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Heather Burns: Getting your privacy notices ready for GDPR

I will walk you through the steps you will need to take to bring your privacy notices kicking and screaming into the 21st century in time for May’s enforcement deadline. We’ll cover what the regulation...

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Andi Wilkinson: So You Have a Website. Now What?

Around 45% of what is classed as UK Business have little to no web presence and even for a large percentage of those who do, they are navigating through a minefield of online tools and platforms, with...

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Sean Blakeley: When to Use the API

Key takeaways: The API liberates data outside of WordPress and projects like Gutenberg – breaking content into modular content blocks – will change the way WordPress considers data relationships. The...

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Thorsten Frommen: An Introduction to Unit Testing (for WordPress)

Thorsten first provides a high-level overview of unit testing in general, and classifies it in terms of test level, and testing methods and techniques. He then explores and explains different possible...

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Lightning Session Steve Folland, Francesco Canovi, Carme Mias

Own your journey in the tech skill rollercoaster: This talk is a prompt to get you to own your space in the tech world, embrace change and learn to love the journey. Managing remote small teams...

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Daine Mawer: Developing WordPress for Limited Bandwidth

This talk, using a data-centric approach, will show business owners and developers how to work and develop with clients whose websites need to be accessible and optimized for the developing world.

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Nemanja Aleksic: Build relationships, not websites

You’ve completed a client’s website, They are happy, and you got paid. This should not be an end, but a beginning of a beautiful friendship. So let’s talk about setting up a business with happy clients...

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Alain Schlesser: Uncommon (Ab)Uses of Composer

We will look at the basic mechanisms that make Composer as flexible as it is. Then, we’ll go through some of the more useful and/or exotic examples of how to use Composer for solving problems that it...

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David Lockie: WordPress and Blockchain: the threats & opportunities

In this session, I will be discussing the possible applications of the blockchain, such as e-commerce payment gateways, identity management, and content monetisation. As blockchain is inherently open...

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Zac Gordon: Gutenberg Development with React

In this workshop we introduce React basics and how React works inside of WordPress and Gutenberg. Then we walk through how to build several blocks using React, including advanced blocks with server...

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Thomas Vitale: Security Is a Process, Not a Plugin

In 2000, the internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier wrote: “Security is a process, not a product”. In the same essay, he wondered: “Will we ever learn?”. Apparently not. How many...

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Sabrina Zeidan: Complex projects made easy with WordPress Multisite

Let’s see whether you can make your next complex WordPress project easier with WordPress Multisite. Imagine hundreds of websites in the single instance of WordPress. Each is independent but connected...

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Raffaella Isidori: From “it’s mine” to “it’s me”: how the concept of branding...

The practice of branding can be traced back to 50.000 years ago. The first concept of marketing branding to 4000 BC. And what we modernly call marketing, branding, and advertising to about 150 years...

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Tammie Lister: Anatomy of a block: Gutenberg design patterns

What are the little blocks made of? In this deep dive into Gutenberg’s design patterns, we’ll start looking at existing Gutenberg blocks, taking you through the design patterns used. From there, you...

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Adrian Roselli: Inclusive Usability Testing

Running tests with real users is critical for so many organizations, whether when evaluating MVPs or just as part of iterative updates. For an organization that already has embraced inclusive design,...

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Piccia Neri: UI that ROCKS: A practical introduction to Gestalt principles...

This introductory talk shows how the application of simple principles of Gestalt psychology can greatly enhance the design of WordPress websites. Most of us probably use some of those principles...

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Maja Benke: Accessible Design

The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this talk I would like to show the most common problems in the web in terms of accessible design and give an...

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Francesca Marano:Who is afraid of the Business Plan?

When I started my business, in 2011, I didn’t think I needed a business plan, I only needed clients, tons of clients. Even though my title was web designer, I took every job that was asked of me: web...

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Adam Walker: Community Impact – 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours

This session will explore what we learned during the creation, planning and execution of the events and give some thoughts on how the WordPress community can give back using their professional skills.

