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14:31
WordPress Community Interview Series with Josepha Haden
I am very grateful to have been able to interview Josepha Haden this past Friday. This actually happened quickly and we were able to schedule a chat in just two days.
Joespha is an Automattician who is able to contribute to several area of the WordPress Community. She blogs at Stars And The Moon where she writes about a variety of subjects including food and Pepper.
She comes from a long line of writers and was challenged at a young age to be a life long learner.
At WordCamp US 2015, Josepha gave a presentation titled Communities and The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense which was based on a book written by her grandmother, Susan Haden Elgin. There are some very interesting concepts about communication skills and patterns which make a difference on how other people perceive you.
As with the other interviews I have recorded, I learned something new while talking with Josepha. Besides that, she is one of those people who always has a smile on her face and a kind word. -
38:58
Claire Brotherton: The How and Why of Small Business Blogging
My session would be on the why and how of blogging and how it can be used to develop your business. What are the advantages, how can you develop a regular blogging habit and what plugins you can use to make life easier. Also how I kick-started my blogging with a blogging challenge. -
41:07
Petya Raykovska: We Need To Talk About The REST API
There is a hype surrounding the WordPress REST API these days. People focus on how it will change the future of WordPress, allow developers to expand the range of projects they can build, make WordPress popular outside its own bubble. What we rarely talk about are the challenges presented by the REST API. This talk focuses on the challenges. It’s a short guide to the WordPress REST API from a non-developer perspective – what is it, how it will change WordPress development, combined with some thoughts on the impact it will have on projects created with WordPress and the people creating them.
We Need to Talk about the REST API: the non-developer guide to the future of WordPress by Petya Raykovska.
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31:14
Maciej Pilarski: How to Make your WordPress Website Multilingual
In my presentation, I will share tips on how to easily and quickly create a traditional multilingual website or eCommerce store. I will compare the most popular multilingual plugins and also show how this can be done without using any plugins. Part of the talk will include the benefits to your business of going global and how this can be done in minutes.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MaciejPilarski/how-to-make-your-wordpress-website-multilingual-wordcamp-london-2016 -
31:41
Corinne Welsh: My First Child Theme
How do you get started with themes in WordPress? Do you need to know a whole load of (read “any”) php? It can be kind of intimidating and scary. Last year, I built my first child theme in WordPress. I survived and the website is still standing. You can do it too. Come and hear how. The talk will start with a case study: why, why then, and why not sooner. We will look at the structure of a theme and walk through the steps of building a child theme. You may leave inspired to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty in theming. -
37:08
Adrian Restantia and Ilona Filipi: Building An Innovative WordPress Agency – Mooves’ 5 Year Journey
In 2015, Moove Agency turned five years old. Our journey has taken us from humble beginnings of two freelancers with an idea, to something much bigger: 12 full-time team members across 3 hubs, in 3 countries. In this presentation, founders Adrian and Ilona will walk you through their journey and share with you the key lessons they’ve learnt from founding to building and sustaining an agency that specialises in bespoke WordPress websites. -
38:41
Tammie Lister: Design Patterns
Everything we make has a design pattern underneath. It can be broken down, distilled to patterns. When you think in patterns the design process starts to make sense. From pattern libraries to components and atomic design – I’ll show you in this talk, that whatever you label it, the concept is powerful. A fragmented approach to design goes perfectly with new development potential and gives you a robust workflow for the future.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/player/76260d1a15cb4fe5af2cc102987a1d8f# -
36:18
Rhys Wynne: Top Tools for WordPress SEO to Use as Well as Yoast Stuff
WordPress SEO by Yoast is – quite rightly – the best plugin to use for managing your site on site optimisation. However there are plenty of other SEO plugins and tools out there that manage different aspects of your site, from fixing dead links to finding out where people link to you. This talk – updated for 2016 – looks at some new plugins and some interesting developments in the world of SEO.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/rhyswynne/wordcamp-london-top-tools-for-wordpress-seo-to-use-as-well-as-yoasts-stuff -
36:59
Kat Reeve: Successfully Managing A Multisite System (or how we helped over 400 food banks online)
For a food bank charity we put together a complex plan for a WordPress multisite containing:
at least 3 different but connected themes
a shared media system
a process for pushing content from subsite to the “main” site without db headache
a live clone system
all of these and more helped us keep the charity and their over 400 locations all have a web presence. This talk will cover the ups and downs of this complex behemoth and the lessons we learnt from it. -
35:57
Panel Discussion: WordPress Core Q&A
Chair: Mike Little
Panelists:
John Blackbourn
Pascal Birchler
Konstantin Obenland
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36:35
Dmitry Mayorov: 7 Tips On Getting Your Theme Approved The First Time
Dmitry understands that sometimes it is hard to follow the requirements. Many themes submitted to the WordPress.org repository every day, and many of the themes run into similar mistakes.
In this talk, Dmitry will be looking at some of the common mistakes and aims to help people get their theme into the repository. The talk will cover what that reviewers look for in the newly submitted themes.
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/iamdmitrymayorov/7-tips-on-getting-your-theme-approved-the-first-time -
34:23
John Blackbourn, Rachel McCollin and Taco Verdonschot: Lightning Sessions
Open source outside the realm of software
John Blackbourn
I’ll talk about how the philosophies behind open source software apply to many other areas of life too, particularly sports, health, and other areas of technology, and I’ll give some examples of it in action.
Your local meetup is only a few steps away
Taco Verdonschot
If you’ve been in the WordPress community for a while, you’ve probably heard someone say that you should really organise your own local meetup, if there isn’t one yet. Right. That’s easier said than done, isn’t it? Where to start? What do you need for a local meetup? Are people going to show up? We’ll cover the basics for getting started with your own local meetup!
Teaching WordPress to Kids: What it taught me
Rachel McCollin
I run a Code Club for 10 – 11 year olds at my son’s school and as well as teaching them Scratch, HTML and other technologies, I’ve been using WordPress to teach them how to create their own websites. In this talk I’ll share my experiences and look at what it taught me about learning WordPress and how easy (or not) it is to learn site admin with WordPress.
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