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Be Positive Toward Yourself
https://youtu.be/dZ8V81LnE2c God is pleased with me. God approves of me. God accepts me the way I am. Seven Keys To The Greatest Year Ever – Speaker: Wes Dupin Fennessy, Michigan, United States of America

WordPress Grand Rapids – September 2018: Show And Tell
Nicole – BoldGrid Post & Page Builder Free & Premium Versions Not Compatible With Editing on Mobile Not Yet Compatible With Gutenberg Premium Designer Blocks & Sliders BoldGrid Central Free cloud-based WordPress instances for testing things out. Crio WordPress Theme Available on ThemeForest Topher – BigCommerce Provides a plugin that pushes your BigCommerce store content to WordPress. All-one SaaS platform. Uses an iframe for checkout so all transactions are at BigCommerce for PCI compliance Can connect BigCommerce to Amazon as a channel. WordPress is just like a channel in BigCommerce and you can push specific products or product categories to different WordPress sites. Request WordPress Beta Access and get free Dev BigCommerce access for life. General Tips Plugins Imsanity

Ironman Breakfast: Finishing Strong – Tim Way
“When you start stopping, that’s when you start getting old.”

WordCamp GR 2017 – Development With Material Design – Matt Christensen
Matt Christensen – https://www.mattchristensen.net/ History Announced 2014 2015 Most Google apps use it Intended for Android Focused on Native Mobile, web was an afterthought What Is It? – https://material.io/ A metaphor – think paper Uniting Style – look the same everywhere Design as a physical medium Paper and Ink Seams & Edges Motion has meaning Web Features – https://getmdl.io/components/ Cards – base component (could be used as a means to layout “table” data) Drawers Snackbar – nice feedback component, can hide automatically Tables Out of the box there is styling but not responsive jQuery Alternative – https://datatables.net/ Frameworks MDL (Material Design) Materialize – http://materializecss.com/ (stay away from Materialize WP, not much development) MDLWP – http://mdlwp.com/ (most features in commercial) Bootstrap Material Design – http://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/ How Do You Design? What are you…
WordCamp US 2019 – Technical SEO Checklist: How to Optimize a WordPress Site for Search Engine Crawlers – Pam Aungst
Why SEO is Important For search engines Why Technical SEO is Super Important Search Engines: Crawl / Index / Rank If technical SEO isn’t working search engines can’t crawl/index/rank. Visitors wont’ find your site. The Ultimate SEO Checklist Basic/Traditional Items Domain & CMS Run by a well designed platform Meta Robots Search Engine Visibility checkbox Cross-Check Plugin Robots.txt Exclude Irrelevant Content – Yoast SEO Implement Cross-Check’s Search Engine Visibility Monitoring XML Sitemap Dynamic XML Sitemap from Yoast SEO Submit XML index to Google Search Console and check for errors Search Console monitors for crawling errors Should be dynamically generated and updated Design Do not use “one page” designs, they don’t work well for SEO Breadcrumbs Schema markup can be added for search crawlers to follow…

WordCamp GR 2017 – WP-API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J Andrew Scott
J Andrew Scott – http://rubberchickenfarm.com/ History of APIs RSS Advantages Fast & reliable Easy to consume Almost no technical footprint Disadvantages Read-only Static content No authentication No user-driven content (i.e. comments, favorites, etc) DIY API Advantages Dynamic content User-driven content App & user authentication Roles & permissions based Connected applications Disadvantages DIY OAuth Redundant URI scheme Mediocre performance Large technical footprint WP-API Advantages Succinct URI scheme Improved performance Small technical footprint Available in WordPress core Disadvantages Granular transactions No batch uploads Increased number of API calls What once required 2 web servers now required 12-15 servers WP-API Disadvantage Factors & Solutions Number of content types Solution: consolidate endpoints Volume of individual API calls Solution: batch processing endpoints Frequency of individual API calls Solution: page-level caching Lessons…