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Pascal Birchler: Internationalisation in the Age of Gutenberg

As software engineers and designers we need to make sure that our solutions can be used by as many people as possible. One important factor for this is internationalisation. With tools and best...

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Jim Bowes and Jon Bird: When One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Leveraging A...

Content management systems (CMSs) arose in the early 2000s, revolutionising website design. The old-fashioned style, stale content and low compatibility with mobile devices have driven website creation...

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Elliot Taylor: Building scalable enterprise applications with WordPress

I’m going to show how we can improve our code using skills from the wider PHP world. I’d like to shatter the idea that enterprise applications and WordPress don’t mix. WordPress can be a great platform...

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Toyin Agunbiade: GDPR – Of Privacy and Compliance

I will explain what GDPR is, how it will affect businesses and the steps to ensure evidence of compliance.Presentation Slides »

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Keith Devon: future.css

In this session, we’ll be looking at bleeding edge CSS techniques and some of the cool properties that are available today or just around the corner. Our Speaker, Keith is the co-founder of Highrise...

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Anca Mosoiu: Tired of building disposable websites? Learn to build with...

Most websites are disposable – they are built once and not changed until they are replaced or turned off. Frequently, this is despite the best intentions of the original owner, designer, or developer....

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Francesca Marano: Who is afraid of the Business Plan?

I didn’t think I needed a business plan, I only needed clients, tons of clients. Even though my title was web designer, I took every job that was asked of me: web sites, of course, but also graphics,...

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Lightning Sessions: XDebug, Developing Your Story and Grunt

A quick talk about how Debug can be really helpful in identifying issues with your WordPress site and how it can help even beginner developers fix problems with their code.

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Felix Arntz: How To Sustain Long-Term Contributions to WordPress Core

This talk is for you – even if you haven’t attended a contributor day before. The session will highlight benefits of contributing, provide recommendations on how to find your spot and build trust, and...

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Daryll Doyle: Securing SVG Uploads in WordPress

In this talk I aim to explore some of the main issues that surround SVG uploads and why we’ve not seen this feature in WordPress yet. We’ll also look into why they need to be sanitised and the problems...

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Nicola Campbell, Sarah Semark, Steve Honeyman: Lightning Session : What does...

Gutenberg has been creeping up for a long time and now it’s coming for us all. Most of the initial discussion in the community has revolved around development and usability issues. As it gets ready to...

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Borek Bernard, Georgia Cottle, Mark Wilkinson: Lightning Session : Setting up...

As WordPress is an open source project and has given so much to me and my company over the years, we (Highrise Digital Ltd) wanted to do something to give something back to the community that helped us...

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Matt Brunt: Content Security Policies: Let’s Break Stuff

Content Security Policies are another tool we should have in our security toolbelt to help protect users of our sites. In this session you’ll learn what they are, why they’re needed, how they work and...

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Benjamin Read: How We’re Using WordPress as a Headless CMS

1. What is a headless (or decoupled) CMS 2. Why use WordPress as a headless CMS 3. Tools and process of building a headless site 4. A basic example and some gotchas we found 5. The Future is (probably)...

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Stef Mattana: 1:1 with customers – a troubled approach, with a happy end

In this talk I’ll share the troubles I’ve faced when asked to host 1:1 chats with Jetpack paid clients on a regular basis. The journey was full of uncertainties, and I questioned myself as a Happiness...

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Gabe Karp, Melanie Machan, Richard Coppinga, Sarah Semark: Applying Design To...

WordPress is being used in increasingly complex settings, powering everything from websites, to apps to content distribution services. As complexity increases, it becomes more and more important to...

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Interview with Sabrina Zeidan

Interview with developer Sabrina Zeidan on her first talk at a WordCamp, presenting for the first time in English, and how she discovered WordPress and multisites.The video is part of a series of...

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Interview with Dan Maby

Interview with agency director Dan Maby, an organiser of WordPress London and WordCamp London, on his enthusiasm for the platform and the community.The video is part of a series of interviews by the...

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Interview with Gary Jones

Interview with developer Gary Jones, a WordCamp and Contributor Day organiser, on why he contributes to the WordPress open source community and would encourage others to do so.Gary organised the...

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