March 28, 2018 — XDebug is a tool for developers to gain insight into how PHP is executed. Using it for profiling is a very effective, fast and precise method to find bottlenecks in your WordPress site. In this talk I explain how to use it with Webgrind, how to find potential optimization targets, show examples of real cases when XDebug helped fix a performance problem and also explain what XDebug is not suitable for and what can be used instead. If you are not a developer, you’ll learn what XDebug is capable of and when to ask a developer to use it.

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March 25, 2018 — Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.

His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.

At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else company demands from him.

Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer.

Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.

March 25, 2018 — Damanjeet Singh will talk about the reasons why first-time visitors don’t trust your website. He’ll share with you the cost of not winning their trust. And what an expensive mistake that is.

His Trust Framework will show you how to tweak your website so that it inspires confidence. And motivates your visitors to take the desired action.

He believes that in a world of infinite choices the onus of gaining trust lies with the website owners and they need to earn it.

March 21, 2018 — This session will cover why it is important to write readable code, what could be the consequences of badly written code, what to do to make your code super readable.

March 20, 2018 — He will cover techniques on how we can create a WordPress based website and web application like Truecaller using just shortcodes with minimal efforts when running on strict deadlines.

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March 20, 2018 — Learn anything and everything you’ve ever wanted to know about caching – why you need it, how to get it, and what to watch out for when using it. We’ll start with caching 101 and then examine the different caching tools you can use to speed up your WordPress site.

March 20, 2018 — This Panel discussion will be a frank and honest discussion about, How WordPress helped the Panelist to use their Voice with WordPress.

March 19, 2018 — I was able to interview Brigit at WordCamp Lancaster after her presentation on Non Profits. She talks about how she got involved in WordPress and Gutenberg.

March 17, 2018 — The talk will shed light on few tools & libraries that can help developer effectively craft their code.

He will be covering the following tools:

Version Control
VVV / VV
Atom / Sublime
Linters
PHPCS
Gulp
WP-CLI
OhMyZsh (Linux & Mac)

March 13, 2018 — This talk will not be platform-centric nor an advertisement. Although delivered by us at Caldera Labs, we will equally and unbiasedly present all leading contact form product options in the WordPress space with a fair pros vs. cons comparison in the product section. The talk will mostly be about form best practices with only a brief overview of platform.