Check out the folks who attended WordCamp Toronto 2016:
You can mark yourself as going to this camp in your account settings!
James Koole
Domain Names and DNS Demystified
You probably (hopefully?) have a domain name for your blog or website, but do you know how the domain name system (DNS) actually works to connect the two?
Learn the basics of DNS records including name servers, DNS records like a-records, CNAMEs, MX records and more. By the end of this session, you’ll have enough DNS knowledge to understand how visitors to your domain end up seeing your website. You’ll also learn why having your own domain name matters, and how the sometimes confusing domain registration system works from registries, to registrars, to you – the registrant!
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Andrea Trew
Why Design Matters
I’ll give a brief overview of my background as a designer: working for ad agencies to in-house at Flywheel. I’ll explain what I do there, walk through why design is important for tech startups (and any company in general). I’ll dive into the brand evolution of Flywheel, and how it’s positively impacted our growth and outreach.
Better understand the inner workings of advertising vs. in-house design.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Chrissie Pollock
Henri-R Brisard
The Hateful Weight
I plan to cover the most common and lowest hanging fruit of performance bottle necks in web: images. They are for the most part usually not optimized, make up the majority of page weight and in some cases are uninformed format selection.
* Make informed decisions on which image formats to use
* Assess page weight and it’s impact on the user experience
* Utilize the many options available for optimizations
* Promote responsible performance culture for future projects
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know the optimization concepts.
Melanie Martin
The Power of The Inbox
What is the first impression you give when they see you in their email inbox? And when they see you there, what do they do? This powerful seminar takes the audience step-by-step through the keys to effective email marketing.
Participants will be guided through a session that describes what email marketing really is (and isn’t), what it can do for your business and the five easy steps you must take to harness the power of the inbox (grow a healthy list, create great content, customize a beautiful, mobile-friendly template that matches your brand, get your emails opened and track your results).
From revealing why regular email doesn’t work, to insider tips and techniques like automated list building tools and the design elements that work (and those that don’t!), this seminar will give the audience the keys to the most effective marketing they can do: email marketing.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Daniel Kanchev
Beginner’s Guide to Single Page Applications with WordPress + AngularJS
The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of what are Single Page Applications, why they are becoming so popular and how the WordPress REST API could be used together with AngularJS to create SPAs. The talk contains three main sections:
1. Single Page Applications – overview, history, architecture considerations, why using SPAs
2. AngularJS – what is AngularJS and why people like it so much
3. WordPress REST API + AngularJS – capabilities, short overview and demo of a simple SPA based on WP + AngularJS
– Understand what is a single page application and what are the advantages of using SPAs
– Feel comfortable talking about and working with AngularJS and how it can be used together with WordPress and the WP REST API
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers & designers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to have a basic understanding of JS and the DOM & basic understanding of how the Internet works 🙂
eCommerce 101 for WordPress
WordPress is not only a great platform for building websites and blogs, you can also use WordPress to sell your products and services. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of two major eCommerce WordPress plugins – WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, set up a payment-ready online store using WooCommerce, and look at some best practices and key metrics that are critical for new stores.
– Think of a few ideas for products that can be sold online.
– Set up an online store using WooCommerce.
– Use analytics to focus on key metrics for new stores.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Seth Alling
Fixing a Hacked Site
Your phone rings. A client informs you that a WordPress site YOU developed and maintain for them has been hacked. Where do you begin? What do you do? How will you prevent it from happening again?
WordPress may be secure, but the people who use it aren’t. In the past year I can think of 4 specific instances where I’ve had to un-hack a website. This is intended towards developers who have had or could ever have a site they need to clean up.The goal is to help them keep a cool head when something comes up.
• Find the cause of a hack
• Establish a plan to remove the hack
• Remove hacks from a site or server
• Increase security on their website to prevent future hacks
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner, intermediate & advanced developers..
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to have a basic understanding of how WordPress works.
