February 3, 2017 — We know that WordPress is one of the most SEO friendly CMS platforms out there.
So why do so many website developers build websites that make Google cry?
And why do business owners think that applying SEO to a WordPress site is as simple as installing the Yoast plugin?

In this presentation, I’ll tell you the tips, techniques and tactics that I use to help make sites 100% Google lovable, including:

* The impact of hosting and domain choice
* Integral set up steps that boost SEO friendliness
* My top 10 Plugins to improve SEO
* Easy peasy content formatting
What to consider when offering on going SEO packages

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February 3, 2017 — A “how-to” on using free resources to design, develop, and launch a killer website that will work for your business.

In this talk, we will touch on everything from the goal of your site, to the character it portrays, all while making use of quality free resources such as themes, plugins, fonts, and analytics.

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February 3, 2017 — I’m currently in the process of embarking on a relaunch of Eternity News with the Bible Society of Australia.

Eternity News has been a print publication for many years – and are just now launching their own foray into the world of online news (after being part of the Bible Society website for many years).

With a crack team of ex Fairfax/ABC staff and a blank slate for what a ‘news’ site is – we’re hoping to question the conventions of how a news website works – all on top of WordPress.

I’ll be talking through some of the process, decisions and development we undertook to get there.

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February 3, 2017 — The WP REST API infrastructure was introduced in WordPress 4.4. The introduction of this infrastructure allows WordPress developers to now use WordPress as a headless CMS. A headless CMS has its frontend component (the head) stripped and removed from its backend, and what remains is a backend delivering content via an API. Some common use cases for headless CMS are as follows:

* Serving data to other web applications
* Mobile Apps
* Websites and web apps built with MVC-style JavaScript frameworks

Developers can install the WP REST API plugin to expose endpoints for WordPress for posts, pages, media and users. Developers can also extend the WordPress core REST infrastructure to register their own endpoints for custom post types and WordPress options.

The WP REST API plugin will expose database content via JSON. This data can be used by developers to create sites using JavaScript frameworks such as React and also use the JSON data in mobile apps.

Bronson will explain and demonstrate how you can use WordPress and the WP REST API to create a website that uses React on the frontend and WordPress on the backend as a headless CMS.

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February 3, 2017 — Fairfax Media have 40+ sites on WordPress, with more added every month.

As part of his new gig with Fairfax Media Jeremy has taken on the task of making this manageable, secure and cost effective, and he will share with you some ideas on approaches to the problem he has used in the past and new approaches that are just being rolled out now.

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February 3, 2017 — We needed to scale the serving of responsive images for a large WordPress installation in an efficient and cost-effective way.

This is the story of how we took advantage of technologies outside of WordPress itself, leaning on Amazon Web Services, to achieve that.

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February 2, 2017 — In this fun and playful session I’ll take you on a journey from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 enjoying the sights and delights of its new features along the way. With features like multiplexing, yesterdays best practices are now tomorrow’s anti-patterns – so what does this mean your app or API?

This talk explores the best and worst practices of the way the web worked and how HTTP/2 is changing the game for performance. And it’s all explained of course, using jelly snakes and raspberry twizzlers.

February 2, 2017 — We have recently developed an online marketing collateral portal for a huge franchise business in Australia. Zambrero hired us to build a complete custom build portal which would generate pdfs for franchisee’s.

The marketing team would create their own marketing material in this portal which is completely code free…

The power of WordPress in conjunction with gravitypdf and gravity forms has made this all possible…

We have built many websites which have broken the conventional use of WordPress and made our clients very happy with the end result and we want to show people to think outside the box when it comes to WordPress and what it actually can do.

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February 1, 2017 — What is WP-CLI? What can it do? Why should you use it? All those questions and more will be answered with a live demonstration of one of the most powerful tools in the WordPress ecosystem.

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January 31, 2017 — WordPress is built on 12 MySQL tables than can support the weight of almost any web project. But in some cases we need to set our custom tables in order to get better results. I will show in this talk the magic behind the default tables, how to create new ones, and what WordPress tools we may use to control them.

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