August 22, 2018 — More Than Yoast – SEO beyond the Yoast plugin & the future Schema/Rich Snippets, Mobile Optimization/AMP, GoogleSearchConsole & the future with WordPress Gutenberg

Installing and inputing Yoast fields is pretty easy. But there’s more to great search engine optimization than just that! Data structuring, Search Console data… What’s important, what’s not, and how will WordPress SEO change with Gutenberg? We’ll go into it all from strategy to execution tips.

August 22, 2018 — Christine Laikind, born deaf, and founder of SCS Digital Marketing has made it her mission to share her knowledge and experience about (lack of) accessibility and website compliance to the WordCamp attendees.

August 22, 2018 — This talk is about what and how one can enhance WordPress performance and why one should boost up the speed of WordPress.

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August 22, 2018 — WordPress security can be a difficult thing to get right. There are a number of things that go into a secure web site. In this quick talk, I will highlight the things I believe are the most important steps you can take to secure your site. You will learn in just 15 minutes how to ensure that your site is well protected from malicious actors.

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August 21, 2018 — Basics of SEO – Search Engine Optimisation for WordPress

Understand search results (organic vs paid)
SEO versus SEM
Understanding search intent
Keyword research
Ways to improve search engine ranking
Using SEO plugin in WordPress

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August 21, 2018 — Writing high-quality WordPress code is hard to do. It requires constant effort on our part and good self-awareness to know when we slipped up. But, if your business has any sort of success (which we all want!), you’re going to work with more and more people. And many of them are likely to touch with your code. This is going to put a strain on your development processes. It becomes harder to maintain a certain level of code quality. And you’re no longer the only person pushing code. You’re now part of a team and you need a way to standardize all of the things you once did on your own. That’s goal of continuous integration. It lets you automate your different development workflows from testing to deployment. This ensures that the quality of your code stays consistent. This talk will go over the basics of continuous integration. We’ll also go over some of the tools that are available. And then we’ll finish by looking at how you put these tools together to create your own continuous integration environment.

August 21, 2018 — Writing high-quality WordPress code is hard to do. It requires constant effort on our part and good self-awareness to know when we slipped up. But, if your business has any sort of success (which we all want!), you’re going to work with more and more people. And many of them are likely to touch with your code. This is going to put a strain on your development processes. It becomes harder to maintain a certain level of code quality. And you’re no longer the only person pushing code. You’re now part of a team and you need a way to standardize all of the things you once did on your own. That’s goal of continuous integration. It lets you automate your different development workflows from testing to deployment. This ensures that the quality of your code stays consistent. This talk will go over the basics of continuous integration. We’ll also go over some of the tools that are available. And then we’ll finish by looking at how you put these tools together to create your own continuous integration environment.

August 21, 2018 — Writing high-quality WordPress code is hard to do. It requires constant effort on our part and good self-awareness to know when we slipped up. But, if your business has any sort of success (which we all want!), you’re going to work with more and more people. And many of them are likely to touch with your code. This is going to put a strain on your development processes. It becomes harder to maintain a certain level of code quality. And you’re no longer the only person pushing code. You’re now part of a team and you need a way to standardize all of the things you once did on your own. That’s goal of continuous integration. It lets you automate your different development workflows from testing to deployment. This ensures that the quality of your code stays consistent. This talk will go over the basics of continuous integration. We’ll also go over some of the tools that are available. And then we’ll finish by looking at how you put these tools together to create your own continuous integration environment.

August 21, 2018 — ‘When we build, let us think that we build forever.’

Overview – WordPress is a well-architected web platform for any sized organisation.

Do we run the risk of underselling WordPress to ourselves and our customers?

Is WordPress more than a web platform?
Is WordPress architected?
Do we understand the value of an architected system?
How can we take architectural values, apply them to our WordPress delivery, in creating enduring solutions?
This talk aims to provide WordPress Developers, Users and Business people see the greater value that WordPress brings to the table in delivering enduring solutions.

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August 20, 2018 — Working for yourself is great and all, but sometimes it can get lonely.

I figured this out pretty quickly when I began working for (by) myself. I’d love to share some tips and ideas I’ve picked up over the last few years regarding your working environment, finding others to work together with (on your own stuff), co-working spaces etc.

These are all things that can benefit your productivity, your professional growth, and even your mental health.

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