April 13, 2017 — If “WordPress is not testable” then why bother about testable code at all?

Because writing testable code is the first step to testing your code, testing your code is the first step to testing ALL your code, testing all your code is the first step to reduce shipping times, reducing shipping times is the first step to fast response to feature requests and bugs that makes clients happy.

And because the first sentence is less true every day.

Let’s find a definition of “testable code” that applies to both WordPress and the current practices of testing; let’s see how we can stop ignoring the elephant in the room and embrace testing with a sane approach that improves code and coders quality without leaving anyone out in the cold.

I will present real-world examples of new and existing code, the tools used to write and maintain testable code and some simple rule-of-thumbs to keep in mind when developing for our beloved CMS.

April 12, 2017 — If you’ve been meaning to revamp your website for a while—but haven’t gotten very far—you aren’t alone. Ready to finally check it off the list? Actionable steps are the way forward. In this talk, we’ll go over how to approach your WordPress website like you would a client project and the 12 steps necessary to get it done.

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April 12, 2017 — WP-CLI is a set of command line tools for managing your WordPress site. It allows you to perform many tasks much quicker than you would be able to by other means. In this session, I will teach you how to get WP-CLI running, and show some of my favourite time saving features. Once you’ve started using WP-CLI, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it! This talk is appropriate for developers, designers and server administrators of all skill levels.

April 12, 2017 — Finding a good WordPress developer can be tough. This talk will help you find out what to look for from a development skill perspective, but also from a human perspective (because a great developer that is a jerk is not a great developer).

April 10, 2017 — How can you truly create an experience without knowing who you are creating it for? Why does so much get made without user research? Why do so many creating experiences not run user tests or engage with their users at any point? It isn’t a privilege of the wealthy agency or invested company. In this talk I’ll show why knowing your users matters and how you can start truly understanding them to make a better experience.

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April 10, 2017

April 10, 2017 — So you setup VVV on your computer and you are ready to go: do you have questions? We have answers!

April 9, 2017

April 9, 2017

April 9, 2017