Content Discovery Re-imagined
Understanding reader’s interests and appropriately tailoring your WordPress homepage for them.
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 …
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. …
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.
Where’s The One Click Install?
Lot’s of web hosts now offer one-click installation of WordPress, but what if your chosen host doesn’t, or if you want more control over your configuration? What if you’ve used the one-click, but it’s installed WordPress in a subdirectory and you want your blog to exist in the site root? You can do it all …
