March 15, 2019 — Swashata will give you insight about what today’s front-end development terrain looks like, how much benefit it gives to us and how we can bring the same to our WordPress themes and plugins.

In this session, you will learn about the modern front-end development techniques ES6+ javascript features, CSS compilers like SASS, LESS along with build-time asset optimization. For this people use different compiler setups like babel, sass, and bundlers like web pack, parcel etc. Well, that’s a lot of tooling to learn and maintain, plus an overhead of time and cost. Swashata’s session will give you the solution for the same.

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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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December 6, 2018 — Let’s explore the benefits of thinking in re-usable blocks. Atomic design, Modular Development, and D.R.Y. methodology improves productivity, enhances UI and empowers authors. We will explore multiple methods to achieve modularity in our WP themes. Leveraging the WordPress templating system and Advanced Custom Fields or Using blocks in the form of Gutenberg.

May 30, 2017 — “- A sim, eu sei ‘programar para WordPress’”! Parabéns, você falou isso certo. SQN! Vou mostrar como iniciei no WordPress, desafios que tive e tudo que há de novo no WordPress. Mas não para por ai. Sai de desenvolvedor para gestor de equipe e hoje tenho uma grande equipe pelo Brasil a fora desenvolvendo os sites em WordPress.

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November 12, 2016 — WordPress has created many opportunities for people all around the world, so many people are curious about how it could help them grow. In his talk, Noel will discuss the path to success for anyone interested in working with WordPress, remote working or generally being part of this movement.

WordPress は世界中の人々に、多くの機会を提供してきました。多くの人たちが WordPress がどのように彼らの成長の助けになるのか関心を持っています。このセッションでは、WordPress を使って、リモートで、あるいはこのムーブメントのいち参加者として、どのように道を切り開くことができるのか、考えたいと思います。

April 28, 2016 — In this topic, we show beginning designers and developers how to use the CLI to speed development and design. Topics include automating common tasks with WP-CLI, simple phpunit testing to ensure plugin/theme mods haven’t broken anything in core, and using a CSS preprocessor.

November 17, 2015 — Advanced Topics in WordPress Development

November 13, 2014 — Advanced Topics for WordPress Development

November 3, 2014 — During a decade spent as a professional musician, Helen discovered web development and then WordPress, and made a primary career switch. While on the surface they sound incongruous, Helen believes that skills she learned and honed as a classical pianist have translated directly to becoming a leader in open source software development. Join Helen as she takes a look at those skills and celebrate alternative paths into WordPress.

October 19, 2014 — Michele é cientista nata e de formação, engenheira de software por profissão. Desenvolve software há mais de dez anos, entrou para o universo do WordPress há três. Trabalha com ciência de dados no Grupo RBS e é doutoranda em computação na PUCRS. Nessa apresentação dá dicas de PHP para desenvolvedores WordPress.

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