October 18, 2016 — WordPress powers more than every fourth of all websites in the world, in one or more of the 6,500+ world languages. WordPress itself does not allow for multilingual content, though, so that’s where plugins come in handy. One of these is MultilingualPress: THE multisite-based free open source plugin for multilingual websites.
In this talk, Thorsten provides a short introduction to both MultilingualPress and WordPress multisite. By means of several user stories, he then explains how to set up your multilingual WordPress website with MultilingualPress.

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October 18, 2016 — How to optimize your stack for better scalability?
WordPress isn’t just used for your average blog that has 10 visitors per day. The tech industry has realized that the WordPress platform can be leveraged as the foundation for all kinds of content-driven websites. But when your website gets increasingly popular and your WordPress installation is under heavy load, that’s when things get more complicated.
WordPress is built on top of PHP & MySQL and in this presentations I will show you how to optimize your stack for better scalability. We’ll be talking about software like Varnish, Nginx, Redis & PHP-FPM. We will also cover topics like loadbalancing, session distribution, static file hosting, SSL termination & aggressive page caching.
Just enough infrastructure talk to make your WordPress bullet proof. But don’t worry, we’ll start from the beginning.
WordPress isn’t just used for your average blog that has 10 visitors per day. The tech industry has realized that the WordPress platform can be leveraged as the foundation for all kinds of content-driven websites. But when your website gets increasingly popular and your WordPress installation is under heavy load, that’s when things get more complicated.

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October 18, 2016 — What is REST, what is an API, what the hell does this have to do with WordPress, how can we use it, and what are the benefits.
Expect a lot of acronyms like MVC, SPA, API, REST, JSON etc.. and what that mumbo jumbo actually means for a webdeveloper. Introductory session but still very dev-oriented.
Might contain traces of nuts the Star Wars universe 😉

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October 18, 2016 — How-to make sites fast.

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October 17, 2016 — This presentation covers what HTTPS does and does not protect against, reviews some of the more egregious misuses of HTTP, rebuts the commons objections to implementing HTTPS, and then advances numerous compelling reasons to use HTTPS that should convince anyone still on the fence. An abundance of links to technical resources, client-side tools, and relevant influential writings is also provided.

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October 17, 2016 — A story about punk, passion and pirates, musings of a two decades building free software.

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October 17, 2016 — Why should we make websites more accessible? Isn’t that really much work? No. In this presentation you will discover the tricks to getting 70% there. Making your website work better for everyone. Making accessible websites doesn’t have to be hard.

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October 17, 2016 — It’s easier than ever to create responsive websites with WordPress since the addition of native handling for responsive images in core as of the WordPress 4.4 Clifford release. Understand why it is important to provide users with images that are appropriate for their screen size and learn what happens to images behind the scenes. This is a technical talk that will deep dive into how you can take advantage of responsive images in your sites.

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October 17, 2016 — I’m using WordPress and BuddyPress to help me achieve the intranet projects my company is making me work on for 6 years now.
Although WordPress and BuddyPress are not necessarily solutions companies think of for their intranets, I have this conviction that considering a bit more some of their specific needs, my two favorite tools could help the hesitating ones to launch their collaborative or community intranets while making sure they keep the entire control over their data and knowledge.
During this talk I will tell you how I gradually developed a set of specific plugins to meet my needs around community intranets. I will also try to show you that WordPress, with a little help from BuddyPress can help any company of any size in improving the way their staff collaborates.

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October 17, 2016 — A thorough overview of a great number of techniques to optimize the performance of your WordPress website, on all levels of the setup.
We’ll dive into tweaks within WordPress, on the server, caching strategies, …

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