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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September 20, 2018 — You have this great WordPress website and now you want to know how to use it.

Congratulations! You just launched a shiny, new website built on WordPress and you’ve logged in to the admin area to have a look around. You’re ready to publish your first blog post or edit a page but, Wowza, there are a lot of things to click on! All of those menu options is making you very uncomfortable.

What are all of those options for? What happens if you click on them? What if you click on the wrong thing?

Make sure you come prepared! Read to the end to see what you should bring and come early to make sure you’re ready to go.

You’ve probably headed out to Google-ville to find the answer to your questions. You’ve discovered that there are a kerjillion different individual tutorials out there on how to do this or that. You’ve watched videos and read the Codex but you’re still worried and confused. It seems like a really steep learning curve.

It’s not. Learning to use WordPress is not hard. In this workshop, we are going to learn all the basics of WordPress to get you using your website like a pro. Some of the things we’ll be covering:

• How to login to your admin Dashboard
• A tour of the Dashboard
• The difference between Pages and Posts
• How to create and edit a Page and Post
• Formatting text and headings
• Adding images
• Embedding a Google map or YouTube video on your Page
• Dealing with Comments
• Backups – how and why
• Keeping things updated
• Widgets – what they are and how to use them
• Plugins – what they are
• Users and User Roles
• Tools
• Settings – what not to change

This is a Workshop, not a lecture, so you’ll see WordPress in action, have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and get answers. The class size is kept small to maximize your learning.

Your instructor has been designing websites using WordPress for over 7 years. She’s also taught this material many times, so you know you’re going to come away from the class knowing how to use WordPress.

Note: this is a beginner level workshop for bloggers and business owners who use WordPress and isn’t intended for developers.

COME PREPARED!
For this workshop you will want to have the following:

Laptop (or tablet big enough for you to work on)
A working self-hosted WordPress install or we can create a temporary site on pooply.life

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September 20, 2018 — You have this great WordPress website and now you want to know how to use it.

Congratulations! You just launched a shiny, new website built on WordPress and you’ve logged in to the admin area to have a look around. You’re ready to publish your first blog post or edit a page but, Wowza, there are a lot of things to click on! All of those menu options is making you very uncomfortable.

What are all of those options for? What happens if you click on them? What if you click on the wrong thing?

Make sure you come prepared! Read to the end to see what you should bring and come early to make sure you’re ready to go.

You’ve probably headed out to Google-ville to find the answer to your questions. You’ve discovered that there are a kerjillion different individual tutorials out there on how to do this or that. You’ve watched videos and read the Codex but you’re still worried and confused. It seems like a really steep learning curve.

It’s not. Learning to use WordPress is not hard. In this workshop, we are going to learn all the basics of WordPress to get you using your website like a pro. Some of the things we’ll be covering:

• How to login to your admin Dashboard
• A tour of the Dashboard
• The difference between Pages and Posts
• How to create and edit a Page and Post
• Formatting text and headings
• Adding images
• Embedding a Google map or YouTube video on your Page
• Dealing with Comments
• Backups – how and why
• Keeping things updated
• Widgets – what they are and how to use them
• Plugins – what they are
• Users and User Roles
• Tools
• Settings – what not to change

This is a Workshop, not a lecture, so you’ll see WordPress in action, have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and get answers. The class size is kept small to maximize your learning.

Your instructor has been designing websites using WordPress for over 7 years. She’s also taught this material many times, so you know you’re going to come away from the class knowing how to use WordPress.

Note: this is a beginner level workshop for bloggers and business owners who use WordPress and isn’t intended for developers.

COME PREPARED!
For this workshop you will want to have the following:

Laptop (or tablet big enough for you to work on)
A working self-hosted WordPress install or we can create a temporary site on pooply.life

September 20, 2018 — I’m on my second product built with WordPress. The first one didn’t go to plan. I’m not writing this from a beach in the Caribbean. But I’m giving it another shot and I’ve learnt a huge amount about how to approach building products with WordPress. In this talk I’m going to describe the easy pitfalls you can fall into, how to avoid them and build a successful WordPress product business.