October 15, 2017 — Aan een blog beginnen zonder enige kennis van WordPress en zonder kennis van bloggen en SEO. Dat klinkt als: ‘een leuke hobby’. Niets is minder waar. Saskia van Klaarbergen wist in 3 jaar tijd KidsErOpUit.nl uit te bouwen tot het grootste familytravelblog van Nederland. In haar presentatie neemt ze jullie mee op de weg die ze heeft afgelegd. Ze vertelt over bloggen met een team, over keuzes in content, community opbouwen en de eerlijke cijfertjes. Maar dat doet ze niet alleen. Kees Lamper van Lamper Design is haar steun en toeverlaat voor het technische gedeelte van de website. Hij vertelt hoe het als WordPress-specialist is om met bloggers te werken. Over rare vragen, samenwerken op afstand en tips voor het gebruik van WordPress voor blogs.

October 15, 2017 — Kun je als WordPress specialist beginnen met een WordPress plugin en daar binnen een jaar een fijne extra inkomstenbron aan overhouden? Jazeker, en tijdens deze presentie laat ik je ALLE ins en outs zien. We bespreken zowel het ontwikkelen van een compleet nieuwe plugin alsook het overnemen van een plugin op de WordPress repository (die niet meer ontwikkeld wordt door de vorige eigenaar).

Van idee en vooronderzoek tot realisatie. We kijken naar het toevoegen van de plugin aan de WordPress Plugin repository en wat daar de eisen
voor zijn. Marketing komt aan bod, uitbesteden van ontwikkeling, testen van nieuwe ideeen en meer. En dit op basis van mijn eigen ervaring, die echt geresulteerd heeft in een leuk extra zakcentje.

October 15, 2017 — In deze talk gaan we over de mogelijke oorzaken van een trage front- en/of backend in WordPress. We nemen de tools door waarmee we de vertraging kunnen analyseren en vervolgens gaan we bekijken welke optimalisaties er kunnen worden uitgevoerd. Dit zowel binnen WordPress (plugins en best practices), binnen de bestandsstructuur van de webserver en door middel van extra lagen (cachingservices).

October 15, 2017 — I have often come across this notion that WordPress isn’t ready for big projects by default and that a lot of customization is needed for it to work at a truly large scale. However, my personal experience with setting up and helping maintain several really big projects has made me heartfully disagree with this statement. In this talk I will show you how a truly scalable and redundant system can be created without the need to change anything in WordPress. Here are few of the topics I will cover:

— Multiple Web Nodes
How to properly use load balancers and how to set WordPress on multiple web nodes without making any application modifications.
— Multiple Database Nodes
How to have a redundant master-slave DB replication without WordPress even knowing about it.
— Shared Storage
How to organize your files on multiple nodes, replicate them and keep them in sync in the most efficient way.
— Handling Sessions
How to handle sessions properly and how to overcome other potential issues with huge sites hosted on high-availability, multi-node WordPress setups.

October 15, 2017 — Conceptos a tener en cuenta para conseguir que tu plugin sea un buen plugin. Hacer las cosas bien no cuesta tanto. Siendo un contexto técnico, utilizaré un lenguaje que pueda llegar a todos los públicos que conozcan WordPress.

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October 15, 2017 — Get a quick intro into the online advertising world. Then, get a crash course in putting advertisements on your website. Learn what free plugins are available, and how you can best work with them.

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October 14, 2017 — • Discover how giving back to the community that helps you pay your bills can also help you travel the world and build connections you never dreamed of;
• Get to know at least 3 ways how voluntourism helps you let go of insecurity and build a healthy sense of self-confidence;
• Take home 4 best practices to make the best of voluntourism.

October 14, 2017 — Many starting WordPress business owners underestimate how long it takes to build a strong foundation for their business. Often, out of desperation, they will take on any job, at any price, no questions asked. Ending up financially and emotionally drained. This is probably a reason why so many businesses close down in their first two years.
Having experienced this myself the hard way, I discovered the power of the tiny word “No!”, the most powerful key we hold to end this rat race.

Saying “No!” is counterintuitive. And it is certainly is not an easy thing to do. But practicing to say “No!” can keep you from disliking your business and the people you do business with. The moment you stop saying ‘Yes” to every opportunity that arises, your WordPress business can grow bigger than you could have imagined.

The “No!” strategy is all about doing the work you are passionate about and are good at, and with the right clients. It really boils down to doing less of the work you dislike, isn’t profitable or does not fit your beliefs.

Learn to say “No!”
I feel the time is right to share some insights about why and how I learned to say no to certain work and clients. I will share my six-step process that helped me grow my WordPress business over the years …

And remember:
“If it’s not a hell yeah, it’s a no.”

October 14, 2017 — Building WordPress plugins in an object-oriented way presents some particular challenges, due to the fact that the WordPress APIs you’re coding against are mostly procedural in nature.

In this session, we’ll go over a real-world plugin to see how the code should be structured, and how best to hook into the WordPress lifecycle when you want to take full advantage of the benefits of OOP PHP.

October 14, 2017 — If you’re looking at the WordPress core code, you wouldn’t easily believe that WordPress actually has clear and consistent coding standards.
While the standards are in the Core developers handbook, most of the WordPress code base does not comply and patches to fix this were not being accepted.

Until now.

So let me tell you a little story about trac ticket 41057 and how we created the biggest patch to go into WordPress core ever. …