June 18, 2017 — WordCamp Orange County 2017 – Business Track
HOST: Jeff Turner
June 17, 2017 — WordPress is an awesome platform with a vibrant community of developers and a huge market share. Even though WordPress developers are a dime a dozen, it can still be difficult to find developers who really know their craft.
Don’t be “just another WordPress developer”. Learn how to create a roadmap for growth, hone your craft, gain confidence and stand out from the crowd.
Takeaways:
How to identify where you are in the learning process.
How to know what you should be focusing on right now to optimize your learning.
How to identify your niche in the WordPress space and stand out from the crowd.
Ultimately, the concepts learned here can be applied to learning any number of things, but we’ll be specifically focused on learning WordPress development.
June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017 — WordPress theme builders have taken over as the easiest and fastest way to create custom layouts for WordPress. In this talk you will learn about the basics of using theme builders such as Elementor, Beaver Builder, Upfront and/or DIVI to quickly create complex layouts and highly interactive sites. In the talk we will focus mostly on Beaver Builder and DIVI, and discuss content types (modules), common features like templates, global modules, and more. We will also look at a few sites built using Beaver Builder and DIVI to see how the builders were used to create complex sites easily.
Takeaways:
Overview of different WordPress builders
Useful features of WordPress builders
Beaver Builder and DIVI use on “live” sites
June 17, 2017 — Have you wanted to play with React, but didn’t know how to get started on a “real” project?
Do you want to add some flair and interactivity to your site, but love your theme and don’t want to start over from scratch?
Are you curious what all the fuss is about the WordPress REST API?
Tool up to create some custom pages! Whet your whistle for modern front-end development & get a taste for WordPress as an “App Platform.”
Takeaways:
How to build a single-page application on top of your existing WordPress
How to start hacking on React / JSX components and figure out what to do with component state and properties
How to interact with some standard REST API endpoints from your application, and add some new ones!
June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017 — A case study on using Docker to develop from multiple machines. Covering docker-compose, docker files, basic commands and a few clever nginx hacks to round things out.
Takeaways:
Learn how Docker can be used to build consistent platforms
Discover how Docker can make your workflow faster
Better understand containers and how they work