April 15, 2017 — WordPress’s content management system is only one piece of a very large puzzle. Acronyms abound as a site prepares for launch—from DNS to SSL to CDN, you’re up against a series of technical tasks that need to go well to go live.

Once you get to launch, there’s a whole litany of concepts a site owner ought to understand: optimizing and maintaining SEO, keeping the site secure, monitoring performance, tracking analytics, and keeping everything up to date. Plus, what do you do when performance slows down, or your site gets hacked, or users aren’t converting like you expect?

In this session, I’ll give an introduction to everything from domain hosting to site launching to cleaning a hacked site—sharing proven tools I’ve used to help hundreds of clients. You’ll get a better idea of what you can manage on your own and better understand the things you can’t (or don’t want to).

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November 16, 2016 — Ogni secondo in più di caricamento del tuo sito WordPress sono soldi che stai buttando nel camino, vediamo in questo talk come fermare questa voragine velocizzando il proprio sito anche su server economici, vedremo prima come analizzare il proprio sito e poi come intervenire per risolvere definitivamente o quasi il problema.

October 28, 2016 — A panel of experts cover the latest in keeping WordPress sites secure.

September 26, 2016 — Live preview, via the customizer, is the best way to make site management easy for your clients and in your products. Anything can be live previewed out of the box, and with a little work, the live preview experience can become instant and compelling. WordPress core comes with several advanced Customizer controls that developers can use with only a few lines of code. There’s a color control, a media control with support for anything from images and audio to PDFs, and most importantly, the ability to create your own custom controls based off of these.

We’ll see how easy it is to leverage these specialized controls in themes and plugins, and show how you can extend them to build advanced custom controls without starting from scratch. I’ll also explain postMessage and Selective Refresh, and show you how to use them to make site management fun for your clients.

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August 17, 2016 — Did you attend PreCamp? Did you leave with a wealth of information but feel like you need a little bit more? You’re in luck! This session will build upon the foundation that was established during PreCamp.

Even if you didn’t make it to PreCamp this year but you consider yourself in the early stages of your WordPress learning curve, this session is perfect for you too.

In particular, we’ll dig deeper into the following:

A Divi Demo – A popular WordPress page builder theme
Selecting specialized plugins based on your specific site requirements. For Example: E-Commerce, Directory Management, and Image/Event Heavy
Healthy website checklist for ongoing growth and success of your site.

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July 3, 2016 — How to integrate Composer – PHP package manager – into process of developing WordPress websites: where to start, what tools could be used, what changes in workflow should be made. People would get practical advice on how to start with configuration examples and common problems solution. That’s the real-world case that my team and I use on everyday basis.

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June 21, 2016 — Anota senha, perde senha, acessa painel, atualiza os plugins. É fazer isso em um site pode ser fácil, mas e quando você administra mais de 50 sites? Essa palestra vai mostrar como gerenciar uma grande quantidade de sites de um jeito fácil e prático.

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June 17, 2016 — This talk will cover two main sections:

1.- What is Agile? I will go through the 12 principles of the Agile manifesto, explaining what is Agile and how important it is on websites development projects

2.- Why WordPress is a good fit? I will explain how WordPress as a mature platform is a perfect fit to:

– Satisfy the customer,
– Involve changes even late on development,
– Deliver working software frequently,
– Team content collaboration,
– Release features frequently, allowing progress through the project,
– And because of the platform itself, how easy is to integrate any kind of projects from a simple blog through a complex e-commerce solution.

June 17, 2016 — You’ve designed it, you’ve built it, you’ve launched your new website – job done, right?

Nope – your adventure has only begun!

In this session we’ll review what “website security” really means, why it matters, and how exactly to implement basic security best practices such as:

– Controlling user access to your site,

– Using (and managing) strong passwords,

– Applying updates to Core and Plugins,

– Installing and configuring security plugins,

– & How to back up your site easily, effectively, and automatically!

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June 17, 2016 — En esta ponencia se analizarán las principales novedades legislativas tras la anulación de Safe Harbour, en relación con el alojamiento de datos personales en servidores ubicados en EEUU.