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Let’s make WordPress cutting-edge again to ensure its future for years to come
Presented by Miriam Schwab
Miriam says that when she started with WordPress, it was a shiny, exciting product with endless functionality. But, as the years wore on, WordPress started to lose its lustre. The future of WordPress overall was in question. She believes we are now seeing the beginning of a WordPress renaissance. JavaScript, headless, and JAMstack are making …
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Nine ways to make WordPress better with AI
Presented by David Lockie
When we think about AI, it’s hard to tell hype from genuine utility. In reality, AI is a bundle of over 25 different technologies, ranging from the ‘everyday’ to the cutting edge. This talk uses the blade of WordPress to slice through the hype and focus on practical, achievable ways to start leveraging AI technologies …
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PHP: a glimpse into the future
Presented by Zeev Suraski
WordPress is the most successful application that was ever written in PHP. As such, the two have a symbiotic relationship, where the proliferation of one benefits the other and vice versa. In recent years, the introduction of PHP 7 helped make WordPress better and more competitive, allowing users to deploy high-performance sites with radically better …
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Everything is broken: an introduction to testing, logging, monitoring and metrics
Presented by Niels de Blaauw
Watch live on track two 'You cannot make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.' Things are inevitably going to break. And that's stressful. If your triaging process involves manually seeking through log files or you only find out something is broken after a customer calls you, then you’re probably not fixing problems efficiently. In …
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Sustainable freelancing!
Presented by Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld
Are you a developer, designer, writer, or site builder? Did you start freelancing to have true work-life balance and follow your passions? Do you find yourself working really hard and not making enough money? This talk is for you.
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Getting the best from code review
Presented by Sarah Pantry
When done right, code review is a great tool for levelling up developers and sharing knowledge, but when done wrong it can have a hugely negative effect, causing stress, demoralisation and burn out. In this talk, Sarah will explore some simple ways to ensure you get more from code review, how it can become a …
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How to give people what they want with your content
Presented by Ivana Cirkovic
People aren't interested in what you have to offer, your products or services; people want their own desires and thoughts responded to. Ivana will describe in detail what it is you need to do so that your content produces the exact thing people want.
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Beyond pretty-simple design principles to create richer user experiences
Presented by Eileen Violini
Great websites don't just happen. Exceptional user experiences are part of a rich study of psychological principles that are more than pretty pictures. By mastering a few design concepts we can create UI patterns that make it easier for users to navigate pages, consume information, make purchases and interact with our online brand. With the …
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Everything you ever wanted to know about WordPress transients
Presented by David Artiss
WordPress has a native database caching system called the Transients API. This simple wrapper can be used for caching database queries, remote data, or other expensive routines. In this technical talk you will discover how to best use the API and the pitfalls to avoid (content which is neither documented nor generally available, so this …
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WordPress performance trends 2020
Presented by Hristo Pandjarov
Hristo gave his first talk about WordPress speed optimisations back in 2013 in London. Since then, a lot has changed – people have started caring more and spending more time optimising their websites. In this talk, Hristo will go through the different parts of the WordPress loading process and share the latest must-use technologies in …
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A/B testing – the art of building better websites with science!
Presented by Ruth Raventós
After spending enough time working with WordPress, you end up developing a sixth sense of what works and what doesn't work. For example, experience allows us to distinguish good ideas from bad ones, or a professional web design from a poor quality one. However, if you want to build a profitable WordPress site, why rely …
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Secure your site by becoming a hacker!
Presented by Chris Teitzel
Keeping your site secure is difficult, and often times knowing where to start is the hardest step. With terms and acronyms like cross site scripting (XSS), cross site request forgery (CSRF) and others, it’s hard to know just what to do to keep your site secure. Sometimes the best way to know how to protect …
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Art direction with Gutenberg
Presented by Mel Choyce
The New York Times release of Snowfall in 2012 took the web industry by storm. Media-rich and captivating, its design evoked wonder, fear, and desperation in the face of an avalanche. Snowfall was one of the first great art-directed digital experiences in this era of the modern web. Art direction isn’t a new concept, though. …
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How we grew a diverse Nigerian WordPress community
Presented by Mary Job
Mary will be sharing her experience of building the WordPress community in Nigeria, detailing how the Lagos community went from 147 members to 2,300+ and grew from one event in two years to monthly events for the past three years. She will tell the story of how the community expanded from being in only two …
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The “dos and don’ts” of translating a website – a complete guide based on real cases
Presented by Amit Kvint
While working as a plurilingual developer for many years, Amit gained insights into what makes the difference between a successful multilingual website and a failed project. As WPML CCO, he has many thousands of hours of experience with real cases of multilingual websites and the challenges their owners, developers, and content writers face.
