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August 27, 2015

Steve Woody

Learn more than the average Web Developer

Steve is going to teach the 10 things that people MUST know BEFORE they Build a Website.  It’s focused around the strategy and covers the following 10 topics:

http://onlinemastery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10-STEPS.pdf

Steve will also explain how Web Design is Dead and how WordPress specifically has created a new industry and why its important to understand the foundation on either your own project or a clients.

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July 23, 2015

Ric Harvey

Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users

The talk will be about how to scale WordPress in Amazon web services and which plugins help you achieve this. The main aim is to let the audience know how to interoperate with cloud based services to really enhance their WordPress experience and achieve performance boosts but offloading core tasks to SaaS/PaaS/IaaS services where possible.
Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users.
Topics Covered:

  • Installing CoreOS in EC2
  • Using Github for code storage
  • Running you Container
  • Elastic Load
  • Balancers + SSL offload
  • RDS for databasesS3 (Also the new EFS Service as an alternative to S3)
  • CloudFront for assets and the main site
  • SES
  • Elastic Search and Google Search

Video coming soon

July 23, 2015

Kirsty Burgoine

Catering for WordPress

Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector.

The catering industry has very few tools available to help them create/store recipes, plan menus and work out costings that can be shared with members of staff and other branches of a chain.

This talk would cover one solution to this, showing how WordPress has been used as an intranet for businesses in the restaurant/catering industry. Features include working as a tool to itemise ingredients, help plan and budget dishes and menus, work out costings for bulk recipes down to individual portions and include other factors such as VAT and a variable gross profit.

All of this has been set up using a combination of WordPress MU, custom plugins, custom post types, custom fields and a bespoke theme with all of the necessary maths functions built in. There will be some knowledge of PHP, theme development, plugin development and jQuery assumed for this talk.

Video coming soon

June 18, 2015

Paul Gibbs and Hugo Ashmore

BuddyPress; an overview of recent updates, and what to expect in the year ahead

If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more. Find out more on https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/.

Video coming soon

June 18, 2015

Borek Bernard

Version Control For WordPress Sites

The way WordPress was created is very “forward-centric” – you click in the admin area and the changes are applied immediately. It would be often useful, though, to roll back the change if it caused any sort of trouble (broken plugin update, human mistake, etc.). The talk discusses how a technique of version control can help with that, what are the challenges when applying it in the world of WordPress, and what approaches and tools are available today.

April 30, 2015

Edmund Turbin

Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP

The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. Wouldn’t it make sense to immediately serve your visitors the relevant, accurate content that they’re looking for, versus making them select their geographic location from a pulldown menu or a map? Not knowing the physical location of your visitors can limit you to only serving generic content that may not be relevant to visitors coming from different locations. That can kill engagement and negatively impact sales – just watch your bounce rate climb! In this session, learn about the uses of GeoIP, a technology that gives you the ability to create a “just for you” feeling by presenting geographically-specific content from WordPress sites based on a visitor’s physical location.

April 30, 2015

Emma Stroud

Improvisation – A Vital Tool for Business Success

The ability to ‘think on your feet’ is not only valuable but vital to your business’ success. Without the confidence to do so, you can be really limiting your business growth. We improvise everywhere- conversations, meetings, interviews, presentations, sometimes without realising it. All we need to do is develop these everyday skills further to see positive, measurable change in the success of professional interactions.

April 30, 2015

Keith Devon

My WordPress Theme Structure

Using template wrappers, pre-processors, and more, for efficient WordPress theme development. Keith will talk you through how he structures his theme, and the tools he uses, to make development easier, faster and more fun.

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