David Mackey
SEO It’s Not Just Ranking Anymore
You’ve created a WordPress website, but now what? How do you attract traffic from the big search engines to your site? Is there an easy way to make your website a success? Maybe you’ve already heard that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the answer. It is. SEO is no longer just about keywords. We’ll cover what’s new in Google Search, How to do Keyword Research today, In depth explanation of Yoast plugin & How to make the plugin work on your website and cover some All In One SEO Pack Plugin.
1) Know how SEO is now an overall web strategy for their WordPress Content
2) Understand how SEO mindset has changed and how to incorporate the new mindset into their WordPress design & content Strategy
3) How to utilize the features of the Yoast SEO plugin and the All In One SEO Pack plugin
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Tom Auger
Crafting Brilliant WordPress User Experiences
Building an online presence with WordPress is easy if you have good content, an effective design, and some basic WordPress chops. But building a great online presence means ensuring that everyone that interacts with your site has a satisfying user experience that meets their expectations and needs. But what makes WordPress User Experience different from other UX practices? What are some best practice techniques for defining UX for your audience? And WHO is this audience, anyway? There are probably more user groups that will interact with your site than you expect, all of whom are important to the success of your online marketing efforts.
Whether you’re using WordPress for your own business or building sites for your clients, this 40-minute session with Interaction Designer Tom Auger will walk you through the process of defining and prioritizing User Groups, modeling user interactions using empathy-based techniques, and building out website requirements from a user-centric perspective. You will discover the challenges and opportunities in WordPress User Experience, and will be reminded about how accessibility, internationalization and responsive design all have a profound impact on crafting brilliant WordPress user experiences.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session, but the ones that will benefit the most are designers & developers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Jesse Emmanuel Rosario
Contextual Personas for Content Design
What do companies such as Slack and Porter Airlines have in common? Not only do they have well-designed interfaces that get your users’ job done, but also content that is clear, intentional, and serves a unique purpose. In an age where great design is won or lost at the user experience (UX) level, how can we ensure that we deliver websites or apps that are not just pretty but also purposeful in both design and content?
In this session, we will be using a UX research technique called “Contextual Personas” to kickstart your content design process. We will be mashing up the time-honoured techniques of persona creation – such as user interviews, contextual inquiry, etc. – with strategic foresight methods to identify some user types and content strategies for your target audience. By identifying users across their most critical and uncertain needs, we will be able to pinpoint what exactly do they want out of our product or service and how we can achieve their goals through our copy, through our design, and throughout their user journey.
Don’t let “lorem ipsum” hold you back! Let contextual personas deliver the insight you need to build digital products that users love.
– Make informed content decisions out of actual user research
– Apply the equation: “Great Design + Useful Content = Amazing User Experience”
– Get acquainted with strategic foresight basics to tease out contexts and scenarios of use
– Apply Clayton Christensen’s and Donna Lichaw’s “Jobs to be Done” and “Storymapping” frameworks to support your user’s journey
– Build content matrices, editorial calendars, and content models to operationalize your content decisions after user research
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate users & designers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Brian Rotsztein
How to Succeed as an Independent Blogger
Recently, the definition of what it is to be a successful blogger has evolved. Bloggers have become multi-platform influencers with success becoming much more broadly defined, no longer being limited to financial objectives. Getting people to pay attention, having regular website traffic, being influential on social media networks, and acquiring self-branding skills have become just as important as the creation of valuable content. In this session, attendees will learn about the latest definitive aspects of what it means to be a successful blogger. They will get advice on how to become successful, discover tips for finding success-generating topics to write about, learn how to maintain a work-life balance lifestyle as an independent blogger, gain insight into becoming an influencer, and find out about emerging trends in generating revenue from their blog.
* Re-think the way success is defined
* Get tips on how to be successful
* Discover blog monetization opportunities
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are bloggers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Florian Gottschall
Creating Videos for my WordPress Blog
I will show the main rules to create good videos even with your smartphone. I will show how to create videos out of these recordings and I will show how to publish them in a way that a lot of people will watch your content. I will do hands-on examples. Everybody with a smartphone will be able to practice already during the speech.
