November 14, 2019 — We’re in the middle of the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years. It has modernized, streamlined, and simplified content creation. PHP theme and plugin developers are finding themselves needing to transition quickly. Come learn just enough React to take advantage of new features like colour palettes, meta boxes, and reusable blocks.

August 11, 2019 — In 2018, WordPress will modernize, streamline, and simplify the content creation experience with Gutenberg. It represents the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years.
This session will teach just enough React for theme and plugin developers to start using Gutenberg today. Colour palettes, meta boxes, reusable blocks: all the new features, made easy.

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September 11, 2015 — Pourquoi sont les sites Web si dispendieux? Comment apprendre si j’en reçois pour mon argent? Que ce soit votre premier site Internet, ou un redesign, il est souvent difficile de savoir où commencer. Découvrez comment choisir un bon développeur, comment évaluer leur travail, et ce qui doit entrer dans le budget. Apprenez pourquoi l’option qui est le meilleur marché et parfois le plus cher, et ce qui arrive après que le site est terminée. Nous examinerons plusieurs différents budgets, et ce qui arrive avec chacun. Un guide pour les OSBL et les entrepreneurs.

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September 10, 2015 — Do you have a blog? Is it fun, interesting, great looking, or inviting? This is not a typical presentation. Instead, it is an informal, audience-participation activity where you are invited to share your blogging success story, in 5 minutes or less. Bilingual activity.

Avez-vous un blogue amusant, intéressant, jolie, ou accueillant? Ceci n’est pas une présentation typique, mais une session informelle où vous êtes invités de partager, en 5 minutes ou moins, vos réussites en blogage. Activité participative et bilingue.

May 26, 2015 — An introduction on how to configure your .htaccess file to do more than what WordPress provides by default. The talk will cover basics like setting up a preferred URL, and redirecting old page URLs for better SEO. How to optimize your site’s files using gzip will also be covered, as well as preventing image hot linking, and more. A sample .htaccess file will be provided to all attendees. A useful introduction to a very important file for any shared hosting environment.

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September 23, 2013 — Microformats, microdata, metadata: what are they, what do they do, and how can you use them to attract visitors and improve SEO on your WordPress site. After a brief introduction to structured data this talk discusses some easy actionable steps for the intermediate blogger, and some code examples for those hoping to integrate microformats or microdata into their WordPress themes and plugins.

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August 3, 2013 — This presentation covers all the steps you’ll need to follow to get your brand new theme internationalized and localized. If gettext, Poedit, POT files GlotPress, all seem like a foreign language to you, this presentation will change that.

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November 8, 2012 — Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/zoonini/beginnea-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-wordcamp-toronto-2012rs-word-press-wcto-2012

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