Here are three more designer/developer speakers
Cliff Seal
About Cliff
Cliff is a UX Lead at Pardot (part of Salesforce), helping build world-class B2B marketing tools. He’s passionate about keeping people at the heart of design. Cliff lives in Atlanta, where he co-organizes amUX, a morning meetup for the user experience community. He’s also an accomplished speaker who’s given talks around the world. Through an appropriate mixture of data and humor, he takes a unique approach to complex topics, making them both informative and enjoyable. He’s also been developing with WordPress for many years, contributes back into the community, and participates in WordCamps.
Title: DIY WordPress Site Management: Configure, Launch, and Maintain
WordPress’s content management system is only one piece of a very large puzzle. Acronyms abound as a site prepares for launch—from DNS to SSL to CDN, you’re up against a series of technical tasks that need to go well to go live. Once you get to launch, there’s a whole litany of concepts a site owner ought to understand: optimizing and maintaining SEO, keeping the site secure, monitoring performance, tracking analytics, and keeping everything up to date. Plus, what do you do when performance slows down, or your site gets hacked, or users aren’t converting like you expect? In this session, I’ll give an introduction to everything from domain hosting to site launching to cleaning a hacked site—sharing proven tools I’ve used to help hundreds of clients. You’ll get a better idea of what you can manage on your own and better understand the things you can’t (or don’t want to).
Ben Meredith
About Ben
Ben is the Senior Support Technician at WordImpress, the makers of Give, the most robust donation platform for WordPress. He also created Better Click To Tweet, the most popular WordPress Plugin for adding Click to Tweet boxes to WordPress posts and pages. A lifelong North Carolinian (with a 4-year break in Middle Tennessee just after college), Ben is also one of the organizers for WordCamp Raleigh, having led the team in 2017. When not coding or solving code puzzles to support users, you’ll find him with a guitar in hand or perhaps playing a round of disc golf. He’d lobby for it being called just “golf” and making that other game “ball golf” or perhaps “expensive ball golf.”
Title: How to Get Better Support.
In this talk, using years of experience helping users in both free and premium plugin support, Ben will take you through what makes a good support request, how you can create better support requests, and how good support requests make WordPress better for everyone. Do you know that there’s a link between your support tickets and better documentation? Do you find yourself frustrated at developers and support reps who can’t seem to diagnose issues arising from their plugins or themes? Do you want to find better answers to your support questions, more quickly? Plus, the two-minute method of solving +50% of your support requests before you even send them.
Micah Wood
About Micah
Micah is an enterprise WordPress developer and Technical Director at Narwhal Digital, an agency in Atlanta, Georgia. A believer in “Kaizen”, or continuous improvement, he is always striving to become a better developer and help others along the way.
Title: Optimizing Website Performance
WP-CLI stands for WordPress Command-Line Interface. It is a tool for managing a WordPress site from the terminal as opposed to your web browser. Learn how to install WordPress, install or update plugins, check for hacked files, create a new user, perform a search and replace, manage data, execute custom scripts and more; all from the command-line!