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.

November 13, 2017 — Need to build a cross-platform iOS/Android mobile application to access WordPress API? Well, Aleksandar Andrijević tried it in NativeScript, and it’s not so difficult task. So why don’t we go through it and see why should you try it also?

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November 13, 2017 — Agile development principles tend to be associated with ongoing, iterative projects that evolve over time. But to a client looking for a team to ‘just build a website’, this approach can sound uncertain and expensive. An agency often needs to balance practical business development strategies with more progressive approaches to project and team management. We’ll explore how an agency can adopt agile principles even when a fully iterative process isn’t an option, benefits of these approaches, and how to shepherd client relationships toward a more adaptive mindset.

November 13, 2017 — Ever wonder why no one will do what you asked? Maybe it’s not them, it’s you–or at least your ticket-writing ability. Writing clear, informative tickets is the cornerstone to creating a successful project. To demystify the ticket-writing process, we’ll use a list of tasks to clean an apartment and then add clarity and story points so any person can walk in and understand the scope and level of effort for each task. We’ll connect strategies back to web project activities, so attendees can walk away with an increased understanding of well written tickets–their value, and how to write them.