August 28, 2019 — Now that WordPress has committed to a minimum requirement of PHP 7 by the end of 2019, we can all start looking at modernising the code we maintain. Removing hacks to support old versions is easy, but how can code be improved when it just works on PHP 7? Namespaces, generators, Intl are just a few of the features introduced since PHP 5.2, not to mention scalar type declarations and all the other awesomeness that came with PHP 7. But what does it all mean, and how can you take advantage of these goodies? Join Juliette to learn to identify where to make quick fixes, when to look into refactoring, and how to make your code faster, better and more secure by using modern PHP.

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August 28, 2019 — Dee has been using WordPress as a blogger since 2008, as a web developer since 2009, and has transitioned to being a Project Manager (PM) for large-scale WordPress projects as a ‘Human’ with Human Made where she leads their team of PMs.

Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, organises WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at them whenever she gets the opportunity, both at home and around the world.

August 28, 2019 — Ines will explain how DonateWC was born and how the foundation aims to diversify the speaker pool for WordCamps. She will tell her personal story of being a single mom, starting out in the WordPress world without a penny to her name, the effort it took to save up and attend the Community Summit, and changing her life. DonateWC will bring more voices to the WordPress community by levelling the financial playing field, and this benefits us all in the long run.

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August 28, 2019 — For nearly a decade, developers have been encouraged to use custom post types and taxonomies for all of their needs, and life was good. Good enough, anyway. For the next decade of advanced computing, machine intelligence will require, at the very least, custom database tables. John will break down what a database really is and what WordPress got right and wrong, and share several solutions that plugin developers can use right now to interface with complex custom data structures inside of WordPress.

August 27, 2019 — There is no perfect text to attract everyone, but writing techniques, neurolinguistics, and legibility can be used to get the maximum result from content on our website or blog.

Fernando will teach you how to write for SEO, readability and mobile devices, optimising for sharing and virality across social networks and content curation services.

Starting with imperfect text, he will improve it step by step until it transforms into a practically perfect piece of content for conversion and call to action (CTA).

August 27, 2019 — The web has a dirty secret — its carbon footprint is larger than that of global air travel. The immense energy consumed by the Internet from non-renewable sources makes it the largest coal-fired machine on earth. Mozilla’s 2018 Internet Health Report highlighted this growing problem and stated that sustainability should be a bigger priority for the industry. Jack will provide practical steps to reduce the environmental impact of our work and promote a better future.

August 27, 2019 — In the last 20 years, using free or open-source software has transformed from being nerdy to being evil to being trendy, and finally to being the norm.

What led to this change? Have we lost the values of free and open-source software along the way?

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August 26, 2019 — “Η παρουσίασή του, δεν θα είναι ακριβώς παρουσίαση, αλλά περισσότερο live coding στο πως να χρησιμοποιηθεί το Xdebug για να κάνουμε debug τα projects μας. Η όλη παρουσίαση θα γίνει με τη χρήση του Local της Flywheel και θα περιγράψει

-πώς μπορείτε να ρυθμίσετε το Local,
-πώς να μεταφερθούν production sites στο Local για να γίνει το development
-πώς να ενεργοποιηθεί το Xdebug και πώς γίνεται το debugging στο PHPStorm, χωρίς τη χρήση var_dump και die (θα παρουσιάσει real life scenario από ένα bug που χρειάστηκε να διορθώσω για πελάτη μου)
-πώς να γυρίσετε εύκολα εκδόσεις PHP/DB/Webserver
-πώς να δημιουργήσετε καινούρια sites στο local και παρουσίαση των blueprints (έτοιμα WordPress installations, με συγκεκριμένα themes/plugins για να ξεκινήσει το development γρηγορότερα) “

August 26, 2019 — Why WP can be the ideal tool for a marketer. Where it participates in a marketing growth plan. How much a marketer relies on WP to grow?

August 26, 2019 — Το WP-CLI είναι το standard command line εργαλείο του WordPress σήμερα.
Στην ομιλία θα δούμε γιατί το WP-CLI αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό ατού στο toolstack του WordPress και πώς μπορεί να μας λύνει τα χέρια για πλήθος καθημερινών εργασιών σε κάθε WordPress Project.
Θα παρουσιάσουμε σημαντικές δυνατότητές του, τις ευκολίες που μας προσφέρει, τα οφέλη από την αξιοποίησή του στο performance και στο workflow μας, αλλά και ευκαιρίες αυτοματισμών που πλέον μας ανοίγονται με τη χρήση του.