Everybody will learn how to create good videos with devices at their hands.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Rick Radko
WordPress page builders: a new tool to build awesome pages quickly
Page builder plugins add drag and drop interfaces to WordPress that let you build custom page layouts without needing to code. Easily add fully responsive rows, columns, tabs, accordions, countdown timers, call-outs, buttons, pricing tables, images, galleries, sliders, background videos and more to your WordPress pages and posts. Anyone can build awesome pages with page builders.
This session will introduce you to a few page builders, and we’ll look at some examples of what you can create with them. See how easy it is to create complex page layouts on your WordPress site with page builders!
– Add page builders to their WordPress site to easily create complex page layouts
– Understand some of the issues with using page builders
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Mendel Kurland
Fearlessly creating, and why it’s important
This session is intended for anyone who has ever questioned whether to give in to the pressures of creating common sites, plugins, or features against their better judgement. Attendees will learn how innovation pushes our common craft forward, and how to convince clients and self to accept innovation.
Confidently defend creative choices for clients. Understand that we’re all in this together. Understand the importance of moving the creative craft of building WordPress websites forward by encouraging innovation.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Ian Edington
Docker for Production
Session Description:
DevOps for WordPress using Docker: From Development to Deployment.
This is the second talk about Docker, and builds on @Thiago‘s talk on Docker in Development.
In this session you will learn how to run a production ready WordPress instance on a docker cluster.
What will be covered?
When and why to use docker in production, and when not to!
About Docker, how it works, ideology behind it, ect.
An example of a deployment workflow.
How to deploy WordPress in a docker container.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are people who deal with deployment: developers, dev-ops, system administrators & system architects.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know a basic linux server administration.
Build a Better Editing Experience with Advanced Custom Fields
A quick but thorough dive into building page templates and custom features using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Learn how to create easily editable custom content areas and add additional options to the WordPress admin dashboard. Say goodbye to page builder plugins and say hello to Advanced Custom Fields.
Use the ACF plugin to create a better editing experience. Learn how to rapidly deploy dynamic content and page templates via ACF.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are advanced users, intermediate designers, beginner & intermediate developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know basic html, css and php (WordPress templates).
Vova Feldman
Next-Generation Data-Driven Plugin Development
WordPress.org is an amazing repository and one of the key components made WordPress a huge success. Having a plugin or theme on WordPress.org is awesome, but something you don’t get much of is data. All you get is the number of downloads and estimated count of active installs, but who, what, where, how and why? Not so much. This makes most of the development decisions based on gut and guesswork. What sounds easy to the plugin developer, can be extremely hard and not user-friendly to end-users.
In this discussion, I will share a few simple methods of how we collected usage data and feedback from our plugin users (RatingWidget), that helped us improve our plugin’s UX and significantly reduce abandon rate.
– Understand the importance of First Time User Experience when developing a plugin/theme.
– Add deactivation feedback form to collect the reasons why users abandon their plugin.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are the ones that have at least one WordPress plugin in the repository or are planning to release one.
Knowledge of basic PHP is helpful, but not required. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Thiago Loureiro
Using Docker to Create WordPress Development Environments
How to create a dev environment using docker, the pros and the cons between docker and other approaches like VVV or creating and local web/database server. Some everyday scenarios will be discussed on how a developer can benefit from using Docker in these scenarios.
Participants will have a better understanding of docker better (a lot of good programmers still have no idea of what docker is). They might incorporate docker in their everyday to increase productivity. Quickly create a dev environment that can be easily cloned across teams. If they decide not to use docker at least they will understand better their current tools and have a more critical view at creating dev environments.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to have basic skills at: Command line, building tools, operating systems, web and database servers.
Andy McIlwain
Content Creator’s Toolbox
Writers, photographers, painters, sculptors. Attorneys, accountants, dentists, doctors. Drivers, divers, mechanics, sailors.
What do they have in common? Tools!
