December 8, 2015 — Version 4.4 of WordPress, named “Clifford” in honor of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.4 make your site more connected and responsive and introduces a new default theme, Twenty Sixteen.

December 8, 2015 — Increase your audience by writing translation ready plugins and themes WordPress is growing every day – from 18% of the web in 2013 to 23% in 2014. In 2014, with the release of WordPress 4.0, international downloads surpassed English downloads for the first time.
Some of the largest portions of non English downloads come from countries where English is not an option at all. For software creators this means that if your product is not localized, it’s not going to be used at all.
This talk clarifies the terms internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) and explains the benefits of writing translation-ready plugins and themes. It also provides advice for small business owners, plugin and theme developers on how to grow their international community and create their product evangelists outside of the English speaking world, which can exponentially lead to product growth alongside the core project.

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December 7, 2015 — John is talking about why, as a developer, you should treat debugging as a key skill that you should practice and become proficient at. He’ll talk about some tools and processes for modern and efficient debugging of the front end and the back end, and how processes such as testing and version control can aid your debugging.

December 7, 2015 — 本セッションは日本語通訳を行います！
WordPress とそのコミュニティーに貢献すること。そのことが、あなた自身、またあなたの従業員の圧倒的な成長に繋がるというお話をします。プログラムを書く、翻訳する、テーマやプラグインを作るなどなどの貢献活動は、WordPress とコミュニティーを発展させるだけでなく、あなた自身をもより高みに連れていってくれるのです。
Japh will talk about the benefits of contributing to WordPress and the WordPress community for you as a professional, and by extension, for your employer. Activities like contributing code, translating, building themes or plugins, and more all help further WordPress, and the community along with it (including you!)

December 7, 2015 — Although distributed companies are becoming increasingly popular, internships are still a wonderful opportunity for agencies to assess talent and for young job seekers to get real working experience. But how exactly can you mentor someone or be mentored without constant face time? In this talk, thanks to my unique position as a former remote intern and current remote mentor, I will present some insights on how to get the most out of a remote internship: setting it up, hiring, being hired and making sure that the internship becomes a valuable and productive experience for both sides. This session is aimed at WordPress distributed companies and people who want to grow their career as a remote employee.

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December 7, 2015 — A live case on how I improved the website of a big interior design company. The site had great content but suffered from serious performance and structural issues resulting in slow loading time (more than 6 seconds for the index page). This was caused by excessive server resources consumption and after I analyzed the problems I managed to turn it into a perfectly optimized website.

December 7, 2015 — We’ve always talked about content ownership and how to optimise your website for traffic. But publishing isn’t synonymous with your own website anymore. In this talk, we’ll look at how the distribution of your own content is changing and how we can best position ourselves for an ever-changing web.

December 7, 2015 — How can you change theme elements without creating child themes? How can you change plugin behaviour, or admin screens, without hacking the code? Through concrete real-world examples, I’ll show you how powerful actions and filters in WordPress are. If you are just beginning to learn to code, you can use them today with just a little PHP. If you are an experienced developer, you’ll get some insight into the typical use-cases I meet in my daily work, and maybe discover a new hook you didn’t know about.

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December 7, 2015 — You always think it will never happen to you but when it does, it’s all hands on deck. My personal site was almost hacked and since then I actively looked at what I could improve. During this talk I will talk what I had before and show all the improvements I made since then. It will be a mixed of using using the existing tools and my own creation in managing my sites.

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December 7, 2015 — In this talk we’ll drop most of the regular box-model in CSS and start exploring flexbox. A new (and native) way to align, order and position elements in css. We’ll be live-coding a theme-page and getting a glimpse into the concrete advantages of using flex over the current techniques.