April 6, 2016 — Panoramica sulle funzioni più importanti per rendere temi e plugin traducibili (i18n e l10n) e come usarli.

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February 21, 2016 — From the basics of using a simple membership plugin to evaluating several premium courseware plugins, we’ll look at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of courseware creation. The session will include both the basics How-to of creating courses with the business acumen. From the technical “know-how” of creating online courses, to the business information on possibilities and what to create, this session will provide the details to help create a successful site. Offline, downloadable guides will be available to continue the information.

February 18, 2016 — As a Small Business owner, you have taken the first step and decided that WordPress is the engine for your online business. But customizing your business website can be difficult – especially if you don’t know which are the right plugins to use to maximum effect. This presentation will help you find what types of plugins to use for which type of business, and how to customize them.

February 7, 2016 — Die Abwehr von Angriffen auf WordPress beginnt nicht erst nachdem die Installation erfolgt und die Seite online ist. Schon bei der Entwicklung von Themes und Plugins können Entwickler dazu beitragen ihre Produkte sicherer zu gestalten. Wir werfen einen Blick auf mögliche Angriffsvektoren und die Möglichkeiten, die WordPress von Haus aus bietet um diese abzusichern.

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February 7, 2016 — After this session you will share my believe that hooks are the reason that WordPress is the number one cms in the world. You will know how to use them in order to extend core, plugins and themes and learn some smart tricks which you can use when adding hooks to your own code.

Content in details:

* why bother with hooks?
* where hooks are used
* elements of hook routines
* basic functions and attributes
* how core itself uses hooks
* debugging hooks

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February 5, 2016 — As developer we can get excited about a new project idea and immediately we start coding and hacking to get a first alpha version ready. But in most cases our initial implementation idea is by far neither the best nor the fastest to implement. In this lightning talk I want to show you one example, where I exploit another plugin to accomplish my task and it saved me a lot of time.

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February 4, 2016 — Bei der Erstellung von modernen Websites kommt man an dem Thema Mehrsprachigkeit heute nicht mehr vorbei. Die dafür notwendigen Funktionalitäten werden von WordPress bereits mitgeliefert. Bei dieser Session geht es um das notwendige Wissen, um die für die eigenen oder für Kunden erstellten Themen und Plugins auf den Einsatz mit mehreren Sprachen vorzubereiten bzw. fit für den Einsatz in einer mehrsprachigen Konfiguration zu machen.

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February 4, 2016 — This session gives an introduction to how to test WordPress plugins with unit tests, focusing on the advantages it provides. We’ll have a look together at the main steps to set up a first test case.

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February 4, 2016 — As a plugin developer, you should write code that plays well with other plugins. When a plugin is not initialized in an optimal way, it can be hard or even impossible for other plugins, to interact with it. In this lightning talk I would like to give you some tips on how to do it right in your plugins, which can also decrease the number of service requests.

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January 25, 2016 — Writing multisite compatible themes and plugins will help you becoming a better developer and reducing the amount of support. In this session I will talk about the restrictions and possibilities, what to watch out for and what we can learn from the core code.

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