April 3, 2018 — CSS Grid Layout is a powerful system available in CSS, which simplifies existing patterns and adds new possibilities for layout methods in our websites and applications. It is a 2-dimensional system, meaning it can handle both columns and rows.

This talk covers an introduction of the CSS Grid Layout specification and follow up with some practical examples of how we can begin to use it in practice today.

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April 3, 2018 — Summary of everything

WHY IS WORDPRESS LICENSED UNDER THE GPL?
Why People Hate the GPL?
What the GPL Means to You?
The GPL and WordPress?
WordPress’s GPL Requirement?
Non-GPL WordPress Themes & Plugins?
How WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers Make Money?
THE LEGAL POWER OF THE GPL?
REDUCED RISK OF LEGAL ACTION?
HOW THE GPL WORKS IN FAVOR OF WORDPRESS END USERS AND DEVELOPERS?
ANY REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ADOPT THE GPL LICENSE?
What is Split Licensing and the GPL?
If I modify the core WordPress software or a GPL’d theme or plugin, must I release the source code of the modified versions(s) to the public?

April 3, 2018 — 1. The entrepreneurs on the stage of beginning their journey
2. The users who believe that WordPress as a platform has its limitations.
– The Journey:
An in depth talk shall follow including his journey as an entrepreneur having formulated and built a platform for his Startup that shall enlighten the fact that WordPress empowers your startup to be a solid foundation.
– The Hiccups:
Following this, he will discuss how hiccups can be avoided. But this pointer shall be on the non-tech front simply enhancing and strengthening his point that WordPress can serve to solve that one problem that you face in EVERY entrepreneurial journey i.e. having limited technical knowledge like he did.
– The Proposed Solutions:
He will then be discussing the key points that he followed to avoid these hiccups including taking help on the community forum etc.
– The Convincing Strategy:
Finally, the talk shall take a turn onto the service providing entrepreneurs who shall understand how to convince their client to begin the project foundation on WordPress be it a simple company profile website or a full fledged E-commerce portal.
– The Conclusion:
In the end, the talk shall conclude with his notes to compile everything he mentioned above giving a gist and opening the house for discussion and questions.

April 3, 2018 — Doing GDPR audits I found some nice fails with WordPress fails. During this talk I’ll showcase some GDPR fails and quickwins in order to comply to the new privacylaws.

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April 3, 2018 — There’s something new on the way for WordPress. The editor as we know it is about to be replaced by a thing called Gutenberg. After this talk you will be inspired to try/test Gutenberg a day possibly contribute in giving feedback, asking questions or even add some pull requests.

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April 2, 2018 — The Customizer is a great tool to live preview changes to a WordPress site. And it is becoming even more: what about a staging environment or a real WYSIWYG experience for editing content?
It is time to benefit from what the Customizer has to offer. In this presentation I will try to give some examples of how you as a web developer as well as your client or user can take advantage from well-known and less well-known features of the Customizer. You can offer your users/clients controlled flexibility and ease of use when customizing their site and at the same time benefit from the available features with regard to long-term support and client satisfaction.

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April 2, 2018 — So you have a cute website on which you have worked a couple of years on and at one point – your site gets hacked! What do you do? No worries I have you covered! I am here to answer your questions why would someone hack your website? What to do if you are indeed hacked? And of course – the spring clean!

April 2, 2018 — Pitfalls of starting a webshop in terms or organization, not tech focused.

April 2, 2018 — Where here in Antwerp, Belgium and Belgium is a multilingual country where they speak two languages, Flemish-Dutch and French. And if you have a website where you want to address whole of Belgium, how can optimize your SEO so that you’ll rank for both Flanders and Wallonia? In this talk I’m going to walk you through the most important steps of how to prepare your website for multilingual SEO.

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April 2, 2018 — How to make your life easier working with WordPress? Learn to use browser dev-tools to get insights you didn’t even know existed and create better websites in less time while you’re at it.