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Session 13 – How many drummers does it take to build a website by Matt Bush
WordPress gets groovey. Hark back to Demo tapes, hand-drewn gig flyers photocopied using the drama teachers pass-code, distributed by whoever had the afternoon off. Fast forward to the present… how can WordPress help you do all this and more, more … Continue reading Session 13 – How many drummers does it take to build a website by Matt Bush
Session 12 – Shifting the WordPress Mindset by Matty Cohen
Take a look back in time at the evolution of WordPress core, themes and plugins, compared to present day and forecasting possibilities for the future. Explore the growth of the WordPress ecosystem.
Session 11 – The Best Tools for the Job by Jeffery Pearce
Whatever your platform, business or blog, you need to use quality themes and plugins in your WordPress site to run your business successfully. This is a less techy talk from Jeff that guides you in choose the best WordPress tools … Continue reading Session 11 – The Best Tools for the Job by Jeffery Pearce
Session 10 – Panel Discussion
WordPress is a part of many modern businesses, as either the platform for their web presence and marketing, their development platform or sales channel. As amazing as WordPress is, you need more than a WordPress website to start, run and … Continue reading Session 10 – Panel Discussion
Session 9b – Elevator Pitch for Blink Tower by Elodie Kleynhans
Blink Tower helps you promote your business by finding the story and telling it to the world with 2D animated movies. Tell a story, don’t use jargon.
Session 9a – Optimizing WordPress on the Frontend by Byron Rode
Plugins and big custom themes play a massive role on how quickly your site loads, has an effect on your users, search engines and hosting. This talk takes you through optimization methods.
Session 7 – Site Speed = Success by Anthony Somerset
Find Site Performance from the server to WordPress. A look at how some good performance gains can be made in tuning MySQL and APC and getting the most out of W3 Total Cache.
Session 6b – Is social media affecting SEO by Neil Pursey
Social media is finding it’s roll in a broader digital marketing strategy, but does it affect SEO at all? Neil Pursey discusses his research to help you understand the value of social media in SEO.
Session 5 – Cause by Fred Roed
Cause or standing for something is the common factor shared by successfull teams, individuals, entrepreneurs, leaders, visionaries, programmers and disrupters.
Session 4 – Elevator Pitch for Clickatell by Llew Claasen
Clickatell is the largest bulk SMS service in the world and proudly South African. Reach in excess of five billion mobile users and keep the conversation by giving timely and relevant information.
Session 3 – Monetizing your WordPress website by Bennie Stander
How do you make your website work for you? You have the audience, but your website does not generate sales or leads. This session discusses strategies and techniques to monetize your website.
Session 2 – How to Hijack a Themeshop by Riaan Knoetze
Starting a WordPress theme shop is tough these days. The sheer number of competitors in the market are immense. This talk explores skills and practical considerations required to successfully distribute commercial themes and other ways to profit from child theme … Continue reading Session 2 – How to Hijack a Themeshop by Riaan Knoetze
Session 1 – WordPress to Manage Your Mxit Apps by Eric Clements
mxPress is an Open Source plugin that gives you the ability to integrate WordPress as an App on Mxit. This case study embodies the pioneering spirit of WordPress, the Open Source community at large and asks the question, “What have … Continue reading Session 1 – WordPress to Manage Your Mxit Apps by Eric Clements
Session 8 – Scaling WordPress by Mark Slingsby from RSAWeb
A talk about scaling WordPress informed by experience. Essential for high traffic sites. When should you move away from shared hosting and move to a customised hosting package. Learn the potential pitfalls, how to avoid them and actually improve on … Continue reading Session 8 – Scaling WordPress by Mark Slingsby from RSAWeb →