When you work in WP-Admin every day, it’s wicked easy to navigate. But for users who are new to WordPress or only update their sites occasionally, the admin area can be full of WordPress-centric-lingo and not very intuitive. If you’ve created a customized front-end experience, why not take a few extra moments and tighten up the admin? It’s not difficult to make users happier and reduce the number of questions you get! We’ll cover customizing via both plugins and code, adding your own help documentation to the admin, and current best practices.

Prerequisites:
This talk is for individuals who are developing sites for other editors. The focus is directed at intermediate developers who wish to create their own WordPress admin customizations, but will touch on appropriate plugins to mimic the same functionality.

Jetpack has a lot of features for users, but did you know that it can make your life as a developer easier, too? With infinite scroll, featured content, and various custom post types, Jetpack can save you time in creating commonly requested features. Use a CSS preprocessor for easy-to-use customization options. In this talk, I’ll explore all the secret developer features in Jetpack that can give you a head start on your next site, and how to use them in only a few lines of code.

Prerequisites:
This talk will be most beneficial if you’ve dabbled in WordPress code before – themes, child themes, or plugins – and know what Jetpack is.

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The focus of my presentation will be on WordPress and website accessibility; from a front-end perspective. First, I will explain what web accessibility is and why it is important. To continue, I will discuss AODA and Section 508 regulations for Canada and the United States. Then, I will go over some key WCAG 2.0 compliancy requirements a developer will need to ensure the websites they develop are fully accessible. From there, I will showcase a few web accessibility tools, then some WordPress accessibility plugins; followed by a quick demonstration on how to evaluate a website’s accessibility.

Prerequisites:
Web development knowledge, WordPress knowledge.

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You never discuss rates with a plumber. You never try to pay them in visibility. You would never let your 13 years old cousin fix your leaking pipes. But your clients do that all the times with you. My presentation analyses why this happens and how a WordPress consultant can become a better marketer, more professional, more profitable.

Prerequisites:
It will be the natural evolution of my last year’s presentation about elements of growth. The presentation targets all the WordPress Freelance who are in thre professional market.

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If you want to make money designing WordPress sites, it’s crucial to know when to go custom and when to stick with a ready-made solution. In this session geared to designers looking to make profitable WordPress websites, learn how to assess when to use a premade theme, how to pick the right one, and when to start from scratch.

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to attend this talk. This session is intended for designers, beginner WordPress users, bloggers and anyone looking to profit from designing WordPress websites.

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Les plugins. Il y en a tellement que c’est facile de s’y perdre. En plus, quand vous finissez par en trouver un, il répond *presque* parfaitement à votre problème. Mais il manque un petit quelque chose. La date n’est pas au bon format, il manque une colonne, vous voulez ajouter un thumbnail. Bref, il va falloir plonger dedans, et le modifier! Il existe quelques approches pour ne pas s’y perdre.

Dans cette conférence, je ferai le survol des «best practices» en la matière, et de comment j’ai fini par les découvrir.

Préalables:
Utilisateurs WordPress intermédiaires qui ont une certaine idée de ce qu’ils font. Ils doivent être capable de copier et coller quelques lignes de code sans détruire leur site web. Utile pour toute personne qui sont confortable avec le HTML/CSS/PHP et Google.

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