February 3, 2017 — The WP REST API infrastructure was introduced in WordPress 4.4. The introduction of this infrastructure allows WordPress developers to now use WordPress as a headless CMS. A headless CMS has its frontend component (the head) stripped and removed from its backend, and what remains is a backend delivering content via an API. Some common use cases for headless CMS are as follows:

* Serving data to other web applications
* Mobile Apps
* Websites and web apps built with MVC-style JavaScript frameworks

Developers can install the WP REST API plugin to expose endpoints for WordPress for posts, pages, media and users. Developers can also extend the WordPress core REST infrastructure to register their own endpoints for custom post types and WordPress options.

The WP REST API plugin will expose database content via JSON. This data can be used by developers to create sites using JavaScript frameworks such as React and also use the JSON data in mobile apps.

Bronson will explain and demonstrate how you can use WordPress and the WP REST API to create a website that uses React on the frontend and WordPress on the backend as a headless CMS.

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February 3, 2017 — Fairfax Media have 40+ sites on WordPress, with more added every month.

As part of his new gig with Fairfax Media Jeremy has taken on the task of making this manageable, secure and cost effective, and he will share with you some ideas on approaches to the problem he has used in the past and new approaches that are just being rolled out now.

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February 3, 2017 — We needed to scale the serving of responsive images for a large WordPress installation in an efficient and cost-effective way.

This is the story of how we took advantage of technologies outside of WordPress itself, leaning on Amazon Web Services, to achieve that.

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February 2, 2017 — In this fun and playful session I’ll take you on a journey from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 enjoying the sights and delights of its new features along the way. With features like multiplexing, yesterdays best practices are now tomorrow’s anti-patterns – so what does this mean your app or API?

This talk explores the best and worst practices of the way the web worked and how HTTP/2 is changing the game for performance. And it’s all explained of course, using jelly snakes and raspberry twizzlers.

February 2, 2017 — We have recently developed an online marketing collateral portal for a huge franchise business in Australia. Zambrero hired us to build a complete custom build portal which would generate pdfs for franchisee’s.

The marketing team would create their own marketing material in this portal which is completely code free…

The power of WordPress in conjunction with gravitypdf and gravity forms has made this all possible…

We have built many websites which have broken the conventional use of WordPress and made our clients very happy with the end result and we want to show people to think outside the box when it comes to WordPress and what it actually can do.

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February 1, 2017 — What is WP-CLI? What can it do? Why should you use it? All those questions and more will be answered with a live demonstration of one of the most powerful tools in the WordPress ecosystem.

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January 31, 2017 — WordPress is built on 12 MySQL tables than can support the weight of almost any web project. But in some cases we need to set our custom tables in order to get better results. I will show in this talk the magic behind the default tables, how to create new ones, and what WordPress tools we may use to control them.

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January 31, 2017 — Nirmal Desai is a WordPress TV moderator. At WordCamp Udaipur, he is trying to get more Indian WordPress enthusiasts to contribute to WordPress TV.

January 30, 2017 — For almost a year, WordPress has had a REST API. The gradual merge began with WordPress 4.4, released on 8 December 2015. This development makes it easier than ever before for developers working on mobile devices, gaming consoles and many other platforms to work with WordPress websites.

It also makes it much easier for web developers to work with WordPress in all-new ways, such as building themes that use new technologies via JavaScript.

This talk is an introduction to what the REST API is, how it works, and how you can start working with it today in your plugins and themes.

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January 30, 2017 — Some of the reasons WordPress is the most popular web development platform in the world is it’s ease of use, and it’s ability to use themes.

These features also makes it possible for complete beginners(with a little guidance) to create their very own professional looking website in a single day.

This session outlines the steps and activities that should be covered by a complete beginner to create their own website in just one day.

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