October 9, 2018 — Podcasting is like blogging in audio. Thats (and some technical details) are the reason, why WordPress happens to be the perfect platform for podcast publishing.

October 9, 2018 — Nobody likes a broken website. Especially website owners. This is why using a staging (test) site is highly recommended, where you can test any changes and updates to your website without disturbing the traffic on your live site or even wrecking it.

During the workshop I will demonstrate two different methods of setting up a staging site (remote and local) with the help of WordPress plugins and some free software.

October 9, 2018 — Timber is a WordPress integration of the popular templating language Twig. The powerful combination of Twig with WordPress enables developers to efficiently build Themes for WordPress. In this talk I am going to explain how Timber and Twig work and how to avoid the pitfalls that come with this integration.

October 8, 2018 — Your website content has two audiences: Human readers and search engines.

Writing website content that appeals to both is something that all writers and website owners should know how to do.

Whether you’re a professional copywriter or a small business owner who writes for your own website, knowing how to write content that satisfies both of these audiences is an essential (and profitable!) skill.

This presentation will teach you exactly how to do that, using modern-day approaches to semantic and contextual keyword optimization.

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October 8, 2018 — As sites based on membership and subscription models continue to increase, so does the number of sites doing it all wrong!

This talk will go into the best practices to perfect your passive income stream using WooCommerce and a couple of extensions.

October 5, 2018 — In this session, I will be discussing the possible applications of the blockchain, such as e-commerce payment gateways, identity management, and content monetisation.

As blockchain is inherently open source, the blockchain hype cycle could also have great influence over the popularity of WordPress. And so, in addition to exploring the big questions surrounding security and licensing, I will also be looking at the future possibilities of where WordPress and blockchain can go next.

October 5, 2018 — We will look at the basic mechanisms that make Composer as flexible as it is. Then, we’ll go through some of the more useful and/or exotic examples of how to use Composer for solving problems that it wasn’t really meant to solve.

October 5, 2018 — You’ve completed a client’s website, They are happy, and you got paid. This should not be an end, but a beginning of a beautiful friendship. So let’s talk about setting up a business with happy clients and recurring revenue.

October 5, 2018 — This talk, using a data-centric approach, will show business owners and developers how to work and develop with clients whose websites need to be accessible and optimized for the developing world.

October 5, 2018 — Own your journey in the tech skill rollercoaster: This talk is a prompt to get you to own your space in the tech world, embrace change and learn to love the journey.

Managing remote small teams (without going crazy): Black Studio is a company born in 2002 and from the very beginning, the staff has been working remotely. In this talk, the founder provides some lightning tips about how to successfully manage 30+ projects at the same time, while keeping (almost completely) your mental health.

Freelancers! Don’t Freak Out!: In this talk I share my favourite quotes from my guests.
I expand on them.
And hopefully you learn from them, smile at them, nod knowingly at them or feel inspired by them.