Archive for 2019

  • Alonso Indacochea: The New WordPress Paradigm

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Alonso Indacochea

    February 27, 2019 — How Gutenberg Will (Eventually) Empower WordPress End-Users AND Professionals
    The new visual editor sure does inspire consternation in the WordPress community. As with any disruption, there will be winners and losers in professional world – but what about the end-user? Can the new editor make life easier for them? And for professionals, how will Gutenberg change theme development? What about page-builders – things of the past? Instead of focusing on launch and transition issues, I’ll describe how we think the fundamentals of the WordPress experience will change (for the better) for both the end-user AND the professional.

  • Sara Dunn: 3 Ways to Make Your Web Forms More Awesome

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Sara Dunn

    February 26, 2019 — We’re all pretty familiar with standard contact forms. But pour some rocket fuel on forms, and you’ll be surprised at all they can do! We’ll dive into the Gravity Forms plugin and talk about awesome features that will make your forms more useful or easier for website visitors to use.

  • Frederick Polk: Advanced Custom Fields for Beginners

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Frederick Polk

    February 26, 2019 — Advanced Custom Fields is a powerful plugin to add and use metadata with your WordPress site. This lightning talk will get you up and running with the plugin and an example of what you can build with Advanced Custom Fields.

  • Kyle Maurer: A Few of My Favorite WordPress Life Hacks

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Kyle Maurer

    February 26, 2019 — Everyone loves some handy tips and tricks, right? How about a huge list of all the ways I have personally improved my workflows, processes, production quality, and even lifestyle? I’ve been building WordPress sites, writing code, working remotely, and generally doing all things WordPress for years now and I’ve discovered a whole lot of cool stuff in that time. Come see the curtain get pulled back and learn which tools I value the most and the good habits I’ve developed which have made the biggest impact on my life.

  • Sophia DeRosia: Replacing Facebook: A Case Study of BuddyPress

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Sophia DeRosia

    February 26, 2019 — Some of my friends were not allowed on Facebook, but we wanted a place where we could all communicate, like Facebook. So I built a BuddyPress site.

  • Roman Hraška: Inšpiratívny talk o tom, ako sa nenechať zdierať

    WordCamp Bratislava 2018Speaker: Roman Hraška

    February 26, 2019 — Nikto z nás nevie, koľko si má vypýtať.

    Každý z nás sa bojí vypýtať si viac.

    A každý z nás si zrejme pýta málo.

    Naučím ťa nebáť sa pýtať si.

    A keď nie, aspoň sa zasmeješ na všetkých mojich trápnych zlyhaniach.

    A to je tiež niečo.

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  • Steve Grunwell: Up and Running with WP-CLI

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Steve Grunwell

    February 26, 2019 — Traditionally, interacting with WordPress is largely a graphical affair: many users rely on WP Admin to manage themes, plugins, content, and everything else. For situations where you need to be able to script WordPress interactions, however, nothing compares to the power of WP-CLI, the official command line interface for WordPress.

    This session acts as a primer for WP-CLI, scratching the surface of what can be done and how it fits into the WordPress workflow. Whether you’ve never heard of WP-CLI or have been using it as part of your daily WordPress rituals, you’re sure to learn at least a few useful tricks.

  • Tim Nolte: WordPress DevOps

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Tim Nolte

    February 26, 2019 — Learn how to connect source code management to test automation and release deployment. You’ll learn some tips on setting up a solid plugin, or theme, workflow that will help take care of many repetitive tasks that can help with collaboration on open source development as well as deploying plugins to both private websites and the WordPress plugin repository.

  • Peter DeHaan: The Broken Link Checker Plugin: Don’t Let Broken Links Drag Your Site Down

    WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018Speaker: Peter DeHaan

    February 26, 2019 — A website with broken links hurts the user experience and is penalized by Google, which hurts a site’s organic search results. Identify and fix broken links fast with the Broken Link Checker plugin.

  • Ján Bočinec: WordPress DevOps

    WordCamp Bratislava 2018Speaker: Ján Bočínec

    February 26, 2019 — Procesy a praktiky pri vývoji webového projektu od jeho inicializácie, cez jeho testovanie, nasadenie a následnú údržbu.

    Často sa vám stáva, že robíte v kóde chyby, máte tam bordel a ešte aj meškáte s odovzdaním? Nemáte v tíme jednotné kvalitatívne štandardy, ktoré by sa kontrolovali a každý pristupuje k vývoju trochu inak? Povieme si ako vám “continuous implementation” a “continuous delivery” môže ušetriť čas a zoptimalizovať vašu prácu. Ukážeme si ktoré rutinné úlohy sa dajú automatizovať a ako dosiahnúť čo najhladšiu realizáciu a dodanie požadovaného riešenia.