🇬🇧 WordCamp Glasgow 2020

After WordCamp Glasgow wraps up, we have arranged a very special tour for our attendees, speakers and volunteers of one of Glasgow’s best kept secrets. It’s a five minute walk from the venue. Bring your sense of wonder, and maybe a jaunty tune.

One of the most common misconceptions about WordPress is that it does not scale well and is only for small sites. This assumption is untrue, but it exists because of wider misconceptions about the use of WordPress and its purpose. With good planning and consideration before and during a WordPress project’s lifecycle, we can ensure that the project scales well and has the flexibility to add new features without too much scope creep or performance impact. By avoiding waste, using coding standards, and adopting a serious software development mindset to WordPress projects it is easy to build WordPress sites that will scale effectively. This talk will introduce these concepts.

Every time, you load a website — even this one — a certain amount of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. These emissions are tied to the amount of energy consumed in the process of delivering the websites content to your browser.

Let’s explore options for both, reducing your own websites greenhouse gas emissions and helping others to do the same by making a third of the web smarter, leaner and more efficient.

Many WordCamp attendees are remote employees. Most will tell you how great remote working is and that it works incredibly well for a lot of businesses. But let’s be honest, it’s not for everyone. While several large companies have tried it and failed, in this talk, we’ll reveal what often gets forgotten: what a business needs to do to make it work. Further, how individuals can decide if remote work really is the future of working for them.

A talk about why WordPress websites might be running slower than we’d like them to, how to pinpoint what is slowing the site down, and things we can all do to speed our sites up.

Lighting, audio and storytelling are all essential when creating video-based content. However, captions are often forgotten, even though it can benefit more people than you think. You might assume that it’s just for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing people. But there are other benefits: learn a new language, access to different culture, improve SEO, watch in quiet environments, increase social media engagements. But even more people can benefit, like those who are autistic, have learning disability or have attention deficits.

From sharing my own personal experience as a deaf person, combined with my experience in digital marketing and content marketing, I combine the two to share stories on how you, as a content creator, can maximise the impact of your videos by making use of captions.

But it’s not just about writing “whatever is said”. It is an art. So let’s make captions, not just a necessity, but also beautiful…for everyone!

Learn how to improve your website’s organic traffic. Your website is online for people to find you – so make sure the search engines can crawl and index your website! Discover the plugins, themes, tricks and tips you need for SEO success. In this talk attendees will learn how to optimise their WordPress website for search engines. Leave with a checklist of how you can move your website from page 21 to page 1. All the tools I recommend in this talk are free.

As somebody who has been both a developer and marketing team leader in my career, I’ve been able to see when projects go wrong between developers and outside or internal marketing team. In this talk, I’ll share a few areas on where relationships break down, how to avoid problems before they arise, and also tips to get marketing teams on your side so you can both serve a happy client.

What does it mean a user-first application? It is an application that lands in four pillars: Fast, Secure, engaging and Integrated. At this Workshop, we will explain the reason why we should change our mindset to a user-first mindset to create a better experience for our users. And AMP helps on that, AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages is a framework with three important tools, AMP HTML, AMP JS and AMP Cache. AMP HTML has a set of components that accelerate our development process and AMP JS take care of our application performance and AMP Cache is the last ingredient to provide the best experience the feature that enhances the performance of content delivering. After understanding those core items we are going to convert our WordPress Application in a User-first application using AMP. At the end we will do an exercise with five core components: amp-img amp-youtube amp-sidebar amp-lightbox amp-socialshare Let’s code!.

I’ll start by trying to convince folks why they should be considering the subject of security testing in relation to their WordPress sites. Assuming I’ve managed to convince you why, then I’ll move onto showing you just how anyone can use Kali (don’t worry, I’ll explain what Kali is!) as a tool for doing some basic security testing with a minimal learning curve to get started. This is being aimed at the novice level in terms of ‘security people’ but very inclusive in terms of anyone who is part of the WordPress community.

Over time, products get tangled. There’s a race to add new features, fix the most bugs, enhance the user experience – until eventually, your product is a confusing and complicated mess, like a tangled ball of yarn. This complexity is a natural progression for any product, but it’s possible to improve the situation. Join Tammie to discuss methods to distil a product flow down to its most essential parts, using the WordPress user experience as an example.

Good for all experience levels, and for people who work with other people.

It’s a new decade and for many of us, new starts. For me this year is all about productivity and workflows. In this talk, I walk through my workflows and processes I have been optimising to keep me going as a developer, a sysadmin, and a tinkerer. From terminals, to running shoes, everything is hackable.

Let’s build a Gutenberg block! Tom will cover building a basic block in javascript, and in PHP. A great opportunity to refresh on the basics and lay a solid foundation. Suitable for intermediate developers

Page builders like Beaver Builder and Elementor are immensely popular because they let you create sophisticated layouts quickly and with minimal code knowledge. But are the web pages they produce accessible? I take both builders for a spin to see whether their templated content meets accessibility standards and what room there is for improvement.