September 2, 2020

September 2, 2020

September 2, 2020 — A walk-through on how to contribute developer documentation to the WordPress Gutenberg project, with a focus on different ways going through the GitHub PR process.

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September 2, 2020 — Rajnish talks about WordPress Scaling Challenges and preparing WordPress for High Volume Traffic.

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September 1, 2020 — Fasten your seatbelts! We will dive into page performance, what it is, how to measure it, why you want it and most important how you can achieve a high performant website.
Based on some latest experiences with a customer project Stefan Kremer will give the talk and share his learnings.

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September 1, 2020

August 31, 2020 — You have prepared endlessly and proudly pitched your client. Now you wait, only to hear they have selected another agency or maybe a freelancer. When faced with rejection, how do you keep yourself focused and motivated to continue? This talk will focus on ways to stay positive while continuously improving your pitch (and yourself).

August 31, 2020 — Pictures and logos are a necessity on a website, but not all images are created equal. The wrong images could slow down your site or even worse, cause users to leave before your page loads. Speaker Kim White will walk through the basics of the most used image format types and some optimization techniques. She will also do a review of what WordPress does when you upload your image file.

August 31, 2020 — In an effort to deliver a beautiful site for clients at a reasonable cost, some designers rely quite a bit on the intuitive interface of page builders. Working this way has several advantages, but it is not without its problems. In this session, graphic designer Lou Fuiano will share some of these experiences and hopes they will lead to a lively discussion.

August 31, 2020 — Settings, widgets, HTTP requests, shortcodes… WordPress gives plugin developers more than a dozen PHP APIs. Using these APIs enables developers to write extensions the “right” way, using methods, actions, and filters that make plugins forward-compatible, maintainable, and extensible. We’ll take a tour of these APIs, exploring when and how to use them to build a WordPress plugin.