December 2, 2015 — As working remotely is getting more and more popular in the WordPress industry, many of us are choosing to work from co-working spaces. But is everyone familiar with co-working etiquette? This talk will present some insights on how to be a good co-worker, boost your productivity in a co-working environment and nurture the co-working culture.

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December 2, 2015 — Good news: you’ve just won the bid on a big WordPress project! Bad news: it’s your largest project yet, and the fear of failure is kicking in. Don’t worry: steering a large project is easier than you think! In this talk you’ll learn essential WordPress project management techniques, tricks for keeping your clients happy, and how to create a workflow that keeps everyone on the same page, so you can deliver on time, within budget, and without compromises.

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December 2, 2015 — WPML は、個人のサイト、コーポレートのサイトを多言語化するための WordPress プラグインです。
WooCommerce は大小の EC サイト制作のための、最も人気のあるプラグインのひとつです。

このセッションでは、WordPress、WooCommerce、WPML、WooCommerce多言語化プラグインを利用して、簡単に素早く多言語ECサイトを構築するための方法をシェアします。
その中で、グローバルに展開することであなたのECサイトやウェブサービスが受ける恩恵の大きさについても触れ、あなたのビジネスをグローバライズする方法について話したいと思います。

WPML is a WordPress Multilingual Plugin powering personal and corporate sites alike. WooCommerce is one of the most popular open source e-commerce plugins for small to large-scale online merchants using WordPress.

In my presentation, I will share tips on how to easily and quickly create multilingual stores using WordPress, WooCommerce, WPML and WooCommerce Multilingual plugin.

Part of the talk will include the benefits of going global, its impact to your online shops, web services and how you can globalize your business in minutes.

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November 28, 2015 — Currently there are a lot of different front end development tools with lots of interfaces available. As developers and designers, spending time doing repetitive tasks such as database search and replace, plugin scaffolding, asset minificaiton is cognitively expensive and cumbersome. I will be showing how you can use these tools to make the computer do the boring and repetitive tasks, thus automating parts of the WordPress development workflow and saving yourselves time and energy.

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November 27, 2015 — A quick overview of managing WordPress from a systems administration perspective – installation, hardening, updating, backup and restore. I’ll spend some time discussing some of the security concerns inherent to a WordPress installation, including how to deal with spam, hostile crawlers and brute-force attacks.

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November 24, 2015 — Report about the great people and situations from the first Italian WordPress Contributor Day. It was on November 7th in Milan and attended by about 60 people from different regions of Italy.

We had created the following working teams: Core, Support, Polyglots, Community and Mobile.

Thanks to all the people involved in the organization, contributors, team leads & sponsors!

Let’s do it again and with frequency! 😉

November 23, 2015 — Appearance, Themes, Customizer, Menus, Header, Background.

November 22, 2015 — How to deploy and manage your own WordPress hosts using Ansible, from local virtual machines for development to single host instances to multi-host stacks that scale all using the same tools. Despite the varied and plentiful choices for WordPress hosting that are available, there is still something liberating about running your own servers. Providers like Digital Ocean, Linode, and Amazon Web Services have reduced or removed most of the barriers for those that want to take the leap, but Systems Administration remains an art of its own. Ansible allows us to build on the best practices of others as well as inventing our own to create reproducible environments for local development, private staging, and public instances. My session will introduce Ansible, touch on vagrant and cloud hosting, show how to deploy WordPress using Ansible, and demonstrate how we can re-use these tools across multiple environments.

November 22, 2015 — Even seemingly minor improvements could make major differences when educating their prospective patients, or attracting doctors, scientists, and investors. And lives can truly be affected as a result of a better website. I’ll talk about my experiences improving these companies’ websites, some common usability mistakes, and best practices and techniques you can use for other websites, no matter what the industry.

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November 22, 2015 — This talk encompasses the idea that each of us can be empowered to use and improve WordPress through beta testing of upcoming releases. The 4.4 release is set to hit Beta 1 just three days before WCPDX, which makes this talk a unique opportunity to educate WordCampers on the value of beta testing, and even to interactively participate in testing the next version of WordPress during the talk. I’ll cover my personal journey and lessons learned in dogfooding WordPress for a living, as well as ways anyone (yes, anyone) can get started testing with little to no barrier to entry.

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