September 26, 2017 — This talk is all about the hottest website design trends. The goal is to help users of all abilities gain insight into what’s popular in web today to help them improve the visual aesthetics of their own WordPress sites. I’ll go through current design trends, citing real-world applications and specifically how these trends (from simple to more elaborate) can be applied to help participants create beautiful WordPress sites.

September 26, 2017 — Learning about WordPress Security can leave you feeling overwhelmed but you don’t have to. We will talk best practices and simple steps to keep your site safe and secure. From secure passwords, to security plugins, to what to do when you have been hacked, we will discuss it all.

September 25, 2017 — Bryce will talk about how he got to start the Metorik startup. His life as a developer and WordPress community member started as a traveling freelancer. Laos, Thailand, Korea, and now based in Australia.

After doing freelance jobs, he joined WooThemes, the owner of WooCommerce, which later got acquired by Automattic. So he joined Woo, joined Automattic, and he left the company to start his Metorik. In this talk, he’ll show how he’s found his life so far, why Metorik? why by himself, and what the startup business is about.

このセッションでは、Metorik という WooCommerce アナリティクスのスタートアップビジネスを始めることになった背景について話します。

彼の開発者・WordPress コミュニティメンバーとしての人生は、ノマドスタイルで旅行をしながらフリーランスをしていたことからスタートしました。オーストラリア出身のブライスはラオス、タイ、韓国に住んだ後、今はまたオーストラリアに在住しています。各国でフリーランスとして働いた後、WooCommerce の運営元であった WooThemes に雇われ、Automattic による同社の買収により移籍。その後、Metorik を立ち上げるために独立しました。なぜ彼が一人で Web サービスを運営することにしたのか、数ある選択肢の中から Metorik のようなビジネスモデルを選んだ理由など、興味深い話が聞けるでしょう。

September 25, 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.

[Editor’s Note]
This is not the first time he makes “predictions” on WordPress future, that turned out to be true afterward.
Read “WordPress in 2016” and “WordPress in 2015” for your reference.

WordPress は、私たちの想像をはるかに超えて進化してきました。では、この先はどのような姿になるのでしょうか。フリーランスから制作会社、プロダクトを生みだす会社まで、2018年のプランニングをするために、見通しておくべき事柄についてお話します。
Noel による今回のセッションでは、2018年、WordPress の産業構造がどのように変化し、その変化があなたや、あなたのビジネスにどういう意味を持つのかを予言します。

September 25, 2017 — In this session I will share some insight on WordPress as a platform and as a tool to design and manage online courses. Attendees learn how WordPress components and plugins can help to create and distribute learning content, embed learner activities and enable communication between instructors and learners.

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September 23, 2017 — This session is about getting in touch with the community team and exchange your experiences about organizing WordPress Meetups or to help you starting one in your home town.

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September 23, 2017 — An update for WordPress, themes and plugins should fix things. Right. And it does. Sometimes, however, some new bugs crawl in despite the best efforts and thorough testing. The multitude of installations and different plugin setups makes it impossible to test any plugin in every situation that exists in the world. And sometimes an update produces an error unfortunately, and in some cases even a totally broken site. This is when angry users attack support forums demanding an immediate fix, asking for their money back, giving 1-star ratings, and sending the developers to hell and back. Rightfully so? I don’t think so. Maybe partially. But you can do a lot to prevent an update breaking your live site and putting you out of business.

So here are my tips for never ever having a broken live website for more than 10 minutes, when doing an update on core WordPress, your theme or your plugins.

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September 22, 2017 — Security can seem intimidating and complex for many of us, but we shouldn’t (can’t) let that stop us from making sure we’re doing everything we can to secure our WordPress sites. After all, our websites are often part of our livelihood.

In this session Adam will discuss the “big picture” of website security and break that down into the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan, in order of importance. He will provide an actionable checklist on what you can start doing today to better secure your WordPress websites.

After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of website security as a whole and what steps they can take to mitigate risk. Attendees will be able to start building their WordPress security master plan immediately.

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September 21, 2017 — Keynote for WordCamp Asheville 2017

September 18, 2017 — WordPress is an incredible platform that continues to innovate and grow, but with that comes almost constant updates. WP core, plugins and themes can require frequent updates and there are a variety of ways to track and manage these updates. We will look at strategy, tools and work flow to manage multiple WordPress sites and keep everything up to date. Note this is not relating to WordPress multi-site installations, but multiple independent installations. The talk will look at: – Why you should update WordPress – How regular maintenance is essential for a stable, healthy website – How a management system/software can help – Review of the 7 most popular WordPress management dashboards – Factors to consider in your choice of management system

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