October 5, 2017 — CSS Grid is getting some major browser support these days. What is it? How can you apply it? and why should you care? We’ll handle these questions and look at how you can start to apply grid workflows in your WordPress themes the next day.

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October 5, 2017 — My intention is to introduce developers to Sass and task managers , which will make their lives a lot easier when designing their sites

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October 5, 2017 — With WordCamp US rapidly approaching, I wanted to chat with someone who was involved in the planning. Michele Butcher-Jones is a member of the Speaker Selection Team and has some interesting facts about speaker submissions and WCUS in general.

October 5, 2017 — You have a plugin, but you want users to be able to use it in their native language. Learn how to get it ready for translation, things to watch out for, and tips for maintaining it as you change the plugin over time.

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October 5, 2017 — There are a number of ways to add custom meta boxes to WordPress admin, from coding against core functions through code API frameworks to GUI interfaces. All of these have a place, but which is the right one for your project, code style and coding level? In this talk I will provide code examples and illustrations of the code techniques for each of the methods.

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October 4, 2017 — This session is for those that are thinking of upping their coding game and attending a coding bootcamp. It is intended for anyone who wants to know more about those coding camps and whether it is right for them or not.

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October 4, 2017 — In this session, you will learn how you can optimize your websites for users and to be compatible with Google search engine. You will learn how search works. You will 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. This session is suitable for WordPress users, website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about your website presence on Google organic search.

October 4, 2017 — As developers, we try to follow best practices in our daily work. One such best practice is internationalisation, a term that’s used a lot in the ever globalizing world in which we live. However, it’s often not fully understood or not used to its full extent.

In this presentation, I’m going to explain the concept behind internationalisation, localization, and their benefits. I will show how culture influences the user’s behaviour and why we need to do more than just “making things translatable”. For example, internationalisation is also about date formats, text direction, meaning of symbols, and even humour.

Internationalisation has a massive impact on user acceptance and usability. I will highlight existing tools, interfaces, and best practices to get internationalisation right in the UIs we create and the code we write.

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October 4, 2017 — Marija will talk about her process of the creation of small business websites in WordPress from the moment she get the project from the clients to her process of listen, discover, concept with an emphasis of the designing in the browser and testing to the creation of the WordPress files for the website….

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October 3, 2017 — The customizer is all about site management with a powerful live preview, so gone should be the days where clients have to save something without knowing what they actually have changed. Should be. There are still projects in the wild that don’t leverage the customizer. Let’s change that! In this talk I want to start with the fundamentals of the customizer and quickly jump into demonstrating how easy it is to add live preview to anything with all the specialized controls.

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