June 29, 2017 — There is a hype surrounding the WordPress REST API these days. People focus on how it will change the future of WordPress, allow developers to expand the range of projects they can build, make WordPress popular outside its own bubble.

What we rarely talk about are the challenges presented by the REST API especially for non developers. This talk focuses on them and gives you a checklist to make sure both your clients and your non-developers know what to expect from a REST API project.

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June 29, 2017 — “I thought a user-centered approach was going to benefit the users of my product. And then I realized how much users have given me back in the process. This presentation focuses on three ways in which users have made my life better, by giving me (at least) three gifts:

– The gift of building solid roadmaps
– The gift of teaching efficiently
– The gift of working in a happy team”

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June 29, 2017 — Moving data between environments in a tiered development workflow can be tricky and time consuming. It’s important to have content, options, settings and files synchronized across your tiers to ensure a stress-free development process. Understand how data is stored in WordPress and explore several different approaches to moving WordPress seamlessly from server to server for deployment.

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June 29, 2017 — With the arrival of the so-called European Union “Accessibility Directive”, there has been a lot talk lately about the accessibility of the modern web. The public sector is hustling to comply with the requirements to meet the directive as soon as 2020. Most common guidelines to comply with the requirements of the directive are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

The guidelines, while extremely useful and comprehensive, aren’t the Holy Grail of accessibility. G-Works undertook a large project with the national centre for accessible literature and publishing in Finland, Celia, to create a new user interface for Celia’s library system. The criteria was to push the boundaries of accessibility not only to create a accessible service but to take it to the next level. While doing this, we noticed that the WCAG is not perfect – and has, in fact, some contradictions.

The topic will focus on telling about accessibility in general, effects of the directive, what to take into account while designing accessible web services and some tips for the coders as well.

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June 29, 2017 — Evermade was founded in 2011 by four guys. Today we are group of 20 people – half of whom are developers. In the beginning we did everything from photography to USB-drivers. In 2012 we agreed that WordPress is basically useless and we decided to focus on ExpressionEngine. After a year – and some pain – we changed our minds and decided to focus on WordPress.

We lost a few developers during this hassle but but soon after our shift of focus to WordPress we started to grow. With new developers coming in we had to abandon our current way of working and really rethink how should we work together as a team.

In my presentation, I will talk about the pain of growing and the challenges we faced when doing so.

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June 29, 2017 — Daniel’s lighting talk covers how to create a better experience for your clients or users of your theme with the various core controls, custom controls and how to take advantage of selective live refresh and visible edit shortcuts (introduced in WordPress 4.7).

June 29, 2017 — The way we structure our websites affects the way they can be marketed. And the way they can be marketed affects the number of sales, leads and conversions – your bottom line. So, why are we still starting website projects asking how much does this cost, instead of how much value could I bring to the customer?

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June 29, 2017 — Sauli’s talk introduces the basic idea behind visual regression testing. What it is and why should you use it?

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June 29, 2017 — The WordPress market in America is saturated. The growth in Europe is growing very, very quickly. The next growth for WordPress will be in Asia. Are the Asian Communities and companies ready for this growth? In this talk, I will talk how companies can begin to help build a new power base for WordPress in Asia. I will also talk about how this links into community building and how these 2 ‘powers’ will effectively shape. I would also like to talk about how the Japanese development community and industry is different from the rest of Asia and the World and how it could be both a blessing (within Japan) and a problem for Japanese companies to break out of Japan.

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June 29, 2017 — By this point, we’ve likely all heard of the “Internet of Things” — everything from thermostats to toasters can now be online for greater connectivity and access from our smartphones. In this talk, we’ll look at how we can build and program our own wifi-connected devices that leverage the WordPress REST API to do anything from updating live weather readings on our WordPress sites, to providing real-world indicators of the number of pending orders in WooCommerce.

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