Talks 18 - #WPLDN - WordPress London Meetup

Graham Armfield

www.coolfields.co.uk

Simple Usability Tweaks for WordPress Themes

So you’ve got your WordPress site up and running and visitors are finding it through search engines. But are you giving them enough information about your site once they’ve arrived?

In this presentation I’d like to share some ideas for simple tweaks you can make to your theme that can help improve the usability of your site – specifically in the areas of search, blog pages, archive pages, ‘landing’ pages and ‘read more’ links. I’ll be using some common (and less well-known) WordPress functions and array values, and also recommending a useful plugin for improving search results.

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Laura Kalbag

laurakalbag.com

Designing WordPress Admins Icons

The ‘Customizer’ was introduced in WordPress 3.4, allowing users to toggle settings on their site with a live preview before saving them. This talk will show how any theme can use the powerful Theme Customisation API to add customisable elements to a theme that will let users/clients preview and publish real changes on the fly. We’ll also cover some of awesome things we’ve managed to achieve using it at FactoryMedia.

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Nathan Roberts

www.studioa2.co.uk

Tailoring WordPress to suit your client needs

WordPress is designed to make website administration simple. This talk covers how StudioA2 deliver projects that allow flexibility on the front end while not compromising usability on the back end.

A well designed site that functions correctly for visitors can be a nightmare for your clients if the administration is not user friendly. We’ve built dozens of WordPress sites, each with its own unique design, layout and content structure. We deliver a bespoke admin interface that empowers clients to take full control of site content within various layouts without needing to know the first thing about HTML/CSS.

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Rachel McCollin

rachelmccollin.co.uk

Getting started with WordPress web apps

This talk will give you an introduction to using WordPress to build web apps. It will include:

the difference between a web app and a responsive site using themes to create a web app from the same database as your main site WordPress plugins which help with web apps by Rachel McCollin

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Jack Barham

airboxmedia.com

Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site

Mobile website development is a hot topic at the moment. More and more users are accessing websites via a mobile device. This talk will show you how to build a basic mobile template and wrap in it into a plugin that you can drop in to your current WordPress website. The course will cover all aspects of a mobile web build project including: Concepts, Wireframes, Prep your Current WP site for mobile, Design, Screen Resolutions, Development (Mobile CSS Reset, WP Code, Mobile jQuery, etc), Bug Testing and much more. You will also be able to download the fully working mobile theme that was used in the talk.

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29-Jan-2015

Franz Vitulli

www.franzvitulli.com

How not to give appalling user support

More and more developers are using WordPress to build and sell online products (web apps, SaaS, etc.), and providing excellent user support is a skill certainly not to be taken for granted.

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09-Dec-2014

Jenny Wong

jwong.co.uk

Sharing knowledge

Jenny will be speaking about the importance of sharing knowledge and how to generate topic ideas to share with the community.

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09-Dec-2014

Ryan McCue

rmccue.io

WP-API

Access your WordPress site’s data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API

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09-Dec-2014

Siobhan McKeown

siobhanmckeown.com

Speaking at a WordCamp

WordCamp London will be 20th – 22nd March. We’re about to open the call for speakers and we’d love for as many of the WPLDN meetup to apply as possible. In this presentation I’ll share with you some of my knowledge and experience as both a WordCamp organiser and a speaker. I’ll talk about why you might want to speak at a WordCamp, how to put together your application, how the speaker selection process works, and what speaking at a WordCamp involves. I’ll also answer any questions about WordCamp London and about the speaking process.

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Talks

Simple Usability Tweaks for WordPress Themes

Designing WordPress Admins Icons

Tailoring WordPress to suit your client needs

Getting started with WordPress web apps

Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site

How not to give appalling user support

Sharing knowledge

WP-API

Speaking at a WordCamp

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