WordCamp Cape Town 2019

Practical recipes for your career cookbook: In this talk, Leo Gopal will be going through both effective techniques and a way of existing as a business and within a business. Allowing you to adopt the correct mindset and ingredients for a happier business, career, and customers. Lessons so simple you can start today.

A high level look at emergence and growth of eCommerce in South Africa and the tools that are driving it. We’ll first take a look at how eCommerce has evolved in South Africa and compare some of the most popular tools. We’ll then take a look at growth trends by diving into the numbers. Lastly, we’ll take a quick peek into the future by looking at what’s next for South Africa based on global trends.

In any business, being good at what you do isn’t enough to survive, let alone grow. When your service is misunderstood it can devalue your offering, lead to frustrated clients and generate a lack of trust within the industry as a whole. This isn’t good anyone…This session will cover tips on how best to translate the value of your services to clients, who often misunderstand our industry. Tune in for how to stay happy and solvent when running a digital business.

I’ve been working on a range of e-commerce stores in the last two years and I would like to share some of the things I’ve learnt in this time.

In this workshop we will look into writing automated browser tests for your WordPress site. In doing this, we will cover what automated browser tests are (as compare to standard unit tests). We will look at how selenium works and interacts with browser drivers. We will setup a WordPress testing environment and use this environment to write some selenium unit tests.

The best ways to optimise your WordPress website for search engine optimisation.

I will discuss how our company did our own website and used this platform. My experience being project and technical lead and learning as I went along and the resources I had at my disposal.

One of my project partners, Antoinette Muller may also do a short Q&A at the end of my talk.

Hopefully it will help others.

The story about how I discovered a totally new way to do business and how it influenced my belief system and mindset from then on. It all started in 2011 and the message behind it is even more relevant in today’s competitive online business world.

In comparison with other Social Media platforms, Pinterest is still for the most part untapped territory.
Pinterest uses a very different approach than other social media platforms.
Join this workshop/talk to learn how to integrate your WordPress website with Pinterest. Tips on how to optimize your profile and grow the traffic to your site. Create a Pinterest Marketing Funnel to capture leads and automate your Pinterest strategy.

In this workshop we’ll look at Nuxt.js is and go through a simple installation of an app using this amazing Vue.js framework. We’ll set up some pages and posts and learn the basics so you can get started on your own.

In addition to setting up a basic app, we’ll also learn how to connect it to a headless WordPress CMS and use the data stored there to populate the posts and pages.

We live in a unique and diverse country, containing people from a variety of backgrounds, yet our events still struggle to attract a diverse and inclusive set of speakers.

In this talk, Deb will be sharing some of the challenges our local community faces when it comes to diversity and inclusion at our conferences and meetups, what we can do about it, and a big project we’re launching to work towards solving this problem.

Leveraging automation tools such as Zapier, CRMs such as Hubspot, Capsule CRM etc, and support tools like Help Scout, here is how you can automate your business and provide excellent service

So you’ve released an open-source product – perhaps a WordPress plugin – and you’ve seen plenty of others with active communities built around them, but how do you achieve that for yourself? How do you build an organically growing community that loves your product? The secret lies in having a deep understanding of what open-source is and how that impacts your product, so let’s take a deep dive into the wide world of open-source and how you can leverage that to grow your product and build an active, vibrant community around it.

I used to do a lot of custom WordPress development in php, but recently a major shift has been required to allow for the custom development of Gutenberg Blocks. I’ll share how to build and test a plugin locally that creates custom Gutenberg Blocks using React and Node, compiling it down to upload to a site for use. Sections of the workshop would/could include: Setting up/using a local wordpress installation, installing node and using a boilerplate install to get started with developing blocks. Styling blocks in the editor and the front end. Adding attributes/editable fields. Using APIs to call data from wordpress such as posts/taxonomies etc.

Leading distributed teams can be complex, when looking from the outside. With the future of work being a distributed work culture, leading teams across the globe is now more relevant than ever before.

I’ll share a few principles, tips, and tools I’ve used while leading distributed teams since 2011, as well as starting points for applying a distributed leadership culture to your team and/or business.