Every occupation works with tools, and if you’re publishing to the web with WordPress, the same holds true for you. In this session we’ll explore a whole bunch of free tools and WordPress plugins that’ll help you level up your content creation efforts.
This session is suitable for anyone that regularly hits the “Publish” button, be it for a personal blog, online store, or anything in between.
The attendees will learn how to:
* Use free online tools to produce content assets (e.g. images, video, audio) for their WordPress site.
* Use free online tools to monitor, improve, and promote content (e.g. analytics, copy editing, data collection, automated social sharing).
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner users of WordPress.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to have a basic understanding of using WordPress (editing and publishing posts or pages).
Laurie M. Rauch
Clean Code
Yes, your code works, but is it the best it could be? This talk will guide you through tips and tricks to make your code efficient, safe, and easy to read. It’s a great primer for new developers, and a good reminder for those of us who have developed bad habits over time.
– Understand the WordPress Coding Standard
– Write Short, Reusable Functions
– Begin using Unit Testing to ensure code functions as expected
– Begin using UI testing to ensure pages behave as expected
– Discuss benefits of code review
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to have a basic knowledge of PHP and the WordPress file structure.
Mikel King
Unlocking the Awesome Magical Power of MU-Plugins
I plan on demonstrating a key concept we use on rd.com of building a foundation around an MU Plugin and extending these in different directions as needed. I intend to demonstrate how we use advance object oriented coding practices to reuse code blocks under the DRY method. I will even do a live demonstration and build a new plugin based on the mu plugin, up through git, and all the layers of code quality enforcement using phpcs and phpunit finally push new plugin via Jenkins deployment/build system to a working environment. This is a complete plugin development using advance PHP OOP inheritance next level techniques. Note; I will have a backup video in case the live demo proves problematic.
* Advance OOP PHP next level tecniques
* How to create a library of MU Plugins
* How to use the library to build a regular plugin (or theme)
* How to build like a pro with Jenkins, PHPcs & PHPUnit
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner, intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know the Plugin API, basic PHP OOP concepts.
Anthony D Paul
Organizing Your First Website Usability Test
You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your co-worker and your boss if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback. In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first unmoderated usability test. I’ll cover why and when you should be running usability tests; how to set research goals and draft a script for them; setting up your lab environment and capturing feedback; and best practices for facilitation, minimizing bias, keeping users on task and gleaning the most from each brief test.
Attendees will walk away with enough information to discuss the value of usability testing with decision-makers, as well as a tactical foundation for organizing and running their own usability study.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate developers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Lauren Jeffcoat
The Power of a Video Library
I. An Intro to Video Libraries
In this session, I will be discussing the impact that a video library can have on your website. A video library is a collection of videos, typically organized into categories and groups, that members can view directly on your website.There is a place for video in almost any website, from marketing to content to customer service.
II. How to best utilize videos to engage your customers
I will cover the importance of a Video Library for Search Engine Optimization and how it helps keep visitors on your site for a longer amount of time. I will discuss how you can use video content marketing to better connect with your audience and communicate with customers. I will also present a number of strategic approaches to including videos on various types of websites.
III. Options for sharing and creating video libraries
I will include the different video sharing options that are available, how to create and host a video library, and how to utilize video for marketing, training, and communication.
IV. The best audiences for video content
Lastly, I would like to present the type of audiences that video is good for and statistically who is viewing videos on the web. This will include how to promote and organize your video library for your intended audiences.
*Create and share a Video Library on their website(s)
*Implement strategies to engage customers using videos
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are designers, content creators & marketing experts.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
WP JSON API – A Deep Code Dive Into How To Extend It
In this talk, I will show you how to use the WP JSON API to add your own end-point for a custom post type or add/change data being returned.
I will walk you through example code that extends the API and show you how simple it can be and how few lines it takes once you get your head around it.
* expose a custom post type in the API
* view the output of the API
* send date to the API
* save data sent to the API
* return custom data to an API call
The session is aimed at intermediate and advanced developers who wish to add API support to their themes and plugins.
