May 30, 2015 — A common refrain when building software is “think of the user first!” Let’s take a look at how we define our users, how that shapes what we build for them, and what that might mean for the holy grail of a core API.

May 29, 2015 — This talk introduces the concept of behaviour driven tests, rather then looking at the codes logic these tests looks at the larger application and checks it does what we and our boss expects. It focuses around the using Codeception a PHP based testing suite with WordPress to provide acceptance, visual regression and API test coverage for plugin, themes and sites. The talk is suitable for any developer, who is interesting in improving testing within their applications, especially those who may have been in the past put off by unit testing. The goal to speed up peoples development by automating testing they already do and improve coverage of tests, as well as looking at interesting “other uses” for acceptance testing.

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May 29, 2015 — WordPress can generate all sorts of interesting content dynamically, but if you want speed and scalability, you should be smart about caching. Don’t make WordPress do work twice when it can do it once. In this focused talk, Mark Jaquith talks about caching strategies from basic to advanced.

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May 29, 2015 — Ana Aires aborda regras básicas ao escolher Temas e Plugins WordPress.

May 29, 2015 — Andrew Nacin walks step by step through how a critical security vulnerability was discovered and then patched using emoji as a trojan horse in WordPress 4.2.

May 29, 2015 — Dan and a few others started exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed them to get off the ground quickly, taking advantage of a lot of newer technologies ranging from the new WordPress restful api with angular to websockets for realtime match results, but not forgetting the basics including extending the XMLRPC interface, custom post types and posts 2 posts plugin to link it all together.

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May 29, 2015 — Connaissez-vous l’API fournit par WordPress pour les tâches planifiées (ou Cron) ? Un cron est un programme qui permet d’exécuter périodiquement un script. WordPress possède sa propre mécanique interne pour exécuter des tâches planifiées, comme la planification d’un article ou les mises à jour des extensions. À travers des exemples concrets, découvrez l’API Cron de WordPress pour créer et gérer vos propres tâches cron.

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May 29, 2015 — Nginx est un serveur web puissant utilisé notamment par WordPress.com. Mieux adapté aux sites à haut trafic qu’Apache, Nginx peut non seulement augmenter la vitesse de votre site, mais également supporter un nombre plus élevé de visiteurs simultanément sans équipement additionnel. Apprenez-en davantage sur l’installation et la configuration d’un serveur Nginx pour rendre votre site avec WordPress encore plus efficace.

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May 29, 2015 — Growth talks are usually addressing large businesses or startups but I’d like to take a different angle and give a few valuable tips to anyone who wants to run a project using WordPress in some way or another. It can be a personal blog, a small business or a larger project. How do define your very own relevant metrics, how to make sure you are focusing your effort in the right direction, how to take important decisions and how to monitor your results. All of this, specifically tied to WordPress sites and blogs.

May 28, 2015 — Présentation de quelques unes des meilleures pratiques pour respecter la vie privée des utilisateurs et utilisatrices d’un site WordPress.

Par défaut, le développement d’un site WordPress peut facilement nous entraîner sur une voie qui sacrifie l’anonymat des visiteurs et visiteuses. Les boutons Facebook et Twitter, l’intégration avec Google Analytics, etc., sont-ils incontournables ? Peux-tu monter un site qui est à la fois excellent sur le plan de la communication, mais qui ne soumet pas automatiquement ses utilisateurs et utilisatrices à la surveillance des grandes entreprises et des agences de renseignements, qui veulent suivre nos moindres mouvements sur la toile?

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