November 11, 2019 — Plugin development is fun! But deploying a new version of a plugin to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory using SVN is a pain! We usually develop plugins using Git, hosting the code on GitHub. But up until this year, deploying those plugins to the plugin directory was a rather hard manual task.

Now with the new GitHub actions becoming available for all repositories, we can utilize pre-defined automated tasks to deploy a new version of a plugin. It’s even possible to just update the readme file, which is even more complicated in the current Subversion environment.

This talk will show you, how you can use GitHub actions to make your life as a plugin developer a lot easier and bringing back the fun to develop plugins.

September 24, 2018 — BarCamp Track

September 14, 2018 — Auf dem WordPress Meetup Berlin am 30.08.2018 hat Bernhard eine Einführung in den zukünftigen Standard-Editor Gutenberg gegeben.

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December 13, 2017 — For WordCamp Europe 2017, the design team wanted to create a brand new theme. Not only for this WordCamp iteration, but for all WordCamps worldwide.

Developing a theme is not hard, but what makes it differently, when you have to develop something that fits for many different countries and languages. How do you deal with the limitations of a huge multisite, which all WordCamp website run on. And were do you put which code? And last, but not least: how can you contribute code to a plattform like wordcamp.org, when you don’t have direct code access?

In this talk, I will share my experiences in developing a new default theme and the difficulties I had along the way.

December 2, 2017 — Bernhard zeigt Live die Entwicklung eines Plugins.

December 1, 2017 — Das Pluginkollektiv hat einige beliebte Plugins von Sergej Müller übernommen und betreut und entwickelt die Plugins weiter. In dem Video erzählen euch Entwickler des Pluginkollektivs was es damit auf sich hat und zeigt euch wie ihr mitmachen könnt.

November 29, 2017 — Bernhard Kau describes how to use docker for the local development environment.

November 21, 2016 — The Child Theme concept is well known to many theme developers. Sometimes people ask, if there is something similar for plugins. Unfortunately, no.

At least not exactly. There are many ways to customize a plugin without modifying the plugin’s original code. In this session I would like to present some of there techniques and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

September 10, 2016 — Das Konzept von Child Themes wird wohl vielen Theme-Entwicklern bekannt sein. Sehr häufig kommt dann auch die Frage auf, ob es auch so etwas wie Child Plugins gibt. Die Antwort hierauf ist leider nein.

Aber es gibt sehr viele Möglichkeiten ein Plugin anzupassen, ohne den Code selbst verändern zu müssen. In meiner Session möchte ich euch daher die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten zeigen und auf die Vor- und Nachteile davon eingehen.

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April 21, 2016 — A responsive design has become a standard of modern WordPress theme. But not only the content of a website has to be optimized for the mobile screen. The theme should also provide high resolution images and icons. Using SVG images here is usually the best way to accomplish this goal. This session will give a brief overview on how you can utilize Scalable Vector Graphics.

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