You should be comfortable reading code and know what a custom post type is if you want to understand this session.
Tamara MacDuff
SEO It’s Not Just Ranking Anymore
You’ve created a WordPress website, but now what? How do you attract traffic from the big search engines to your site? Is there an easy way to make your website a success? Maybe you’ve already heard that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the answer. It is. SEO is no longer just about keywords. We’ll cover what’s new in Google Search, How to do Keyword Research today, In depth explanation of Yoast plugin & How to make the plugin work on your website and cover some All In One SEO Pack Plugin.
1) Know how SEO is now an overall web strategy for their WordPress Content
2) Understand how SEO mindset has changed and how to incorporate the new mindset into their WordPress design & content Strategy
3) How to utilize the features of the Yoast SEO plugin and the All In One SEO Pack plugin
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Dustin Meza
WordPress Upgrade Anxiety No More: 5 Steps to Having a No Surprise Upgrade
WordPress upgrades, they bring us new features, faster sites, and better security. But pushing that upgrade button can be a scary moment, unless you’ve ensured your site is ready and compatible. I’ll show you the best practices for ensuring your site is ready including a simple strategy that works whether you manage one site or hundreds.
• Understand the important of keeping WordPress upgraded.
• Create a 5 step test plan to ensure their site is ready to upgrade.
• Test their sites on beta and Release Candidates to provide feedback to the community.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & advanced users & developers of WordPress.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know that WordPress has upgrades and how to install a plugin.
Christina Varro
Tools for Managing Multiple WordPress Sites
WordPress is an incredible platform that continues to innovate and grow, but with that comes almost constant updates. WP core, plugins and themes can require frequent updates and there are a variety of ways to track and manage these updates. We will look at strategy, tools and work flow to manage multiple WordPress sites and keep everything up to date. Note that this is not relating to WordPress multi-site installations, but multiple independent installations.
The talk will look at:
– Why you should update WordPress
– How regular maintenance is essential for a stable, healthy website
– How a management system/software can help
– Review of the 7 most popular WordPress management dashboards
– Factors to consider in your choice of management system
Choose and setup a WordPress Management system for multiple wordpress installs
This talk would be useful for anyone managing multiple WordPress sites, for clients or personal projects, with at least a basic understanding of the WordPress backend.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to understand how to install a plugin.
Cory Miller
How to Manage the Highs and Lows in Business
In 8+ years of entrepreneurship (in WordPress), I’ve had numerous ups and downs, from a divorce, cash problems, employee breakups and other failures and mistakes. I’ll be sharing those experiences and tips for how I manage the highs and lows in business and life.
I blog regularly about entrepreneurship at my site — http://corymiller.com
You can see some of my previous WordCamp talks here:
http://wordpress.tv/speakers/cory-miller/
Have more resources to better manage the hard and low times in business.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are business owners.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Billy Gregory
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Accessibility
Billy Gregory asked that question to over 20 recognizable voices in the accessibility field. Their answers to this question, combined with Billy’s own experiences, make the perfect launching point for anyone new to the space. This informative, and engaging, three-part talk will include examples from Billy’s experiences in the Digital Accessibility space through all stages of his career, highlighting both his successes and his failures. Audience participation will be encouraged to give attendees an opportunity to share their own experiences or concerns about entering the digital accessibility space. Knowing first hand how difficult accessibility can be for someone who is new, Billy aims to nurture their passion and boost their confidence by sharing some important lessons he wished he knew when he was starting out.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are developers & designers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Rebecca Gill
Cesar Abeid
Podcasting and WordPress: Getting Started, Launching, and Promoting Your Show
In this session we will cover the nuts and bolts of running a podcast from a WordPress site, as well as ideas for a successful launch, promotion, and growing an audience for your show.
– Use the necessary tools, plugins, services, and equipment to get started podcasting from their WordPress site.
