September 20, 2016 — Did you know that people tend to donate more online than in person? You may be leaving money on the table if your online gift processes aren’t operating according to best practices for user-experience and donor stewardship. Your website is more than just a tool to raise awareness for your cause. Whether you’re a nonprofit, religious based organization, or individual, online giving is a vital part of furthering your cause.

In this session attendees will learn not only how optimize your donation forms, but also how to present your message most effectively. As well, we will examine several simple, research-backed methods that any fundraiser can make to improve their online donation process. You’ll leave with the confidence that your donation pages and forms can effectively convert visitors into donors – and keep them giving for years to come

September 20, 2016 — Many podcasters turn to WordPress to help build the website that will be the landing page for their podcast show, but did you know there were themes, plugins, and best practices geared directly toward marrying your podcast and your WordPress site?

This session will talk about some of those best practices (and some not so good practices), and will cover some awesome podcast themes and plugins that will help you get the job done.

September 20, 2016 — Whether we know it or not, most of the time that we open a website, see an advertisement on social media, television, or even in print, we are taking part in some sort of split test. If your business isn’t yet using some form of A/B testing or multi-variant testing, it’s time to start.

In this talk I will cover using testing to improve your services and increase the conversion on your eCommerce sites and lead generation forms. In addition I will cover when to test and where, as well as how to use split testing to validate or invalidate ideas about your business as early as possible.

September 20, 2016 — We’ve all heard about responsive design and how important it is. But most designers and developers only use techniques to build their sites to be responsive on the client-side without even knowing about a completely different approach to responsive design: Responsive Design with Server Side Components (RESS).

RESS leverages the server to make websites and applications as lightning fast as possible. I will discuss the pros and cons of both client-side and server-side responsive design and show techniques that designers and developers can start using today.

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September 20, 2016 — Rich will be calling us to action in “The Humanity of WordPress,” where he explores the human side of our WordPress communities and empowers attendees to get involved to continue to make WordPress great!

September 19, 2016 — Ulrich will be sharing the successes and challenges that we face while contributing to an open source project. He will be talking from his experience of contributing to different areas in the WordPress project, from answering theme support questions to becoming a key theme reviewer.

オープンソースプロジェクトに貢献する時に直面する成功、困難への挑戦についてお伝えします。WordPress プロジェクトのさまざまな分野にコントリビュートしてきた経験や、テーマサポートの質問に答えながらキーレビュアーになっていった経験からお話します。

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September 19, 2016 — Daniel J. Lewis is an award-winning podcaster. He helps others launch and improve their own podcasts for sharing their passions and finding success. Daniel creates training resources (like SEO for Podcasters) and podcasting tools (like My Podcast Reviews); He offers one-on-one consulting and group training. He has been a keynote speaker on podcasting and social media on numerous occasions.

September 14, 2016 — Ask Sam questions about anything from WordPress to WordPress.org and everything in between.

September 14, 2016 — This session will teach you how to prevent your WordPress installations from being compromised, which actions are required in order to clean up a compromised WordPress installation and ways of hardening your WordPress installation.

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September 14, 2016 — In 2007 I started a brand management agency. The 3 owners were a designer, a web developer and myself as the business director. At our peak we were doing everything wrong. Years later after the company folded and I was managing a solid number of clients I was still doing it wrong.

In 2014 I attended my first two WordCamps, sponsored a few and spoke at one. I began attending my local meetup and tweeting about WordPress as much as possible. I learned more in 12 months of being involved in the WordPress community than I had for 7 years prior.

This talk will center around that story while educating the audience about how to make the most of the WordPress community, the vast number of resources out there and how to give back.

@mgratch

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