February 3, 2018 — In his talk, Noel will make predictions about how our industry will change in 2018 and what it means for you and your business. From freelancers, agencies to product companies, there’s a lot going on you need to be aware of so that you can best plan for the upcoming year.

January 30, 2018 — You must have heard that saying.. It takes 10,000 hours of practice to master something. That’s almost five years of working 9-5.And by the time you’ve learnt something well, a new technology appears and you feel like starting all over again.

So let’s buckle up while Nirav guides you on how to hack our way to mastery!

January 30, 2018 — WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, used by more than 60 million websites, from personal blogs to major magazines and news organizations like The New Yorker, the BBC, and TechCrunch. But, with the increased use of WordPress, it has not remained just a CMS that create basic websites, WordPress has become a wide platform with advanced functionalities that will cover business prospects.

This conversation will lead the way to the growing roots of WordPress platform. WordPress is a platform which offers you complete control of your website, blog, portfolio, etc and customize it according to your requirement. The open source nature of WordPress allows you to innovate as you like.

January 29, 2018 — For those who have never used the REST API but know basic PHP, this talk will cover how to make a basic endpoint, how to use it on the frontend, and how to convert AJAX calls.

January 29, 2018 — With 721,434,547 internet users, China is an important destination many don’t know much about. Teodora will share her experience on what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to WordPress in China. Starting from hosting WordPress sites to design and plugins that can help businesses be seen in China.

January 29, 2018 — Creating an accessible website or plugin is a team effort and not only the responsibility of the designer or the developer.

In this talk Rian gives you starting points, dos and don’ts, references to good resources, code and design examples, and easy test tools.

But most of all, she wants to change your point of view. The way you look at a website will never be the same.

January 29, 2018 — In 2010, on the same day as the Genesis theme framework launched, Alex opened his very own theme shop. It went terribly. The product was decent but literally nobody was interested.

Earlier this year, he partnered with WPShout to launch the Second Edition of their “learn WordPress development” course Up and Running. The product was great and the launch went very well.

This is the tale of two product launches: one which flopped and a second which worked. Alex will share his experiences, the lessons learned from each and actually useful takeaways which can be applied to your products, launches and marketing.

January 29, 2018 — The purpose of this talk is to give a general understanding of why WordPress sites are hacked and how they are hacked. We then use that knowledge to figure out ways of protecting our sites from intrusion.

January 29, 2018 — Three days before the deadline and the launch of a national TV campaign – Sean’s boss turned to him and said: “I don’t think we can do this.”

Just six weeks earlier the team at Pragmatic had landed a huge API project. ITV, The National Lottery & The British Olympic Association had come together to plan and deliver Britain’s biggest ever sports day: I am Team GB. As their chosen WordPress partners, they had to get it right.

So how did it go? What did they learn along the way? And what would they do differently if they did it again? Sean will guide the audience through the different pieces of the puzzle – things they predicted, (and the things they didn’t). We will explore:

– The inner workings of an enterprise level API project
– The pressures and challenges of a tight, immovable deadline (the Olympics!)
– The creativity needed to face new challenges
– And most of all, the successes and learnings we can see looking back on it now.

The project helped a million people get off the sofa and get involved in sport that day – and we’ll look at how, with millions of people hitting the site, WordPress didn’t break a sweat.

January 29, 2018 — Working remotely has many benefits but also some obvious and non-obvious challenges. Discussions about remote work also often tend to be generic, however each discipline require its own kind of variations, and design isn’t different.

A lot of the tools available to designers are meant to be used in person, but what if we happen to work remotely, or we want to switch a product team to being remote? How to build trust, gather feedback and craft a unified vision? This talk takes inspiration from some of the practices of Automattic’s teams to overcome some of the unique challenges of remote working.

These solutions will also be beneficial to any designer who desires to engage with open source projects, as they are by definition remote.