September 2, 2015 — Contact forms are an important tool for website visitors to connect with you. Learn contact form best practices including the elements of a contact form, how to test a contact form, confirmation messages, how to incorporate a contact form into website design, and how to track contact form submissions. Get introduced to popular contact form plugins.

Takeaways

Gathering Data improves your site and business (and that isn’t a bad thing)
How contact form design and placement contributes to conversion
Contact forms have many uses including bug reports, newsletter signups, and lead generation

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August 13, 2015 — Konstantin spricht in seiner kurzen Session über die Herausforderung für Plugins, Dokumenten-Titel ordentlich darzustellen und welcher Lösungsweg jetzt beschritten wird.

May 28, 2015 — Présentation de quelques unes des meilleures pratiques pour respecter la vie privée des utilisateurs et utilisatrices d’un site WordPress.

Par défaut, le développement d’un site WordPress peut facilement nous entraîner sur une voie qui sacrifie l’anonymat des visiteurs et visiteuses. Les boutons Facebook et Twitter, l’intégration avec Google Analytics, etc., sont-ils incontournables ? Peux-tu monter un site qui est à la fois excellent sur le plan de la communication, mais qui ne soumet pas automatiquement ses utilisateurs et utilisatrices à la surveillance des grandes entreprises et des agences de renseignements, qui veulent suivre nos moindres mouvements sur la toile?

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March 5, 2015 — In dieser Session werden typische Fragen, die im Zusammenhang mit einem Meetup auftauchen besprochen und/oder diskutiert. Lasst uns voneinander lernen, gemeinsam ein best-practice erstellen und es damit zukünftigen Meetups einfacher machen!

January 23, 2015 — When first getting started with customizing the design and layout of a WordPress site there is a lot you need to know. This presentation covers all the important components of WordPress themes and describes how they work and what you need to know. In addition, examples are given of theme customization requests and the numerous options for fulfilling those requests with best practices being considered.

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January 3, 2015 — This presentation will show you how to do the following things without the help of a plugin:

Connect Google Analytics, Install Mailing, List Forms, Implement Google Fonts, Add PayPal Buttons, Display Social Media Profile Icons

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December 13, 2014 — This presentation goes over some of the core content from my book, Responsive Design with WordPress, which teaches you how to leverage WordPress to get the most out of responsive design, implement best practices, automate important processes, and make your life easier overall.

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November 8, 2014 — Introduction on how to create, set up, and use WordPress child themes
Outline
– What is a WordPress child theme?
– Why use a WordPress child Theme?
– WordPress Theme Files
– Best Practices and Demo: Creating a twentyfourteen child theme
– Resources
– Codex
– Development Tools & Compilers
– Tutorials & Docs
– Books
– Videos
– Online Classes