Development

Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site

Mobile website development is a hot topic at the moment. More and more users are accessing websites via a mobile device. This talk will show you how to build a basic mobile template and wrap in it into a plugin that you can drop in to your current WordPress website. The course will cover all aspects of a mobile web build project including: Concepts, Wireframes, Prep your Current WP site for mobile, Design, Screen Resolutions, … Continue reading

WP-API

Access your WordPress site’s data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API

Themes, Plugins and Accessibility

One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the ‘accessibility-ready’ tag for theme authors who wish to submit themes to the WordPress repository. The tag is used to indicate that a theme contains the best practices in web accessibility, and can form the basis of an accessible WordPress website. But uptake has been slow. This presentation looks at what you need to do to get your themes up to the ‘accessibility-ready’ … Continue reading

From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control and Deployment Tools

FTP is a great tool for transferring files from computer to server. Or is it? Perhaps it is about time we changed. This presentation looks at changing your development workflow to use version control and deployment in order to improve your development cycle.

Using WordPress for eSports

A few months ago Dan and a few others started http://exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed us to get off the ground quickly, taking advantage of a lot of newer technologies ranging from the new WordPress restful api with angular to websockets for realtime match results, but not forgetting the basics including extending the XMLRPC interface, custom post types and posts 2 posts plugin to link it all together. Dan will be talking about building … Continue reading

Introduction to WooCommerce

In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. I’ll be building a store from scratch ‘live’ in only 20 mins. I’ll show you how to set up your shop, add products (simple, virtual, grouped, affiliate and variable), add product galleries, add sections to your shop, set up checkout, how to take payment and more. We’ve been running WooCommerce on pootlepress.com (http://pootlepress.com/) for the past year … Continue reading

Developing and selling WordPress plugins

Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to the WordPress repo, and then finding a way to monetise it.

Security for Mid/Advanced Hosting

Manuel will be presenting his talk from WordPress Milan/Italy to share his insight into WordPress Security.

Ask the Experts!

Have a nagging question about WordPress? Not sure who to ask? No question is a stupid question, so let us know what you’d like to know! If you have a question you’d like to ask please submit to Ngaire or below and we’ll select the top 5 to answer on the evening.

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