Succeeding as a WordPress publisher entails many elements, including timely and engaging content, knowing your audience, outstanding SEO, listening to your users, amplifying your content, and others. In this talk, we cover the notion of Progressive WordPress which Google has been heavily involved in for the past 3 years. That is, bringing modern open web solutions to WordPress. Full presentation slides: https://2019.zurich.wordcamp.org/files/2019/08/Progressive-WordPress-WordCamp-ZRH.pdf

We gained experience by building several WordPress plugins and offer them for free or selling them on different platforms. I will tell you the story of our MultilingualPress plugin and what we learned by developing a Multilingual Plugin.

As developers, we are constantly building tools to help make other people’s lives easier. How often have you stopped to focus on making your own job easier? In this talk we will cover the three pillars of productivity, analyze our workflow for optimizations, and identify key leverage points that will allow us to exponentially increase our output. Full presentation slides: http://link.wpscholar.com/developer-productivity

We all know creating engaging content is THE number one way to build trust and authority for any brand. Writing awesome blogs establishes you as a credible expert, helps you build a steady flow of WordPress clients and gives you the opportunity to educate and help your customers. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/why-no-one-is-reading-your-blog-posts-and-how-to-change-that/

Now that WordPress is maturing and the ecosystem is thriving, it may seem overwhelming to start a new business. But you can do it. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/how-i-built-my-wordpress-business-with-almost-zero-investment/

This talk will skip over the obvious stuff and get stuck straight into techniques and tools that make remote work truly awesome! Learn how you can empower your team to become far more than just a bunch of people connected via a backlog of tasks and a dodgy NBN connection. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/running-a-remote-team-insights-from-a-wordpress-startup-and-a-13-year-old-remote-agency/

This session will explore why WordPress sites get hacked, how you know you have been hacked, what are the implications of a hack, and what are some of your options to fix your hacked site. It will also look at both simple and more complex solutions to reduce your risk to your WordPress website so you never face a similar night of horror. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/the-day-the-hackers-came-what-happened-when-80-of-my-clients-sites-were-hacked-in-one-day/

The block revolution is undoubtedly here, but not everyone has been able to embrace it yet. If you’ve never used ReactJS before it may seem intimidating, or at the very least time consuming to go all-in on the new editor and create custom blocks for every situation you come across. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/advanced-custom-blocks-creating-customised-editing-experiences-in-a-gutenberg-world-using-advanced-custom-fields-and-the-skills-you-have-now/

Learn how to use GraphQL and Vue to build an interactive WordPress site. We will go over some of the motivations and fundamentals behind GraphQL. From there we will install wp-graphql and VueJs. Finally we will get the client and server to talk to each delivering data via GraphQL. https://2019.birmingham.wordcamp.org/files/2019/08/GraphQL-WordPress-Talk.pdf

This talk will help content creators get more use of their website and blog content while eliminating the stresses of social media management.