WordCamp Belfast 2016

Panel discussion on WordPress Security & Speed
With our speakers Paul Goodchild (WordPress security plugin author), Juan Felipe Rincón (Google Search Quality team) and Stephen Kinkaid (Big Wet Fish).

WooCommerce Workshop run by Luminus Olumide Alabi, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Luminus who works on support for WooCommerce full time, will give a run through on how to get started with WooCommerce, and allow you to convert your WordPress blog or site in to an e-commerce platform.

Panel discussion on WordPress Security & Speed
With our speakers Paul Goodchild (WordPress security plugin author), Juan Felipe Rincón (Google Search Quality team) and Stephen Kinkaid (Big Wet Fish).

This talk will show real-life examples of some of the possibilities that the new WordPress Rest API gives to web developers to supercharge their non-WordPress sites and apps.

The talk will highlight the following topics:

• Brief introduction into what the Rest API offers and why it is such a big deal.
• An example of using the Rest API for user management (including how to make it work cross domain).
• An example of using WordPress as a payment server on a non-wordpress site and restricting access to features based on roles.
• An example of using the Rest API in a hybrid app.
• Other awesome possibilities…

Beyond the functionality they are meant to serve, products that require interaction speak to users. Some have a friendly, reassuring voice, others send confusing messages or don’t speak at all.

This presentation focuses on the various types of messages that can be used inside the interface of a product to improve the user journey. From success and error messages to guiding tooltips or new feature announcements, we will talk about when to use and how to design the voice inside our products.

A lot of developers and WordPress experts tell people what to do with it and how awesome it is.

As a WordPress user and developer for nearly 12 years, I think it is important for business owners and small agencies to understand the common traps of using such a user friendly system.

So I am going to concentrate on highlighting areas that people need to be wary of in order to create great, effective and excellent value WordPress websites.

In 2018, Europe upgrades to a new data protection regime. It’s the biggest overhaul of the way we access, use, and store data since 1995.

The new rules will impact everyone who uses or accesses data within the EU as well as businesses serving EU customers – Brexit or not.

We’ll cover what you need to know about how it will affect your work on the web and in your business.

The basic idea of WordPress was to redefine online publishing with allowing anyone to easily publish their articles. More than 10 years later, we used WordPress as an open source publishing platform to build a website for one of the largest cities in Croatia.

I’ll tell you a story of how the city of Rijeka decided to go with open source software and how the people reacted to a fact that everything will be open sourced as well. One of the first large-scale “design in the open” projects in Croatia is defining standards for future web development. We’re discussing the web design process, sharing knowledge with the public and asking citizens to be a part of the redesign effort.

By delivering designs, HTML and CSS, WordPress theme and documents like Content Strategy and Accessibility Guidelines – we’re redefining how the public website should look like. And with the help of WordPress, we’re promoting the power of publishing and transparency.

Last but not least – I’ll tell you how the city of Rijeka helped us organise our first WordCamp Croatia in 2015 believing in the power of WordPress.

Privacy by Design: 7 things you can’t afford to ignore

Even in a post Brexit UK, the new law on data protection is going to change things for your website and digital platform, whether you are technical, UX or a business owner.

In this presentation I will explain the practical steps you must take so that you don’t fall foul of the new regime. I will also explain the likely impact of this European legislation on a post Brexit NI and on any website/app that targets EU consumers.

Panel discussion on WordPress Security & Speed
With our speakers Paul Goodchild (WordPress security plugin author), Juan Felipe Rincón (Google Search Quality team) and Stephen Kinkaid (Big Wet Fish).

Panel discussion, bringing together our fantastic speakers: Ahmed Khalifa, Juan Felipe Rincon, Marcin Kilarski

Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.

In this session, you will learn how you can optimise your websites for users and how to be compatible with Google search engine. You will be given tips on how to do well on search and explore tools that Google offers which you can use to manage your online presence on Google Search.

This session is suitable for website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about your website presence on Google organic search.

Content Marketing: How to Turn your WordPress Website into a Traffic Generation Tool

Panel discussion, bringing together our fantastic speakers: Ahmed Khalifa, Juan Felipe Rincon, Marcin Kilarski

SEO best practices that developers should keep in mind when they are building a website.

Learn, how as a web developer, you can build search engine friendly websites for yourself and your clients.
The session will take you through the various on-page ranking factors that you should pay attention to when building and launching a new site.

This presentation is for developers who want to get better results from their websites.

Ahmed will be providing a run through on the SEO plugin for WordPress – Yoast, the most popular SEO plugin for WordPress sites.

Panel discussion, bringing together our fantastic speakers: Ahmed Khalifa, Juan Felipe Rincon, Marcin Kilarski

How to find endless content ideas using just Google and your keywords?

There is one thing that many people have difficulty when it comes to writing; coming up with content ideas which people are looking for.
The other difficulty is that not everyone can afford to pay hundreds of pounds for different tools which can help you to come up with content ideas.

So what do you do? Well just use Google, search and that’s it. It’s that simple, except there are various tactics and hacks which are unknown to many people which can help to extract more keyword data from Google. And it is these data which can help you to find out what people are searching for and how they can inspire you to create content.

This topic will be a live demo of how you can find endless content ideas using just the Google search page. I will not be using PowerPoints, whiteboard, blackboard or flipchart. Just Google.

This talk will cover the technical challenges and development decisions I made when developing Instant WordPress (IWP) 5.0.

This version runs on OSX and on Windows, unlike previous versions that only ran on Windows. This version wraps an embedded Linux VM with an interface written in Smalltalk and F#.

The Linux VM runs a LAMP stack allowing your WordPress development environment to remain completely independent of your OS.

Building a single page app in React or Angular and need to let the client manage content? Or support multiple languages? With custom post types, meta boxes, and the REST API, WordPress can be the ideal CMS even for modern apps.

Knowing your words’ worth: Content creation for websites

This talk will focus on the importance of quality written content for websites and how to create it. The talk would highlight the following topics:

• How writing for the web differs from print content creation
• Writing SEO content – what it is and why it matters
• How to create quality, SEO content for websites: i.e. incorporating keywords and long-tail keywords/phrases; using action words; keeping sentences short and eliminating filler words
• Why the quality and usefulness of your content matters to Google (and site visitors)
• Why editing is key for good content creation
• Brief overview on writing business blogs (if there’s time)

A run through of dev ops for beginners covering some basics to get your started
1. Git & Version Control
2. Dependence Management
3. Automation
4. Deployments

This presentation will describe the role that some of the major internet companies like Google (Analytics), Facebook (Business pages) & Twitter are playing in today’s society and how they can benefit you as an individual or small business.

The session is ideally suited for those who want to calculate the ROI of Social media, understand what function the WordPress Website should play, its Goals & the Automation Process. It will also show you how your can build Brand awareness & picking the Social media platform is right for you.

Presentation Overview:

• Website & its Goals
• Your Brand
• What Social media platform is right for you?
• The Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest & Flickr)
• The Tools (Tracking & Benchmarking & Automation)
• Reviewing & Improve