When Paudie made the move
from a freelancer to taking on his first employee it was a massive jump. It
presented a number of problems: sharing passwords, sharing client info,
ensuring consistency in processes, project management. Scale, even at a small
level was tough!
His firm built, and continue to develop an internal CRM and project management tool. It is their dashboard for everything. Built in WordPress and React, it is their go-to for everything project related. Using various tools to ingrate with key API systems.
Their next task is to expand their internal CRM, linking it to their accountancy software.
“It’s a great project that has grown and improved over its life. And goes to show just what is possible with WordPress.”
Paudie added: “It has cut down on wasted time and is a dashboard that controls everything we do. It has allowed the business to scale with relative ease and adds a huge level of automation into every task that the studio carries out.”
This talk will show the capabilities of WordPress from a technical perspective and also, show that you can use WordPress in innovative ways to produce products that can really work for businesses, both commercially and in-house.
An often overlooked, if not wholly forgotten page is the 404. This page is essential for everything. We all forget to redirect a page or miss a link, and arriving at an uncustomised 404 page is not good for business.
Sabrina will explain the reasons why it is important for user experience, to retaining customers and getting visitors to look again at your offer. She will give some tips on how to customise it.
Time Saving Plugins
When we’re developing a website, we all encounter issues and problems. What do we do?
a) Write the code to fix it
b) Pay someone else to fix it
In WordPress there’s an option c – plugins!
WordPress plugins are pieces of software that can be uploaded to your site to extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress site.
If you’ve had a problem or issue, the chances are, someone else had that issue too!
The unique and cool thing about WordPress is; someone comes up with a solution, writes the code to fix it, packages it up as a plugin and makes their solution available to the whole community for free.
Clare McSharry creates websites using WordPress and loves plugins. She regularly gives WordPress training courses and a popular section is her “favourite plugins” section.
Here she shares some of her favourites, and helps us get the most out of them.
Consistent content: how to win loyal customers and create brand ambassadors.
Content marketing is no longer a new or hot topic – everyone gave it a try in some capacity. For some, it helped their business explode and reach the next level. For others, it felt like they could have spend their time better, and they slowly but surely give up.
It’s no surprise: creating content takes time and costs money. It can take months until you see any results, and even then, you expected more. So why would you then focus on creating content regularly, and how can you do so to make sure it brings you results?
In this talk, you will learn about:
- companies who grew rapidly thanks to content
- what makes up a successful piece of content creating a sustainable strategy so you can get the best results with less time investment
- reaching your target audience with content, from early prospects to loyal customers
- metrics you will want to monitor to know you’re on track.
The session will be packed with examples, practical tips and resources to help take your organisation to the next level.
WordPress is used as the primary CMS for web development modules in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) throughout the various business and computing departments as well in at least two evening classes. It is also used for several public facing systems including the ITLC Tutorials website and internal systems such as inventory control and room booking.
In this session, Paul will discuss the mass deployment of WordPress in environments like this as well as how to easily provide students with professional documentation and support. He will touch on Active Directory integration, security and other issues to be considered when deploying WordPress in a learning environment.
There will be practical demonstrations of how WordPress is now being deployed inside the DkIT Virtualisation Sandbox (powered by XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra) and their new web-based Containerisation Environment (powered by Docker and Portainer).
As Founder and CEO for Sotic, a Digital Sports agency which delivers big name sports websites on WordPress, Leo has considerable experience in both working with Cloud technology and live events. In 2015 Sotic started the journey, migrating its own data centre to Cloud. Four years later the company is now 100% cloud based, running a number of fast and award winning WordPress sites, including for the Six Nations Rugby, England Netball, Tour of Great Britain and Irish Rugby.
This talk will look at the journey his 30-person digital agency undertook to migrate, the pitfalls along the way and how this move has unlocked a huge improvement in SEO, web performance, customer service levels, development cycles as well as improving employee well-being and work life balance.
You can connect with: @wfckeego / sotic.net / https://profiles.wordpress.org/wfckeego/
There are many misconceptions about WordPress. One of the most common and long enduring misconceptions is that WordPress does not scale well and is only for small sites.
The myth that WordPress does not scale well is what this talk will focus on and debunk. Speaker Chris Brosnan said: “I will discuss how although this assumption is untrue, as with many misconceptions, there is a small grain of truth in this assumption that comes mainly from wider misconceptions about the use of WordPress and its purpose.”
He will go onto explain how with adequate planning and due consideration before, during and after the development of a WordPress project’s lifecycle, you can ensure that your projects scale very well and have the flexibility necessary to add new features without too much scope creep or causing the product to perform poorly.
WordPress is now much more than a CMS and with careful planning, due consideration, avoiding waste and adopting a serious software development mindset to WordPress projects, it is very possible to build a WordPress site that will scale effectively.
Chris will focus on scaling in terms of effective coding standards and structuring the system in a way to scale effectively to minimise bloat and ensure loading times are low while the website grows larger.
If you use a security plugin to make your site secure, you’re in the good path. However, there is more than the plugin installation to truly secure your site. From the beginner user to the expert one, this session has you covered on some of the ways to avoid being hacked and compromising your online presence.
