October 22, 2015 — Interacting with APIs like the Twitter seems scary at first but with some of the basic tools WordPress offers (Transients API, HTTP API, etc) it is easy to get going. Daniel will show you how you can talk to APIs in a few easy steps.

October 22, 2015 — WordPress is growing every day – from 18% of the web in 2013 to 23% in 2014. In 2014, with the release of WordPress 4.0, international downloads surpassed English downloads for the first time. Some of the largest portions of non English downloads come from countries where English is not an option at all.

For software creators this means that if your product is not localized, it’s not going to be used at all. This talk clarifies the terms internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) and explains the benefits of writing translation-ready plugins and themes. It also provides advice for small business owners, plugin and theme developers on how to grow their international community and create their product evangelists outside of the English speaking world, which can exponentially lead to product growth alongside the core project.

October 21, 2015 — User’s of today’s web expect the sites they visit to be smooth, interactive, load quickly, and run well. The focus and priority of the Front End Developer, should be optimization of the front end experience for every site we create, for every device, and for every user.

In this talk, we will cover how front end performance affects User Engagement and Experience; best practices for performance driven front end development; and tools to measure front end performance.

October 21, 2015 — I will discuss the benefits of choosing WordPress to power a nonprofit website, point out special considerations and must-haves, cover recommended plugins and themes, and share resources available online to help nonprofits with their websites. I will draw from my experience as designer and webmaster for a house of worship and a couple of nonprofits, and showcase several nonprofit websites powered by WordPress.

October 20, 2015 — In this session you’ll hear about how my passion for WordPress helped me create an online presence for our family project turned multinational charity program and landed me my dream job, helping to protect WordPress sites at Sucuri. It opened opportunities, allows me to work remotely for an American company, while also providing enough time to manage the volunteers behind the ShoeBox Romania Project.

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October 20, 2015 — WordPress plugins have changed a lot over the last couple years. People who build larger scale websites, often try to push the boundaries of what WordPress is capable of. To make your WordPress plugins compatible with such larger websites, there are a couple things you need to be aware of. Performance testing, security checks and many other tools have become a standard best practice during development.

In this presentation, Coen will guide you through the issues that WordPress is currently facing when it comes to adopting technologies like Composer in your WordPress plugins. Composer has become the number one package manager in the PHP world, but is near impossible to implement correctly in your WordPress plugins.

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October 19, 2015 — WooCommerce 2.4 comes with an intelligent onboarding wizard that will help you setup your webshop. Based on his experience building this onboarding wizard, Mike will talk about what user onboarding is. He’ll explain why it’s important, how you can improve it in your plugins, techniques you can use, and show some good/bad user onboarding examples specific to WordPress plugins.

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October 19, 2015 — eCommerce is an emerging tool in the world. Matty would like to re-introduce you to WooCommerce, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform. Matty will tell the story of the journey of WooCommerce, where it’s focus is and where it’s headed. Having recently been acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com), and exciting future awaits WooCommerce.

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October 19, 2015 — You never discuss rates with a plumber. You never try to pay them in visibility. You would never let your 13 years old cousin fix your leaking pipes. But your clients do that all the times with you. My presentation analyses why this happens and how a WordPress professional can become a better marketer, more professional, more profitable.

October 19, 2015 — Everyone wants more traffic to their sites. To get more traffic, your site needs to perform well in search engines. People need to share your stories on social platforms. To do be able to get both, you need a holistic SEO strategy. You need to be telling great stories, using the right keywords. You need a good User eXperience and a technically excellent site. Joost will give hints and tips to achieve all of this.

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