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 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 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 — I had contacted Joe about doing an interview and then found out that he was attending WordCamp Lancaster where we were both giving presentations. We got together in the afternoon and spent a few minutes chatting.

March 1, 2018 — In this session, Devika will talk about the various avenues that explore individualism and how WordPress plays an important role in expressing your thoughts, ideas, and opinions to a global audience.

Since the social media is bursting with new ideas and exploring different domain, how do you carve your own path will be explored in the session.

February 28, 2018 — Zack Katz talked about both the history and the future of WordPress.

February 27, 2018 — We spent out April and July school holidays learning how to use WordPress to create beautiful websites with e-commerce functionality. We’d like to share our experience!