September 26, 2015 — Freelancing, on the face of it is an exciting idea. Being your own boss, being the manager of your own time, working from home and basically working for yourself can be incredibly rewarding.

It can also, however be terrifying. Instead of just being a writer, or a designer, or a developer you now also have to be a bookkeeper, accountant and all round office dogsbody/tea-maker.

In this talk,those who are already freelancing will be able to check off whether they’re making the most of their time and resources, and beginners will learn how to set themselves up for success.

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September 26, 2015 — Are you a master of themes? Are you ready to take the leap and start making your very first WordPress plugin? Well Wil Brown has the perfect talk for you.

Will teaches you how to code up your first custom WordPress plugin and he’ll even how to get it on WordPress.org!

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September 26, 2015 — Knowing what tools and processes to use when starting out is difficult for a newcomer to WordPress-based development. Japh shares his preferred setup after years of building on WordPress. The basis for his development workflow is a project called Chassis. He covers the general workflow, and an intro to Chassis.

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September 26, 2015 — A prospective client calls us wanting work – Yay! They get into complaining about their existing web developer. They’re a good dev, we know them. Where did it go wrong? Is the client crazy? This is a classic problem that happens the world over to web designers/developers. It causes us (and the clients) pain and stress.
Ben talks about this common problem and a few related questions.

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September 26, 2015 — The presentation is intended to show some useful git commands and approaches related to submodules, tags and branches. It also includes practical advices for some popular problems with these. It would be interesting for intermediate developers working with version control.

September 26, 2015 — The presentation would include my experiences with launching startups using WordPress through:

1. Easy website setup (best practices for hosting, WordPress install, security…)
2. Optimizing for search engines & people
3. Propelling ideas via blogging

September 26, 2015 — With the introduction of HTTP/2, a lot of things are changing. We developers now have to unlearn some of the things that made us excellent, to adapt to a different world.

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September 26, 2015 — I’ve built a lot of sites, and it seems that the final 20% can be the hardest to complete. I want to teach designers and developers about the 80/20 principle and how it applies to their project workflow. Then I will talk about tools and tricks that I use to finish a project strong, particularly when building a custom theme.

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September 25, 2015 — The new WP REST API has a lot of functionality included. This talk will cover extending the API with your own custom routes, custom response data, authentication, sending non-JSON results, etc.

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September 25, 2015 — There is so much information put out there about growing a business, about SEO or marketing in general. One area that doesn’t get much love is customer service. So you can get the clients in the door, you want to do a great job but at the end of the day you’re stressed out. In this talk, I want to discuss ways to provide an excellent customer service experience while keeping you sane and your bills paid.

Takeaways

How to manage expectations of clients to benefit you and your client
How to organize yourself to complete projects on time
How to chose your clients for a good working relationship

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