WordCamp Chiclana 2020 and mowomo Variable Fonts
Last weekend from 14 to 16 for February took place the WordCamp Chiclana 2020 and we had the honor of enjoying it up close. All mowomo members join the organization team, among more volunteers and organizers, to carry out this event that occurs every 3 years.
First of all, we remember again that the WordCamp Chiclana 2020 it was not organized by mowomo as a company. Each one of us, independently, decided to offer our work and effort by joining the team of organizers that was made up of several people. We needed to clarify this, the WordCamps consist of official WordPress events that are organized throughout the entire planet, by and for the Community of users of this free software. Having said this and resolved the doubt, we continue.
There is no doubt that it was an event full of emotions. attended hundreds of people interested in him wordpress world, there was high level presentations, workshops both for people who are starting out in this world and for those who already use WordPress on a daily basis. It's always possible learn new things from others and feed on failures and corrections that they may have had to improve day by day. In addition to having incredible surprises.
Friday February 14: “Fall in love with WordPress”
The event started at 16:30 p.m. in the bOx Youth Initiatives Center and the most punctual were already waiting at the door to enter, collect their accreditation, bag with gifts and sign up for the workshops who would attend on Saturday the 15th.
The presentation that broke the ice was that of Fernando Tellado in which he told us his more personal experience: «How to live on WordPress without having planned it – A real case of life turned upside down».
The second presentation of the WordCamp Chiclana 2020 was run by a WordPressera couple: Eva Gonzalez y Alfonso Sanchez. They told us about their good moments and the not so good ones when it came to undertake with "Unstoppable. The support of the WordPress community in our story.
After the break and networking, it was the turn of Rocio Valdivia. Can you imagine being able to travel the world while you work remotely? He told us how it is possible with his presentation in «My experience working remotely in Automattic«.
Create community It is an extraordinary exercise that brings benefits and difficulties and all this is multiplied when you do it in a foreign country. Angel Zinsel he told us about his experience in “How you end up setting up a WordPress meetup in Sierra Leone”.
At Valentine's Day it was obligatory to talk about love: Love for WordPress. In charge of Jaime Garmar, In the Roundtable there was talk of “Why you have to fall in love with WordPress” with Angel Zinsel, Alfonso Sanchez, Eva Gonzalez, Fernando Tellado y Rocio Valdivia.
Saturday February 15: Day of presentations and workshops
From 9:00 a.m. to 20:30 p.m., the sábado 15 de febrero was full of talks, workshops, feasts, raffles, and even the live launch of a new free plugin!. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
We start the day with strength, with the presentation of Benjamin Caubere in which he explained to us how to “Create a WordPress plugin in 2020”. Since 2011 things have changed and evolved, you have to renew yourself to create a quality plugin in 2020.
The time has come. All members of the team mowomo, present there, and Ana Surgeon they had something in common moments before the next presentation: nerves and enthusiasm, but above all nerves. It was not for less, he was going to publish the plugin «mowomo Variable Fonts« Live in the repository of WordPress, and it was a surprise for all attendees.
"Improve the UX and WPO of your website with a variable font plugin" was the name given to the presentation by Ana Surgeon and from the beginning it captured the attention of the entire public. She waited until the last few minutes of their talk for the big moment.
Everything was ready and prepared so that, by pressing the button, the new plugin in the wordpress repository. It was very exciting, someone shed a tear. the plugin mowomo Variable Fonts is developed by Peter Crespo y Victor Saenz and designed by Ana Surgeon.
We are immensely grateful for the good reception it has been receiving since the day it was published, for the reviews, the times it is shared, and for the comments we have received. Add that this collaboration with Ana does not stop there, many surprises come and that is as far as we can say.
The presentation of Nando Pappalardo He also came to excite. The CEO of YITH He posed a question to us: "Do you know what the biggest limit we have is?" The attitude it multiplies any knowledge or skill anyone has.
"Issues? Design to the rescue" was the presentation by Maribel delgado and showed us a reality that many designers experience on a daily basis: design is much more than making beautiful things, tries to organize, facilitates, tells us and influences us in our way of seeing the world.
turn of the morning workshops with all the variety of subjects:
- «Design for WordPress step by step" with Ana Surgeon.
- «Prepare your event with WordPress and ACF" with Ibon Azkoitia.
- «Install and configure WordPress for the first time" with Daniel Serrano.
- «Bring your forms to life with Gravity Forms" with isa gomez.
- «Getting to know Dolly. From the tab to the plugin" with Nile Velez.
- «SEO wasn't dead, it was out on the town" with Rafael Ramos.
Just before eating, the mythical family photo. Good together to go out all.
With recharged batteries pies of all the flavors there have been and to have.
«Lessons that a designer can learn from the phenomenon of La casa de papel». In advance it may seem that the design and the famous series 'The paper house' they are not related but Sara Presenti, UI/UX designer YITH, showed us that yes, everything can be learned if we extrapolate it to what interests us. We had a very fun time.
We can perform automated assessments of the accessibility of a website, But Vicent sanchis with his presentation «Assessment of accessibility. When automatic tests are insufficient », he showed us live which is not a good option, it is not 100% indicative of the accessibility issues.
In the presentation "Create SEO Schemas without plugins" of David Pérez we learned to create correctly Schemas for our Custom Post Types and implement them on our website.
With Nahuel Cassino In his presentation "The best tricks to write your sales page", we learned from practical way all the essential parts that a sales page has to have and how to sell our products and services through web writing.
After a short pause, the afternoon workshops:
- «Create Custom Post Types and templates without a single line of code" with Angel Zinsel.
- «Create a profitable business with WordPress in 30 days" with Eva Gonzalez y Alfonso Sanchez.
- «private podcasts. Creation, audience and monetization" with Miguel Angel Terron.
- «make it hard for the bad guys" with Santiago Becerra.
- «Web accessibility assessment" with Vicent sanchis.
- «How to make a landing page with WordPress without using Divi, or Elementor, or any other builder" with Fernando Tellado.
WordPress is a software that incorporates a large number of functionalities which we can further extend by using themes and plugins, own or third parties. Carlos Rodriguez gave us several valuable tips on "Best Practices for Extending Projects with WordPress".
The last presentation on Saturday 15 and the WordCamp Chiclana 2020 went hand in hand santiago alonso with "11 (and a half) things I wish I knew about programming and WordPress when I started." good tips to know before your first day of work.
It has been a pleasure to be part of the organization of the WordCamp Chiclana 2020 with amazing people. Everyone who has been in this place knows that organize a WordCamp It is a lot of work, time and effort. But it's all worth it for the satisfaction of seeing the Attendees, speakers y sponsors happy, with a full stomach, learning and enjoying to the fullest.
We can only give Thank you everyone for making this event possible every three years.
But wait. This does not end here because Sunday the 16th was the Contributor Day and we gave in our offices for your celebration, but we will tell you about that in the next chapter, let me say, next post 😉
We remind you that if you have not tried the plugin yet mowomo Variable Fonts that we publish live together with Ana Surgeon, you are already late because it is free. Enjoy from now on a elegant solution for better typography using pretty variable fonts.
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