Category Archives: Presentations
WP-eCommerce – Dan Milward
Dan is going to give everybody a quick over view of their e-Commerce Plugin, take everybody through the latest version, install a cool theme or two (maybe even a WooTheme Theme), and quickly take everybody through the purchasing process – … Continue reading WP-eCommerce – Dan Milward
WordPress as a CMS – Why and How – Nur Ahmad Furlong
This will cover a quick introduction on WordPress as a CMS, the advantages attached to it, achieving basic requirements of a website easily and quickly using already existing plugins, themes and basic customization of existing themes that do not require … Continue reading WordPress as a CMS – Why and How – Nur Ahmad Furlong
Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress – Neil Pursey
Neil spoke about Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress. We will give a brief overview of SEO and what it means to be #1 in Google search. Our main topic of discussion will be around Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress, how … Continue reading Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress – Neil Pursey
Building high volume websites with WordPress – Roy Foubister
Roy spoke about Building high volume websites with WordPress. I decided to take a real life approach – you land a busy WordPress site that spikes performance every few days, you get the server from the hosting co. and then … Continue reading Building high volume websites with WordPress – Roy Foubister
Panel Discussion: Making Money with WordPress
A profitable and vibrant ecosystem has evolved around WordPress with many leveraging the open source CMS to build successful businesses. Join us as our four panelists discuss the art of making money with WordPress at the core of your business. … Continue reading Panel Discussion: Making Money with WordPress
Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Publishing
WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform and online publishing CMS in the world. Come listen to our four expert panelists discuss what the future holds for this powerful platform. Panelists: Charl Norman, Marc Perel, Neil Pursey and Joe … Continue reading Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Publishing
Get the WordPress relationship working – Jess Green
Give a man a fish and he’ll follow you for a day, teach him to fish and he’ll follow you for a lifetime. The way to get repeat and loyal WordPress clients is to get them involved and learning, not … Continue reading Get the WordPress relationship working – Jess Green
Using WordPress as a development framework – Jeff Pearce
Using WordPress as a development framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development. WordPress gives you a base set of application functionality such as user management, routing, caching, that you don’t need to build … Continue reading Using WordPress as a development framework – Jeff Pearce
Responsive Web Design – Jason Bagley
How does a designer adapt to the ever increasing number of screen resolutions, devices, input modes and browsers these days? Creating different versions of a website hosted on multiple sub-domains is a very archaic way of trying to solve this … Continue reading Responsive Web Design – Jason Bagley
What a 60’s rock n’ roll band can teach us about online publishing – Fred Roed
Is content still king? The accessibility of CMS platforms such as WordPress has lead to an ever-increasing stream of content being pushed online, and the web is awash with clutter. If good content no longer holds the key to traffic, … Continue reading What a 60’s rock n’ roll band can teach us about online publishing – Fred Roed
Syndicating your blog – Craig Strachan
Using the power of feeds to increase your readership by automate distributing your content. Learn how to increase your readership and gain more exposure to your blog. Learn how to use existing (and mostly free) tools to set-up a system … Continue reading Syndicating your blog – Craig Strachan
Improving Ease of Use with the WordPress Admin Dashboard – Byron Rode
From my experience of making WordPress sites for clients, and for clients in South Africa in particular, there are a lot of people out there who get over-whelmed if updating their site isn’t quick and easy and involves too many … Continue reading Improving Ease of Use with the WordPress Admin Dashboard – Byron Rode
The business of WordPress – Adii pienaar
WordPress has grown into a very diverse ecosystem, where its users have cultivated multiple different opportunities to create & build a business. Commercial themes have been the most obvious / mainstream success, but beyond theming there’s still so many untapped … Continue reading The business of WordPress – Adii pienaar
About Obox – David Perel
David spoke about the Seo Fundamentalism. Obox Mobile: A WordPress plugin that converts your site into a gorgeous theme which is compatible for mobile devices. Stunning design, attention to detail and unique features make your site stand out when visitors … Continue reading About Obox – David Perel
Seo Fundamentalism – Rafiq Phillips
Rafiq spoke about the Seo Fundamentalism WordPress is the perfect platform to allow you to achieve excellent SEO results. It is only a tool though. Without SEO fundamentals in place you may not achieve the expected results no matter what … Continue reading Seo Fundamentalism – Rafiq Phillips
