Category: General

A required feature of any website these days is a contact form. There are many free and premium plugins for WordPress that can be used to create simple contact forms, surveys and quizzes, user generated content, email marketing captures, or even complex conditional ecommerce checkouts.

We’ll go through the options in what form plugins will allow you to do to suite your needs. Also, we’ll look at some features that makes your forms easier to fill out than others.

Curious how other WordPress professionals build sites, and what tools they use to get the job done? Two seasoned developers, one frontend, one backend, will go take you through how they approach building WordPress business sites from scratch (including from a starter themes), what priorities matter to them and why, and what software/techniques they use to build great sites.

At my job as a web developer at GreenBananaSEO, the senior web developer without notice left the company due to stress. It was now up to me to take on his work and lead the web department. My time management skills were put to the test in order to become the most productive web developer I can possibly be.

The first half of the lesson will be the tips & tricks learned from from the popular time-management books ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen and ‘Eat That Frog’ by Brian Tracy. These tips & tricks can be used by anybody – designers, bloggers, designers, developers, etc.

The second half of the lesson will be how I implemented time management in WordPress development: task management, web maintenance, web development, theme development, plugin use & recommendations, launching sites, creating your own checklists, and more. All of this in order to increase productivity while continuing to build quality sites.

As someone who builds WordPress websites for clients, you’ve probably learned that offering (or requiring) monthly maintenance contracts is smart business. It’s likely you’re including core software, plugin and theme updates as part of your maintenance plan, which ensures a steady income stream you can rely on and helps with your financial forecasting. But are you including website security as part of your project proposal and scope?

The security of your clients’ websites is often not a priority or is left till the end of a project (or sale?) as an optional add-on for the client to consider after going live. The value of a strong website security posture can be difficult to explain to clients, but when put in the context of their business and possible loss of revenue, it can become an integral part of your offering that separates you from the rest.

In this session, Adam will cover simple website security best practices that you can implement immediately for your own site and those of your clients. In addition, he’ll also offer advice and examples on how to best present the importance of website security during the proposal, scope, and maintenance package stages to your clients. Not only does this ensure your maintenance plans offer what every website needs, but also presents an additional revenue stream opportunity for your business.

The security of your WordPress site goes far beyond it’s code and settings. In 2018 and beyond, your online habits and practices make you far more susceptible to being hacked than bad code.

Let’s talk about how to safeguard your entire online identity, and how doing so will help your WordPress site stay safe from hackers and malware. We’ll also talk about some realistic strategies for securing your WordPress install.