– Launch a successful podcast
– Promote their new show so they can start growing a loyal audience
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner & intermediate users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Taras Mankovski
Building Ambitious User Experiences with Ember.js
I will wish show how Ember.js toolset can be used with WordPress REST-API to build ambitious user experiences without compromise. This talk is for any WordPress developer who’s interested in exploring the benefits of using a SPA as a frontend for WordPress sites.
– setup a WordPress site that exposes JSONAPI compliant REST API
– configure Pods to provide relationships and custom fields
– create an Ember.js app that queries the WordPress REST API
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner, intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know how to install a WP plugin and how to execute commands in the terminal.
A Contact Form is Boring – 5 Creative Ways to Use Forms in WordPress
No matter what the purpose of the site you’ve built, it’s likely you’ve included a standard contact form as one of the first (or last) items on your pre-launch task list.
Name, email, reason for contact, submit: BORING!
In this session Adam will look at some creative ways to use forms in WordPress with the goal being to better engage and convert website visitors. Whether convincing potential clients to make first contact, grow an email subscription list, or streamline the guest blogging submission process, website contact form(s) are a key part of the communication process.
Adam will share several different contact form approaches and what plugins and/or services work best for each.
* Use forms in WordPress for more than just contacts
* Better engage visitors using conditional logic
* Turn form submissions into blog posts automatically
This talk will be aimed mostly at new users to show them what’s possible with forms in WordPress, but could also apply to non-developers familiar with using WordPress daily for content creation.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Jacques Surveyer
JavaScripting Now in WordPress
Despite the big move to JavaScript in WordPress Futures, it is remarkably hard to use JavaScript in WordPress right now. This talk is for those who would like to include more JavaScript snippets and routines in their WordPress posts and pages. Bonus: Many of the techniques and plugins used also enable extended CSS usage.
1)Know the NoNos in using JavaScript in the Page/Post editors
2)Be able to incorporate JavaScript-driven apps using Iframes
3)Select best plugins for using more JavaScript now in WordPress
4)Using JSON to get at special delivery data
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know basic JavaScript.
Michelle Arbore
Blogging & Social Media
Do you want to reach a bigger audience? Then you need to be blogging and sharing on social media. During this presentation, I will talk about why you should write a blog for your business, what to do first, and how to draw traffic through social media. I will also share some of my favorite plugins and tools.
• Establish blog goals
• Identify their blog’s purpose
• Have ideas on what to blog about
• Use different methods to draw traffic to their blog
• Promote their blog on social media
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are bloggers & small busuiness owners.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Move all the things to WordPress!
As WordPress becomes more and more popular more people and companies who are using something else will want to migrate their websites into WordPress. We will cover how to go about migrating data from various open source and proprietary web based applications into WordPress. It’s all about that database, no trouble when migrating from well architected db schemas. Sometimes you may have to import content from provided CSV, XML, JSON or HTML files/feeds/pages, ok no problemo. In some extreme cases you may not have access to any of the data and might have to page scrape an entire website into WordPress, sure why not. There can be many technical challenges with migrating data into WordPress but nothing we can’t solve with some planning and some code. I will showcase some of the large scale WordPress migrations we have worked on at WebDevStudios for some companies like Microsoft, DrugFree.org, Newark NJ Public Schools, Campbell’s Soup and HEB.
Migrate data and content from other systems into WordPress.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know WordPress, Database & PHP Concepts.
“Hidden” Features of WordPress
There are WordPress Features You May Not Know.
If you are like many, there always seem to be things you wish you could do with WordPress, but maybe can’t figure out. This session will provide you with some great tips and tricks for you to make working with WordPress even easier.
From changing the number of posts on the dashboard page, to adding a target to link to on the menu dashboard, there are many things that are easy to accomplish — if only you know where to look. Not only are there screen options on almost every dashboard page, but there are help pulldowns, too, helping to answer questions before you might even need to turn to help in a forum.
We will also cover shortcuts for use in the editor window, and a quick and easy way to save your favorite plugins to find at a click to upload to your site.
