April 17, 2016 — The basic idea of WordPress was to redefine online publishing with allowing anyone to easily publish their articles. More than 10 years later, we used WordPress as an open source publishing platform to build a website for one of the largest cities in Croatia. I’ll tell you a story of how the city of Rijeka decided to go with open source software and how the people reacted to a fact that everything will be open sourced as well. One of the first large-scale „design in the open“ projects in Croatia is defining standards for future web development. We’re discussing the web design process, sharing knowledge with the public and asking citizens to be a part of the redesign effort. By delivering designs, HTML and CSS, WordPress theme and documents like Content Strategy and Accessibility Guidelines – we’re redefining how the public website should look like. And with the help of WordPress, we’re promoting the power of publishing and transparency. Last but not least – I’ll tell you how the city of Rijeka helped us organize our first WordCamp Croatia in 2015 believing in the power of WordPress.

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April 17, 2016 — Lightning Talk: Since there are mostly single column text layouts out there Phillip wants to remind us, that we can design themes with multiple columns and make it work responsively across browsers. He will show us examples of how to make it work.

April 17, 2016 — I would like to talk about our journey with Freshjobs – a job board for Swiss web professionals. The talk is intended to be a business talk. I’m going to share our experience in designing & building an online platform on top of WordPress. I’ll share some secrets and learning from running & maintaining it for about 5 years now. I will show you how we managed to balance client work and product work and how we focussed on the features that really matter because of financial and time constraints.

April 17, 2016 — Privacy is turning into a big deal, not only for end-users but also for those of us who design the digital environments of Internet users. Last year, Dataskydd.net identified a range of simple measures that can be implemented on a website to vastly improve the privacy protection of its visitors. This year, we continue to promote a privacy-friendly web by building tools for individuals to request implementation of these simple measures from web developers. We will provide an ideological and political incentive for „privacy“ (the why) as well as technical tools for web developers to respect the privacy of visitors (the how).

April 17, 2016 — The WordPress ecosystem is maturing every day as new businesses and products enter the market. There are many models that a business can adopt in this diverse market but there are also many challenges that need to be addressed if one wants to not only survive, but thrive.
This talk takes a “been there, tried that” look at the various business models that have been used when selling WordPress products, challenges that need to be considered, and some tried and tested solutions that have worked extremely well for us.

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April 17, 2016 — This session will describe the ultimate safety net for one of your key investments: your WP site.
A brief overview of the moving parts of a WP install/Setup such as database, application and data files will be covered first. Next, we’ll delve more into the tools and procedures required to perform a manual (non-plugin) backup of a WP Site.

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April 15, 2016 — Panelists tell their story and then answer questions about how they transitioned, along with offering tips to the audience. Some panelists have gone from freelance to agency life, others have gone from one or two man shops to building their own legit business.

April 15, 2016 — If you never heard or seen BuddyPress before, then we start off BuddyCamp Miami showing you how to install and configure BuddyPress. Then we will take you through each of it’s main features including members, groups, messages, forums and more. We’ll show you how to configure BBPress for forums (both site-wide and group forums). Finally, we will examine some useful themes and plugins for BuddyPress.

April 15, 2016 — WordPress is over twelve years old now. How does the software and the project as a whole continue to move forward, maintain relevance, push boundaries, and assert influence when it has to compete with much leaner, cooler, and more modern alternatives? I’ll attempt to answer these points in this presentation.

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April 14, 2016 — John Jacoby, project leader for BuddyPress, will showcase what’s currently going on with BuddyPress development. He will cover what new features have been recently released for developers and also what’s in store for the next version of BuddyPress. John will also touch on what the future for BuddyPress is farther down the road. If you are a BuddyPress developer, this is a talk you can’t miss.