Talks 7 - #WPLDN - WordPress London Meetup

30-Nov-2018

Mike Pead

www.primaryimage.uk

Plugins Uncovered – Nov. 2017

We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have plugins we’ve used for years, or sometimes we come across handy plugins by chance.

Let’s spread the word about these great little plugins available to us. Let’s find those hero plugins that will get us hooked!

In this session, Mike Pead will demonstrate two plugins he regularly uses, which are useful for all levels of abilities. He’ll also open the session to the floor, so if you have any favourite plugins that could be useful to others, please share your suggestions!

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30-Nov-2018

Babs Saul

www.barbarasaul.com

Winning at Discovery

That phase of any project that, if not pinned down and given the attention it needs, can trip us up big time. The Discovery process needs to be as thorough as it can possibly be.

Discovering just what the client expects and all the things around being able to make that happen. That’s what we want to do.

The thing is, we all know this. Some include this already in their process and from this they have become successful (surely!!). Each of us has a horror story of the client’s expectations not being met because we did not understand quite what they had in mind; there was a mismatch and the client holds us accountable for that. Or what they want and expect is just not possible on their hosting. Or the client’s data needs significant translation to be usable.

Being clear at the start is essential. If we do this, document it, get the client to confirm that this document is what they want and understand they’re paying for, then we’re winning and so are they.

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26-Oct-2017

Deborah Beckett

deborahbeckett.com

Why You Should Give Great Support

So you’ve created a plugin or a theme for WordPress? Awesome! It doesn’t stop there. Find out why great support matters and learn simple ways to get a reputation for excellent support without increasing your time or effort.

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26-Oct-2017

Sarah Semark

triggersandsparks.com

The Night of the Living Style Guides

The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more modular. How do we keep track of it all?
Style guides to the rescue!

Using style guides that update as our projects progress, we can visually document our work and ensure that everything stays consistent. They may seem daunting and time-consuming at first, but they don’t have to be.

How do I get started with living style guides? What’s a living style guide anyway, and how do I know if mine is dead? Isn’t that going to slow me down? Why should I bother?

Let’s find out

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26-Oct-2017

Gabor Javorszky

javorszky.co.uk

What you didn’t know you need to know about WordPress and databases

There are a number of ways to speed up sites. Caching is one of them. However caching can’t be used in all instances, for example when checking out on an eCommerce site. In those circumstances the speed of talking to the database is important.

WordPress and its plugins aren’t the greatest at structuring data. In this talk we’ll walk through some basics of how databases work, how WordPress is set up, and why some of the queries you thought should be fast, aren’t. And hopefully what to do about some of those.

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28-Sep-2017

Gary Jones

garyjones.io

The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress

A look at the initiatives to improve the PHP landscape of the WordPress ecosystem.

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28-Sep-2017

Alice Still

unramble.com

Why are we writing all these blog posts?

Are you a growth-hacking marketing guru, creating compelling content that resonates with your target audience and drives value?

Translation: Do you write loads of blog posts and eBooks hoping people will one day buy your stuff?

Sounds pretty stressful.

In this talk, Alice will look at the reasons for writing things online and argue that it isn’t realistic, or necessary, to constantly churn out loads of content.

Together, we’ll throw off the content marketing shackles and focus instead on creating UX-led, well-written core website pages.

You’ll go away with the tools needed to create your own content strategy that includes:

Realistic user personas
Your brand’s tone of voice
An SEO strategy
UX-led page structure

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31-Aug-2017

Katy Ereira

katy-ereira.co.uk

Fun and Games with Regex

Think ‘regex’ and ‘fun’ can’t exist in the same sentence? I’ll teach you how to win at computer science’s greatest logic puzzle.

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31-Aug-2017

Doug Belchamber, Mike Pead, and Keith Devon

wpdevelopers.co.uk, www.primaryimage.uk, and highrise.digital

Page Builder Panel – The Pros & Cons Of Them In Your Workflow

Featuring Doug Belchamber, Keith Devon and Mike Pead; this will be an open panel discussion around the use of Page Builders in the WordPress development workflow. We’ll be hearing the pros and the cons from the panel of developers and you’ll have your chance to get involved.

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Talks

Plugins Uncovered – Nov. 2017

Winning at Discovery

Why You Should Give Great Support

The Night of the Living Style Guides

What you didn’t know you need to know about WordPress and databases

The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress

Why are we writing all these blog posts?

Fun and Games with Regex

Page Builder Panel – The Pros & Cons Of Them In Your Workflow

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