March 21, 2014 — 10 ans déjà que la première version de WordPress est sortie. Hériter du projet b2, il s’est enrichi au fur à et mesure des années de milliers de lignes de code pour donner naissance à toutes les super fonctionnalités que nous connaissons aujourd’hui.
Cette présentation portera sur le code source originel de 2003, toutes ses évolutions majeures depuis et sur comment WordPress en est venu à équiper près de 20% du web tout en continuant d’intégrer de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Tout ça pour en faire le meilleur outil de gestion de contenu qui existe.

March 21, 2014 — Aurélien Denis is interviewing Sara Rosso, speaker at WordCamp Paris 2014, where she presented her talk “WordPress Agencies – Facing Challenges for the Next 10 Years”.

March 21, 2014 — Learn what enterprises want from their WordPress partners from what we’ve learned on the WordPress.com VIP team, and some tips to help small, medium, and large agencies ready for the next 10 years of WordPress projects and challenges.

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March 20, 2014 — Site owners are looking for accessible WordPress themes. There is a spectacular lack of accessible WordPress themes. Accessibility practitioners around the world, including Rocio Alvarado of Montreal, are creating free accessible WordPress themes. The presentation covers accessibility in general and as it applies to WordPress in particular including accessible plugins and widgets, and also content creation.

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March 20, 2014 — We all know that web sites and applications with a great user experience produce better results, keep customers happy, and are a joy to interact with. But are you applying what you know about user experience to your own business? Every time you answer the phone, send an email, invoice a client, attend a meeting, or propose a contract, you’re defining the user experience of your business. Make those decisions with intent and purpose, not by default.

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March 19, 2014 — Cut through the noise and the false sense of security. This presentation is a no nonsense approach to reducing risk with WordPress.

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March 19, 2014 — WordPress isn’t just about slapping some cool plugins on your site; you have to know your audience, understand how THEY interact, and be willing to listen to them. Of course, there are some awesome plugins to help you handle the masses, and I’ll talk about those too, but let’s get down and dirty and look at the evidence, trace the paths, and find out who’s killing your site. It may be you.

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March 19, 2014 — How many times have you purchased a theme based on the “live demonstration” or “live preview”, only to be let down once you find out that the theme was built in a totally crazy way? How many times have you had to edit every page of your website due to installing a new theme and finding out that the old theme used short codes and this new theme has no short codes at all?
This presentation shows you that your theme can do all of the cool tricks that any other theme can do.

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March 18, 2014 — This session is for anyone who charges for their services. This session discusses how to properly create a budget for a WordPress project and sell it to your client. The discussion includes what factors should be considered when bidding and how to ensure that you make a profit. It also discusses project based pricing vs. hourly pricing and when it is appropriate to use either method. Other topics include scope increases, project maintenance and most importantly, what to do when you don’t win a bid.

March 18, 2014 — If you want to make money blogging, there are many things you should do and many things you shouldn’t waste time doing when it comes to blogging. Certainly this will cut at the hearts of bloggers who love to do many of the things I say are a waste and hate doing other things that will make you money. The core question is if you want to make money blogging or not. If you do, then you’ll love this session which will make you rethink how you’re spending your time blogging.