November 14, 2017 — Page Builders free WordPress from the constraints TinyMCE Editor. However, you don’t have much choice over what they render, and left in the wrong hands, designs can get messed up past the point of easy untangling! By piggy-backing on the Post Meta Data we can build feature-rich Page’s in a bespoke manner with full control of the end product.

This talk will walk you through how to build an in-house Page Builder that fits your particular needs using Advanced Custom Fields. By deconstructing a Page into its constituent parts, we can render the frontend in a very flexible manner so you and redesign as necessary and future-proof your content. With the addition of Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation, a fully responsive design can be easily achieved.

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November 14, 2017 — I would like to address the gap in user experience and the possibilities that WordPress provides in terms of innovation where User Experience is concerned. My biggest focus will be on how turning the focus on User Interface and User Experience will make web platforms in Kenya accelerate their interactivity with web users. And how merging programming tools with existing WordPress functionalities can support this process.

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November 14, 2017 — There are many content creators across Kenya and the world. Many however lack the knowledge, drive, or determination that they can build blogs and websites that can impact, be widely read, and last.

I have built tech-ish.com alone. And I have WordPress to thank for that. I would like to share the same from setting up, building an audience, getting recognized through good SEO, and Social Media presence, and proper content creation strategies.

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November 14, 2017 — As given under bio, I happened to niche out three businesses subject to being part of the WordPress Community. In this session, I will take participants through the various business opportunities available to them as WordPressers!

See You There.

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November 14, 2017 — Being part of the WordPress Community has multiple benefits. These include continuous learning and exchange of ideas and best practices which are fed into business improvement; feedback on products and services as they are experienced by customers and clients; feedback on writing (for bloggers)which helps refine and enrich ideas; and being part of a diverse, caring, growing and global network that enhances knowledge sharing. As the community keeps growing, so the benefits of using WordPress as the CMS of choice multiply.

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November 14, 2017 — Reasons why WordPress is a great choice for your blog or website whether you are a beginner or an expert.

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November 13, 2017 — So, you want to build a site for your business, or perhaps start a blog. You’ve heard about WordPress, but you are not quite sure where to start. This video helps you learn the basics that will set you on the path to building great things with WordPress.

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November 13, 2017 — My software, InstantWP, has been downloaded over a 1.2 million times and is used worldwide by developers, universities and businesses. InstantWP is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It turns any Windows or Mac machine into a WordPress development server. It should even run from a USB key.
The new version is GPL and runs on Windows and Mac and sets up a portable WordPress server in under a minute.

This talk will give an overview of InstantWP and the open source virtualisation technology underneath, QEMU. Some tips and tricks in using InstantWP to set up a development environment for various types of users, from theme and plugin developers and beginners.

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November 13, 2017 — Seventeen years of great journalism on 17 pages of unordered html lists. This archive sounds like a tremendous resource, but without user behavior in mind it’s very limited. We’ll take this Online News Association case study – and some of the projects it highlights – to illustrate how the extraction of underlying information can make your WordPress site more robust – and turn 17 pages into several hundred. It’s a lesson in thinking of the structure behind content creation.

November 13, 2017 — Gutenberg is the name of the new content editor you will be using in the version 5.0 of WordPress. After a lot of years using TinyMCE, WordPress will introduce a new editor in its administrator interface that will allow us to create and edit content in a more efficient and simple way. Join Mauricio Gelves in his talk to see the different pros and cons of this big change in the WordPress history.