Thank you so much to all of our fabulous speakers on the weekend. Below you’ll find links to the slides used by the speakers during their talks.  We’ll try to add the missing ones as soon as possible.

Thursday

• Introduction to WordPress for Beginners
  • Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/r3df/introduction-to-wordpress-for-beginners

Saturday

10am

• Erin Blaskie – Storytelling, Social Media & Building a Community for Your Blog or Website
  • Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/erinblaskie/storytelling-building-online-communities
• David Bird – 7 Google Analytics Mistakes Holding you Back & How to Fix Them
• Paul Berne – Compare and contrast custom meta box frameworks

11am

• Shannon Smith – Oooh, Shiny! All the new CSS toys for WordPress Theme Development
  • Slides: http://chroni.ca/463/oooh-shiny-new-css-toys-wordpress-theme-development/
• Thiago Loureiro – Using Docker to Create WordPress Development Environments 2.0
  • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xi2G33MHTcvlK4eIP_7Yn0Tf-qiqJrShDBB3ly3ztWE/edit#slide=id.g1571b562ac_1_0

1pm

• Chris Ross – The Secret Art of WordPress
• Sam Lalonde – Fast & Deadly: WordPress Websites Need To be Mobile Friendly: An Advertiser’s Perspective
• Neha Patel – 404 Pages are inevitable, so make the most out of them

1:30pm

• Sylvie Hanes – Providing stellar client/customer service in a technical world
• Matt Graham – Template code in functions kill kittens
  • Slides: https://mattgraham.ca/html-in-functions/
• Remy Perona – Premium plugin and public GitHub repository: why it’s a good idea

2:00

• Michelle Ames – It’s the Little Things that Make a Difference
  • Slides: https://wpfanatic.com/Ottawa/
• Chris Yee – Fantastic SVGs and Where to Find Them
  • Slides: https://chrisyee.ca/blog/wordcamp-ottawa-2017/

3:00

• Bridget Willard – Relationship Marketing: Building Your WordPress Business With Twitter
• Daphnée Laforest – Boost your website analytics with Event tracking
• Lucas Cherkewski – Learning to Code by Failing Safely
  • Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/lchski/learning-to-code-by-failing-safely

4:00

• Kyle M. Brown – Support, Customer Experience, and WordPress
• Jer Clarke – F******k Instant Articles: How do they work?
  • Slides: http://simianuprising.com/2017/07/21/instant-articles-wordcamp/

Sunday

10am

• Mike Dickson – All About Images
• James Koole – DNS and Domain Names Demystified
• Paul Bearne – Contrib2Core Workshop

11am

• Bianca Welds – Perfect Platform: WordPress for Artists
  • Slides: http://lattitudestudios.com/wordpress-for-artists-wordcamp-ottawa-2017/
• Ivan Kruchkoff – Enterprise Migrations: How to move 1 million+ posts from ANY CMS to WordPress
  • Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/IvanK12/wordcamp-ottawa-wp-big-mig
  • WP Big Mig Tool: https://github.com/ivankruchkoff/wp-bigmig
  • WP Big Mig Overview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvRGdL4yyLw

1pm

• Stéphane Boisvert – Mental Health, the Imposter Syndrome and working from home
  • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQIl9GVjYFoizAAOOF1H7ljcIZuw7hz28HhPULzSlFSf_o0wPI3ABSRbMiHPJD2BmGGEiBijh0cr91v/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000&slide=id.p
• Brian Zerkler – WooCommerce: A beginners guide to sell anything, anywhere…beautifully
• Bilal Hassan – Plugin & Application Development in WordPress
  • Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X83919_0xIyq2b-N6C-Amo31tWDBetWhjkiay-PGnls/edit?usp=sharing

2pm

• Daphnée Laforest – Inside a Global Remote Agency
• Jeremy Josey – Add Some Sass to your Next Project ! An introduction to Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
  
  • Slides: https://github.com/mandozza/sass-examples-and-presentation/blob/master/presentation/SassPresentation.pdf
  • Code Samples: https://github.com/mandozza/sass-examples-and-presentation/

3pm

• Shanta Nathwani – WTH are CPT’s
  • Slides: http://shanta.ca/wth-are-cpts-and-acfs-wordcamp-ottawa-2017/
• Shawn Hooper – Writing Clean Code in WordPress
  • Slides: https://www.shawnhooper.ca/2016/10/wordcamp-winnipeg-code/ (from a previous version of this talk)