September 30, 2018 — The next generation of devices is here, and they’re all voice enabled. With the rise of technologies like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant and Microsoft’s Cortana, businesses need to think about how to structure their offerings to be compatible with these interfaces. This talk will explore how voice search is influencing SEO and customer acquisition as well as how to adapt to give customers a viable voice-interface option to interact with your services.

We’ll interact with Alexa and Google Assistant live to see how they can take your WordPress site to the next level and provide a unique interface to your content.

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September 28, 2018 — I will walk you through the steps you will need to take to bring your privacy notices kicking and screaming into the 21st century in time for May’s enforcement deadline. We’ll cover what the regulation requires, how your notices should be formatted, and how WordPress can pose some interesting challenges for the process.

September 27, 2018 — A hands on session. Participants are exposed to several tools, such as Adobe Spark, to quickly create higher quality graphics and videos for inclusion in their WordPress sites.

High quality content is more important than ever. We review approaches to generating such content quickly and for free.

September 25, 2018 — The talk is about Gutenberg, WordPress trending plugin. How to use Gutenberg and custom block development in Gutenberg. Session is delivered by Abdullah Ramzan is a full

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September 24, 2018 — Have you used Microsoft Azure for your WordPress work? Azure is actually a very good platform to work with WordPress. As a cloud platform, Azure offers many different ways to host WordPress, from IaaS using virtual machines to PaaS using web app instances or container instances.

At the end of this session, audiences will learn 1) how to deploy WordPress on Azure virtual machines, 2) how to deploy WordPress on Azure App Service using git, 3) how to deploy WordPress on Azure Container Instances, and 4) how to deploy WordPress on Azure App Service using Docker Container, Docker Compose and/or Kubernetes.

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September 24, 2018 — WordPress Multisite use case for publishers from Jonny Harris

September 24, 2018 — In this talk I plan to outline my journey from a self-confessed WordPress novice to a WordPress Specialist, with challenges I’ve found along the way, as well as where I see myself going from here. Taking a humorous approach, I’ll look at how ‘on paper’ you’d never expect me to be doing what I’m doing now, but now that I’m doing it I can’t see myself ever doing anything else. I’ll talk about agency life and why it should be fun, and will also share the tools I have found useful and give my opinions on how to get the best out of WordPress. I see this talk being useful not only for those wanting to progress with WordPress, but also for agency owners to consider how to grow their staff and get the most potential from them. Plenty of jokes and silly pictures included.

September 24, 2018 — When you need editability in various common (or uncommon!) areas of a website, it can be hard to decide how to deploy this. Do you widgetize it, create a custom options page, add custom fields to a page, use custom post types – there are a-lot of different strategies! When we need this kind of functionality on sites that we build, we’ve tried them all! I’ll demonstrate what I think is the nicest way – by using the Theme Customizer API you can deliver a great user experience, and even a live preview for the client… it’s sexy 😉

September 23, 2018 — Talk is delivered by Mashhood Rastagar. He is Google Developer Expert(Web and Angular). CTO at Sastaticket.pk.

September 20, 2018 — WP-CLI is a useful tool for automating tasks and optimizing developer workflow in WordPress. WP-CLI is commonly used for maintenance and can be put to good use in the initial site build process. Learn how WP-CLI can help improve your themeing process and make it faster to perform common site building tasks. This talk will explore how you can get started with WP-CLI and will include 3 step-by-step examples.

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