Are custom page templates and shortcodes offering our clients and users the best content publishing experience? In this talk, I’ll explore how and why page builders might now be a staple in a WordPress developer’s toolkit.
WP-CLI is a useful tool for automating tasks and optimising developer workflow in WordPress. WP-CLI is commonly used for maintenance and can be put to good use in the initial site build process. Learn how WP-CLI can help improve your themeing process and make it faster to perform common site building tasks.
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have plugins we’ve used for years, or sometimes we come across handy plugins by chance. Let’s spread the word about these great little plugins available to us. Let’s find those hero plugins that will get us hooked! In this session, Mike Pead will demonstrate two plugins he regularly uses, which are useful for all levels of abilities. He’ll … Continue reading
The Customizer is one of the most powerful parts of WordPress, its a great tool for users, and big media to customise the message of content in a visual way. We’ll be looking at an example of this and what type of features can be built around the customizer experience.
Single page applications (SPA) are big part of the future of web design. Using a JS library like React or AngularJS to dynamically display content and interact with your system greatly improves the user experience for your visitors. In this talk I will be showing you how to use AngularJS and the WordPress API to build a single-page site. I want to show you the basics of building websites this way so you can easily … Continue reading
Logging and monitoring is an important, but usually overlooked aspect of web application design. We debug them for eons in development, but what about after we’ve handed it over to our client? What happens if something goes wrong? This talk will introduce the benefits of logging and monitoring and a few tips on how to implement them.
WordPress Coding Standards have been around for a while, yet many developers don’t write code that conforms to them, let alone know they exist. This was the case with me until September 2015 when I made the switch, and now I wish I’d dived in earlier! In this talk I’ll explain what they are, how they will help you write better, cleaner and more secure code and why you should be using them for all … Continue reading
A run through of dev ops for beginners covering some basics to get your started Git & Version Control Dependency Management Automation Deployments.
Many WordPress projects quickly outgrow their humble beginnings as blogs or websites and are now highly customised web applications. However the modern tools we have available within development teams can be tricky to use with the popular blogging platform. This technical talk will guide you through how Git, Composer, and other tools can enhance your WordPress development – and help you take back control of your themes, plugins, database and environments in a growing application.
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