November 3, 2016 — WordCamp Dallas/Fort Worth 2016 Opening Remarks

November 3, 2016 — The biggest and best-known ecommerce solution for WordPress does everything. It’s flexible, extendable, and almost infinitely configurable. It’s a Swiss Army Knife with 276 blades. But if all you need is a bottle opener, do you really need to walk around with a 2kg knife in your pocket?

We’ll talk about the things you need to consider when choosing an ecommerce solution. I’ll give you a list of questions to help you decide. And we’ll discuss some of the available WordPress ecommerce products so you can make an informed decision.

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November 3, 2016 — At some point, every freelancer has struggled with a crisis of confidence. For some, this ongoing battle has crippled their businesses.

The symptoms of a crisis of confidence are not charging what you’re worth, having constant conflicts with worry and doubt, and a lack of satisfaction from your work.

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November 3, 2016 — The basics on hardening your WordPress application and best security practices. The importance of Strong passwords, Two-Factor, secure file permissions, using SFTP encryption and changing Salts. The importance of maintaining backups and updates.

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November 3, 2016 — In his speech, Managing a small WordPress agency, Dalibor will point out a few important topics for an efficient business model: how to target customers and their needs, understanding competition and how the website can be integrated in the company’s business model.

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November 3, 2016 — In his speech The tool that builds the tool, Ciprian will talk about the utility of building tools to help you create plugins and themes faster. Using these tools as a shortcut, instead of going the traditional way (building from scratch), Ciprian will show us how any WordPress developer can save time and increase the quality of his results.

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November 3, 2016 — Ivana Ćirković comes from Belgrade, Serbia, and she will share her personal involvement with WordPress in her talk: How I met your WordPress. Owner of the Digital Margeting Agency KickStart.rs and of an online magazine for women OrganVlasti.com, Ivana is part of the WordPress ecosystem from a non-technical position. Talking about her experience with WordPress from the beginnings, Ivana wants to inspire others to be part of this growing community and share all the benefits WordPress has to offer.

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November 3, 2016 — Marius fell in love with WordPress back in 2006 when he started his first blog about entrepreneurship. Later on he founded WPRiders, a technical WordPress agency with a focus on customer’s business goals. After launching different products for both local as well as the international market, Marius’ agency is now providing WordPress services for worldwide clients. At WordCamp Bucharest, he will be speaking about Moving from software products to WordPress services, where he will share some lessons learned from his past experiences.

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November 3, 2016 — In this session will look at SEO best practices and how to apply these to your WordPress website or blog. We’ll discuss what search engines want and need, so you can apply this to driving traffic via organic search traffic.

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November 3, 2016 — Is your blog feeling tired and looking outdated? Don’t have time for a total redesign? In this talk, we’ll cover 12 ideas for freshening up your blog with design elements, plugins, and code snippets.