August 17, 2015 — The hosting world is scary. Sites go down, you complain, you don’t get answers. You feel out of control. Take back control! Get a VPS (Virtual Private Server). This talk will demystify the realm of basic server management and allow you to have better uptime, and not worry if someone else is going to crash your site. Topics of basic server setup and how to host a few WordPress sites will be covered. Plus we’ll go over things that you probably weren’t thinking of like security, firewalls and backups.

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August 17, 2015 — If you are in charge of user experience, development, or strategy for a WordPress web site, Accessible UX will help you make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. This talk is about the experience difficulties faced by people with vision, mobility, hearing, and cognitive disabilities as they use the interfaces we make for them. Rooted in universal design principles, this presentation provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

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August 17, 2015 — Cette année j’ai eu la chance de faire partie d’une équipe extraordinaire d’ingénieurs WordPress développant notre tout premier plugin grande échelle appellé Stream. Cette présentation traitera des outils que nous avons utilisé pour collaborer, déboguer, tester, déployer notre code et pour le rendre accessible à la communauté.
Je vais démontrer:
comment tester plusieurs version de WordPress avec Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)
comment utiliser le framework de test de WordPress
comment utiliser Vagrant Share pour collaborer en temps réel
comment utiliser votre instance local de WP-CLI pour intéragir avec des serveurs externes
comment utiliser git et github et pouvoir déployer facilement vers WordPress.org
comment utiliser le déboguage à distance et le proffilage pour optimizer votre code à l’aide de VVV
comment utiliser Travis CI comme plateforme de tests continue gratuitement
et bien plus!

August 17, 2015 — Les capacités multilingues de WordPress reposeront toujours sur l’attention portée par les développeurs d’extensions et de thèmes sur l’internationalisation correcte du code qu’ils rédigent. La présentation proposera une révision complète des principes d’internationalisation, des fonctions GETTEXT de base de WordPress jusqu’aux situations les plus complexes. Je fournirai aussi quelque solution à des problèmes fréquents d’internationalisation que j’ai rencontrés, par exemple la compatibilité avec les extensions de gestion multilingue ou la conception de phrases complexes.

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August 17, 2015 — Hooks, Actions, Filters

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August 17, 2015 — It’s easy to talk about designing for conversion until you decide you’re really going to do it. What design considerations really do matter for conversion? What’s the role of copy, given these two prevailing (and conflicting!) attitudes:
1. Just make the BUY button big and add a picture of a baby. Nobody reads the copy anyway.
Versus:
2. Copy is everything! If someone really is in the market for your thing, they’ll read everything you have to say! (Just add a video of someone saying the exact same thing at the top, and use LOTS of subheads.)
Take a look at these points of view and more, on the road to converting your lookers to buyers, one press of that blue button* at a time.

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August 17, 2015 — Tom talks about how he built a tournament-style bracket system for the NYPost’s Decider.com using the Polldaddy API and Fieldmanager. Aside from the brackets themselves (voting, round creation and procession, match-ups, modal navigation), He touchs on some related aspects of the development process such as: Custom fields, storing data, leveraging available services/functionality, scalability.

August 15, 2015 — Forms. We all use them to collect contact information, but there’s so much more you can do with a custom form builder. Many WordPress users don’t realize just how much you can get out of this one little tool.
Naomi’s session opens a whole world of possibilities for you to discover with your deceptively simple but incredibly powerful form builder. Learn how to equip your website to collect payments, schedule appointments and lots more—all while avoiding the need to bloat your site with a dozen different plugins.

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August 13, 2015 — In Phillips Vortrag geht es um die Präsentation eines nackten WordPress-Themes für WordPress-Entwickler, WordPress-Hasser und WordPress Einsteiger in der Theme-Entwicklung.

Das Theme ist so aufgebaut, das zunächst alle Scripts, Klassen und Styles entfernt sind, sich aber mühelos wieder hinzufügen lassen. Der Vortrag beantwortet die häufig gestellten Fragen: “Wie entferne ich etwas?” und “Wie füge ich etwas ein?”. Das Theme soll dabei helfen WordPress zu verstehen und zu eigenen Lösungen anregen.

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August 13, 2015 — Konstantin spricht in seiner kurzen Session über die Herausforderung für Plugins, Dokumenten-Titel ordentlich darzustellen und welcher Lösungsweg jetzt beschritten wird.