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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVali Petcu\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"ValiIf you are from\u00a0Romania, chances are you’ve stumbled on Vali Petcu<\/strong><\/a>‘s Zoso.ro blog<\/a>. But did you know Zoso<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0site is running on\u00a0WordPress since 2005? During this time he learned\u00a0lots about the platform\u2019s vulnerabilities and strengths.<\/p>\n

Come hear talk 11 years with WordPress\u00a0<\/strong>from a full time\u00a0blogger and freelancer dealing with web strategy, guerrilla marketing, content creation and journalism.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlexandra Draghici\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"alexandraAlexandra handles product development at CaptainForm, WordPress form builder. In the past, she managed other projects of 123ContactForm, the mother company, mainly the development of new features and integrations based on market and user analysis. She is constantly looking to deepen her understanding of user behavior, so as to build better solutions for them.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMilan Ivanovic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"MilanMilan lives and breathes WordPress: he\u2019s the WordPress.org global translation editor, WordPress Serbia lead and one of WordCamp Europe organizers. One of the lecturers of the WordPress Academy in Serbia, giving talks and free WordPress Workshops. WordCamp volunteer, speaker and organizer. Member of Theme Review Team.<\/p>\n

In spare time he holds WordPress lectures and collects WordCamp T-shirts.
\nWorking as a Web developer at Devana Technologies, company behind ManageWP.
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCiprian Gavriliu\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"CiprianCiprian Gavriliu is a Product Designer, occasional blogger and aspiring writer. He has an broad\u00a0experience working with important clients worldwide like\u00a0Inbound.org, HubSpot, Neil Patel and Sujan Patel. Ciprian\u00a0will share important findings\u00a0about selecting\u00a0a good client niche, building a personal brand and working with\u00a0big clients. Pretty sure there are many of you\u00a0looking to improve their entrepreneurial\u00a0skills and\u00a0in this WordCamp session, you will\u00a0get\u00a0some great, to-the-point,\u00a0advice.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlexandru Linca\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"AlexandruMany WordPress\u00a0users, beginners and pros altogether, have a lot of trouble\u00a0figuring out how to\u00a0optimize speed and ensure security for their or their clients’ websites.\u00a0Alexandru Linca<\/strong>,\u00a0founder of wphosting.ro<\/a>, has been working with local clients for more than 10 years.\u00a0In his talk Easy WordPress Optimization <\/strong>Alexandru\u00a0will present\u00a09\u00a0rules about how you can obtain a faster and secure WordPress site. Because\u00a0everyone loves a fast speed load!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorin Stanescu\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"florin-fb\"Florin Stanescu<\/strong>\u00a0is a skilled\u00a0SEO, SEM, SMM and email marketing guy. He is coming from\u00a0Timisoara to\u00a0speak about how to optimize on-page and off-page SEO. Currently Florin is CTO and marketing specialist at Agroland<\/a> and CEO for PopasuriRomanesti<\/a>. He will present the best practices for growing your WordPress\u00a0website speed: plugins, Meta Titles & Meta Description, content optimization, H1, robots.txt, sitemaps.xml, image optimization and more. If you are a in the business of managing and maintaining websites, his\u00a0SEO for WordPress <\/strong>presentation is a must see.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMarius Vetrici\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"1383230_10201276609611955_1092688161_n\"First, we have\u00a0Marius Vetrici<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0If you attended at least one Bucharest WordPress Meetup in the past, chances are you already know him. Marius is the host and co-organizer of the Bucharest WordPress Meetup<\/a> and a happy WordPress community supporter. He also holds a\u00a0PhD in business informatics and, as a software entrepreneur, has served more than 800 small and large companies to achieve their online business goals during the last 13 years.<\/p>\n

