December 19, 2017 — What it’s like to work for the worst boss in the whole world – your self?
In this talk Tomislav will speak about personal growth while managing two parallel and completely opposite careers. Goal of this talk is to help people decide if freelancing is for them, and how help them with clear instructions on how to be a good one. He’ll draw from his own experience and tell all about the good and the bad, moments of being broke, sleepless and away from family and friends for weeks + a bunch of stuff in between and in the end – is it all worth it?

December 19, 2017 — The struggle is real. Managing WordPress core settings as well as other settings, like Advanced Custom Fields setup, and carrying those things over to other environments without completely wiping and replacing the entire database is a major pain point.

Maybe your production environment is holding your content where your client is entering data but your dev or local environments are still being developed and settings & configurations are still changing. You do not want to push up your entire dev database to your production environment and lose all the content your client is entering. That’s where configuration management comes into play!

We will cover what configuration management is, how you can start to use it and the concepts to take it even further.

December 19, 2017 — Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day. In this session, we will learn how to optimize our WordPress websites for users, and for Google searches.

We will also explore tools that Google offers for managing your online presence. This session is suitable for website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about Google organic search.

December 15, 2017 — Up to this point, my relationship with WordPress has known many sides. I started as a WordPress.com blogger and then moved to WordPress.org. Step by step, while trying to customize my blog, I began to understand how flexible WordPress was. Besides HTML and CSS, I discovered that I was able to learn PHP by myself, by following WordPress tutorials and forum discussions. After a while of study and practice, I launched my freelance business and spent a few years building mostly WordPress websites for clients with different business types and from various parts of the world. Today, I handle product development for CaptainForm, a WordPress forms plugin launched in 2015.

I would like to walk you through the ups and downs of this journey, to share some of the insights that I’ve gathered along the way and, most of all, to express my deep passion for WordPress and for the beautiful things you can build with it.

December 15, 2017 — Ante is a self-taught web developer currently working at Agency,Mai?. His favourite language is JavaScript, and he enjoys working with it both on the frontend and the backend. When no one is looking, he also writes PHP. WordPress sparked his interest a few years back when he started creating his own websites. Most of his early experience comes from selling themes and plugins on the Envato marketplaces. Nowadays, he is mostly focused on experimenting with different JavaScript frameworks and frontend build tools. When not working or playing with code, he is either sleeping or trying to quit gaming.

December 15, 2017 — As lead of the Ongoing Client Support at CrowdFavorite I’ve worked with lots of legacy code on different projects. This session covers some of the lessons we’ve learned in the process and tips how to deal with the most common issues faster and more effective. It also shows how the legacy code can be actually fun.

December 15, 2017 — Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.

December 15, 2017 — Since its launch in 2009., Netokracija has become “The Techcrunch of the Balkans” – according to Techcrunch itself – the largest tech and business blog in the region built entirely with enthusiasm – and WordPress.

With over 250.000 readers across the Balkans, Netokracija’s Ivan Brezak Brkan will tell the story about how his team created not just a blog, but a community that supports startups, digital change etc, explaining:

* How WP provided a great basis, but also proved customizable when the project grew;
* How Netokracija’s team based in 3 cities manages their editorial process to create outstanding content;
* What has Netokracija build over the years based on WordPress and their evolving business model;
* What other content creators can learn from the evolution of the project over the past 8 years.

December 13, 2017 — For WordCamp Europe 2017, the design team wanted to create a brand new theme. Not only for this WordCamp iteration, but for all WordCamps worldwide.

Developing a theme is not hard, but what makes it differently, when you have to develop something that fits for many different countries and languages. How do you deal with the limitations of a huge multisite, which all WordCamp website run on. And were do you put which code? And last, but not least: how can you contribute code to a plattform like wordcamp.org, when you don’t have direct code access?

In this talk, I will share my experiences in developing a new default theme and the difficulties I had along the way.

December 13, 2017 — In her talk, she will cover how the power of WordPress REST APIs can be used to create functional Single Page Applications (SPA). Also, if time permits, she would cover possibilities where else the RESTful APIs can be used.