February 27, 2018 — We spent out April and July school holidays learning how to use WordPress to create beautiful websites with e-commerce functionality. We’d like to share our experience!

February 26, 2018 — My goal is to get the community to value their work so as to charge more for their services to the clients. This will make us have local success stories and create a vibrant industry for ourselves. I will share the strategies and ideas to make this happen.

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February 26, 2018 — Now that WordPress has an amazing REST API, there is a lot of buzz around “headless” or “decoupled” sites. However, these are mostly covered with “how-to” and not “what this is” articles. My presentation aims to provide a higher level insight into what it means to be using WordPress, JavaScript and the REST API, all in tangent. It will go into the pros and cons of using limbless, headless and brainless WordPress.

Learning Objectives:

– Understand the differences between Limbless, Headless, and Brainless WordPress configurations
– Structure their next non-traditional WordPress site with confidence using the proper solution for the task at hand
– Begin using WordPress as a development platform for cutting-edge web solutions

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February 26, 2018 — The topic will focus on
– Visual Assets & Appeal
– Excerpts
– Omitting ‘Happy talk’
– Making relevant content ‘More Prominent’
– Call To Action (CTA)s

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February 26, 2018 — Many non-profits don’t realize that they have a problem until a volunteer half-finishes a website and disappears. Whether you create WordPress sites for others or as a non-profit employee or volunteer, this session will help you use WordPress to engage donors and volunteers, represent the organization as a good steward of donors’ money, and protect its security and reputation. Non-profits also have unique project management and maintenance needs, and we will discuss these as well.

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February 21, 2018 — “Going from hacking all the things to engineering solutions because I have open access to the WP Community and the WordPress source code.

I’ll touch on my journey, Software Engineering within the WP context and how one can become better by being part of the WordPress community.”

February 21, 2018 — WordPress now powers over 28% of the web, and it’s built and maintained by hundreds of contributors all over the world. There are as many ways to contribute to WordPress as there are dishes in a feast! In this talk, we’ll look at some recipes for successful contributions followed by people who’ve made a big impact on WordPress. There’s room for you at this table — join us!

January 16, 2018 — Getting started with the basic installation of WordPress, a theme and creating a child theme

December 20, 2017 — Professional development with WordPress (and PHP for that matter) is an oxymoron for most classically trained developers.

WordPress is the second most dreaded technology according to the 2016 Stack Overflow survey, second only to Visual Basic. Why is this? What is so wrong with it, really? As it turned out – after fighting the “issue” for years myself – nothing really. It is just that the philosophy is so different. The list of things I’ve had to unlearn has been a very long one and the process a bit painful even.

November 28, 2017 — Septembre 26, 2017 — Siddharta Navarro y Luis Ortiz —co-propietarios de Atenea Tech, una empresa de desarrollo web especializada en Drupal y con sede en Barcelona—, nos hablan de las principales características de Drupal, las tecnologías que éste utiliza y sus beneficios con respecto a WordPress.