January 8, 2018 — Remkus is an enthusiastic WordPress aficionado from Fryslân, The Netherlands. Back in 2006 he founded his WordPress specialist company Forsite Media and a few years later WP ServicePoint. He’s been the Dutch admin for WordPress and has been the lead-organizer of WordCamp Netherlands as well as one of the co-founders and organizers of WordCamp Europe.
During his presentation, he will walk the audience through to his long list of things he checks before making a decision about even wanting to try a plugin.

January 8, 2018 — Alexandra is a full stack developer. She participated in two business accelerators – Startupbootcamp (Copenhagen / Denmark) and Prosper Women Accelerator (Saint Louis / US). At the beginning of 2017, she has joined Codette as a co-founder.

Keypoints: What is a PWA?, PWA E-commerce Showcases (ex. Alibaba), Differences between a PWA and a responsive website, Technologies used to build a PWA, Structuring a PWA with React, Retrieving data from the API and displaying it, UI/UX components, Integrate a PWA in WordPress, Adding advanced features – Web Push Notifications & Offline Mode

January 8, 2018 — There are many steps required to complete in order to have Google fall in love with you website and reward you with ranking. Learn the basics for Search Engine Optimization that can be done on each of your websites for maximum organic ranking.

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January 8, 2018 — These days, everyone is using the fastest hosting, superior caching, the minimal amount of plugins, etc. (right?). Of course, these form the basis of having a fast and reliable WordPress website. However, did you know that there are many other aspects that you can optimize to improve your loading speed even further? Some examples include using image compression, removing dynamic Google Maps, optimizing your fonts and using lazy loading. For these, and many other issues we’ll provide actionable fixes, so you can start improving your website tomorrow.

January 5, 2018 — WordPress developer for over 8 years and co-founder of http://www.cozmoslabs.com Cristian will share his knowledge in writing over at http://www.cozmoslabs.com and wpMail.me

January 5, 2018 — In contrast to most coding standards, the WordPress Coding Standards are about so much more than just (code) style. It is about best practices, modern code, preventing conflicts with other themes and plugins and can even help safeguard you against some common security vulnerabilities.

No matter whether you are a developer or you can’t tell divs from eval’s, the WordPress Coding Standards can help you. Let me tell you how…

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January 4, 2018 — As a self-taught developer you’ve undoubtedly encountered many gaps in your knowledge. Gaps that people with computer-science degrees fill, not with the practical stuff, but with the theoratical stuff. The stuff that people like to talk about as “real development”.

In this talk we’ll explore how self-taught developers, can overcome some of these gaps and fight off that age-old enemy known as “imposter syndrome”.

January 4, 2018

December 26, 2017 — Let people in the open-source community know you are listening by responding promptly.
Listen to more than just what users are saying, look for context clues to reach a greater understanding.
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
A language gap can still yield an experience overlap.
Don’t just listen to users’ words, observe their actions.
Don’t act like the expert, be the apprentice and let your users teach you everything they know.
Suspend your judgement in order to listen objectively.
Let data ask all the questions.

December 25, 2017 — As the plugins you develop grow bigger, you need to spend more effort on getting the structure just right, to keep the plugin maintainable and easily extensible.

This session will briefly go over several key concepts of dealing with growing plugins, like using Composer to split your plugins into multiple reusable libraries or using a dependency injector to make the code independent of any specific implementations.

The session assumes knowledge of basic OOP principles and is an unofficial follow-up to the session “OOP Plugin Development Basics” held at WordCamp Nijmegen 2017.

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