April 19, 2016 — Managing expectations is the key to maintaining a healthy relationship with clients. Almost all conflict between clients and vendors can be attributed to misaligned expectations.

During this session, Steve will share his best tips gathered through real-world experience over 20 years in the digital industry. You will learn how to prevent problems before they happen, how to properly communicate expectations, how to assess and anticipate client needs, how to diffuse difficult situations and more.

Having positive client relationships leads to better productivity, which leads to more profit. And who doesn’t want that?

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April 19, 2016 — This lightening talk will be for those who are looking for ways to optimize their existing WordPress site or planning to start a new WordPress site on the right foot! I’ll be covering helpful tips to keep in mind when creating new content for your WordPress. Making your site google bot friendly, optimizing content with keywords and more!

April 19, 2016 — This talk will show the key milestones of how TECHcetera is creating a thriving media platform. This talk will be particularly interesting to those who have a small readership and want to keep their editorial independence while growing their audience. The key takeaway: Keep producing great content every single time.

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April 19, 2016 — In this session, I’ll demonstrate how I pushed my limits in WordPress development by building a custom WordPress slider for a client website. I hope you will be inspired to take on challenging projects even though you might not know the outcome. In this project, I realized that advanced client specs aren’t indomitable; they are catalysts in pushing skills as a person and developer.

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April 19, 2016 — The talk will demonstrate how PHP Storm can speed up WordPress development workflow while also helping aspiring developers better understand how WordPress works.

Some of the topics I’ll cover will be: Configuring a project, setting up and using debugging on a local vagrant box (VVV) with Xdebug, and using Live Templates & placeholders to quickly build commonly used code constructs.

I’ll also detail some quick tips, like jumping to variable and class definitions and quick switching between recently used templates. Time permitting I’ll also show how to use PHP Storms built in tools for compiling, version control, and deployment.

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April 18, 2016 — You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.

In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.

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April 18, 2016 — In this video you will learn how to convert your own HTML to WordPress. You don’t need to know PHP for this video, just HTML/CSS and how to install WordPress.

April 18, 2016 — This session is about writing code that can easily be tested. By means of negative examples, Thorsten explains what makes code rather hard to test, or even untestable. Each „bad practice“ is first presented in an abstract way, and then illustrated and discussed using one or more concrete PHP and JavaScript code examples. In the end, Thorsten shows how to solve the individual issues at hand, and thus produce testable code—even if you don’t test it yourself.

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April 17, 2016 — In this talk, WordPress educator Zac Gordon goes over many of the popular JavaScript libraries and frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, Ember, Angular and React) and discusses various use cases for each one. Of course, the talk also includes emphasis on some vanilla JS knowledge a an JavaScript developer should have.

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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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