September 27, 2017 — Jeff will be discussing some techniques the WordPress users can do to attract more visitors to their site, and convert them into paying customers.

このセッションでは、WordPress ユーザーがより多くの訪問者を惹きつける方法と、その方たちに有料サービスを利用するお客さんになってもらうために使えるテクニックを紹介します。

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September 27, 2017 — In his session, Ganga will be sharing his knowledge on how to make themes that can be approved on WordPress.org Theme Repository. By learning the best practices of WordPress theme development, you can become more confident in building your own themes.

Many of submitted themes are closed due to the deviation from the WordPress.org standards. As one of theme reviewers, he will talk about his theme review experience and encourage theme developers to submit themes to the official repository. He will also explain how the theme review process works: role and responsibility of authors and reviewers, admin queue, new queue, closed tickets, tickets under review, and more.

このセッションでは、WordPress.org テーマディレクトリで承認・掲載されるテーマを作成するために必要な知識を共有します。WordPress テーマ開発のベストプラクティスといえる方法を知ることで、自身を持ってテーマ作成に臨むことができるようになるはずです。

申請されたテーマの多くは、WordPress スタンダードに沿っていないという理由で却下されてしまっています。今回ガンガ氏は、テーマレビューチームメンバーの一人としての経験に触れ、テーマ開発者による公式ディレクトリへの申請を後押しします。また、テーマレビューのプロセスについても詳しく説明し、テーマ作者とレビュアーの役割、管理・新規キュー、レビュー中のチケットなどがどういったものであるかを明らかにしてくれるでしょう。

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September 27, 2017 — While freelancing, Tomaz made so many mistakes, he could write a book just about them. When speaking with his peers, he discovered he wasn’t the only one making them and soon after founded Codeable, with precisely the goal to make other freelancers’ lives easier by allowing them to focus on what they are best at and educating them where they lack.

In this talk, Tomaz would like to present the most common mistakes freelancers make and how to avoid them.

September 27, 2017 — During my talk, we’ll look at a few common theme concepts and explain how to layout the pages of your site to ensure that visitors get to the information they need as quickly and easily as possible.

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September 27, 2017 — The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this taIk Maja will show some examples of good and bad design in terms of accessibility. She’ll give tips on how you can make your site more accessible by following some simple design rules and integrating accessibility from the beginning on into your design process.

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September 26, 2017 — I’ll share my step-by-step process (honed since the days of just HTML) for WordPress website creation or redesign. We’ll touch on content audits, theme selection (or should you go custom?), launch checklists, and post-launch care. Also freelancer or client management.

Great for those who want to launch or relaunch their sites and those who work with clients.

September 26, 2017 — In this session, attendees will learn how and when to use Pages vs Posts and how to organize their posts using Categories and Tags.

September 26, 2017 — With the rapid popularization of web fonts over the past few years, type on the web has never been more exciting! We’ll learn a bit about basic typographic principles, review techniques and services for integrating web fonts into your WordPress sites, and finally conclude with a bit of speculation on where type on the web is heading.

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September 26, 2017 — So you can build a technically wonderful website, but does it appeal to your audience? Does it have finesse? Who is it designed for: the owner, the designer/developer, or the customer/user? Are forms user-friendly? This talk will show you the things that make a website more complete, user-friendly, and user-appealing. Topics will include favicons, custom 404 pages, form buttons, footers, colors, SSL certificates, and more.

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September 26, 2017 — Did you know WordPress is made of people? It’s true – and you can be one of them too! Join us for an open discussion about how to get started contributing to open source software. We’ll cover the different teams found on WordPress.org, share our tips on how we got started, and hopefully inspire you to consider starting too.