November 23, 2018 — This panel discussion shows how to avoid strings that are difficult or impossible to translate so that your product is more likely to be fully translated.

November 23, 2018 — We have two recipes on how to be a highly productive remote worker, given from different perspectives and in Spanish and English.

Raul works primarily from a stable environment, is married and has three children. His tips and tricks apply to everyone working from home, an independent office or a coworking spot. En Español.
Kat works primarily from a changing environment with varying WiFi/data speeds and connectivity, different languages and time zones. Her hints and hacks apply to everyone who travels one day/week/month or all year. In English.

We’ll have a Q&A session, plus invite the community to add “new ingredients” to the recipe based on their experience.

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November 22, 2018 — Running tests with real users is critical for so many organizations, whether when evaluating MVPs or just as part of iterative updates. For an organization that already has embraced inclusive design, the next step is to integrate it into user testing by incorporating users with disabilities into your normal testing process. Note that this is not the same as accessibility testing. Ideally your accessibility work is done so that you can test a fully functional and accessible site/application for usability regardless of disability. I will discuss how to plan for and execute these sessions as well as pitfalls to avoid. Ideally you will walk away with high-level understanding of where to start.

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November 21, 2018 — How to deliver and receive success and excellence

This talk will focus on the success and failures from building a 6 figure plugin sales business.

Have you ever made a plugin, and asked yourself what on earth you were thinking?

Or did you buy a plugin and it had no end of problems, but the developers weren’t supportive?

Some plugins are great, work seamlessly with your website, and deliver on what they promised.

Some are really, really bad. Just awful. Refund me now! Your website stops working, there are constant problems, the plugin developer is useless.

Chris Bryant has had some major plugin failures, and some great successes over the past 10 years, in his web development firm.

In this non technical talk, Chris will share his successes and failures with making plugins over the past decade. Topics to cover include:

For Business Owners

Why your website company might be the worst people to make your plugin.
What makes a good WordPress plugin?
Setting expectations – What do you get for your money when you buy that $15 plugin?
Why does the plugin you bought not work as expected?
Why is it so expensive to have one system talk to another and what can I do about it?
The role of quality, accuracy and price in choosing a plugin developer.
For Web Developers

What happened when we were overloaded with support requests.
How the smallest Git almost crushed us.
The time we were told our plugin was about to be removed.
How to build a successful business with WordPress plugins.
Case Studies
We’ll also cover a broad range of case studies which will provide valuable insights to both business owners and developers, including:

The rarer one – $10,000 plugin
The everyday gem – $500 plugin
The big win – increasing plugin value with incremental improvement
The complex one – Enterprise financial integration & risk management

November 20, 2018 — Learning and sharing the experience of how to use WordPress in large corporates, multiple sites , page builders, maintenance, ease of rollouts etc

Aspen Pharma only uses WordPress for all their sites.

November 20, 2018 — Waiting on content is one of the biggest bottlenecks in digital agencies. In this talk I cover

Why clients take to long to send content
3 ways to help your clients provide content faster
Some great tools to help the process along
How to request content in a way that makes it easy for clients

November 20, 2018 — In past 14 years I have seen many technological shift in WordPress.

I would share with example and best use guide what I feel the best Local Development Environment for WordPress in 2018.

This will be a very helpful session anybody looking to drive deep into WordPress and who are already working in WordPress, they will be able to explore other better ways to improve their workflow.

November 20, 2018 — An exploration of ideas, lessons, hacks and opportunities to make you a more productive WP developer… and take your business on the road.

Topic points:

Lessons learned whilst traveling the world as a remote WP developer.
Hard realities of what it’s like to be a digital nomad, and what you need to do to make it profitable
Australian specific tax implications and opportunites
Acknowledge maintenance is required, and turn it into a product you sell to your clients (eg: ManageWP, InfiniteWP)
Develop using ‘reusable function’ methodologies in your business (eg: starter themes, child themes, frameworks). Look at baking your own framework, but always use others.
Look for opportunities to streamline your development (eg: CSS compilers, FTP sync, placing WP in a subdirectory).
Become a hosting reseller to increase your passive income and be a one point call for your clients. This will save you time dealing with site builds.
Identify opportunities to buy developer licenses and sell access to these as part of your maintenance.
The benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone, and learning from other developers – especially non WP focused ones.

November 20, 2018 — For the past 5 years, I have worked for The Code Company developing bespoke web applications using WordPress as a CMS/application framework.

I wanted to share some lessons and insights gained from working on niche start ups to enterprise-level applications as well as talk about general problems in software development.

The intent is to share my personal experience as a client-facing back end developer. Anyone with interest/experience in project work with WordPress is invited to come along.

November 16, 2018 — An introduction to what is WordPress and get a better understanding of why over 30% of the Internet uses it for their website. Christina will also cover the basics of what is a WordPress theme or plugin.

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