November 1, 2016 — Whats coming next in core, cool projects, and future innovations for the industry.

Presentation Slides »

November 1, 2016 — As the social and digital media landscape gets increasingly competitive, it’s important to brand yourself by clearly conveying your businesses focus, credibility and unique contributions. You must constantly be creative with how are you going to set your self a part from the rest. This topic will identify ways to identify your brand personality as well as develop a plan of action to build and master your brand.

Presentation Slides »

November 1, 2016 — Working from home is more common than ever, especially for those of us helping to build a better web with WordPress. But working from home comes with unique challenges that aren’t found in a typical in-office setting.

In this session, Adam will share his personal experiences working remotely for the past 5 years and how, through trial and error, he’s learned how to avoid the most common pitfalls and create a work/life balance. Spoiler alert: there are also two toddlers in this mix!

Whether you’ve been yearning to break out of cubicle life or currently working from a home office, you’re sure to find some tips and tricks that will help you be productive and most of all happy with the “work from home” lifestyle.

Presentation Slides »

November 1, 2016 — Most WordPress users, developers and designers don’t have the money or time to test the usability of their website, so we will get it done together in this session. We will begin with a crash course in how to test, find, and fix the mistakes that confuse your visitors and keep them from being successful on your site. Then we will split up into pairs and you will test your own website on your workshop neighbors, and vice versa.

This session is not about finding code bugs, it’s about finding human bugs. Most fixes are as easy as changing a few words, or the placement of a button. Simple improvements in usability can improve web traffic and profitability starting immediately.

This session will benefit all WordPress users from beginning webmasters to hard core coders. If you build things for humans, this is for you.

This session will be fun, interactive and fast, and save you thousands of dollars on hiring a professional tester and paying for test users.

November 1, 2016 — How to get inside the head of customers who use WordPress products. This session makes sense towards a whole range of WordPress users – from full stack developers to casual bloggers to people who are new to WordPress. While Shilpa can’t help you develop super-natural powers, she is definitely going to try – by sharing her learnings, explaining how to read and understand customer expectations, tune yourself to receiving feedback (often times it is disguised !) , act on it and delight your customer.

November 1, 2016 — In September 2013 I launched a blog for Italian creative female entrepreneurs: I was chatting almost daily with a bunch of other freelancers and we thought it would have been cool to have a place to hangout online and tell our stories.

Three years later, C+B (Casa+Bottega) is a very popular niche blog in Italy, entirely made of volunteers, with more than 10 regular authors and 50 guest-posters.

In these 3 years we tried many different approaches to organize our team and our editorial calendar: in this talk I will take you behind the scenes of our blog and show you what we do to coordinate our efforts and keep our sanity!

Presentation Slides »

November 1, 2016 — In this talk Björn will talk about:

The pro and cons of having your own WordPress.org like repository for your organisation and to create one yourself.

How to setup an internal WordPress repository for clients using github-updater, Git, Atlassian’s Bitbucket Server (I might add other options as well).

After seeing this talk you should have gotten an idea on why and how to setup your own internal WordPress.org like repository!

October 31, 2016 — “Docker this, Docker that!” It seems like your nerd friend won’t shut up about this whole nautical technology. And he can be a real jerk about it, but he can sure spin up a local WordPress site faster than I can.

In this hands-on session, you will learn how easy Docker can be, and why it will quickly become your favorite local WordPress development environment. Whether you are a WordPress site designer, manager, or developer this session is for you.

Learn how to replace your LAMP or MAMP stacks with Docker.

Presentation Slides »

October 31, 2016 — For me, CSS Flexbox wasn’t just a discovery, it was an epiphany. It’s become my number-one tool for responsive layouts, and I keep discovering new uses for it.

If you’re a front-end developer or a designer who codes and you haven’t started using Flexbox yet, come to this talk to find out how to save time, save math, and save media queries. If you build plugins that add new content types (events, products, portfolio entries) and ship stylesheets and templates with them, Flexbox is the easiset way to create layouts to display that content attractively in any theme, on any size screen.

Join me for a tour of real-life design problems solved with Flexbox:

Presentation Slides »

October 31, 2016 — This presentation would cover some basics of Search Engine Optimization for WordPress. I would begin with an intro to SEO and primarily focus on some On-Site and technical factors to improve a site’s visibility to Google and other search engines. The presentation would include: Mobile-friendly themes, Google Analytics, URL structure, Sitemaps, SEO Plugins, Schema, and Page Speed.

Presentation Slides »