October 14, 2018 — Every open source project is made up of more than code.

It’s more than pixels, more than binary. People create the code, craft the experience, test and support.

To keep a community healthy we need to recognise the people behind the text.

Open source really is people source and the trouble is we keep forgetting that.

This talk is part call to action and part wake up call, lets start thanking rather than following a dramatic hashtag.

Lets start caring for the people that are our source.

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October 14, 2018 — This talk is for anyone who is or wants to be their own boss, either as a freelancer or the next big thing.

Rich will discuss what it takes to be an entrepreneur; telling anecdotes, offering tips and advice, and sharing a little insight into the opportunities WordPress has to offer.

October 14, 2018 — The talk is meant to interest users, who having got a website, are writing articles for it.

I would guess that the professional writers could happily add extra ideas to my talk.

So, I’ll offer a set of guidelines that enables writers to assess if their article could be easier to read. Little bit on SEO and typography perhaps.

October 14, 2018 — Content Strategists like Karen McGrane make a distinction between CMS implementations that store content in large, unstructured “blobs” and those which store finely grained, structured “chunks.” WordPress is often accused of being on #teamblob but with appropriate use of custom post types, post meta, taxonomies, and term meta, can be an excellent example of #teamchunk.

Now enter project Gutenberg, with inline block creation, block templates, block types, shared blocks and dynamic blocks.

Is this a return to #teamblob? If you create a block for, as an example, staff profiles, will you end up with hardcoded staff phone numbers in different blocks on different pages? Will you have to rewrite the staff directory to be a dynamic block? What’s all this about storing the content as html comments?

This talk will not be a deep dive into the code of Gutenberg, but will explain how Gutenberg’s approach fits into the debate about structured content versus unstructured content, and how you can best leverage the new WordPress editor without going all blobby.

October 14, 2018 — Gutenberg is an opportunity for us to rethink how we design and build WordPress themes.

Allan Cole and I will share the story of how we made our first Gutenberg-powered theme. We’ll cover the entire process from concept to launch, while sharing the challenges, joys, and discoveries we encountered along the way.

This should be informative to anyone who makes WordPress themes, or is curious about how Gutenberg effects themes moving forward.

October 14, 2018 — CSS Grid was released last year and it changes everything; for the web and for the WordPress Community. It means that for the first time ever we get to think of our layout as two dimensional and fully responsive. CSS Grid is not another plugin hack or another bootstrap patch, it is the solution designers have been asking for. It is here to stay and right now is the perfect time to learn it!

October 12, 2018

October 12, 2018 — WordPress allows users to manage their content through the WordPress admin screens. This means users can add, edit and delete content and media and manage their sites without the need to ask developers for every change. WordPress is a content management system, but all too often it can end up becoming a content mismanagement system when editing and managing the site is just too difficult, This talk goes through some of the ways in which we build sites so they are easy to content manage, whilst allowing clients to edit pretty much all of their site. It will cover the different methods we use to make content management easy and some of the problems that we see with sites we have been asked to improve. Hopefully by the end of this talk attendees will come away with some practical examples on how to make content management with WordPress easier and quicker for users.

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October 12, 2018 — Helping 3 children between the ages of 4-8 to create their first WordPress sites, I realised that adults and children approach problem solving very differently. Adults try to relate everything to experience, which works a lot of the time. For children, every experience is a lesson. They are constantly problem solving, thinking outside the box, and seeing things that adults often do not see. My children have pointed out solutions that are hiding in plain site, but they have also used their imagination to their advantage. This talk offers practical advice for supporting young people creating their first WordPress website, highlights the importance of teaching the future generations about technology and demonstrates that the next generation of WordPress developers could teach us a lot too.

October 12, 2018 — My talk will cover how to introduce Business Development into your WordPress business, and how to target enterprise clients. I will talk about how to support your sales team with partnership building through Business Development, as well as, how to work hand in hand with marketing to grow inbound traffic. This is the all you need to know talk on getting started with Business Development in Enterprise WordPress.

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WordPress ビジネスにおける事業開発の始め方と、著名企業や政府・教育関連などといった大規模クライアントをターゲットにする方法についてお話しします。事業開発を通じて営業チームが他社とパートナーシップを確立するのを支援する方法、インバウンドトラフィックを増やすためにマーケティングチームと協力する方法などを知り、エンタープライズ WordPress の世界への一歩を踏み出してみませんか。

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