November 2, 2016 — This talk will show real-life examples of some of the possibilities that the new WordPress Rest API gives to web developers to supercharge their non-WordPress sites and apps.

The talk will highlight the following topics:

Brief introduction into what the Rest API offers and why it is such a big deal.
An example of using the Rest API for user management (including how to make it work cross domain).
An example of using Wordpress as a payment server on a non-WordPress site and restricting access to features based on roles.
An example of using the Rest API in a hybrid app.
Other awesome possibilities…

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November 2, 2016 — A lot of developers and WordPress experts tell people what to do with it and how awesome it is.

As a WordPress user and developer for nearly 12 years, I think it is important for business owners and small agencies to understand the common traps of using such a user friendly system.

So I am going to concentrate on highlighting areas that people need to be wary of in order to create great, effective and excellent value Wordpress websites.

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November 1, 2016 — SEO best practices that developers should keep in mind when they are building a website.

Learn, how as a web developer, you can build search engine friendly websites for yourself and your clients.
The session will take you through the various on-page ranking factors that you should pay attention to when building and launching a new site.

This presentation is for developers who want to get better results from their websites.

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November 1, 2016 — In 2018, Europe upgrades to a new data protection regime. It’s the biggest overhaul of the way we access, use, and store data since 1995.

The new rules will impact everyone who uses or accesses data within the EU as well as businesses serving EU customers – Brexit or not.

We’ll cover what you need to know about how it will affect your work on the web and in your business.

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November 1, 2016 — The basic idea of WordPress was to redefine online publishing with allowing anyone to easily publish their articles. More than 10 years later, we used WordPress as an open source publishing platform to build a website for one of the largest cities in Croatia.

I’ll tell you a story of how the city of Rijeka decided to go with open source software and how the people reacted to a fact that everything will be open sourced as well. One of the first large-scale “design in the open” projects in Croatia is defining standards for future web development. We’re discussing the web design process, sharing knowledge with the public and asking citizens to be a part of the redesign effort.

By delivering designs, HTML and CSS, WordPress theme and documents like Content Strategy and Accessibility Guidelines – we’re redefining how the public website should look like. And with the help of WordPress, we’re promoting the power of publishing and transparency.

Last but not least – I’ll tell you how the city of Rijeka helped us organise our first WordCamp Croatia in 2015 believing in the power of WordPress.

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November 1, 2016 — Like Excel in the 1980’s, WordPress is transforming the way that large organizations collect, curate, and publish information on the web and in apps.

Marketing micro-sites, corporate blogs and intranets published with WordPress provide a quick alternative to more complex enterprise software and platforms, and have made it possible for managers to deploy and test their ides with less IT support. For web designers and developers, enterprise clients can be highly lucrative, but there are special considerations to keep in mind.

By attending this session, you will come away with new ideas for building with WordPress in complex, large-scale situations.

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November 1, 2016 — How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour?

Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site. This short talk will outline easy plans and steps you can take to prevent website disaster, even if the zombies come after you. Kate will share a downloadable action plan to help you get started.

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November 1, 2016 — The WordPress.org platform is the project’s secret sauce of success. It powers the plugin and theme directories, hosts all WordPress versions, is home to the developer tools needed to create WordPress, and protects millions of WordPress sites with automatic updates. In this session I will shine a little light on a largely unknown part of WordPress, explain the impact it has, and answer all questions about it.

November 1, 2016 — This lightning talk is going to highlight a few useful tips and suggestions to a)avoid some common mistakes developers make with clients, and b)set better standards to improve client/developer relationships.

November 1, 2016 — This talk will cover the technical challenges and development decisions I made when developing Instant WordPress (IWP) 5.0.

This version runs on OSX and on Windows, unlike previous versions that only ran on Windows. This version wraps an embedded Linux VM with an interface written in Smalltalk and F#.

The Linux VM runs a LAMP stack allowing your WordPress development environment to remain completely independent of your OS.

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