November 17, 2015 — Advanced Topics in WordPress Development

November 17, 2015 — It’s easy to get caught up adding HTML classes (and IDs) to each and every element we want to style, but the fact is, WordPress helps us out with specific targeting by adding its own classes and IDs to certain elements on every page and post. Cleverly utilizing WordPress’s default page build along with CSS’s pseudo classes and combinators makes it possible to be highly specific with our targeted styles while leaving the original HTML completely alone. In short, if we look for ways, we can often avoid adding more classes and wrapping text in spans to have WordPress and CSS do the work for us.

November 17, 2015 — Keeping your website secure is important. No one likes a site that has nasty code injections or has been defaced. In fact, WordPress Security is one of the issues that continually needs to be taught to WordPressers around the world because for some people, their website is their livelihood.

I’m not here to make your head pop up with mind boggling hardening tricks. I’m hear to give you an introduction to WordPress Security. I might make you laugh, but security is a serious matter. I will be covering a couple methods to secure your WordPress website, and even a couple beginner tips on what to do if your site has been hacked.

By the end of this session, I hope you find a security method that suits you, and are more aware of the importance of securing your WordPress website.

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November 17, 2015 — Learning how to manage your own WordPress site can be pretty hard. Whether you are new to WordPress, or have been using WordPress for a while, there are a lot of easy ways to support yourself. Overview on how to pick a good theme, plugins, and appropriate hosting services. Different strategies for supporting your own WordPress site, and learn when (and how) to ask for help.

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November 17, 2015 — An introduction to Sass for beginning developers or power users who already have a basic understanding of CSS. This talk will go over getting started with Sass in WordPress theme development, including: Sass vs CSS, setup options (theme file structure or use of a CSS plugin), understanding variables, nesting, mixins, extends, and libraries like Compass and Susy.

Additionally, this talk can cover use cases for integrating the Sass version of frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation without having to clutter your theme’s markup. With that you get the best of both worlds (bespoke and human-readable classes and the springboard for development and design that frameworks provide).

November 17, 2015 — Skúsenosti s prácou a podporou Pro modulov.

November 14, 2015 — WordPress is home to tons of websites that are used by some of the world’s largest companies. My organization Agorans International is using WordPress to bring the voices of youths to the public eye.

November 13, 2015 — Quali servizi di un Cloud possiamo sfruttare per WordPress? Si analizzeranno quali sono i servizi in Cloud più utili per WordPress con un occhio ad opportunità e criticità (load balancing, database e memcache). Si parlerà di come gli asset statici possono essere salvati in un servizio di storage (Api Vs. s3fs) e distribuiti attraverso una CDN (CDN pull Vs. push). Per finire sarà proposto un caso di scuola su come trasformare l’interno WordPress in un servizio in Cloud scalabile.

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November 13, 2015 — Affrontare lo sviluppo di applicazioni WordPress in modo professionale richiede l’utilizzo di strumenti capaci di automatizzare parte del lavoro e di ridurre l’errore umano. Nel talk vengono presentati alcuni di questi strumenti (yeoman, git, gulp e deployer) ed alcune implementazioni specifiche per WordPress.

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November 13, 2015 — Se pensi che il tempo di caricamento della pagina non sia importante o di non poter migliorare la velocità del tuo sito perché è il server ad essere lento, ti stai sbagliando 😄In questo talk parlerò del perché è importante realizzare siti veloci, delle principali best practices per realizzarli e del come migliorare le performances in modo rapido e senza fatica.

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