May 5, 2018 — Tikaram is a Happiness Engineer, currently working at Catch Themes. He has been working actively in WordPress since a year now.
His talk has covered common mistakes and most common attacks on WordPress Sites. It will also cover ways to prevent the common attacks and mistakes to avoid while developing WordPress Themes and plugins.

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May 5, 2018 — Marketing team at Contributor Day Rotterdam 2018 interviewed several contributors about their background and what they’re doing to inspire others to join a contributor day!

May 5, 2018 — Further, I shall talk about the things to be considered to maintain a network installation running 100s of Multisite sites and scale them effectively and what tools and plugins are available that eases the workflow. Finally to add on, I shall go one level higher and touch the topic about network of networks and how to setup a network of networks and maintain it effectively.

All in all the idea behind talk is to educate about maintaining a network and network of networks effectively on WordPress.

May 4, 2018 — Part 2
A hands-on workshop on how to invest 1 hour in your or your client’s website and positively impact the organic search results via SEO. We’ll start with the basics – the anatomy of a search engine results page and keyword research. Then, utilizing Yoast SEO plugin, we’ll dive into a process that can be utilized on any WordPress website to prime it for SEO success via page titles and meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, search engine verification, schema markup and more. Bring a website that you’d like to optimize for this hands-on workshop.

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May 4, 2018 — A hands-on workshop on how to invest 1 hour in your or your client’s website and positively impact the organic search results via SEO. We’ll start with the basics – the anatomy of a search engine results page and keyword research. Then, utilizing Yoast SEO plugin, we’ll dive into a process that can be utilized on any WordPress website to prime it for SEO success via page titles and meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, search engine verification, schema markup and more. Bring a website that you’d like to optimize for this hands-on workshop.

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May 4, 2018 — Part 2
Do you know that if you have a picture of a duck having it face left or right can increase your conversions by 40%? Think this sounds silly? It is but backed by research. Spend some time to learn about what a/b testing is, what things to test, testing methodology and the best tools to use for your site. Everyone will get a handout of the very same checklist I use when A/B testing our client’s sites. One of our clients, an insurance company, increased leads by making just a small 2px change. When you launch a website, you are guessing. Sure the guesses are educated based on experience and data, but you can maximize your ROI with good A/B testing.

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May 4, 2018 — Do you know that if you have a picture of a duck having it face left or right can increase your conversions by 40%? Think this sounds silly? It is but backed by research. Spend some time to learn about what a/b testing is, what things to test, testing methodology and the best tools to use for your site. Everyone will get a handout of the very same checklist I use when A/B testing our client’s sites. One of our clients, an insurance company, increased leads by making just a small 2px change. When you launch a website, you are guessing. Sure the guesses are educated based on experience and data, but you can maximize your ROI with good A/B testing.

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May 4, 2018 — If you’re running an online store you already know how important speed is. It drives session length. It drives conversions. But how do you do it? Does it mean you need to be an expert developer to have a fast store? In this presentation we’ll walk thru simple steps and strategies for speeding up your online store without a computer science degree.

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May 3, 2018 — When it comes to blogging, if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, unsure of what to say, or found yourself frustrated from comparing your blog to others, this session is for you. Natalie Bourn is a high school freshman who has been blogging since she was 10 years old. In this session, she will share what blogging frustrations and hurdles she overcame to find her voice and blogging style, tips she has learned from four years of blogging, and the tools she uses to make blogging with WordPress easier.

May 3, 2018 — This session will provide you with some great tips and tricks for you to make working with WordPress even easier. From changing the number of posts on the dashboard page, to adding a target to link to on the menu dashboard, there are many things that are easy to accomplish — if only you know where to look. Not only are there screen options on almost every dashboard page, but there are help pulldowns, too, helping to answer questions before you might even need to turn to help in a forum. We will also cover shortcuts for use in the editor window, and a quick and easy way to save your favorite plugins to find at a click to upload to your site.