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.
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.
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.
A case study of how we have used WordPress in creative ways and a few of the bumps we have had along the way.
In his session, Noel will talk about how WordPress can be used to build web applications. He’ll draw on examples using Happytables, a SaaS built on top of WordPress.
Lets take a look at how we can get WordPress to look for plugin updates from private Github repositories. This talk covers why we need such a thing, how to look through WordPress source code to find an entry point to hook our custom updater, how we can get information from Github to tell us there are updates and writing some code to put everything together from what we have learnt so far.
Some details of how I run multiple separate WordPress installations under NGINX on one VPS or dedicated server.
Freelancer is the ‘new employment’. Most organisations use freelancers for some tasks but some even build an entire business model on using freelancers. It’s not all ‘legal free’. Freelancers in the UK have a whole range of rights – and some, despite their label are not really freelancers at all but turn out to be employees. How do you plot your way through this territory and arrive at profitable and reliable relationships with the freelancers you pay – with no nasty surprises from the tax man? In this talk Annabel explores the status of freelancers, how labels can be deceiving and suggests ways to approach hiring freelancers that will protect your business from harm.
The emergence of preprocessors, front-end frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 has made front-end a far richer and more complex development environment. I will showcase techniques and setup I use to enable me to use a few terminal commands to automate tasks.
