WordCamp Turku 2018

University of Turku chose WordPress to make all kind of sites that are not inside the main public site; research projects, marketing campaigns, conference and other events etc.

Main purpose to unify the look and feel of sites, but still have strong personalized touch of the projects etc. on the site.

For starters, there’s going to be 200+ sites that are centrally controlled, but the number grow steadily.

Marketing has the slogan: Right Message, Right Person, Right Time, Right Channel. But how can we do this at scale across a number of different channels?

This presentation focuses on three main topics:

1. Design principles and frameworks for developing dynamic and personalized content
2. Data principles and frameworks for identifying and segmenting our audiences.
3. Utilization of WordPress and other low cost tools to execute these strategies

What are the inevitable challenges of developer-muggle-developer communication and what (the h*ll) to do about it? This speech covers different situations where developers and business people most often don’t see eye to eye. Let’s take a look at why is that and what can be done to prevent, avoid or face the problem. This speech will not make you happier and probably not even wiser – but it will make you better prepared.

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Read more about panel discussion here.

Send your question in advance for us with this form.

Read more about panel discussion here.

Send your question in advance for us with this form.

So you’ve just got over GDPR and here comes another directive! In this talk I will give a summary of the new EU and national legislation regarding the accessibility of public service websites. By some estimates up to 30 000 websites in Finland will need to comply with international accessibility standards by 2020. I will present an overview of who the legislation applies to, what is required for compliance and how some new features in the Gutenberg editor can help you or your client create accessible content.

Introduction in Finnish with live examples on how to do automated penetration testing on a site that is running on WordPress with Kali Linux.

What are the right questions to ask and what can you discover through Google Analytics? How to setup your website analytics. What to measure? How to interpret and make decisions based on the data. Structured approach to data driven decisions. From goals setup, measurement plan, implementation to tips-and-tricks and optimization.

Usually, websites do contain information that is updated once a week, month or even less often. Still, we burden the servers and lengthen the page load time with asking these pieces of information separately from a database on every page load – completely unnecessarily.

In this talk, I will tell how to cache rarely updated data to reduce the number of database queries and improve page load time by using built-in functionality in WordPress. Whether you are an experienced developer or not, you will find advice to develop your working!