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  • The social way to build your next WordPress plugin business

    WordCamp Malaysia 2023Speaker: Shahjahan Jewel

    September 29, 2023 — This talk shares the story of growing WordPress Plugin Business from a single-person company to 100+ team members which is powering 500,000+ websites.

    Learn what worked and lessons learned, how to take customer feedback, and build features that help for growth.

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  • WordPress performance: community perspectives

    WordCamp Europe 2023Speakers: Miriam Schwab, Thierry Muller, Adam Silverstein, Rahul Bansal

    September 29, 2023 — Join us for a comprehensive and engaging panel discussion at this year’s WordCamp as we delve into the world of performance optimization in WordPress. Our panelists, representing a diverse range of experience and expertise from site owners to plugin developers to core contributors, will share their insights and thoughts about website speed and overall performance and user experience.

    During the panel, we will discuss the common challenges faced when it comes to performance optimization, and how to overcome them. Our panelists will also discuss why performance is critical for a good user experience, and how it can impact the success of a website.

    Panelists will discuss the tools and best practices they follow when optimizing performance. We will also discuss how to handle performance challenges specific to different areas, how to balance features vs. their performance impact, and ideas for how we might leverage Gutenberg and Site Editing to improve WordPress performance in the future.

    Join us and learn what it takes to take your website or product performance to the next level!

  • Common APIs – Responsive Images

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    September 29, 2023 — WordPress contains an extensive list of APIs for performing common tasks across a WordPress site. From interacting with the database to creating responsive images, there’s an API for practically everything. This session will focus on the Responsive Images API, including a brief history of responsive images in WordPress, how the API works, and how it’s used for theme development.

  • Common WordPress APIs: Settings API

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    September 29, 2023 — Added to WordPress in version 2.7, The Settings API allows developers to develop admin pages containing settings forms to be managed semi-automatically. It lets you define settings pages, sections within those pages, and fields within the sections. In this session, you’ll learn how to use the Settings API with the Options API to create settings pages for your plugins or themes.

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  • Sulaiman Misri: Turn your WordPress site into Mobile Application

    WordCamp Malaysia 2023Speaker: Sulaiman Misri

    September 28, 2023 — Imagine having your WordPress website seamlessly accessible on mobile devices, connecting with your audience anytime, anywhere. With this game-changing approach, you will know how to turn your WordPress site into a Mobile or Desktop Application. Join me on this journey as I will unveil the secrets of how we turn our client’s WordPress site into a working Mobile and Desktop Application.

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  • Laura Kuimba Yu: Empowering Women in Digital Spaces: Reflections on WordPress

    WordCamp Malaysia 2023Speaker: Laura Kuimba Yu

    September 28, 2023 — In a digital landscape historically painted with masculine strokes, women’s experiences bring a unique blend of challenges and triumphs. From battling biases to leveraging WordPress as a tool for empowerment, this session The presentation is designed to inspire women, share their stories, encourage diversity, and enrich the broader digital community.

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  • Gan Eng Chin: Building An Awesome Company Culture with WordPress

    WordCamp Malaysia 2023Speaker: Gan Eng Chin

    September 28, 2023 — How do you build a company that is loved by employees? No, giving all the money is not the answer. In this talk, Eng Chin will share how Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and more – builds an open, distributed, inclusive workplace culture using P2, a WordPress theme built for team collaboration, and becomes one of the top Most Loved Workplace® in the world.

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  • Amirul Nordin: Memahami dan Cara Membetulkan isu “Keyword Cannibalization” untuk SEO

    WordCamp Malaysia 2023Speaker: Amirul Nordin

    September 28, 2023 — Ketahui apa itu ‘keyword cannibalization’ dan cara-cara efektif untuk membetulkannya. Sesi ini akan menerangkan tentang ‘keyword cannibalization’, teknik mengesan, dan langkah-langkah praktikal untuk mengatasinya.

    Learn about the common SEO issue of keyword cannibalization and how to tackle it effectively. This session will provide an overview of keyword cannibalization, its detection methods, and practical solutions to address it.

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  • Developer Hours: Building better blocks with the create-block package

    Speakers: Ryan Welcher, Nick Diego

    September 27, 2023 — In this installment of WordPress Developer Hours, we dove into the functionalities of the create-block package. Developed to simplify and accelerate the process of building custom WordPress blocks, this package has become an indispensable tool for developers of all levels.

    In addition to covering the fundamentals of the create-block package, the presentation showcased often overlooked features such as external project templates and variants, among others. So, whether you’re starting with block development or an experienced pro, this session will help you build better blocks.

  • GPL in the WordPress Training Team’s Vetting Processes

    Speakers: Benjamin Evans, Oneal Rosero

    September 25, 2023 — This workshop will explain what GPL is in general, and how it applies to the vetting process for content creators in the Training Team. This will be followed by a live walkthrough of a Faculty Administrator vetting an application, giving a behind-the-scenes look at how GPL is applied in the team.

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