December 1, 2016 — WordPress is tremendous with scaling for a large audience, especially for online learning. However, unlike a typical classroom, engagement among a community is not a given. Let’s explore the tools and tactics you can use with WordPress to create an engaged community through strategic student interaction, gamification, challenges and content to keep visitors returning, growing and flourishing in your website. Not only will we explore the “how” with the plugins that achieve this, but also the “why;” strategies that actually work. Having worked with 500 members in WP Elevation (a large community member WordPress website) and over 100 members in RockStar Empires (a large community member WordPress website), I’ve quickly seen what it takes to avoid the sound of “crickets” and inspire a passionate community.

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December 1, 2016 — “I failed at freelancing because I made sure I was compensated properly and stayed on top of my finances.” – No one ever

More and more people try freelancing but many never make it: not because they do bad work, but because they fail at running a business. Most of the mistakes are self-inflicted and can be avoided. This talk covers the three keys to freelancers’ long-term success:

1. Staying on top of the finances,
2. Taking care of one’s self and
3. Understanding when to pay a pro.

The talk will empower aspiring and current freelancers by giving them the tools to avoid the pitfalls and come out on top.

December 1, 2016 — For developer-centric plugins, good documentation can mean the key to success. We’ll walk through what entails good documentation and various real-world examples and tools you can use to simplify things.

December 1, 2016 — Digambar Pradhan is WordPress Developer and Team Lead at Web Experts Nepal. He gave a talk about the importance of speed and security to their website, as well as share general guidelines and best practices.

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December 1, 2016 — Sunita is a WordPress lover, digital marketing, SEO and blogging enthusiast.
Sunita gave a talk about SEO Copywriting in general, its importance, and share her steps to create a great content.

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December 1, 2016 — Sure, you could do a lot of guesswork at the beginning of a website design project. Let’s build a template and throw in some placeholders, and see what becomes of it! Only to discover when the text and media come rolling in from your content creators that half the template needs to be rebuilt, and the menu structure you had in mind was way off-base.

This happens a lot, costing everyone involved valuable time and energy — especially you. Learn how to put content first in the sequence of design steps.

This talk will cover:

Defining your audience and goals
How to convince your client to provide content in a timely fashion
Understanding, organizing, and prioritizing content
Brainstorming ideas for optimal site and page structure

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December 1, 2016 — There are many resources for developers online which show how to code a WordPress Theme or a WordPress plugin. However, there are fewer resources which explain the necessity for, and advantages of, separating functionality between Themes and Plugins, planning development according to modular coding principles, and working on WordPress projects which go beyond the blog.

Touching on front end techniques most commonly known from programmers like Brad Frost, I’ll explain how to plan a development project for both front end and backend environments in an overview, using a recent real-world example of developing for both blogs and non-blog-type WordPress multisite installation.

My talk will provide a summarized insight into maintaining individual features through the use of your own Plugins, why it’s important to decide whether to add features to a Theme or via a Plugin, and the flexibility and organisation which modular coding brings.

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December 1, 2016 — Umesh Chaudhary is a Senior WordPress Developer & Team Lead at Rigorous Web Services. He has been involved in Web Development industry since 2013. The topic for his presentation is Multisite, Core Concepts.
He will give a throughout concept of what WordPress Multisite is, how it works, when and where to use it and lastly where not to. He will not be sharing codes but the ideas about the WP Multisite.

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December 1, 2016 — This episode I talk about WordCamp US which is taking place in Philadelphia, PA on December 2nd thru the 4th.

The Community Team has a plugin in beta which will help with speaker submissions.

Finally the WordPress TV Team is uploading videos to the official WordPress YouTube channel.

November 28, 2016 — Blessing Mpofu resides in Cape Town, South Africa. He blogs about leadership and inspiration at http://blessing.im.

Blessing works as a Team Director and Digital Media Manager. He is also pursuing a degree in Theology.