November 21, 2016 — The number one goal of any nonprofit website is to help the organization meet its mission. Whether it’s driving donations to help bring access to clean water or recruiting volunteers to build new homes and restore playgrounds, a nonprofit’s website can greatly help with this. This session goes into how to use WordPress to drive and collect donations and recruit volunteers as well as tips and tools on how to maintain a healthy WordPress website over the long-term.

November 21, 2016 — I was a writer and executive assistant with a solid liberal arts education when I first encountered WordPress in 2009. Since then, I’ve gone from knowing only very small bits of HTML to working full time as a developer. In this session I’ll talk about how I transitioned to a career in web development while working full time. We’ll also cover suggestions on what to learn first, strategies on how to learn technical subjects, resources I’ve found helpful both offline and around the web, how to get experience with real projects, and perhaps most importantly, how the WordPress community can be an amazing resource to help guide you along the way.

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November 21, 2016 — Do you want to learn how to create video with a smartphone for your WordPress blog? This talk is for you. With practical examples, I am going to show you some basic rules for creating relevant video content for your blog.

Since about half a year now, I have been using more video for my social media and blog because I think it nicely illustrate my digital nomad adventures. With VINUBIS Video Editor plugin for WordPress – http://www.wp-video-editor.com – I found a way to easily create video out of my smart phone directly onto my WordPress blog.

My talk will include a live video recording that I will then edit and render with VINUBIS Video Editor plugin for WordPress and publish into this post, from my WordPress blog.
All this will be done live during the talk, so that you will be able to really experience my process of video creation. Hopefully, I’ll inspire you to create more video for your blog.

November 21, 2016 — Always wanted to contribute to the community but think you have to be a developer? WRONG! Contributing is within reach of everyone. Learn about the available projects, meetups, and communities. Find the perfect place to get started and have fun.

November 21, 2016 — As an agency that builds enterprise level websites on WordPress and Drupal, The Web Development Group tackles weighty information architecture challenges daily. Equipped with Advanced Custom Fields our developers partnered with our strategists to create a template system that empowers clients to have control and maintain consistency. Vajaah, Chief Strategist, will partner with Kurtis, Senior Developer, to talk about the process, the build and the product.

November 21, 2016 — Too often vital information is locked away in somebody’s email in box, personal or office shared drive, or often hard to find on a SharePoint site. For the US Department of State, it is only compounded when over 25% of the entire diplomatic workforce transfer to another country every year. When they transfer their knowledge often goes with them. So the Department of State is making an effort to make knowledge management priority #1. Over the last six month, the Office of eDiplomacy has been crafting a new knowledge management collaboration environment harnessing power of WordPress. We have been using WordPress Multisite, BBPress, BuddyPress, Gravity Forms combine with open source and commercial plugins and theme, to make a cost efficient KM portal. The system is currently in the proof-of-concept testing. We have a road map that will include Mobile Deployment, Elasticseach, integration with other tools such as SalesForce.

November 21, 2016 — Every complex development project has dependencies, and WordPress is no exception: While the core codebase takes the worry out of managing many JavaScript libraries, you still have to manage all your plugins and themes. If you’ve just got one site to worry about, manually taking care of tracking and updating these dependencies is easy, but as soon as you’re managing multiple sites it starts to become cumbersome — and managing dependencies is especially hard when you’re working with in Multisite.

There are several ways to approach managing your dependencies: You can have a zip folder of them; keep them all in a Git repo; use more advanced Git techniques like submodules or subtrees; or use something like TGM Plugin Activation library. You can also use a Composer — the standard PHP dependency management tool — to manage your WordPress site dependencies.

This session will walk you through managing your WordPress dependencies using modern tools like Git, WP-CLI, and Composer, making maintenance easier and decreasing the amount of third-party code you have to store in your repo or code management tool. You should come away knowing a few different approaches to make dependency management both less work and less prone to problems and mistakes.

November 21, 2016 — The Child Theme concept is well known to many theme developers. Sometimes people ask, if there is something similar for plugins. Unfortunately, no.

At least not exactly. There are many ways to customize a plugin without modifying the plugin’s original code. In this session I would like to present some of there techniques and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

November 21, 2016 — One can have many reasons to form a WordPress agency. At required+ we didn’t think about becoming an agency in the first place. Initially we teamed up to build an online platform that scratched an itch in all of us, we simply wanted to try and prove a point with the idea we had. All of a sudden we were running a thriving job board for the Swiss web industry and had a beautiful side project to work on. In order to keep our creative freedom and sovereignty, we didn’t want to take money from venture capitalists or investors. Therefore we came up with a concept to keep us going while allowing space for our individual lifestyles. We started to take on interesting client projects, this way we continued to build interesting sites & apps.

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November 21, 2016 — L’anno scorso abbiamo assistito a una delle svolte più importanti nel mondo di WordPress: il rilascio del progetto Calypso (il nuovo wordpress.com) e l’abbraccio della piattaforma verso le architetture REST. Fantastico, ma cosa significa questo per gli sviluppatori odierni? In questo talk esploreremo questo concetto e vedremo come utilizzare WordPress come backend universale per client diversi.

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