December 7, 2017 — This speech will give an insight of the activities of designing, developing and managing WordPress websites for big corporate clients, a rewarding market full of opportunities and challenges.

Carlo is Partner & Head of Development of an award-winning independent full-service digital agency founded in 2003, headquartered in London with offices in Riga, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, Moscow and Los Angeles.

December 7, 2017 — Jonathan Howard, former archaeologist, strategic planner at major advertising agencies, theatre trainer and improviser. Now teaching creativity, leadership and strategy to startups, ad agencies and others.

Jonathan surprises and delights always with his creativity and with the insights from marketing that he luckily shares with his audience. As keynote speaker he was a highlight of WordCamp Riga.

His presentation will be valuable for anyone who wants to build a user base, follower base or community, either for yourself or for your clients.

December 6, 2017 — “I’m a total fraud, and it’s just a matter of time before everyone finds out.” That little voice in our heads saying that is just Impostor Syndrome- An all too common problem in the WordPress community. Impostor Syndrome prevents us from recognizing our own achievements. In this session, you’ll learn how to recognize it, why it keeps you from realizing your potential, and how to keep it from holding you back.

December 6, 2017 — Alex Denning does marketing for people who don’t like marketing. Alex helps WordPress companies with their products, trainings and services, solving the marketing problem they don’t want to deal with.

Alex’ will be reckoning “A Tale Of Two WordPress Product Launches“.

December 6, 2017 — Suggested tag: Plugins

The part of your plugin that is hardest is the part that isn’t the code. Developing your first plugin for the WordPress directory means thinking beyond yourself and your own goals. In this workshop we’ll build a plugin together, a simple one, and work through the common pitfalls like function names, user permissions, and how much to sanitize.

December 4, 2017 — The State of the Word is the annual keynote address at WordCamp US, presented by the co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg. In this year’s address, Matt summarizes the highlights of 2017 — including the 4.8 and 4.9 releases — and previews what we can look forward to in 2018 ( spoiler: it’s Gutenberg 🙂 ).

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December 3, 2017 — How often do we create websites for the client and their goals, rather than the end user? We want our sites to look good and present the necessary information that the client desires.

But what if we considered taking a different angle to our projects?

The more we consider designing and developing websites for the user rather than just the client, the more success we can expect from the user reaching their own goals and in turn a more successful website for the client too.

In this presentation I’ll cover various ways we can produce a more successful website by considering the user from the beginning of the project, through planning and design.

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December 3, 2017 — Well, maybe this is just another REST API talk, but it’s well worth talking about now that the REST API is included in WordPress!

This talk will include some background on the REST API, helping you understand what’s so great about it. You’ll also hear about ways to use the REST API both within your WordPress projects and without.

If you’ve been wondering what the fuss about the REST API is, what it’s good for, or how to get started using it, this talk is for you.

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December 3, 2017 — One of the hardest ‘Good Intentions’ in business is to send a regular client email newsletter.

How many times has a business started a newsletter only to lose energy and stop after 2 – 3 times? Why? Because it can take 3 – 5 hours to create a newsletter, write the content, source images, and send it out…and business owners and their staff ‘don’t have the time’.

With WordPress’s inbuilt ‘Press This’ feature and the Newsletter Plugin any business can create a client newsletter in less than 17 minutes. No writing, no image sourcing, no formatting, no hitting the send button, no problem in no time at all.

This is one of the simplest, easiest ways to communicate regularly with clients, generate leads and sales in less time that a normal one-to-one business presentation takes. I have implemented this at PositiveBusinessOnline.com and a number of client websites.

The process is detailed in this post.

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December 1, 2017 — Edmund Turbin introduces into the possibilities of deployment and continuos integration for the code of a project.