June 18, 2018 — As a long time Drupal community member, I decided to participate in other free software communities to share my experiences and learn from theirs. In Nicaragua, my home country, the local WordPress community is very active. In this session I want to share my experience in being involved for almost a year now. In particular:

* What I have learned about community building and event organization.
* How my background as speaker, code contributor, and mentor in Drupal has been useful in my volunteering efforts.
* The benefits of the two communities working together to promote the adoption of free software in the country.

It has been a great first year and I look forward to get more involved in the WordPress community.

Presentation Slides »

June 17, 2018 — We’ve all been there. Your site looks beautiful on mobile, tablet, and desktop but 768 pixels to 900 pixels is a disaster. Creating a truly responsive website experience goes beyond using bootstrap. Front-end Developers consistently find themselves creating elaborate sets of media queries that are time consuming to create and difficult to maintain.

This talk will explore browser-compatible innovations in CSS that you should start employing in place of media queries. The end result will save time and create more adaptive web experiences.

We will walkthrough practical use cases for the calc() function, Flexbox, and CSS Grid.

June 17, 2018 — This talk will provide an overview of web accessibility standards and will demonstrate how to use existing tools to ensure your themes, plugins, and content are compliant with those standards. This talk is designed for WordPress developers of all skill levels who want the sites they create and manage to be as accessible as possible. Topics will include: Selling your clients (and yourself) on web accessibility, an introduction to WordPress accessibility guidelines for theme and plugin developers, an overview of manual and automated accessibility testing tools, common accessibility pitfalls to avoid, and where to learn more about web accessibility tools and standards.

June 17, 2018 — Have an idea for a plugin that you don’t want in the WordPress plugins directory? Maybe it’s a plugin you’re selling, something just for clients, or it uses an interesting license. In this session we’ll explore how to gain the same benefits of the WordPress plugin directory, like providing automatic updates, by building your own plugin server – just like successful commercial plugins do. Welcome to the world of “Off-Grid Plugins”. Get ready to code!

June 16, 2018 — In this session, I’ll be showing a handful of page editors and how you can use them to build beautiful page layouts quickly and easily without writing a line of code.

June 15, 2018 — Take your Google Analytics knowledge to the next level in this intermediate session that covers beyond-basic tactics including Event & conversion tracking, custom reports, custom segments, custom dashboards, secondary dimensions, filters, referral spam, self-referral issues, and cross-domain tracking.

Categories

June 15, 2018 — How to find reputable plugins to enhance your WordPress without breaking your site. Also discuss security and why using outdated plugins may cause vulnerabilities.

June 15, 2018 — The path one should take in life shouldn’t be the obvious one. Do not plan your career meticulously, but instead, take calculated risks that have bigger upside potential than the size of the downside risk. Most importantly, give back and put faith in relationships with people that have helped develop you.

In this talk, I will be sharing with you my story on how I started out as a struggling young designer living in the Philippines, scouring the Web for jobs. I eventually found blogging in 2007 which opened up a multitude of new and exciting opportunities for me including a move to the USA.

June 15, 2018 — How to leverage some of the most popular video game design principles to drive more engagement for your WordPress Blog or ecommerce site. Learn the basics of Status, Access, Power, and Stuff in order to find unique ways to implement these human behavior principles into your customer engagement strategy.

June 13, 2018 — Giving you the knowledge to make an educated choice in choosing a host. We’ll explore the different pieces of the hosting puzzle so you can make the best decisions for your site.