Welcome to the International WordPress Awards
Si Cooke
Have you heard rumours of the WordPress awards? They’ve been circulating for a while now, but the time has come to make them a reality. Welcome to the International WordPress Awards!
Our goal is to create a space where innovation flourishes, where WordPress professionals can share ideas that help shape the future of the industry. The IWP Awards will be a non-profit platform for the WordPress community, providing a way to recognise and celebrate the highest achievements in our industry, by enabling users to submit their work without cost, and the public to freely vote who goes through to the independent judging panel.
This talk is about the roadmap for developing the IWP awards, learn what the awards are all about and how you can get involved. Suitable for absolutely everyone!
I made a plugin! What I learnt and why I’m hooked
Ben Kinnaird
I’m not a programmer but I love programming. During the day I help people with marketing but after 4pm I just want to make stuff.
In this talk, I want to share how I built a plugin for WordPress and why I’m now hooked and want to make more.
I’ll talk about the steps that lead to the point where I felt confident enough to do it. From our lead (and only) WP developer leaving the agency, attending WordPress meet-ups and the right project coming at the right time.
This talk is for those who want to take the first step in making a plugin or even making small customisations to make your life easier.
How Blocks Have Changed UX Design
Melin Edomwonyi
Blocks as a concept existed before Gutenberg, but have become a lot more important to the future of WordPress and the web.
In this talk, I take you through how blocks have changed our approach to UX Design as a digital agency, how clients are benefiting from this, how it’s made us quicker at delivering our designs and how all of this results in a better experience for site managers and end-users.
You’ll walk away with practical tips about selling and presenting blocks as an idea to clients, workflow ideas to make things easier for developers and a smile on your face. 🙂