November 7, 2016 — Topic Discussion
I. An Intro to Video Libraries
In this session, I will be discussing the impact that a video library can have on your website. A video library is a collection of videos, typically organized into categories and groups, that members can view directly on your website.There is a place for video in almost any website, from marketing to content to customer service.

II. How to best utilize videos to engage your customers
I will cover the importance of a Video Library for Search Engine Optimization and how it helps keep visitors on your site for a longer amount of time. I will discuss how you can use video content marketing to better connect with your audience and communicate with customers. I will also present a number of strategic approaches to including videos on various types of websites.

III. Options for sharing and creating video libraries
I will include the different video sharing options that are available, how to create and host a video library, and how to utilize video for marketing, training, and communication.

IV. The best audiences for video content
Lastly, I would like to present the type of audiences that video is good for and statistically who is viewing videos on the web. This will include how to promote and organize your video library for your intended audiences.

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November 7, 2016 — Troy Dean resides in Melbourne Australia and is a WordPress consultant and co-founder of Video User Manuals, a video tutorial plug-in to teach your client how to use WordPress, as well as WP Elevation, the world’s first business accelerator program for WordPress consultants. He speaks regularly at WordCamps

November 6, 2016 — In this talk, I will look at how it’s often better to tell your story in One Page opposed to a multiple-page website. Focus on simplicity, declutter the interface and get results. We need to understand in this day and age attention spans are depleting online. We need to get straight to the point. I’ll throw in some stats about One Page trends, popular WordPress themes and plugins.

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November 6, 2016 — An explanation of WordPress Management and Operations. A look at Themes vs Frameworks, Design, Development Best Practices, and options for managing your WordPress websites.

November 6, 2016 — We’ve all seen those errors appear on our webiste. Maybe you’ve been unluky enough to see the white screen of death. In this session I will go through how to debug these and other common problems.

This session will cover:

– Understanding error messages
– Standard techniques for debugging in WordPress
– Using logging to diagnose problems
– Plugins we can use for debugging
– Browser based tools for debugging

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November 6, 2016 — Just like doctors make the worst patients, teachers make the worst students when it comes to running WordPress Multisite in a K-12 environment. This talk covers the trials and tribulations of implementing a scalable WP Multisite network on Windows servers (yes, Windows – running on a WIMP stack), and the hardest part of all – managing the content managers!

November 6, 2016 — Nathaniel will be sharing how The Power of Exposure to the Internet and WordPress has impacted and changed his life since 2011. He will be speaking about how WordPress as a tool has triggered a passion for solving problems, building and designing web solutions that led him to his latest venture. He’ll encourage the local WordPress community to contribute to changing lives in the bigger Cape Town area.

November 6, 2016 — The stated mission of the WordPress project is to “democratise publishing”, but with all the people involved, the project has achieved so much more than that over the past 13 years. In fact, with the number of people involved in building the WordPress project and community on a daily basis, its no wonder that the community is so powerful and the whole project has had such an impact on the world. That begs the question of how you can get involved and how you can make a difference – how can you, as an individual, continue the mission of the WordPress project beyond WordCamp?

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November 5, 2016 — Learning to write code is easy. Learning to fix broken code is really hard. Whether you’re pasting code from a tutorial or writing your own code, figuring out why something doesn’t work as expected and how to fix it is difficult. In this talk, I will walk you through some basic methods for troubleshooting PHP and JS in your WordPress site, and introduce you to some helpful tools.

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November 5, 2016 — I’ve seen it too many times… unnecessary custom post types are created for something that does not need a custom post type. Meet the team, featured projects, and case studies sections are the most common offenders. I’m here to tell you that doing so is just making things more difficult and adding something that, in most cases, you don’t really need. The WordPress editor itself can handle what it is you seek to accomplish when creating such sections of your site, as it has the power to do so. Some things I’ll touch on in this session…

What is a custom post type?
When should you use a custom post type?
When should you avoid custom post types and just make it happen with the editor?
The power of the WordPress editor!

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