February 9, 2016 — In this workshop I plan to give an overview of using a configuration of Vagrant such as VVV in your day to day WordPress development. Learn about how you can easily share projects environments across teams and quickly get setup with new sites, themes or plugins among other great benefits. I plan to give use cases to show you how easy it is to get started via command line. I’ll also be touching on other great tools such as WP-CLI, Gruntjs, Xdebug and more. All in the interest of improving your local development environment.

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February 9, 2016 — WordCamps are great, but how do you get the most out of your attendance at these events? More to the point – how do you get the most out of WordCamp Cape Town 2015?

WordCamps are about more than just listening to talks and (if you’re feeling confident) asking a question or two. There’s a whole host of other things to do, people to meet and so much more. In this introductory talk, Hugh will shows you just what you can do to make this year’s WordCamp Cape Town a hugely rich experience that will leave you changed forever.

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February 9, 2016 — Edit WordCamp Videos Part 3

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February 9, 2016 — Edit WordCamp Videos Part 2

Intro & Outro Panels

February 9, 2016 — Edit WordCamp Videos Part 1

Video files and metadata

February 8, 2016 — We’re at a point now where we have these incredibly powerful query classes in WordPress core that allow you to really tailor down to whatever criterion you want. In this workshop, Drew will provide some real-world examples of some crazy stuff you can do with queries – it’s very much a “sky’s the limit” kind of situation. Queries are really interesting and powerful, and a lot of people are intimidated by advanced queries, even with the abstraction layers that WordPress has put in place.

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February 8, 2016 — Facettierte Navigation – jeder kennt sie (z.B. von Amazon), die wenigsten wissen das die so heißt. Egal ob Shop oder Blog, ab einer gewissen Menge von Inhalten ist eine einfache textbasierte Suche nicht mehr zielführend, weil im Ergebnis noch zu viele Treffer sind. Bei einigen großen Shop (z.B. Amazon) kann man gut sehen, wie mit wenigen Klicks das Suchergebnis immer weiter verfeinert werden kann – ohne das man in einer Sackgasse landet wo es plözlich keine Treffer mehr gibt. In der Session werde ich die Facettierte Navigation vorstellen und zeigen wie man das mit Hilfe von Elasticsearch in seiner WordPress Installation nutzen kann.

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February 7, 2016 — With taxonomies and their individual terms, you can structure and categorize posts in various ways. That’s a matter of common knowledge. This session will broaden your mind, though, because there’s much more to taxonomies and terms. You can easily link individual taxonomies and synchronize their terms, you can use taxonomies for users, and you can facilitate taxonomies to store meta data. Finally, we will have a look at WordPress 4.4’s new feature: term meta.

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February 7, 2016 — Es gibt Standard Hooks/Actions in den Themes. Es gibt viele Themes, die sehr viele Hooks anbieten und es gibt immer noch eine Gruppierung, die diese Hooks verallgemeinern mag und es gibt WP-Theme EntwicklerInnen, die dies total ablehnen. Vor-Nachteile. Diskussionsgrundlage. Meinungsbildung.

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February 7, 2016 — Wykorzystanie infrastruktury chmury publicznej do budowy usługi opartej o CMS WordPress, jednocześnie spełniającej normy dużych przedsiębiorstw, określających konieczną odporność na awarie, wysoką dostępność, redundancję zasobów i gwarancje SLA na poziomie większym niż 99.9%.

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