June 2, 2015 — The strength of WordPress is in its licensing under the GPL (GNU General Public Licence). What does the GPL really mean? How does it affect you, your creativity, and your work? How does it protect your freedom?
Get a method for talking about licensing with your “technophobic” clients, friends and family.

June 2, 2015 — From a part-time hobby to a full-blown agency, Brad has built WebDevStudios into one of the largest agencies in the world focusing 100% on WordPress development and design. In this presentation Brad talks through the history of the company, discuss challenges faced along the way, and shares tips on how he grew a hobby to a distributed company with 35 full-time employees.

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June 2, 2015 — Between WordPress development, content production, editing, publishing and keeping your plugins and themes in order you’ve already got enough on your plate. This presentation focuses on how to optimize your WordPress site for search without adding another full time task to your schedule. We take a beginner-friendly look at how to optimize your site, your content and manage the off page factors that all impact where you show up in the search ratings. We also look at the fundamentals of how search engines rank content to lend a better understanding of how these optimization processes work. In the interests of keeping costs down we’ll take a quick tour through free tools you can use as you optimize your sites. The session also touches on some of the dangers of getting carried away with your SEO, touching on Google penalties and how best to avoid them.

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June 2, 2015 — Charities and associations, especially smaller organisations without technical staff, often struggle to plan and manage a website. This presentation addresses some of the questions they might ask: how to find and work with a WordPress developer; what to put in the project brief; how can WordPress be used to create campaign and directory websites; and how to test, launch and promote a non-profit website. The talk is illustrated with examples from real life websites, with opportunity for you to ask questions and share your own experiences.

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June 2, 2015 — “Great White Buffalo — A term for “the one that got away”. Used without explanation in the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine”.”
By the end of my presentation I hope to have provided you (and your team) enough knowledge, tools and inspiration to start hunting for your Great White Buffalo.
If you’ve already found your Great White Buffalo, here’s an overview of some of the technical things I’ll cover:
How we use WordPress and BuddyPress for our social network
Project management solutions like Slack, Trello and GitHub
Social Media Strategy
Crowdfunding (IndieGogo) and accepting donations on your WordPress site

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June 2, 2015 — Mike Sales and Ann Thanaraj discuss the use of WordPress as a platform to run Virtual Clinics in academic and business settings. Our implementation takes advantage of the inbuilt multi-site capabilities of WordPress for the creation of individual clinics, along with third party plugins including MultiNetwork to manage individual institutions and BuddyPress to provide the tools uses by individual clinics.

June 1, 2015 — Taking stock of the world of WordPress themes as going into mid-year 2015. Topics to cover include: next-generation themes, looking at Twenty Sixteen and beyond; lessons learned from 5 years of default themes; business of selling themes in 2015; theme support and maintenance; accessibility; mobile and responsive; JavaScript and REST API in themes.

June 1, 2015 — Guerrilla usability testing is an inexpensive and speedy way to put users at the centre of your design process. It can help to keep clients focused on strategic goals, over personal their colour preferences. Lily shows you how to design and run a guerrilla usability testing session to get valuable feedback from people on the street.

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June 1, 2015 — All too often when we think of colour we think of trends and palettes. But, colour should and does go deeper than that. It influences even how people interact with what we create. By simply changing the colour of a button you can change it’s meaning. With a bit of theory you can easily create combinations to enhance or activate moods. Colour theory is at it’s core about colour mixing. Beyond this there are human differences, cultural implications of colour. Colour is complex. Knowing even the basics of colour theory and psychology means you have a powerful tool in your kit.

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June 1, 2015 — Adrian presents the internal design workflow that used at Moove to ensure that they can work in so called ‘rapid development mode’ here. He explains how this internal design workflow is important for the team of WordPress developers. He also explains how this design process can make developer’s life easier in the html / css coding stage, shorten timelines and result in better development work.