March 31, 2017 — This episode we talk about Global WordPress Translation Day 3, the new Plugins page, submitting How To videos to WPTV and the Support Forums.

And yes, the puns were intentional.

March 30, 2017 — When building themes and plugins for WordPress, code quality is important. It’s also just as important to be able to easily test and deploy your code when features are ready. This becomes even more important when working on a team. In this talk we will look some Continuous Integration tools and techniques for WordPress, and how they can help you and your team develop faster and more effectively.

March 30, 2017 — 1 in 5 people in the US, report having some kind of disability. For some, these disabilities make it difficult to access the internet. That’s where web accessibility comes in. According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web accessibility means that “people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web.” Not only does web accessibility help people with disabilities, it helps others experience the Web, including individuals whose abilities have changed as they’ve gotten older.

Web accessibility is so much more than standards and checking off items on a list. It’s about having empathy for someone else. To be frank, web accessibility makes it possible for everyone to google the burning question that we all have at 2a.m.: Where can I get pizza at this hour?

This talk will cover:

The basics of web accessibility
“People First” language
The importance of empathy
Inclusive design and content creation best practices
Helpful tools and resources

March 30, 2017 — You’ve always wanted to launch a podcast, but you just aren’t ready. What are you missing: Gear? A Launch Strategy? Courage to get on the mic every week?

Steve Stewart has been helping podcasters with their shows and their tech for more than 5 years. In this session he will explain what an RSS feed is, what you need to launch a podcast, and answer your questions about monetization or growing an audience.

March 30, 2017 — Blogging can be one of the best methods for driving inbound leads into your business. Yet, the biggest challenge many small business owners face is not whether they need a blog, but how to build a blog that brings in business.

March 29, 2017 — Installing WordPress, plugins, and a theme is just a start, but in maintaining and growing your website, you’ve got to make plans. Sure, your initial idea of creating a WordPress site for whatever reason is great, but if you’re trying to get people to either subscribe to your newsletter, share your posts, fill out your lead forms, leave a comment on your posts, click an ad, or buy your stuff, you’ve got more to do.

If you’re not getting some type of return on investment, which is to get people to do something on your website, then your website is broken. Come sit in and let me help you fix your problem by giving you ideas that you can use.

This is for all content creators, as this is like a checklist of things you should be doing for your WordPress website. Also, it includes links to further information to help your blog or website.

Presentation Slides »

March 29, 2017 — Overview
Increase agency efficiencies, reduce development headaches and get clients on board early by creating low-fidelity wireframes to describe content architecture. Learn the tactics and tools to streamline your content architecture process.

Knowledge/experience level
Beginner to intermediate WordPress experience. Basic familiarity with development and implementation of pages, custom post types, fields and taxonomies.

Takeaways Attendees will learn
– How to use low-fidelity wireframes to inform development of site content types, components, taxonomy and technology.
– How to leverage content architecture wireframes for client training and content entry.
– How to gain client approval on content architecture to streamline development

March 29, 2017 — Between 2015 through 2016 Google saw an increase of 160 percent from the year before. With WordPress powering over a quarter of the entire web, we can be confident a good percentage of those sites were running WordPress. In this session, we will examine blackbox scanning tools to discover what types of information your WordPress site might be leaking to attackers, information they can use to potentially compromise your site. Then we’ll explore steps we can take to stop this information leakage — one key segment of a larger strategy to fortify WordPress sites.

March 29, 2017 — My topic will be centered on ways to customize WordPress posts, pages and custom templates with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a better user experience. I will start out by giving a brief introduction to the plugin and how to use it, but the main focus will be on tips and tricks to making your fields clean and organized so that your users don’t freak out when looking at the backend of all their posts, pages or custom templates that use numerous custom fields.

The topic will be WordPress backend heavy, with a little bit of development talk to describe how to create fields in templates during the brief introduction to the plugin.

March 29, 2017 — JavaScript is awesome when it works, but when it doesn’t, it can be extremely frustrating. How do you troubleshoot an AJAX call? How do you know if your JavaScript is even on the page? How do you know if it is executing when and how it should? We will walk through some of the best practices for finding and identifying problems with your JavaScript inside WordPress.