Social at the Watershed 🎉
Our social will take place from 6pm until 11pm at the wonderful Watershed, right on Bristol’s beautiful waterfront.
The address is Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
The last conference talks will finish at around 5.15pm. For anyone unsure of where they are going, we will congregate en-mass outside the conference venue and walk down to the social venue together. If you were at WordCamp Bristol 2017, you might recognise the after-party venue as it was where the entire conference took place that year.
There will be food provided and attendees will need to purchase their own drinks.
We are keeping the social simple, with the focus being on conversation and a continued opportunity to get to know other WordPressers.
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Room Change
What WordPress can learn from how OpenStack communicates
Nicola Heald
Sunday 3:00pm Room 2
OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, made up of many smaller projects, each looking after one aspect of the stack.
This talk will show how projects structure their communication to make sure everything works together as one in a final release, how decisions are made transparently, and what we might be able to learn from that.
Selling WordPress
Scott Jones
Sunday 3:00pm Room 1
Selling WordPress is a discussion I’ve been having with Joost de Valk and others on the marketing team since last December. It’s a challenge that I face in my business life each day, when WordPress comes up against other CMS and DXP platforms, especially when they have such great presence and marketing behind them.
The truth is, we don’t do enough as WordPress to show off who we are, why we’re more than just a credible competitor, or to help our community communicate the benefits of WordPress to their clients.
So why is WordPress a sellable CMS? And how easy/hard is it to endorse WordPress when a client is asking about other platforms?
These are some of the questions I want to help to answer without simply shouting “we’re the best, everyone else sucks!” It’s something that I work to achieve on a daily basis (with a mixture of success and failure).
The CMS we all love is flexible, expandable, fast, well-supported, great for content editors and ultimately great for business. It’s not just a small blogging platform anymore, it’s a product that suits tiny businesses and enterprise businesses in equal measure, depending on the experience of the designers and developers working with it.
So… this talk will help to give a fairly broad range of people new ideas, new arguments and renewed thinking on how to say “WordPress is the platform for you.”
Room Change
Making a CMS for Humans
Becky Taylor
Sunday 2:00pm Room 2
In my role as a UX consultant, I’m acutely aware of the impact the CMS will have on admin users.
Most CMS users just don’t see content in the way that UXers, designers or developers do. We, as digital types, understand that a page isn’t necessarily a page but is instead made up of 5 different content types. We can mentally map the content from the information architecture, to the design and then to the set of fields and posts in the CMS. Clients really struggle with this concept.
I’ll discuss some ways in which we can ensure our WordPress setup and UI makes our users feel empowered and enabled to create great content regularly.
Building websites using React.js and WordPress API
Mitko Kochkovski
Sunday 2:00pm Room 1
In this talk, Mitko will speak about how you can leverage the WordPress REST API to build awesome websites.
Using React.js for rendering the frontend outside the WordPress Theme implementation, by using the processor class inside the Reactj.js that will handle all the layouts that your website needs.
Meet Your Friends the Gutenberg Blocks
Karla Campos
Sunday 12:15pm Room 2
Some people are intimidated by the Gutenberg editor. It is different than the classic editor. I’m here to tell you that the Gutenberg blocks are your friends!
In this session, we will meet our friends the Gutenberg blocks. We will discuss how easy it is to build beautiful media-rich pages and posts with GB’s (Gutenberg Blocks).