October 7, 2017 — Check out all newest things that CSS can bring to WordPress theme development: CSS Filters, Feature Queries, Native Mixins, Grid Layout, Native Variables, and more. Learn how they work and when to use them. For theme designers.

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October 7, 2017 — For many WordPress users, even seasoned PHP developers, creating new plugins for WordPress seems like a daunting task. This presentation aims to show attendees how simple creating plugins for WordPress from the ground up can be by looking at the architecture of a WordPress plugin, from the basic concepts of registering actions and filters to more advanced concepts such as the creation of admin pages and registering shortcodes.

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October 7, 2017 — You have a plugin, but you want users to be able to use it in their native language. Learn how to get it ready for translation, things to watch out for, and tips for maintaining it as you change the plugin over time.

October 6, 2017 — When making a WordPress website you spend lots of time getting the front end just right — find out how to make your client even happier by making the admin side just as great! You’ll learn how to customize the WordPress admin visually, tweak the TinyMCE editor, add custom fields and post types, create documentation, edit dashboard widgets, add options pages, and more. By the end of this talk, you’ll walk away with a bunch of ideas about how to make your WordPress websites even easier for your clients to use.

October 6, 2017 — What is an average timeline and workflow for a project? What iterative approach really means? How does a product upgrade constantly to reach a high level of quality? Are users browsing our site the way we imagine?

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October 6, 2017 — This talk will walk you through all the headaches iA gave me and help you avoid having them yourself while you get set up. We’ll cover the concepts behind iA, nuances of the Automattic iA for WP plugin, and how to make the most of the tools on offer in the plugin to make sure all your posts get delivered to your Facebook readers “instantly”.

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October 6, 2017 — When it comes to choosing a theme, you have to consider many options as a site owner.

A Good Theme can mean a lot of things, from site speed to site performance and User Interface which in turn is directly affecting your UX, website health and user engagement.

This session is designed to give you an overview on how to determine if a theme will be effective based on a series of factors that will create an overall positive experience for your website visitors.

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October 6, 2017 — This talk aims to pull back the curtain on how WordPress wrangles images behind the scenes. Topics include
– intro to the media library
– what formats are supported
– where images are stored / why you should sort by date
– what WP does with uploaded images
– derived intermediate sizes
– inserting images individually
– inserting as a gallery
– adaptive images in wp
– what “regenerating thumbnails” does
– questions

October 6, 2017 — WordPress has grown from blogging tool, to flexible CMS to an application platform. As the web development world embraces micro-services, how does WordPress, which is normally implemented as a monolithic solution fit in and evolve? In this talk, I will look at what makes WordPress a good choice for application development, as well as where it is lacking. To put these questions in context, this talk will be framed around a case-study of a hybrid web app, built using WordPress and other tools including VueJS, Laravel and Amazon Web Services.

October 5, 2017 — Before starting with keyword research, writing great content or even looking for links to reference your site, the most important thing is to make sure that your site has passed the health standards for SEO.

SEO without implementing certain fundamentals will lack results.

If certain health checks are not conducted on your WordPress site, it can completely destroy your SEO.

In this session, we explore on what health checks and resources you need to review prior to launching your SEO efforts for your website. In addition, we go through a proper SEO execution plan that you can implement to help your WordPress site rank higher in the Search Engines.

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