April 3, 2018 — Doing GDPR audits I found some nice fails with WordPress fails. During this talk I’ll showcase some GDPR fails and quickwins in order to comply to the new privacylaws.

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April 3, 2018 — There’s something new on the way for WordPress. The editor as we know it is about to be replaced by a thing called Gutenberg. After this talk you will be inspired to try/test Gutenberg a day possibly contribute in giving feedback, asking questions or even add some pull requests.

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April 2, 2018 — The Customizer is a great tool to live preview changes to a WordPress site. And it is becoming even more: what about a staging environment or a real WYSIWYG experience for editing content?
It is time to benefit from what the Customizer has to offer. In this presentation I will try to give some examples of how you as a web developer as well as your client or user can take advantage from well-known and less well-known features of the Customizer. You can offer your users/clients controlled flexibility and ease of use when customizing their site and at the same time benefit from the available features with regard to long-term support and client satisfaction.

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April 2, 2018 — So you have a cute website on which you have worked a couple of years on and at one point – your site gets hacked! What do you do? No worries I have you covered! I am here to answer your questions why would someone hack your website? What to do if you are indeed hacked? And of course – the spring clean!

April 2, 2018 — Pitfalls of starting a webshop in terms or organization, not tech focused.

April 2, 2018 — Where here in Antwerp, Belgium and Belgium is a multilingual country where they speak two languages, Flemish-Dutch and French. And if you have a website where you want to address whole of Belgium, how can optimize your SEO so that you’ll rank for both Flanders and Wallonia? In this talk I’m going to walk you through the most important steps of how to prepare your website for multilingual SEO.

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April 2, 2018 — How to make your life easier working with WordPress? Learn to use browser dev-tools to get insights you didn’t even know existed and create better websites in less time while you’re at it.

April 2, 2018 — In this talk, Thorsten will start by providing an overview of the rules and best practices for coding in the WordPress universe. If you want to know about code style, coding standards, code conventions, code quality—and why it all matters!—this talk is for you.

The second half of the talk will cover applying these rules via a WordPress-specific Composer package based on the well-known PHP_CodeSniffer tool. Both projects changed a lot recently, so you might learn something new. And now with Tide, this is getting more and more important for plugin and theme authors.”

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April 2, 2018 — If you’re in IT, you’ve probably heard about Docker. But what is the hype all about? In this session, I’ll explain the Docker ecosystem and how you can leverage Docker to host your WordPress application in a containerized environment.

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March 30, 2018 — We’ve all encountered the issue: a blank screen or worse, a 500 error on the server. How do you cope with this kind of issue, what do you do to find the culprit and resolve the error.

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