November 12, 2017 — Informal education such as mentoring is an important aspect of web development culture — for both the mentor and mentee. Unfortunately, in Bulgaria, the topic of mentoring is not often explored. In this talk, Nikola Nikolov will address the ways mentoring benefits the mentor and common pitfalls they may encounter.

November 12, 2017 — WordPress has grown in more ways than we could have ever imagined, but what does the future hold? In his talk, Noel will make predictions about how our industry will change in 2018 and what it means for you and your business. From freelancers, agencies to product companies, there’s a lot going on you need to be aware of so that you can best plan for the upcoming year.

November 11, 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, you will learn how you can optimize your WordPress site for users and to be compatible with Google search engine. You will learn how search work, be given tips on how to do well on search and explore tools that Google offers which you can use to manage your online presence on Google Search, along with WordPress specific best practices. This session is suitable for website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about your website presence on Google organic search.

November 11, 2017 — In this talk I will be speaking about how to optimise your image heavy WordPress websites. I will talk about how I use WordPress for handling images, what tools I use and offering some general advice on how you can manage the slowdown that typically comes with hosting an image heavy site.

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November 11, 2017 — Gutenberg is the name for the new editor focus in WordPress. What is it? Why is it important? In this talk I will take you through a rough guide to the project. How it began and why it’s needed. Then, I’ll show you where the projects is currently at and finally how you can also get involved. Join me and get to know Gutenberg.

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November 11, 2017 — In his talk about WordPress REST API, Tomislav will give us some real life examples on how to connect mobile applications to WordPress to get the best of both worlds. With WP REST API WordPress became fully-featured application platform and it opened itself up to every other application and development environment on Earth.

November 11, 2017 — Don’t modify WordPress core; don’t modify theme files – make children instead.

Don’t be scared, don’t feel guilty – it’s easy. Then you can mould that child as you wish.

I will show you how to create a child theme, take advantage of the template hierarchy to enhance it and what to do when the parent theme isn’t fully child theme enabled.

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November 11, 2017 — Blogs are perceived as non-fee earners, as it were, and reasonable questions are asked about how blogging will add value to the bottom line. Can a business blog directly generate revenue and how? My presentation will discuss the essential role blogging plays in lead generation, community building, customer support and establishing authority. Blogging is about driving long-term results; so be patient and get your Blog On!

November 11, 2017 — Need to keep track of emails sent from your WordPress site? If so Brandon gives an introduction to using Postmark to track all transactional emails from WordPress.

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November 11, 2017 — Building a partnership takes an investment of time and energy for both the client & delivery agency. Earlier this year, Sage embarked on an ambitious programme to rebuild its entire online presence. Part of the plan was for a global WordPress multi-site.

This will be a discussion, co-presented by Sage (the client) and Pragmatic (the agency), which will provide a 360 view of a large WordPress project, covering both the technical and non-technical aspects. We’ll talk about the steps you can take when facing a hugely challenging project – facing up to tight timelines and translating multiple desires into a deliverable programme of work. We’ll look at how you can maximise your efficiency during production, leveraging the core functionality that WordPress provides and building on top of it, and how planning the architecture with an eye on the future can be the key to building partnerships. We’ll hear about the project from the client’s perspective as Sage will talk about their experiences – and from an agency perspective, delivering the work.

There were plenty of challenges along the journey on both sites – creating a custom WP API in a matter of days, training internal staff on new tools and migrating thousands of posts. But most of all, we’ll look at how we focused on building a partnership – creating trust and efficiency which benefited both sides.