Participants will have a better understanding of some of the features of WordPress, like screen options and the editing window.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner users of WordPress.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
Alan Lok
Repeatable WordPress installs
Does you WordPress site need repeatable installs for dev, QA and production? How about upgrades or security patches? Manage your army of WordPress VPS with Ansible and save your sanity!
* Learn the basics of Ansible and how it integrates with WordPress
* How to structure your deployments
* Make Ansible handle your housekeeping tasks
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are intermediate & advanced developers.
The technical knowledge required to understand this session is to know how to run WordPress on a VPS or dedicated machine, or have access to a command line.
John Eckman
Stop Gathering Requirements: Start Designing Successful Projects
I’ll cover what’s wrong with the traditional approach to requirements definition and how a more proactive, collaborative, prototype and visualization driven approach generates better results.
Achieve better project outcomes with less frustration; Defend the value of requirements definition phases and time spent in planning; Get paid for thinking not just doing time; Align project plans with real client goals.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are the business owners & project managers.
Experience working with projects that included requirements / scope – which is to say, experience working with projects. 😉
Designers != Pixel Pushers
Designing for interactive media is much more than pushing pixels into place. To truly design a great user experience (UX), designers have to think about all aspects of the product–everything from the colors and design to the wording/written tone, to the structure and layout of information, and even how long the page takes to load after pushing that button. Because of technology’s ever growing complexity, the designer’s job has grown beyond just a single focus. While this can seem overwhelming at first, I believe it is the most exciting time to be a designer! I’ll share some of my tips for holistic designing, but also looking at strategy and a little development. So whatever your level or focus, you might learn a thing or three.
Participants will learn and be inspired by the complexity of design in the interactive media age.
All attendees are welcome to come to this session but the ones that will likely benefit the most are beginner, advanced & intermediate designers.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
David Vogelpohl
Advanced Online Marketing for WordPress
Learn techniques you can use to build WordPress sites fine tuned for conversions and optimized for online marketing. We’ll cover everything from CRO to advanced Analytics to help give you the tools you can use to build more valuable sites for your clients. You’ll also learn bonus techniques that will help you increase your billings and help you secure a long term and mutually beneficial relationships with your clients. Don’t miss Advanced Online Marketing for WordPress!
* Deploy advanced Google Analytics solutions
* Launch and measure a statistically significant A/B test using blended conversion metrics.
* Launch and measure an “un-Conversion Rate Optimization” campaign. “How to make money from visitors who do nothing”
* Scale A/B testing using custom post types
* Deploy effective list capture strategies
* Launch and measure an effective on-site ad strategy using WordPress
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & all skill levels will get *something* out of the presentation.
Basic knowledge of Google Analytics, basic principles of A/B testing, basic knowledge of the function of custom post types, moderate development experience (especially tracking scripts) are the prerequisites required to attend this session.
Giving Back to WordPress.org – No Code Required!
Contributing to WordPress is one of the best ways to get involved with the larger community of makers, paves the way forward for everyone who uses WordPress, and helps you grow your understanding and expertise. With over 10 distinct Make.WordPress.Org teams and Meetups in many towns, you’re guaranteed to find a special place to contribute. Best of all, code isn’t required! Those attending any Contributor Day should consider attending this Talk to better familiarize themselves.
*Join the Make.WordPress.org community that matches their skillsets
*Contribute to the WordPress.org project in a larger way
*Help grow the WordPress community!
All attendees are welcome to come to this session & everybody will benefit from it.
No prerequisites required to attend this session. Just bring your laptop, your smile & willingness to learn!
These are the people that make this event happen. They work tirelessly for weeks and months to plan, coordinate, and execute the best event possible. If you get a chance to thank them, please do!
Dejan Markovic (+ add me)
Brent Kobayashi (+ add me)
Tom Auger (+ add me)
Tina Todorovic (+ add me)
Caroline LeBel (+ add me)
Najat Mansur (+ add me)
Mitchell Callahan (+ add me)
Ting Yang (+ add me)
Details TBD.
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