life. In our fast pace world it can sometimes be difficult to have it all, but unlike popular believe it’s definitely doable.

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January 17, 2019 — This talk will discuss approaches to diversity and inclusion at distributed companies. One potential
of a distributed company is that of global diversity. What is the reality? How are distributed companies
working to increase workforce diversity, grow internal talent, increase internal engagement, and set new standards for cultural leadership?

In this talk I’ll take a deep dive into efforts at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) and also look
at efforts at companies such as Github.

January 17, 2019 — “Overview of some processes used at an agency level. Version control, code standards, database migrations, environment aware config files and automated deployments. From local development setup to multiple environments, version control to automated deployments, content migration to modular mentalities. With some how-to talk and some how-not-to talk, we’ll discuss some ways to “soup up” our process to work for us when it comes to web development and WordPress.”

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