Author Archive

  • Laurent Vergnaud: HTTP/2, quelles implications pour mon site WordPress ?

    Laurent Vergnaud: HTTP/2, quelles implications pour mon site WordPress ?

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Laurent Vergnaud

    May 16, 2016 — HTTP/2 est le nouveau protocole réseau du web. Si tous les navigateurs modernes sont déjà compatibles, il est pourtant encore peu répandu et peu connu bien que ses impacts soient énormes.

    Qu’est-ce exactement que HTTP/2 ?
    Retour sur l’histoire du protocole HTTP, les origines de HTTP/2 avec Google SPDY et explication des évolutions HTTP/2.

    Est-ce vraiment performant ?
    Benchmarks de différents configurations de sites, avec et sans HTTP/2

    Quelles conséquences sur mon mode de fonctionnement actuel ?
    Comment : hébergeur, CDN, extensions de cache, etc.

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  • Willy Bahuaud: Pourquoi et comment lire le code de WordPress ?

    Willy Bahuaud: Pourquoi et comment lire le code de WordPress ?

    WordCamp Paris 2016Speaker: Willy Bahuaud

    May 16, 2016 — J’ai vraiment eu le sentiment de progresser dans ma pratique dès le moment où je me suis mis à lire le code source de WordPress.
    Avant, je me référais uniquement au codex – et autres sites tels wpseek – pour comprendre des fonctions ou des filtres, mais ces ressources sont loin d’être complètes… pire : elles ne permettent de trouver des informations que sur ce que l’on cherche.

    Aucun risque donc de découvrir des fonctions/hooks au hasard… alors que ceux-ci pourraient nous être très utiles dans nos développements.

    Que l’on soit développeur ou pas, la lecture du code source de WP ou de ses plugins permet d’évoluer dans notre compréhension du CMS.

    Bien sûr nous n’allons pas tout lire, mais je vous expliquerai comment trouver les fichiers qui vous intéressent, et je vous suggérerai quelques fichiers qui sont de bonnes entrées en matière…

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  • Sonja Leix: Working Remotely as a WordPress Freelancer

    Sonja Leix: Working Remotely as a WordPress Freelancer

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Sonja Leix

    May 16, 2016 — A location independent life has combined my passion for travel and inspired my work. I’d like to share my lessons learned as a Digital Nomad, working remotely as a freelancer for clients. How I stay motivated, find community, and how you can live a location-independent lifestyle as well.

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  • Petya Raykovska: Does WordPress Speak Your Language?

    Petya Raykovska: Does WordPress Speak Your Language?

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Petya Raykovska

    May 14, 2016 — WordPress speaks more than 100 languages. Many people don’t realise that that’s one of the main reasons of the software growing globally to power more than 24% of the web. This talk will shed a bit of light on who translates WordPress and how you, as a plugin or theme author, can grow your products following the example of the core software. You get to meet the largest WordPress contributor team – the Polyglots – 4000+ people who donate their time and effort to get WordPress to as many people and place as possible.

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  • Jan Thiel: The Missing Link – Empowering WordPress with HTTPS

    Jan Thiel: The Missing Link – Empowering WordPress with HTTPS

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Jan Thiel

    May 14, 2016 — Offering HTTPS is beneficial for site owners and visitors alike. Whether you need to protect your admin credentials, or just to raise the search engine ranking of your site. You can do both with HTTPS! I will show the pitfals and how to make your site HTTPS compatible while giving developers some hints on the most common mistake when creating themes or plugins that prevent HTTPS.

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  • Jaana Björklund: Nurturing a Cross-Disciplinary Professional Culture

    Jaana Björklund: Nurturing a Cross-Disciplinary Professional Culture

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Jaana Björklund

    May 14, 2016 — WordPress community – open-source development, ongoing discussion, meetings online and IRL make us perhaps the most cross-disciplined professionals in the field of web development. This talk is a look into cross-disciplinary habits and possibilities, it gives ideas how to better utilise them in business and personal professional development. This is definitely one of the huge advantages of WordPress community – discussion and conscious development of this trait is one of our success factors.

  • Michael Sebel: The “Adopt a WordPress Made By Someone Else” Checklist

    Michael Sebel: The “Adopt a WordPress Made By Someone Else” Checklist

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Michael Sebel

    May 14, 2016 — In our first year at comotive we’ve had a few experiences, where a company asked us to support and further develop their WordPress sites. But those weren’t small pages, but rather old and extensive sites and in one case (What I’ll talk about the most), a page of the swiss government, which was a very severe case. I’ve already learned a lot at blogwerk in the last four years and will talk about the caveats when you take over support for code that you didn’t write yourself. A soap opera in four acts: Slowness. Bugs. Support. Security.

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  • Andrew Liyanage: From Banking to WordPress

    Andrew Liyanage: From Banking to WordPress

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Andrew Liyanage

    May 14, 2016 — Quitting banking to pursue web development and how WordPress has empowered that.

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  • Tomaz Zaman: Your website is not your business card.

    Tomaz Zaman: Your website is not your business card.

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Tomaž Zaman

    May 14, 2016 — In this talk, I’ll present what the only purpose of pretty much *every* website is: conversion. It’s not about what the owner thinks and want and it’s not done when it’s built. I’ll present many steps that a site owner can (has to?) take in order to maximise their website’s performance (in terms conversion). While this topic may seem like a useless one, I’ve discovered a suprising amount of webmasters that don’t even have basic Google Analytics installed, let alone any conversion tracking software.

  • Mendel Kurland: Getting Clear On The Purpose Of Your Content (And How I Missed The Mark)

    Mendel Kurland: Getting Clear On The Purpose Of Your Content (And How I Missed The Mark)

    WordCamp Switzerland 2015Speaker: Mendel Kurland

    May 14, 2016 — Everything you publish–articles, media, Aunt Martha’s enchilada recipe–needs a purpose. Otherwise, you run the risk of creating content that falls flat and potentially gut-punches your site goals. During this session, we’ll go through my past mistakes a content creator, and how simple but powerful changes have helped to increase traffic, add loyal followers, and make reaching website objectives a whole lot easier. We’ll talk about the importance of getting clear on the purpose of your content. Concerned your content development strategy isn’t driving forward your SEO and social media efforts? Learn how to create content that gets results and packs a powerful thumbs-up.

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