June 6, 2017 — Ross is a freelance website developer, communications consultant and accidental WordPress expert who helps organisations use technology to make the world better.

He said In person client and user training can be difficult to arrange, time-consuming, and expensive. He’s using screencasts and animated GIFs in client training and support for a while now and it’s good for everyone involved. He talks through why it’s so good to do, how to get started, what tools and setup you need, and how your work can help others too.

June 6, 2017 — WordPress professional, community junkie, business explorer. She make WordPress things happen from Torino, Italy: Polyglots and Community team member, Meetup and WordCamp organizer.
She said People read on screen differently than on paper and formatting the text will help them get to the end of it.
She shows how to leverage the options available in WordPress and it will teach you how to fix some common problems with a few HTML tags.

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June 6, 2017 — Craig Martin has seen WordPress businesses as a publisher and an e-commerce user, and also helped hundreds of business grow their online presence.

He will share some of the pitfalls and power-plays to help small businesses grow into bigger ones, telling stories from work and WordPress.

June 6, 2017 — Dave Walker is a freelance cartoonist based in Essex, UK. He has used WordPress to create cartoon websites since 2005. These have included sites with cartoons for bloggers, cyclists and churchgoers, along with his own blog and portfolio site, davewalker.com. Dave draws a weekly cartoon for the Church Times newspaper, and his forthcoming book, ’The Cycling Cartoonist’, is to be published by Bloomsbury in June 2017.

In his talk I shared some handy hints for running a creative business using WordPress, including some of the themes and plugins he found most useful, lessons learned, and mistakes made (and there have been a few of those). All illustrated with some cartoons, including one or two brand new ones created specially. Drawing experience not required.

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June 6, 2017 — Tammie works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. She has a varied background including psychology, design, front end development and user experience. She is a contributor to WordPress and passionate about Open Source.

She explain how can you truly create an experience without knowing who you are creating it for? Why does so much get made without user research? Why do so many creating experiences not run user tests or engage with their users at any point? It isn’t a privilege of the wealthy agency or invested company. In this talk, she shows why knowing your user’s matters and how you can start truly understanding them to make a better experience.

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June 6, 2017 — Crispin is a consultant specialising in UX and agile practice. Almost 20 years professional experience of user focussed development and open source frameworks.

Crispin Read on Object Oriented User Experience had some great ideas on how to take briefs/requirements and break them down in easy-to-understand ways.

Fitting user focused design methodologies into a development process needn’t be difficult. Our objectives as UX practitioners, as designers, as developers, as product owners etc are the same – to build the best possible thing in the time we have and within budget.

June 6, 2017 — Stewart is the lead developer and founder at Powered By Coffee.
He spoke on WordPress Developer Operations for Beginners and covered some basics to get started:

Git & Version Control
Dependence Management
Automation
Deployments

June 6, 2017 — Podcasting is an easy way to engage with your audience, have your voice heard, and stand out from the crowd—and WordPress makes it even easier. With a few free plugins, WordPress becomes a natural platform for publishing your serial audio content. From recording hardware and editing software to WordPress plugins and configuration, we’ll review how to get started with podcasting.

June 6, 2017 — Many of us know and understand the importance of SEO, yet it surprisingly doesn’t stop at just hitting publish on your latest blog post. Even if you think that you are a true SEO rock star and following the SEO basics to a T, chances may be that you are still missing some core onsite optimization basics (as even I have done in the past). We’ll go over some of these easily made SEO mistakes and ill offer some basic solutions.

June 5, 2017 — WooCommerce now powers over 30% of all online stores, both big and small. While the basic WooCommerce package covers a lot of needs, business use cases often require special attention.

This talk will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce. We’ll talk about:

* Building a streamline customer service experience for your business;
* Keeping template files up to date;
* Useful actions and filters;
* Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations

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