October 18, 2019 — Page loading speed is critical these days for user experience, particularly on mobile phones, and therefore for SEO. Research shows that a 1-second difference in loading time can have a huge impact on site conversions.

Luckily, there are some awesome plugins that make speeding up your site light work. Using them, you can get 95% of the possible performance boost using only FREE plugins.

https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/how-to-make-your-site-load-5-times-faster-in-10-minutes-for-free/

December 2, 2018 — Gal, an online marketing consultant for small businesses from Brisbane, will talk about how a lot of people think that WordPress is so easy to use that anyone can do it, and while true, only up to a point. Most people can get a site going, but it won’t be nearly as good as a site created professionally, with a solid technical foundation (caching, backups, etc), a smooth user experience, tight security, search engine optimisation and more.

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