May 5, 2018 — In my day-to-day work I often need to either convey or understand how something works. When that something is complex in nature domain-specific jargon and acronyms will fail horribly in explaining it. Living in an era where knowledge is power I’m amazed by how poor our tools to share that knowledge are.

Here I will present you a collection of metaphores that helped me and others understand, or explain, how complex stuff works in the context of WordPress and development. I will also share some “gotchas” about this tool as old as children stories.

May 5, 2018 — What could be the benefit of being part of the WordPress Community if you don’t even use WordPress? How far can you get if you decide to step out of your comfort-zone and overcome your fears?

My husband dragged me kicking and screaming to my first WordCamp. I did not even know what WordPress was up to that point and I was scared of meeting the “nerdy” part of my husband’s life probably due to not being able to get involved.

The story I want to share is about how things evolved afterward, as I visited several WordCamps as a passionate volunteer to the point of getting a true WordPress Community-Junkie. It is about how I became a WordCamp organizer, speaker and emcee in almost no time. It is about how I found new enjoyable professional challenges.

It is the story about how I have been changing my life completely in only one year, because I dared to step out of my comfort-zone.

May 5, 2018 — Sakar is a Web Developer at Proshore Nepal who loves coding and networking. He started using WordPress before 5 years and has been in love with it since then.
His includes some soft skills that you will be requiring to add up to your hard skills for being more professional in your WordPress career.

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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