April 15, 2015 — Plugin Development Panel

March 24, 2015 — The Business of Plugins

March 8, 2015 — The huge range of over 35,000 community-contributed plugins is one of the most valuable features of WordPress.org. But how do you determine what’s a safe and effective plugin without being overwhelmed by choice? In this session we’ll look at when to use a plugin and clarify the difference between widgets and plugins. We’ll discuss how to make an informed decision about which plugin to use – and explore how to
troubleshoot any conflicts that may crop up.

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March 6, 2015 — In der Session wollen wir euch unser Azubi-Projekt ,,VCAT-Edulabs“ vorstellen. Die Vorstellung erfolgt an einem eigenen Geo-Coding-Plugin. Wir werden euch zeigen wie man die benutzerdefinierten Variablen umstellen kann, bis hin zu einer eigenen Tabelle, mit deren Einbindung über die Query-Filter. Aber auch die Entwicklung von Backend-Widgets im Post- sowie im Page-Bearbeitungsbereich.

February 26, 2015 — Alors que WordPress représente désormais plus de 25% des sites dans le monde, on le qualifie encore trop souvent de simple « moteur de blog ». Mais les raisons de ce succès tiennent à bien d’autres potentialités bien réelles. Parmi-elles, le mode « Multi-site », encore peu connu et en pleine explosion.

L’équipe de GLOBALIS media systems vous propose ici un aperçu des possibilités offertes par l’outil. Administration d’un réseau de site, création et duplication de sites à la volée à partir de modèles prédéfinis, édition de contenus partagés par plusieurs sites ..

À partir d’un retour d’expérience réel sur un projet complexe (200 jours*homme) pour un grand compte des assurances, c’est tout le fonctionnement d’un réseau de sites WordPress que nous passerons en revue, avec un constat : WordPress offre désormais le socle idéal aux développeurs pour mettre en place des outils multi-sites complexes.

Nous reviendrons sur les différents plugins mis en place lors de ce projet afin de dresser une liste des potentialités, des bonnes pratiques et des contraintes à maîtriser pour le développement de thèmes et de plugins « Multi-site Ready ».

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January 15, 2015 — This session talks about how to design interesting and useful WordPress widgets. When creating a mockup or building a theme, it is easy to neglect widgets. You might design or style a few widgets for the mock-up or demo, but what happens when your client adds the Calendar widget? It also covers designing for a wide range of widgets, exploring different widget designs, planning responsive widgets that scale well, thinking about animated and interactive widgets, and upgrading your widgets with plugins.

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December 23, 2014 — This session was for users who were looking to expand their knowledge of WordPress hooks for theme and plugin development. Ian Wilson walked users through what hooks are, first and foremost, the WordPress core page load (ie when certain hooks fire), the anatomy of the various hook functions, and finally some examples of common ways they are used.

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November 21, 2014 — This session assumes a basic understanding of plugin development (hooks!) and PHP, and introduces habits that make plugins secure, reliable, compatible, maintainable, and usable.

November 20, 2014 — Every plugin or theme developer who’s done a lot of development has learned that developing the backend often takes more time than developing the front end. Thinking about how you make your backend look and what you name options can save many, many hours on support. We’ve found in research amongst our own users that default settings often don’t get changed. What does this mean? What to do with it?

November 17, 2014 — Developing your first plugin can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation assists beginner to intermediate developers in understanding the basics of plugin development by walking through a basic plugin step by step. It goes over hooks, how important they are, how they are used, and what hooks are available to you in WordPress core as well as some good practices to keep your plugin sharp.