October 11, 2017 — Having a solid backup strategy can save your life in times of an extreme website crisis. No one wants to lose any of the hard work they have put into their site and why should you ever have to if you are backing things up.

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October 11, 2017 — MVC, which stands for Model-View-Controller, is a popular methodology used by modern PHP frameworks to separate the presentation (HTML) from the data and logic of an application. In this talk you’ll learn how to write plugins “the MVC way” while still doing things “the WordPress way.”

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Advanced

October 11, 2017 — A problem that gets out of hand easily, and is hard to come back from once you’ve gone too far, is CSS bloat. We will discover the importance keeping CSS bloat to a minimum, the benefits of using a CSS preprocessor, and the best-practices to avoid bloat in the future. While all of this may cause small delays in the present, it will help you immensely in the future and inevitably you will thank past-you for keeping things tidy and clear.

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: All (beginner, intermediate, advanced)

October 11, 2017 — 別に欲しくもなかったのに、ちょっと目に留まって、手に取ってみて、ふとレジに持っていって、気付いたら自宅にシーサーが飾ってあったことってないですか？
こういうことって生活していると普通にあることなんです。
でも、なんで買ったのかを突き詰めて考えたことってありますか？なんとなく買って、なんとなく飾っただけで、普段の生活に戻ってしまう人がほとんどだと思います。なので、その思考の流れを紐解くセミナーを開催します。

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October 11, 2017 — Slowly loading websites not only negatively influence the customer’s perception of your brand, but they also negatively impact your site’s search engine rankings.

A CDN, or content delivery network, is something that everyone can use to speed up their site for visitors all around the world.  CDN’s used to be expensive and require long-term contracts, but all of that has changed.

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October 11, 2017 — Often as bloggers, we get in our own way, slowing our blog’s growth. In this presentation, I will share 10 habits that I’ve developed – expanding on each one with real life examples of how these have worked for me and others.

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October 11, 2017 — Най-големият проблем, който една WordPress агенция обикновено среща с клиенти е как да ги накара да използват лесно и удобно административния панел на своя сайт. Лекцията прави преглед на различните начини за това как лесно да направим един сайт ползваем от клиента – визуални редактори, потребителски надграждания на визуални редактори, разработени за клиента индивидуални интерфейси.

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October 11, 2017 — Fourteen years after WordPress’ initial release, the platform is widely adopted and well-respected by major media organizations. Yet many industry leaders still view it exclusively as blogging software.

In this talk, Stephen Tiszenkel will explore why this idea persists and how to overcome it. He’ll take a comprehensive look at some of the tools you can use to meet all the needs of a progressive, digitally savvy, growth-minded multimedia publisher.

Intended Audience Type: Developers, Content Managers, Executives
Intended Audience Experience: All levels of experience

October 11, 2017 — WordPress 4.7 introduced the content endpoints for the REST API. This grants access to built in content like posts, pages and categories. However, the power in WordPress often lies in plugins and custom content.

In this talk Timothy Jacobs will explore how you can extend the WordPress REST API to access custom post types, custom taxonomies, metadata and custom fields. He’ll also touch on building completely custom endpoints using the built-in framework introduced in WordPress 4.7.

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Beginner developer with some experience with CPTs (custom post types) and meta boxes

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October 10, 2017 — Managing a large network of WordPress sites doesn’t have to be herding cats or playing favorites. In this session, we’ll talk about how at Tribune Media we manage more than 30 sites on WordPress.com VIP, with content produced by hundreds of producers across the nation. We’ll touch on how we manage breaking news, editorial workflow, author and content management, as well as communication, at scale. We’ll share what and how we borrowed from community plugins, and what we had to build ourselves to satisfy the needs of product and editorial, across a wide range of needs and wants.