October 6, 2016 — Research and scholarship are constantly evolving, becoming more collaborative and interdisciplinary. Supporting an interactive media-rich environment, WordPress is a versatile and easy to use platform to document and showcase interdisciplinary research that produces various types of research output.

In this talk, we will be sharing about a digital archive developed for the Digital Intangible Heritage of Asia (DIHA) research cluster at NTU College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

October 6, 2016 — While WordPress is easy to use, it can be a headache to manage multiple authors for the site. This topic will cover the various way and tools I use to manage author’s post, collaboration, editorial issue, payment issues and more.

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October 6, 2016 — A slow website has serious business impacts. Period. 40% of mobile users abandon a page that takes more than three seconds to load (1). Many “Creative Responsive Multi-Purpose” themes are beautiful and flashy with their demo content, but have speed indexes of more than 50 times what is recommended (2). Are free themes any good? How can you tell good premium themes from bad ones without buying them? Never fear! There are several ways to vet a theme before shelling out the cash.

In this talk, we’ll cover strategies for evaluating themes’ code quality and performance, and creating healthy, content-oriented websites. In many ways, this is a call to action to the WordPress end user community: let’s shift our values from flashy effects to rock-solid content and fast websites. Scroll-jacking and parallax are over!

1) http://bit.ly/1LB87ve
2) http://bit.ly/1g8GH44

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October 6, 2016 — Some of the most aesthetically pleasing sites are also the slowest, but you don’t have to limit yourself to square corners and solid background colors to speed up your WordPress site. There are a number amazing free or inexpensive tools to help you monitor and adjust the performance of your site(s). The Pitch While clear, many somehow forget the simple equation that: Great design + fast loading pages + (great content of course) = more traffic. The Focus How to monitor existing as well as sites in development to make them super fast WordPress sites will be core to the presentation. You will come away from the presentation with a broader understanding of current performance improving trends and what data is relevant to specific scenarios. Questions Answered Why should I care about faster loading pages, as long as it looks good I’ll keep getting work? With most people connecting via broadband, why do I need to focus on performance at all? How can I convince my boss/client/developer/etc that performance is something worth investing time/money in?

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October 6, 2016 — Get ideas on how to make your owns logo, banner images, profile pics and how to embrace your brand and make it a business.

October 6, 2016 — Apache is the most-used webserver for a reason. NGINX is the second-most used webserver, and is gaining ground. We’ll go over some of the differences between Apache and NGINX, and some of the reasons why you might want to consider using NGINX the next time you deploy a WordPress site, or if you need to scale up an existing site to support more traffic.

October 5, 2016 — CSS Preprocessors will upgrade your workflow to a new level. Custom WordPress themes become a breeze when you introduce CSS Preprocessing into the mix.

From Zero

* Learn the basics of why preprocessors are a must
* Learn how to integrate into WordPress themes
* Learn the basics on variables, nesting, and scope

To Hero

* Learn custom mixins that will save you hours of code
* Understand how content injenction works and how it will change your front end workflow
* See the full power of using functions in preprocessed CSS
* Learn about advanced deployment strategies on small to large teams

October 5, 2016 — In this talk, I explore how customisable WordPress is by design, and show, with examples, how easy it is for non-developers to dive into WordPress coding.

October 5, 2016 — Using WordPress at its heart OSS tries to create a virtual studio where students and faculty can collaborate on projects in an online social space that encourages transparency and cooperative learning.

October 5, 2016 — There are many WordPress sites are powered by Vodien, and we are gonna share some insights, such as common traps like unoptimised themes and plugins causing site slowdowns and hacks.
We will also share why its important to work with a web developer or a reputable theme publisher for your website. Furthermore, we will provide our recommendations on a few plugins that cover different aspects, such as for security and speed.