August 21, 2015 — So you’ve started your first WordPress site, and you begin writing your first post. Eventually you get your content written, and then notice that it just doesn’t look good when it’s on the site. After trying to “jazz it up” yourself, you realize you’ve created a monster with no idea where you went wrong or how to fix it. This session focuses on the do’s and don’ts of using the WordPress editor, while providing tips to help improve your content creation process.

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August 21, 2015 — В этом докладе Дуглас рассказал о важности многоязычных сайтов, раскрыл некоторые интересные моменты связанные с локалью и SEO, и о том, как с помощью WordPress Multisite можно создать и управлять сетью многоязычных сайтов.

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August 21, 2015 — Jen’s talk focuses on the essentials of the Jetpack plugin for the casual blogger, beginning with installation of Jetpack, connecting to WordPress.com, and how to get help from Jetpack Happiness Engineers. An overview of the benefit of using Jetpack instead of multiple individual plugins will be discussed, and Jen spends some time talking about the most exciting and important modules within Jetpack for the publisher user, such as Publicize, WordPress.com stats, Sharing, Photon, and beautiful Tiled Galleries and Carousel

August 20, 2015 — Will It Sell? How To Determine if Your Product or Service is Market Viable

August 20, 2015 — So You Want to be an Entrepreneur

August 20, 2015 — This presentation converges marketing and design as it explains various goals of websites, a typical conversion path, what could cause error in that conversion path, and a few tools which can help collect data (which is ultimately how you show improvement.)

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August 20, 2015 — How come when you upload your photos, they don’t fit right and it doesn’t look like it’s supposed to look? This session is on basic photo editing for WordPress and what my process is for preparing the images before I upload them and why I do it this way.

How to prepare your photos for import – Photo editing options if you don’t want to buy PhotoShop – DPI, PX, Pica, PT, what the heck does all that mean? – How to edit or fix your photos once you’ve uploaded them – Plugins that help resize or optimize photos – I briefly touch on copyright and where to get good photos

August 20, 2015 — If there is always someone more qualified than you, more deserving of higher rates, and more of an expert; there is a good chance you have imposter syndrome. That’s okay, we all do.

We got together a seriously good line-up and the WordPress Melbourne meetup to talk about imposter syndrome, what it is and – more usefully – how to beat it.

This screencast features the voices of Peter Wilson (peterwilson.cc), Dee Teal (thewebprincess.com) and Gary Pendergast (pento.net).

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August 19, 2015 — This combination talk/public square discussion covers where plugins come from, how to gauge their reputation for effectiveness and security, and how to assess your WordPress needs to decide which ones should make the cut and be added to your site.

August 19, 2015 — WordCamp Scranton Town Hall Q&A