March 8, 2018 — Many of us work primarily in this first realm: with themes and plugins, and may not have been closely tracking all of the details of the REST API’s rollout. Other of us (me included) have found the years-long rollout to be complicated to track and summarize.

Whatever your motivation, if you seek a gently-technical intro to the REST API in about a half-hour, this session is for you. We will cover three broad areas:

– what is the REST API, and how does it work?
– what are some possible use cases for the REST API?
– how do I extend/customize/control the REST API?

This broad, quick, overview should leave you prepared and equipped to further research and experimentation with WordPress’ fancy new feature.

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March 8, 2018 — The command line is a very powerful tool that you can use for all sorts of things. But the terminal can be a little scary if you’ve never been there before.

Let’s demystify it a bit and go over:

what you’re looking at,
some basic commands that’ll help you get around, and
a glimpse of some more advanced commands that can be handy to have in your toolbox.

Equipped with the basics, we’ll then learn about a powerful WordPress tool: WP-CLI. This won’t be an in-depth developer discussion, but a demo of what it can do and why you should be excited to try it out.

Note: Sorry, but this will be based on Mac/Unix. Windows has some exceptions that won’t be covered.

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March 8, 2018 — While you can use BuddyPress to create a feature packed community site in mere minutes, it is often overwhelming for both administrators and users alike. I’ll share some tools and techniques that you can use to build your BuddyPress community while maintaining your sanity.

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March 8, 2018 — Tijdens deze presentatie kijken we naar ontwikkelingen die webwinkels een edge geven ten opzichte van hun concurrenten, en we focusen ons op hoe innovaties in online betalingen nieuwe vormen van online shoppen mogelijk maken.
Abonnementen, in het Engels: recurring payments, zijn helemaal hot en ingeburgerd in Amerika, maar lijken in Nederland nog in de kinderschoenen te staan. Hoe implementeer je die in jou webwinkel? Welke plugins heb je nodig? Met welke betaal partner kun je in zee?”

March 8, 2018

March 7, 2018 — There is a crisis in the tech industry. At least 20% of our colleagues, friends, and teammates suffer silently with mental illness, but our work culture does little to help. Based on real data, we’ll show the enormous impact of mental illness in our industry, and how we can change – and save – lives.

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March 7, 2018 — Ana Cirujano nos dará algunas recomendaciones de composición de textos optimizados para todos los dispositivos, que nos ayudarán a construir mejores sitios web responsive para todos los usuarios. Tipo de letra, tamaño, interlineado, ancho de línea… aprenderemos a tomar decisiones de diseño para conseguir comunicar eficazmente, que nuestros usuarios disfruten más del sitio web y que aumente el tiempo de permanencia en la página y obtengamos más visitas.

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March 6, 2018 — Aaron Campbell is the lead for the WordPress Core Security Team.

March 5, 2018 — What is the process when starting WordPress project from scratch, from choosing theme, plugins, libraries, project organization, GIT workflow. If you follow some basic rules, your WordPress based development time will be far more less, and you will enjoy it.

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March 5, 2018 — Πριν λίγο καιρό η Google ανακοίνωσε ότι η ταχύτητα φόρτωσης μίας ιστοσελίδας θα είναι σημαντικός παράγοντας για την κατάταξή της στα αποτελέσματα της αναζήτησης. Καταλαβαίνουμε λοιπόν πόσο σημαντικό είναι να έχουμε ένα γρήγορο website. Η βελτιστοποίηση ενός WordPress website στο θέμα της ταχύτητας αν δεν γίνει σωστά μπορεί να επιφέρει τα εντελώς αντίθετα από τα επιθυμητά αποτελέσματα. Στην ομιλία θα μελετήσουμε τρόπους βελτιστοποίησης καθώς και θα εμβαθύνουμε τεχνικά σε έννοιες/τεχνικές όπως το caching, CDN , CSS/JS Minification, Image Lazyload & Compression και άλλες.

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