October 8, 2016 — Even if you’re not trying to compete with Amazon, it’s good to know your customers and competition. While building your WooCommerce store you’ll want to know some items to consider that will help you to build a meaningful brand that your customers will be loyal to.

In this session we’ll touch on tactical items you can include on your site/store to increase customer loyalty

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October 8, 2016 — Scaling Your WordPress Support for Growth

Supporting your products well is one of the best ways to ensure solid growth of your company. But growth also puts additional strain on your support team. This presentation will give you tools to understand how to scale your support before your team gets overwhelmed.

There are several important factors that go into scaling a support team. The primary ones revolve around the following:
Understanding Support is Generated from Sales
Knowing How Much Support You Can Sustain
Knowing How Much Time you Need to Train New Staff
This presentation will cover those items in detail with tools, resources, and live data based on our experiences at WordImpress

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October 8, 2016 — Site Speed becomes more critical every day. It’s a search ranking factor, mobile devices are now the norm, and yet our sites get more complex and complicated. It’s important that we build our sites understanding the need for speed from the beginning.

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October 8, 2016 — Christian Nolen tells us about ‘Getting Started with WP-CLI’.

October 8, 2016 — Learn the tricks designers use to make websites attractive and effective. We’ll teach you the Most Important Question designers ask their clients, and how you can use it to your advantage when doing it yourself. Then, learn practical ways to apply it to create attractive sites (using good design principles and simple rules for success) and effective sites (through basic exercises that help you develop and showcase your primary call to action).

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October 8, 2016 — Whether you are an advanced WordPress theme developer or simply editing content from the dashboard, there is one question that everyone asks at one point or another:

What size should my images be?

This already complex question takes on a whole new dynamic with the recent addition of responsive images in WordPress 4.4. While the basic concept of responsive images may be easy to grasp, a true understanding of the inner workings is far more elusive. In this talk, we will demystify responsive images and learn how to strike a proper balance between image performance and image quality within any context.

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October 8, 2016 — Christopher Lucock talks to us about Design Workflow: What To Do and When To Do It.

October 8, 2016 — In this session you’ll hear about my passion for WordPress and the first time I experienced having my website hacked helped me create a secured online presence for our family project, turned multinational charity program and landed me my dream job, allowing me to work to protect WordPress sites from hackers. It opened opportunities, allows me to work remotely for an American company, while still living in Europe (Cluj, Romania) and also providing enough time to manage the volunteers behind the ShoeBox Project.

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October 8, 2016 — Have some fun as you learn the basics of how people add new features to WordPress. Whether you want to write your own first plugin or just if you want to understand that foreign language your web developer is speaking, this is a great place to start.

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October 8, 2016 — Episode 2 recaps the Polyglots announcement of Global WordPress Translation Day, the ZIP file issue with the Plugin Team.

Then the focus is on the Mobile Teams announcement of the WordPress version 6.0 Android app RC 1 and the Design Team request for testers for the Customizers add theme features.