January 14, 2020 — WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019 Part 7 – The Future Is Now The Importance Of Upgrading to PHP 7 By Matt Jaworski. In this talk I explain the lifetime of PHP versions and how the recent major events (the end of life of PHP 5.x.x and 7.0.x) are impacting the industry.

It’s a very relevant and important topic nowadays, as PHP is going through major shifts this year (PHP 5.6 and 7.0 lost the official support). Unsupported PHP versions will pose a security risk for all websites still stuck on old systems.

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December 21, 2019 — In questo speech, Carlo cercherà di far venir voglia di provare a sviluppare con WordPress a chi conosce un po’ di PHP . Non sarà un discorso sullo sviluppo dei temi o dei plugin, ma su come accedere via PHP ai dati presenti nel database: spiegherà infatti come si modificano le query di WordPress per personalizzare in modo granulare i risultati mostrati a video.

Questo è l’indice degli argomenti che tratterà.

Il database e i dati:
cosa sono i post;
i tipi di post;
le tabelle di archiviazione dei post.
Le query di WordPress:
la classe WP_Query;
i parametri della classe WP_Query;
la trasmissione dei parametri;
le query variable (pubbliche e private).
La visualizzazione dei dati:
la classe WP_Post;
il Loop;
le liste (la funzione get_posts()).
Come personalizzare le query:
modifica del Loop (pre_get_posts o tramite nuove istanze di WP_Query).

October 29, 2019 — It’s never been a more exciting time to be writing PHP in the WordPress ecosystem! WordPress core recently bumped the minimum-supported PHP version from 5.2 to 5.6 and plans to bump it again later this year all the way to 7.2!

Whether that least sentence incites feelings of jubilation or anxiety in you, this talk has your back. We’ll take a deep dive into ways devs of all levels can breathe new life into their plugins and themes with modern PHP features and principles.

We’ll cover back-compat gotchas, including how to deal with version-specific features and code partial plugin activation so you don’t break users’ sites with your upgrades. We’ll also go over modern principles such as using autoloaders and namespaces, setting up group aliasing, using return type declarations, leveraging traits, and more.

Finally, we’ll talk about how to create a development plan for the short- and long-term so that continual and improvement and iteration can keep you up to date with modern PHP development.

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September 24, 2019 — What can you do to improve your site’s security and performance instantly? It’s not clickbait — it’s updating to a modern PHP version. Keeping PHP up-to-date with the latest version pays off enormously with increases in performance, security, and better overall compatibility. It’s not always instant, especially for larger sites, but we’ll cover the benefits and importance of updating, planning for an update, testing for issues, and dive into some modern PHP features and functionality.

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June 14, 2019 — At the State of the Word, it was announced that one of the upcoming focuses of the WordPress project is raising the minimum version requirement of PHP.

WordPress core is already PHP7.2 compatible but are your plugins and themes?

In this talk, Jenny will be looking at the steps needed to check if plugins and themes are compatible, and the lessons learned from doing the steps.

Are you PHPrepared?

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April 19, 2019 — For years I held myself back thinking that because I couldn’t comprehend PHP there was a limit to how far I could go as a developer.

With WordPress and plugins like Toolset this is absolutely untrue. There is no data management problem I cannot solve with these two powerful platforms working together.

In this workshop , I want to demonstrate how quickly a front end form can be created and then how the data captured can be manipulated to create awesome solutions for our clients.

Any of the new form builders can be used, but Toolset is my go to as the support is unreal. To date I’ve built recruitment platforms, tourist portals, an entire HR Suite and much more using Toolset.

For WordPress users this knowledge could be very useful, for WordPress Developers this knowledge opens the door to lots of repeat business from their existing client base.

April 14, 2019 — L’ecosistema del Machine Learning sta crescendo e una serie di funzionalità prima accedibili soprattutto da linguaggi come Python o R sono ora disponibili anche in PHP, aprendo numerosi casi d’uso in ambiente WordPress. Vediamo un esempio minimale di Machine Learning in PHP con la libreria open source PHP-ML.

March 8, 2019 — WordPress’ minimum-supported version is still PHP 5.2 (gasp!) but that doesn’t mean you should let that hold you back from leveraging modern PHP features in your plugins and themes!

In this talk, we’ll take a deep dive into ways you can start leveraging modern PHP features today to bring new life to that old plugin or theme. We’ll cover how to code partial plugin activation for old versions of PHP, use autoloaders and namespaces, setup group aliasing, use return type declarations, leverage traits, and much more.

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February 28, 2019 — You’ve built a WordPress site or two (or 10), your installed plugins and themes to MOSTLY get what you want. Now you’re ready to learn the inner workings of WordPress and take your development to the next level.

Jump into WordPress development and PHP by building a Plugin and learn to speak WordPress’ language: PHP.

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October 8, 2018 — PHP Now and Future – WordPress Special Edition –

PHP の紹介と歴史、開発体制とエコシステム、リリースポリシー、PHP 7.3の新機能などについて。

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