October 2, 2015 — Are you a freelancer who is at capacity with clients but aren’t earning the income you would like to be? Are you a freelancer looking to expand your reach beyond the one on one client work? If you answered ‘Yes’ to either or both of those questions then this is a must see talk for you!
Helena will help you plan your first online course by helping you with following tasks:
Do you have a list? If not start building one now so you can survey your list to find out what they may want.
Can your current skills, the ones you use in your freelance business with one-on-one clients, translate into an online course?
– Skills assessment.
– Target market – who are you be able to teach your skills to?
– Creating your course – delivered live or pre-recorded?
– Minimum viable product and iterate as you go or at each release.
– Fitting course creation amongst current work.
– Cut back on one-on-one work to make time to deliver the course.
– Specific launches or Evergreen course.

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October 2, 2015 — Content is the biggest bottleneck in any web design project. From ideation to development through review and signoff, there are several bumps on the road to building a content focused website. Don’t settle for Lorem Ipsum while waiting for signoff on content. Adopting a content-first approach helps tackle these issues iteratively and through collaboration.

In this talk we cover:

– A content-first approach to building wordpress websites
– Why you should never use Lorem Ipsum
– Importance of content-informed design
– A collaborative approach to content development
– How content informs UX and accessibility
– Make the best use of WordPress as a CMS

October 2, 2015 — This session is guaranteed to win the most boring session award. But if you hang out for 60 minutes, there’s a good chance you’ll pick up some new tricks to help you design creatively awesome WordPress sites. No razzle-dazzle web design show-and-tell here, this is all about foundational paperwork. (Bleh!) Hang on. You will actually learn the 10 questions you should ask in a kickoff meeting and why the answers aren’t as important as the conversation, why you need to do at least six site maps for every project and who the most important person in the room is (I’m guessing it isn’t who you think it is). So bring your RedBull and get ready to trade in your creative doormat for a shiny new web design superhero cape b/c after this session, you’re going to be super awes!

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October 2, 2015 — Being a WordPress developer means that our main programming language is PHP. Which works for building websites but not for running tasks. In this talk I will share my experience using Node.js as a platform to build on. Explaining why I have chosen for Node.js and show you how I used Node.js to build microservices that are supporting my WordPress projects.

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October 2, 2015 — – How to identify the most lucrative prospects
– How to pitch large projects (value proposition, differentiation, overcoming objections
– How to execute (IA, Project Management, Resources, post-launch support).

October 2, 2015 — Finding the right balance between making money and contributing to any Open Source project is hard. By sharing some of his insights, success stories and failures Jimmy hopes to help future entrepreneurs building their own Open Source-based firms.

October 2, 2015 — Tips and tricks on how to easily improve the ranking of your WordPress website in Google.
* What is important in 2015 for a top Google ranking
* Know your customer or target group
* What NOT to forget
* What to avoid – “Here be Dragons!”
* Tools to help check your website

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October 2, 2015 — This talk is aimed at users to get the most out of their WordPress publishing experience.
Kristen’s talk will include some of the overlooked parts of WordPress admin such as:

– The Help menu.
– Screen Options.
– Drag & drop media.
– Inserting multiple images at once.
– Use the Edit Selection section of media dialogue.
– Page Ordering.
– Bulk Edit.
– Emoji.
– And many more!

October 2, 2015 — The WordPress REST API is a simple but powerful way to interact with WordPress. There is also a 2.0 Beta available on Github which is being actively maintained and updated as the project works it’s way into WordPress core. Ryan started this project as a WordPress Google Summer of Code project and it has been growing in leaps and bounds since that project started.
This project will affect everyone who works with WordPress! The WordPress REST API will change the way use WordPress as it’s not only able to expose WordPress content, meta, users and media in JSON. You can easily extend the API to expose content and settings from custom post types you’ve created and plugins that you have developed. Not only can you view the data but you can perform any CRUD activities provided you’re authenticated via the API’s endpoints.
This means that you can use mobile, desktop and web applications that you create in any programming language or framework and update your WordPress data without having to login to WordPress. This will really make it a lot easier to use “WordPress as an application framework”. Ryan’s talk will cover the project goals and will make you excited about the future of WordPress!

October 1, 2015 — In this session Steven will cover how you can integrate WordPress with external APIs. This will be done with the help of a creatively written story and with the help of actors who will play the part of the various stages of the API calls from retrieving the token from a server to the transaction and even the nasty old chargeback. Steven will be using the PayPal and Braintree API’s as his example API’s.

Steven’s talk will be entertainment from the very beginning, engaging young and old alike and suitable for all ages. Actors in a talk, who’d have thunk it!? Quite often developers use API’s via SDKs and don’t understand the interactions that are happening so Steven thought this would be a light hearted way to make the journey entertaining!

Steven’s talk will cover some of the following topics:

– The benefits of using the WordPress HTTP API.
– How to use the WordPress HTTP API.
– Token based authentication with an API.
– Debugging and testing APIs.