Marius\u00a0fell in love with WordPress back in 2006 when he started his first blog about entrepreneurship. Later on he founded WPRiders<\/a>,\u00a0a technical WordPress agency with a focus on customer’s business goals.\u00a0After launching different products for both local as well as the international market, Marius’ agency is now\u00a0providing WordPress services for worldwide clients. At WordCamp Bucharest, he will be speaking about Moving from software products to WordPress service<\/strong>s, where he will share some lessons learned from his past experiences.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIvana \u0106irkovi\u0107\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"unnamed\"Ivana \u0106irkovi\u0107<\/strong><\/a> comes from Belgrade, Serbia, and she will share her personal involvement\u00a0with WordPress in her talk: How I met your WordPress<\/strong>. Owner of the\u00a0Digital Margeting Agency KickStart.rs<\/a> and of an\u00a0online magazine for women OrganVlasti.com<\/a>, Ivana\u00a0is part of\u00a0the WordPress ecosystem from\u00a0a non-technical position. Talking about her experience with WordPress from the beginnings, Ivana\u00a0wants to inspire others to be part of this growing community and share all the benefits WordPress has to offer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCiprian Turcu\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"c_turcu\"If you attended other WordCamp Romania events in the past, you may\u00a0have heard about Ciprian Turcu<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from Cluj-Napoca, because he’s been a 3-times speaker. Ciprian\u00a0has been working with WordPress since 2007 and he is currently a\u00a0WordPress developer at\u00a0Fortech, Cluj. He also has his own WordPress service & plugin agency\u00a0at\u00a0admin-builder.com.<\/a> In his speech The tool that builds the tool,<\/strong>\u00a0Ciprianwill talk about the utility of building tools to help you\u00a0create plugins and themes faster. Using these tools as a shortcut, instead of going the traditional way (building from scratch), Ciprian will show us how any WordPress developer can save time\u00a0and increase the quality of his results.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\"url\"Continuing the discussion\u00a0about optimizing workflows, Aleksander Kuczek<\/a><\/strong> (Poland, CEO of\u00a0Perfect Dashboard<\/a>) will speak about Turning WordPress maintenance into a money-making machine<\/strong>. If you find yourself often saying that you don’t like managing websites, then you must attend Aleksander’s\u00a0presentation. He promises that everyone can turn WordPress maintenance into a lucrative business. You will learn what’s the difference between managing and creating websites, how to organize website maintenance efficiently and other interesting and useful things.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDalibor Vasiljevic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"dalibor\"Dalibor Vasiljevic<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0comes from\u00a0Arad and he is a brand strategist, focused on (re)building consistent and coherent brands at Rainfall<\/a>, an award-winning branding agency. Rainfall has been using WordPress as its default CMS for more than 5 years, that\u2019s why Dalibor can share his\u00a0real-life experience about working with WordPress as an agency and how it can help\u00a0us become more efficient, boost productivity and generate a higher return of investment for clients. In his speech, Managing a small WordPress agency,<\/strong> he will point out a few important topics for an efficient business model: how to target customers and their needs, understanding competition and how the website can be integrated in the company\u2019s business model.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMarius Cristea\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"3330746\"Marius Cristea<\/strong><\/a> works as CTO for\u00a0Themeisle.com<\/a>, a local WordPress development company focused on selling themes and plugins. In his presentation Professional tools and workflows for theme development<\/strong> he will teach us\u00a0about some useful tools they use in\u00a0their workflow process: how they generate the themes, how they use Grunt<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to transform Pro\u00a0themes into Lite themes or how\u00a0they manage\u00a0dependencies using Composer<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Pop\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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\"adipop-2016-bw\"Adrian Pop<\/strong><\/a> is an experienced computer engineer and software developer with 25+ years as an entrepreneur. Adrian also\u00a0has a huge passion for WordPress and he is a volunteer in the WordPress Polyglots Team working as a General Translation Editor for the romanian WordPress community. His mission at WordPress.org<\/a> is to supervise the consistency and completion for all core translation projects, for the main plugins and themes and validation for the rest of them. He likes to speak about the re-birth of the Romanian Localization Team, what it means to be a WordPress Polyglot and what are the benefits of writing for the worldwide users. If you are looking\u00a0to enroll as a WordPress volunteer, or you simply love WordPress poetry, come and\u00a0listen his speech: Localize is poetry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\"pedro1\"Do you often worry\u00a0about huge spikes of traffic or downtime for your WordPress website? If so, fear no more.\u00a0Pedro Dobrescu<\/a>, <\/strong>the\u00a0 CSM and co-founder of Presslabs,<\/a> will come from Timisoara to\u00a0talk about “Speedcraft” or making high-traffic sites fast. <\/strong>You may find very useful his guide for \u201chospitality hosting\u201d which includes real-life samples: steps required to groom sites for traffic, manage development and deploy changes. Wondering how you can do all of this without affecting performance? Then you have to come and hear\u00a0Pedro share\u00a0his secret list of small things that have a huge impact on performance and thus on revenue.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5632111,"featured_media":418,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7rmbc-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5632111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucharest.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}