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Andy McIlwain
10 Steps to Build a Better Business Site For Less Than $100
You don’t need to be a developer to build a great website in WordPress.
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In this session we’ll be walking through the process of building a business website, from initial planning to site launch, for less than $100. Attendees will walk away with an actionable list of to-do items that they can follow to build a business site for themselves or for their clients.
The ideal audience for this session includes:
– Novice WordPress users looking to expand their marketable skills.
– Marketers looking to improve their technical skill set.
– Developers aiming to make their work more client-focused.
Attendees should already have a fundamental understanding of how WordPress works (pages, posts, plugins, themes, etc.)
Chris Van Patten
WordPress For Web Apps – Using your favourite CMS to build the next big startup
You’ve got an awesome idea for a startup, but you’re just a WordPress developer—you don’t have the skills or resources to build a fancy web app. Or do you?
In this talk, you’ll learn how you can use the world’s most popular CMS to build a killer web app without investing time and resources into learning new frameworks or hiring other developers. You’ll see how easy it is to get started with real-life examples of WordPress-based web apps, learn how to adapt your ideas to work within the WordPress architecture to save development time, and get a step-by-step walkthrough of the app-building process. By the time you leave the talk, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build the next big app—guaranteed!
Alan Lok
Speed up your WordPress site
Speeding up a WordPress site (or any content site) is economical, boost rankings, and most of all, improve the user experience. The presentation discusses the different general strategies to make your site more speedy or suck less if you are inheriting a mess. There will be some demonstration of how to make a site run faster by using different engines, installation of plugins and changes in general.
Developers of all abilities will benefit from the tips, and intermediate/advanced developers will find some of the examples/case studies useful.
Brian Hoke
Sharing the Love: Leveraging the WordPress REST API to Syndicate Content
We know and love WordPress as a great content management system. Wouldn’t it be great if we could leverage the power, ease, and simplicity of WordPress-as-CMS across a wide range of web platforms? We might display pages and posts in a node.js or Ruby on Rails web application, say, decoupling the front and back ends of WordPress to connect the CMS to a foreign site or application.
Future versions of WordPress will include a RESTful API to allow easy syndication of WordPress content across multiple platforms with a consistent. We will look at the plugin (WP REST API) slated to become part of core WordPress, review how the API came to be and where it’s going, and check out a bunch of cool things one might do with the API.
Jordan Quintal
WordPress Accessibility – the fundamentals of Web Accessibility
The focus of my presentation will be on WordPress and website accessibility; from a front-end perspective. First, I will explain what web accessibility is and why it is important. To continue, I will discuss AODA and Section 508 regulations for Canada and the United States. Then, I will go over some key WCAG 2.0 compliancy requirements a developer will need to ensure the websites they develop are fully accessible. From there, I will showcase a few web accessibility tools, then some WordPress accessibility plugins; followed by a quick demonstration on how to evaluate a website’s accessibility.
Paul Bearne
How To Set a Vagrant Development System
If you need to have a development environment that matches a typical production environment.
See how the default server configuration provisioned by VVV matches a common configuration for working with high traffic WordPress sites.
See WordPress configurations provided by VVV create an environment ideal for developing themes and plugins as well as for contributing to WordPress core.
See how to run PHPCS (static code analyst) and PHPunit in vagrant.
Adam Wills
A Modern WordPress Developer’s Toolkit
The talk would be targeted to intermediate to advanced WordPress developers and would be about using some of the common and popular development tools in a WordPress specific settings. We’ll look at a number of issues that come up during WordPress development (such as sharing code between multiple developers, developer ramp up, repetitive tasks and deployment) and some modern tools to help developers worry more about development and less about the headaches that can come with it.
Janet Barclay
How to Write Blog Posts that Get Results
Do you feel like no one’s reading your blog but your mom and your best friend? Are you wondering whether blogging is really worth it? Learn powerful strategies to help you attract readers, encourage social sharing, and ultimately generate more business. Suitable for both new and experienced bloggers.
Geoff Campbell
Plugins for the People: A beginners look at extending WordPress With Plugins
This session will help beginner level users understand how they can leverage the power of Plugins to extend the functionality of WordPress.
We will look at how to find and evaluate plugins and some of the amazing things they can do.
Andy Staple
Typography and WordPress
On a website, the culmination of the design and content tell a story. Noticing this may often be subconscious by both the person designing, and the person interacting with the website. We want to bring the most powerful and versatile element of the design-side of this process out and think about it intentionally. With any good story, a fitting narrator can make a very big difference. Does your type and styling speak and look the part you’re asking it to? I’ll show some studies and tests performed that show how much typography may matter to people who don’t even consciously notice.
We will discuss ways to improve your sites readability, typographic style, and show how some of this can be made easier with WordPress through plugins or simple edits to your style.
Ruth Maude
The Art of Pinterest for WordPress
This session is for anyone who is curious about Pinterest and those already using it.
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Ruth Maude is an experienced web designer, developer, consultant, speaker and trainer. For the past 13 years her company Dandelion Web Design has been helping clients succeed on the web. She is the cofounder of LearnWP providing WordPress, SEO and Social Media training.
Nick Adams
Getting Started with Child Themes
The session would be directed towards beginner DIY WordPress users. I would cover what Child Themes are, why they should be used and how to create them. I would also cover the difference between Themes, Starter Themes and Frameworks. At the end of the session, the audience will know how to create a child theme from an existing theme and use the child theme to customize the site.
Nick Kenyeres
High Voltage: Building Static Sites with WordPress-Managed Content
WordPress evolved from a simple blog platform into a full-fledged content management system. It is now evolving beyond that into an application development framework. It is a new era for WordPress. One that partly made possible by the WP-API plugin. The plugin bolts a REST API on top of the WordPress platform, allowing for integration of WordPress with other systems.
WP-API can be leveraged in many ways. For example, there is a lot of excitement around using WordPress as a backend for single page web apps and mobile apps. But the possibilities don’t end there. In this talk, we will explore the use of WP-API to integrate WordPress-managed content with static site generators.
Static site generators and flat-file CMSs have been growing in popularity over the past few years, due largely to developer productivity, reliability, security, performance and ease-of-deployment. They are a compelling alternative but compromises must be made to realize the benefits. It doesn’t have to be an either-or decision. We will explore strategies for using WordPress as a collaborative writing room – similar to proprietary alternatives like Prismic.io and Contentful. And we will explore strategies for building static sites using that content.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Intermediate to advanced WordPress developers
Shanta Nathwani
WordPress 101
This talk will introduce WordPress to people who are new to WordPress or have never touched the platform. People want to know what their getting into! What kind of commitment does this mean? What things can it do for me on social media? A quick look at the dashboard and take questions that people have. Why would people use WordPress?
Organizers for this event are unavailable or have not been announced.
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