December 1, 2017 — You’ve seen it before, one big file of PHP code and HTML all mangled together like a coughed up furball. There’s another, dare I say, a better way of structuring your code so that not only you as the developer can go back and make updates with ease, but others can as well.
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April 18, 2016 — Il Core di WordPress non deve essere modificato, ma può essere letto! Nei (molti) file che compongono WordPress si trovano molte gemme, alcune delle quali poco conosciute ed utilizzate. Lo scopo di questo talk, utilizzando come pretesto alcune funzioni, è quello di invitare gli sviluppatori a non ritenere WordPress una «black box», ma sfruttare il suo essere open source e «guardare sotto al cofano».

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May 27, 2015 — Lightning Talk über praktische, aber eher unbekannte Funktionen, die man jedoch kennen sollte!

May 21, 2015 — You’ll find thousands of tutorials, snippets, and other advice online advising you to “just add this to your functions.php file.”
In this talk learn Why that’s rarely the best strategy for anyone (yes, even a non-technical user), Why developers and designers should never do this on client sites, What best practices are regarding adding custom functionality to your site and Tools for users of all levels to avoid functions.php bloat.

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April 2, 2015 — La traduction dans WordPress est très bien gérée via une API qui utilise les fichiers po/mo.
Encore faut-il bien l’utiliser et l’utiliser partout.
Avez-vous pensé aux fichiers JavaScript à internationaliser ? N’avez-vous pas réinventé la roue avec votre propre système incompatible WP ? Utilisez-vous correctement les fonctions disponibles ? Les connaissez-vous toutes ?

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November 17, 2014 — Nicole walks through examples of some lesser known, but very useful functions that exist within WordPress.

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November 16, 2014 — With thousands of functions in the WordPress codebase, it’s virtually impossible to remember all of them. We’ll cover some overlooked WordPress core functions that you may not know exist. We’ll walk through some practical examples for their use, and give you a variety of new gems you can use every day.

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October 29, 2014 — Hast du schon einmal ein Bündel Funktionen in eine Klasse gesteckt, um weniger Präfixe verwenden zu müssen oder eine Variable in mehreren Funktionen zu verwenden? So steigen viele Entwickler in die objekt-orientierte Programmierung ein. Aber wie geht es von hier aus weiter? Welche Funktionen gehören tatsächlich in ein gemeinsames Objekt, welche nicht? Wie kommunizieren Objekte miteinander?

In diesem Workshop möchte ich die Grundlagen objekt-orientierten Codes vorstellen, wie man prozeduralen Code erkennt und umschreibt (Refactoring) und welche Probleme man speziell in WordPress zu lösen oder hinzunehmen hat.

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August 20, 2014 — Rhys does an introductory beginner talk on Child Themes, which involves the following:
– What is a child theme?
– When you should use a child theme?
– When you shouldn’t use a child theme?
– Structuring a child theme in your themes folder & common practices.
– The style.css file of a child theme, how to structure it.
– The functions.php file of the child theme.
– Common Issues that beginners ask about.

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June 11, 2014 — When developing a theme for a client, it’s super easy to throw all of the new functions and hooks into the theme’s functions.php file, wipe your hands, congratulate yourself for a hard day’s work and go have a beer. But, after a while, have you stopped to see the size of that functions.php file? It can be massive! It’s easy to create a large disorganized functions.php file with so many tutorials out there giving you little tips and tricks on hooks and doodads that you can add to the site to make it fancy. “Ohh! Look at this code that changes my background color based on weather patterns! I’ll just… put this… right… here.” *drops in functions.php file*

This session is about why you don’t want to fill up your functions.php file, the proper way to add code to your site, and why it’s proper for readability, security and extendability.

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