December 21, 2017 — When you first experience the WordPress Community through a WordPress Meetup or WordCamp, chances are that you’re impressed. Impressed by the number of attendees. Impressed by the quality of the presentations. Impressed by the relaxed and friendly atmosphere. But there are many more things that make a WordCamp amazing. After this presentation, you’ll understand why WordCamp Utrecht is a true masterpiece, and not just another conference…

December 21, 2017 — There is wide variety of advice and solutions when it comes to WordPress security. In this talk I will separate the signal from the noise. For example, should you rename your login page, change database prefix or even use a firewall. We will go deeper into each such point to explain whether they will be effective or not.

December 21, 2017 — On May 25th 2018 there will be a new European law regarding privacy aspects: the General Data Protection Regulation.
In this session Arnoud Engelfriet explains briefly the consequences of the GDPR and answers questions.

December 20, 2017 — Professional development with WordPress (and PHP for that matter) is an oxymoron for most classically trained developers.

WordPress is the second most dreaded technology according to the 2016 Stack Overflow survey, second only to Visual Basic. Why is this? What is so wrong with it, really? As it turned out – after fighting the “issue” for years myself – nothing really. It is just that the philosophy is so different. The list of things I’ve had to unlearn has been a very long one and the process a bit painful even.

December 20, 2017 — Michael is excited about more and more sites are moving towards WordPress. Taking into account his expertise in Online marketing, Michael would like to share some knowledge on what strategies to use in order to promote your site and what monetization techniques are the most common right now.

December 20, 2017 — With more than 16 years of experience from the web industry, Bjørn has touched many areas such as development, consulting, training, project management, client support, and DevOps. Currently, he is a senior developer at a WordPress.com VIP Service Partner agency in Norway.

At WordCamp Riga he talks about the processes and layers to secure your WordPress environment. There are ideas to pick up for all kinds of WordPress professionals (developers, project managers, site owners etc.).

December 20, 2017 — I’m an experienced web developer and enjoy getting deeply involved in all aspects of building and running online businesses – coding, new product development, designing user experience, marketing, strategy and project management. My primary focus is e-commerce software development.

December 20, 2017 — How to create a blog? Should you? What benefits does it bring? What problems you might face if you are “Just a User”.

Zane Eniņa is a communication and traveling professional. Her CV includes 15 years of work in a communication area in Latvia and 5 years of blogging around the world. Zane shares her experience traveling and blogging with WordPress.

December 20, 2017 — Arunas is an experienced WordPress plugin developer. He has been working with WordPress since version 2.6.3 and has developed a number of free, premium and custom plugins. Arunas has 14 years of experience in Web development and has been teaching at Kaunas College for 8 years. He is a WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp (Lithuania, Riga, Stockholm) speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.

December 20, 2017 — Vova is a serial entrepreneur and full-stack developer who loves to turn dreams into reality. Passionate about helping fellow plugin & theme developers to become more data-driven and building prosperous subscription-based businesses while working on products