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Accessible CSS – honouring dark mode!
Presented by Kirsty Burgoine
CSS is incredibly powerful for styling, but did you know it can also dramatically affect how accessible and inclusive your website is as well? Many operating systems now have advanced settings to allow users to customise and personalise their digital experiences. By using newly introduced standards, we can also honour these visual preferences in our …
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Show your business who is Boss!
Presented by Jocelyn Mozak
As business owners, we have big goals and dreams. To build a team, to launch a new product, to craft a business that works for us vs us being a slave to it. Yet with all the noise of daily to-dos, the distraction of shiny objects, and the world telling us what we "should" be …
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10 steps to a faster site
Presented by Doug Cone
Watch live on track two Performance matters. Doug's talk will take a look at some tools and techniques that will boost your site's speed. There are three main places where speed can be impacted when delivering a site to an end user, and we can have differing levels of impact on each of those places. …
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eCommerce and storytelling: the shift away from catalogs and carts
Presented by Chris Lema
The early days of eCommerce were shaped by a paradigm of catalogs and carts. We grew up with eBay and Amazon shaping how we thought about eCommerce stores and the development of plugins for WordPress followed this trend. Recently we've seen a shift of new merchants going direct to consumers (DTC). This change is more …
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Benefits realisation through project management
Presented by Vili Mileva Yankova
About 90% of start-ups fail. What if better project and benefits management could lower that number? Vili's presentation will discuss how benefits realisation through good project management can increase success.
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Designing for conversion
Presented by Sonja Jaakkola
Watch live on track two While working as a digital sales consultant (as a designer and developer) for several years, Sonja has been able to work with a variety of companies and helped them to increase their sales online. In this talk she will quickly go through the basics of growth hacking from a designer's …
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Be a good boss: How to support your marginalised colleagues
Presented by Tara King
Have you always wanted to make your company a place that’s welcoming and supportive to every member of your team? Always wanted to know why the underrepresented engineers you hire keep leaving… or maybe never apply in the first place? Wondering what you’re missing when it comes to supporting your marginalised colleagues? Listen and learn, …
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How Subgrid enhances CSS Grid
Presented by Jessica Lyschik
CSS Grid has been around for over two years in major browsers. While it's amazing to work with, there's still room for improvement. Currently, only direct child elements of a container can be placed with CSS Grid. With Subgrid, you can bring the defined grid another level down. This enhances the feature of CSS Grid …
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AI in the ‘Hacking world war’
Presented by Nestor Angulo de Ugarte
This talk is intended to show how AI is used to crawl the Internet to find WordPress sites with vulnerabilities and recruit them for cyberterrorist botnets in the 'Hacking World War', which is currently running underground. AI is an invaluable resource to help the actors of this story, which also involves net spiders, the Dark …
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Making videos captions beautiful, accessible and engaging at the same time
Presented by Ahmed Khalifa
Lighting, audio and storytelling are all essential when creating video-based content on your website. However, captions are often forgotten, even though they benefit more people than you might think. You might assume that they're just for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing people, but there are many benefits that can apply to many different people.
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How to use PR tactics to build better links and supercharge your SEO strategy
Presented by James Brockbank
If you want your link building strategy to drive measurable growth as a vital tactic in your SEO strategy and help you outrank your competitors in 2020, you need to be earning links that give you a competitive advantage. James will share actionable insights into how marketers can leverage PR tactics to earn links which …
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Prototyping WordPress projects
Presented by Anyssa Ferreira
Prototyping is important for a number of reasons: it gives us the opportunity to not only visualise a product before we compromise too much time and effort, but also to identify potential flaws in user experience, accessibility, or even functionality. Let's understand how can we prototype websites and other products, considering the WordPress architecture. What …
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Headless WordPress: current status and remaining challenges
Presented by Luis Herranz
Headless CMS architecture is gaining a lot of traction in the CMS ecosystem. WordPress has the potential to become the best headless solution in the market but, although it's already a nice option, not all the challenges have been solved yet.
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Towards universal design through accessibility, usability and inclusion
Presented by Stefano Minoia
Every website should ideally be built so that whoever visits it, for whichever possible reason, is able to navigate through it: we can describe this idea as "universal design". Obviously, in practice, it's impossible to build the perfect website for everyone, but, if we want to take steps towards this ideal, three concepts can guide …
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