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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November 13, 2018 — What are the little blocks made of?

In this deep dive into Gutenberg’s design patterns, we’ll start looking at existing Gutenberg blocks, taking you through the design patterns used.

From there, you will learn how to harness these patterns and use them to create your own blocks. Learn how to design a block the right way, and build on the strong design foundations within Gutenberg.

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November 13, 2018 — As the demands placed on the web continue to rapidly expand, businesses will move away from a browser-centric and siloed internet presence towards more pervasive and multichannel digital experiences.  Integrations across a larger set of technologies will become dominant with emphasis on user expectations for security, personalization, and cross-device utilization.

Modern organizations will continuously develop, deploy, and undergo change and the demand for a centralized content hub will only become more critical.

WordPress, with 30% of the web’s audience listening, is positioned to be the solution of choice for this hub.

Through integrations with emerging technologies such as voice assistants, chatbots, IoT devices, and AR/VR, WordPress has the potential to manage and push content outside of the browser and through this impending evolution.

In this session, we will explore the array of technologies entering these new spaces and discuss how to prepare your business practices and development teams for the next iteration of the web.

We’ll focus on new market opportunities, possible product ideas, and how to leverage cloud services to mature your websites into future-ready digital experiences, powered by WordPress.

November 11, 2018 — Marko will share some funny (and other) conversations he had during his chat sessions in providing help to different type of customers.

The most of these are funny and intended to make people smile, but also, its purpose would be to help other Customer Happiness agents see how to act in some inappropriate situations (rude customers for example).

Trust me, if you come to this talk, you will have a lot of laughing 😀

November 8, 2018 — Two weeks before the scheduled release of WordPress 5.0, the first version with the new editor, Gutenberg, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, dropped by WordCamp Portland for an unscheduled Q&A with the audience.

In this 35 minute session he answers questions about the new editor, accessibility, the business ecosystem around WordPress and more.

November 7, 2018 — The practice of branding can be traced back to 50.000 years ago. The first concept of marketing branding to 4000 BC. And what we modernly call marketing, branding, and advertising to about 150 years ago.

With the (r)evolution brought forth by the Internet and Social Media, today “we are all brands,” and as such, we all need to be aware of how to best manage a brand.
This talk is a primer on the origin and the evolution of the concept of branding, to better understand – and care for – our brand(s), regardless of their being a company, a product or a personal one.

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