Category Archives: Speakers

Video: Hristo Pandjarov – The Dark Side of the WordPress Speed Optimization #WCEU

If you have recently searched for WordPress speed and performance optimization tips and techniques, you have definitely seen several things being recommended all the time: different caching mechanisms (full page caching plugins, memcached, reverse proxies), sprites, CSS & JS minification, to name a few. All of them are indeed viable and really effective ways to speed up your site performance. However, they may not be equally applicable for everyone and there are cases in which they can actually break your website.

This presentation covers what actually can go wrong with each of the most popular and widely accepted performance optimization techniques, how to implement them without breaking your site and how to fix the most common issues with different speed boosters.

Photo by Vladimir Kaladan Petkov

Video: Simon Wheatley – Running An Open Source Business | #WCEU 2014

What we do is not normal. It’s better.

Simon Wheatley has been working with Open Source, running an Open Source focused consultancy, and persuading big companies against Intellectual Property hoarding for years now.

In this talk he discusses the open source principles that unite many of us, and how you can marry those with solid business principles to come up with a winning formula for your clients, your self and the wider world.

Video: Daniel Kanchev – WordPress Migrations Done Right | #WCEU 2014

In theory transferring a WordPress website should be a straightforward process that involves few well-defined steps like: exporting your database from the old place, importing it on the new one, moving your files, reconfiguring WordPress and changing the DNS records. In reality the migration process of an active website has some challenges that, if not addressed properly, may result in downtime and data loss. Needless to say this could affect your business badly – revenue stream loss and bad reputation being just some of the implications.

In this talk Daniel Kanchev presents to the audience the different steps in the migration process and gives examples how each step can be optimised so that the risks of data loss and downtime are minimised.

Enjoy!

Video: Adrian Zumbrunnen – Rethinking Content Creation | #WCEU 2014

Content creation is at the heart of the web and yet we fail to deliver experiences that match todays needs. This talk aims at rethinking the way web publishing works and see how we can create experiences that allow people to express themselves in richer ways.

On top of that Adrian unveils his reimagined distraction-free content editor for WordPress – FrontKit.

Video: Siobhan McKeown – WordPress: Bringing Ideas to Life | #WCEU 2014

It’s said that ideas have power, but an idea’s power lies in its capacity to have an impact on our lives. Some ideas flicker and disappear, others have such force that they underpin everything that we do.

In this presentation Siobhan McKeown explores the philosophical underpinnings of WordPress, ideas like freedom, simplicity, and democracy. She looks at these ideas in their most abstract, tracing how they become concrete in the software and the community.

Video: Matt Mullenweg & Om Malik Q&A at #WCEU 2014

From empowering women to the advice for european companies to stop comparing themselves to US companies and the 5% rule of thumb for companies who use WordPress on giving back to core to ensure the future of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp Europe sparked a lot of discussions.

We have the video from the session up and running for all of those, who couldn’t make WordCamp Europe 2014.

Enjoy and let’s talk about it.

WCEU 2014 Speaker: Graham Armfield

Hey guys, we’re really glad to welcome Web Accessibility expert Graham Armfield from the UK.

Graham is a Web Accessibility Consultant for his own company Coolfields Consulting. He helps organisations improve the accessibility of their websites, and works with them to embed accessibility into their business processes. He also develops accessible WordPress websites for small to medium sized businesses and charities. He’s an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible team, and has spoken about web accessibility at quite a few WordCamps. He’s also led accessibility groups at WordPress contributor days.

When not making the web a more accessible place you might find him playing his guitar and writing songs. He turned his back on the rock lifestyle a few years ago, but now performs his songs solo at open mic nights near where he lives.

He was born many moons ago in South London, and he hasn’t strayed very far from there since – he now lives in Surrey with his wife and young daughter.

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