October 3, 2016 — Akismet, Jetpack, Disqus, all of these big companies are utilizing the cloud to deliver services through a plugin. Can a small WordPress development shop even attempt this? Yes, you can, and it’s not that hard to do. Heavy volume processing, shared data across clients, AI and big data are just some of the services you can more easily deliver through the cloud. In this talk I will cover some of the key concepts that you need to know to get started including:

* Identifying processing best delivered through cloud services
* Architecting a cloud service plugin
* Building a cloud service on Amazon with PHP/Apache
* Communication between your plugin and the Cloud Service
* Tips, volume metrics and other lessons learned in 4 years of supporting Artificial Intelligence and volume processing through a cloud service plugin

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October 3, 2016 — In my discussion, I will review the Israeli website accessibility regulation, and discuss how website developers can act in order to limit their liability in case that the website owner is sought for damages.

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October 3, 2016 — Talk about principles that WordPress plugin developers should keep in mind.

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October 3, 2016 — Sharing info on how the WPML team organises, works and improves over time, and so earns the love and loyalty of their customers.

October 3, 2016 — To serve high traffic blogs, media websites, and e-commerce shops, it is vital to configure WordPress and server setting.

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October 1, 2016 — Do you know Amazon Alexa? / What is Amazon Alexa?

Amazon Alexa is a speech recognition service provided by Amazon.
By combining various AWS applications, you can use it in many ways imaginable.
Our team developed the applications by combining Alexa and WP REST API to control WordPress without using any GUI.

In the session, we’ll introduce GUI-less application and how to combine speech recognition service + WP REST API and how to control WordPress without any GUI.

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October 1, 2016 — Almost everyone will have heard the phrase “don’t hack WordPress core” before, what’s less known is that it’s only the start of the saying. Don’t hack WordPress core, without contributing the hacks back.

Contributing to WordPress core is like riding a bike, it takes a little effort to get started but once you learn it’s a skill you’ll never forget.

You will be given a jump start on contributing, from how to use the bug tracker all the way to contributing a patch and getting your first props.

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October 1, 2016 — India has the second largest population in the world. More than a million people are directly working in IT sector.

Yet, WordPress agency or in general any software agency in India, or even in South Asia is often mistaken as that agency which does low quality work for ridiculously low rates!

When we started in 2009, it was very clear that we are not going to be part of this “race to the bottom” culture. We wanted to work on projects that were exciting and challenging. A kind of work that makes you proud at the end of the day!

I would like to talk about how we used innovative methods to hire passionate people, what challenges we faced in motivating our employees to be core contributors, nurturing a culture of giving back to open source and how it all helped us stand out.

The result – I am glad to say that I have the privilege to lead and work in one of the most talked about WordPress agencies in India today, for right reasons!

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September 30, 2016 — Are you ready to make the leap to self-hosted WordPress? Learn how to…
1) Choose a domain
2) Choose hosting
3) Choose a theme
4) Move your current site
I also answer questions about self-hosted WordPress.

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September 30, 2016 — WordPress is extremely flexible when it comes to expansion. From small blog to a large social network it can be extend very efficiently and effectively if you use “Custom Post Types”.
In this topic I would like to discuss how we can extend WordPress Projects to anything, using WordPress Custom Post types, custom taxonomies and custom meta boxes.

Specifically, I’ll go through –

Default post types in WordPress
What is a custom post type and how it works.
Creating your own custom post types.
Best practices in creating custom post types.
Extending further with custom taxonomies and meta boxes.
Displaying your data.