April 21, 2016 — When your website is accessible, all users can access your content no matter their abilities. Visually-impaired users can visit your website using a screen reader. Those who can’t use the mouse can navigate your site using a keyboard or other input device. Some accessibility features might also improve your SEO. When your site is inaccessible, research shows you could be excluding up to 20 percent of your users. This talk for all skill levels will review tools and techniques you can use to test and improve your site’s accessibility.

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April 21, 2016 — For the past year, Adam has helped run his family’s restaurant, Grandaddy’s. In this lightning talk, he’ll share how whether your selling waffles or widgets, you need to relate to the customer, build a rapport, and anticipate their needs before they even ask.

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April 21, 2016 — All smart marketers know that building an email list is crucial for growing your business. In this presentation, Syed Balkhi, renowned online marketing expert, shares his top tips on how to grow your email list.

April 21, 2016 — What does it mean when someone has abused your WordPress environment? How would you even know? We’ll explore the meaningful impacts as a website owner and attackers abusing your site, your brand, your audience and ultimately: your wallet.

I’ll touch on the following key items:

The types of attacks that can abuse a WordPress site (defacement, re-directs, phishing, etc.)
How a compromise can abuse your visitors and Google’s involvement in this process.
How does this affect you financially? I’ll convey stories on clients who lost massive income from the smallest of hacks.

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April 21, 2016 — Having a fast website is essential but not many people know how to optimize their WordPress or don’t feel the need to. Learn how to tackle speed optimizations of your site and get control over your pages performance.

In this presentation, you will get information about the latest practices and technologies that you can use and practical tips how to:

– Properly test your site and find speed problems
– How to prioritise tasks and make an optimization plan
– Take the most out of your server – PHP7, HHVM, HTTP2 and more
– Use the diferent sorts of caching you can use and implement
– Optimize your multimedia content
– Handle and optimize JS and CSS scripts
– Properly implement a CDN service in your site

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April 20, 2016 — We all have to start somewhere. You might be new to WordPress, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have something to say. In this talk, I’ll share my journey from WordPress newcomer to experienced speaker and how everyone, regardless of their skill level, has something valuable and worthwhile to share with the community.

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April 20, 2016 — Designers and developers are both required to build world-class websites, but sometimes it can feel like a struggle for us to work together in a truly collaborative way. In this session, we’ll share a variety of strategies to bridge the gap between design and development ranging from optimizing workflow between designers and developers with unique skillsets; replacing responsive mockups with side-by-side collaboration; creating clean, grid-based, developer-friendly design files; and developing new layouts and features in a way that respects the original design. We’ll cover these approaches and more as we share the process we use to (happily!) work together as a designer/developer team.

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April 20, 2016 — Security is hard. Over the last few months there have been a number of high-profile plugin security vulnerabilities, but there is surprisingly little familiarity in the developer community when it comes to properly evaluating and remedying issues when they are discovered.

In this talk, we’ll be explaining in basic terms how several types of vulnerabilities work (including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection (SQLI), Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF), and Clickjacking, see what can be done to defend against them, and what to do when you have a vulnerability reported to you.

Please Note: This is a development-oriented talk, but will not get too deep into code.

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April 20, 2016 — This talk will focus on technical tips and tricks for capturing great video on mobile devices. You will be producing better quality videos on your websites and blogs.

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April 20, 2016 — AngularJS is a wonderful tool, extending the conventions of HTML5 that we all know and love, for building dynamic web applications. This beginner talk will provide you with a basic understanding of Angular templates, controllers, directives and factories. It will prepare you to get started with Angular and use it to build awesome interfaces connected to a RESTful API, such as the WordPress REST API.

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