July 28, 2015 — Konstantin and Scott, the release leads for WordPress 4.3 and 4.4, are going to be on stage to share some of their thoughts on the immediate future of WordPress, and to answer all the questions you may have around everything WordPress. They have over 1500 commits to WordPress Core between them, and share big media and big blogging experience from their work at the New York Times and WordPress.com.

July 27, 2015 — The focus of my presentation is on WordPress and website accessibility; from a front-end perspective. First, I will explain what web accessibility is and why it is important. To continue, I will discuss AODA and Section 508 regulations for Canada and the United States. Then, I will go over some key WCAG 2.0 compliancy requirements a developer will need to ensure the websites they develop are fully accessible. From there, I will showcase a few web accessibility tools, then some WordPress accessibility tools and tips.

July 27, 2015 — In this talk we explore what goes into a TandM contract, how to persuade a prospective client to sign one, and how to live up to the expectations you create in the persuasion process, to deliver a successful project.

July 27, 2015 — Keynote
WordCamp Boston 2015

July 26, 2015 — WordPress Meetup Potsdam 06/2015

July 26, 2015 — A whirlwind tour of how to build options pages for beginning to intermediate themers and plugin-ers. And, since the WordPress.org theme review team has now made options pages a no-no for the theme repository, we’ll extend our tour into the world of the Customizer API.

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July 25, 2015 — This talk is on the streamlined workflow using Grunt.

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July 24, 2015 — In the years I’ve spent making websites for clients I have learned that the importance of admin user experience cannot be under-emphasized. Providing clients with sites they can actually understand, use and be productive with is equally as important as providing something that looks nice on the front end. In this session, we’ll cover some great examples of improving the user experience for clients and walk through specific actions we can take to reduce confusion, improve usability and increase productivity for all /wp-admin users.

July 21, 2015 — Embedding and consuming external content in WordPress: Requests, Caching, Parsing

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July 21, 2015 — Vortrag vom WordPress Meetup Franken am 16.07.2015

Frank Staude erzählt was über Sprachen, warum Software übersetzt sein sollte, wie das in WordPress funktioniert. Wie man dabei Mitarbeiten kann und warum man das tun sollte. Und auch wie man eigene Themes und Plugins übersetzbar machet (undn warum man das tun sollte).

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