May 29, 2018 — Dat Hoang is Happiness Engineer at Automattic, focusing on the WordPress.org products. Before joining the company, he worked with the multilingual WordPress every day.
He talked about the possibility to have a multilingual WordPress site. He discussed the following points in detail:
* Multilingual website – why it is a worthy investment
* Considerations for a WordPress multilingual site
* Available plugin/solution comparison
* Tips and hints

May 29, 2018 — Over 15 million U.S. Internet users have some form of impairment that affects their ability to use the Internet.
In this talk, we will share some simple ways to improve your site’s accessibility. These changes help everyone. As an extra bonus, accessibility improves your search engine optimization (SEO).
By the end of this session, you will be able…
1. To understand why accessibility is helpful for everyone.
2. To help make your website better for the visually impaired.
3. To help make your website better for the hearing impaired.
4. To help make your website better for the mobility impaired.
5. To improve your website SEO.

May 29, 2018 — Gutenberg is so new and comes with many built-in blocks, but how do you create interactive, dynamic and advanced Gutenberg blocks? We’ll cover topics like API calls to 3rd party services, server side rendering, advanced settings, using custom React components and other topics to help attendees start making advanced Gutenberg blocks.

May 29, 2018 — This session will cover 4 different methods you can use to monetize the content on your WordPress site: display ads, affiliate marketing, sponsored content and paid memberships. We’ll give an overview of the method, explain who pays and how you get paid, what plugins help you use that method, and show some examples of each type of monetization in-action.

May 29, 2018 — You’re building websites, have a grand ol’ time, then it hits you: a copyright takedown notice. What did you do wrong?
The Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt aims to demystify copyright, fair use, and creative commons; what you can use on your website and when, be it images, videos, audio or text.
Come for the knowledge, leave with a prize for the team that finds the most items on the Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt!

May 29, 2018 — Learn how to boost your SEO to build a bigger community online with these 3 strategies: Keyword Research & Organization, Leveraging Competitor Insights and Writing Content that Resonates. This talk will cover the basics of each strategy to offer actionable steps to start using right away.

May 29, 2018 — We all know a site’s performance is important, but knowing exactly how web caches work, and how to tune them just right, can be somewhat of a mystery. The typical approach seems to be: install a caching plugin and call it a day. But in this session we’ll go over what the various types of caching techniques are, what they do, how they differ from one another, and how they can all work together to get the most speed out of your WordPress sites. Whether you’re new to WordPress and curious how to make your website faster, or you’re an advanced professional looking to speed up your clients’ sites, this session is for you.

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May 28, 2018 — What is FoundationPress and how does it help streamline theme development? We will walk you through the process of installing and using FoundationPress to build highly functional custom WordPress themes. Move beyond CSS as we teach you the basics of SASS to add spunk to your site’s style. We will also teach the most efficient way to use the command line as part of your development process, so your site is as functional as it is stylish!

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May 23, 2018 — How can you produce material for your blog week after week? We’ll discuss where to find ideas, how to keep track of ideas and other strategies to make sure you always have engaging material for your readers.

May 16, 2018 — In this talk I’ll give a demo of the new editor, explain what’s about to change and reflect on the opportunities and risks this entails.

After this talk, you will have a better understanding of…
– how the process of content creation in WordPress is going to change.
– what could break if you have plugins installed which add functionality to the post edit screen.
– the potential (business) opportunities related to the big changes that are coming.

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