Development

Modern PHP toolset for WordPress

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.

Docker Deep Dive for WordPress Admins

Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress admins.

Good Migrations – Moving a WordPress Site to Docker

Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress admins.

Making a simple quiz plugin using React and the WP REST API

If you’ve ever wanted to build something, anything, with the WordPress REST API but were not sure where to start or what to build, try making a plugin for a simple single page app like a quiz. In this talk, I’ll go over the tools used and resources needed for me to learn enough to make a simple quiz plugin using the WP REST API and React having never used either before. I’ll spend some … Continue reading

Tidy Up Your WordPress Site for the New Year

With the start of the new year, now is the time to ensure that your content is up-to-date.

Preparing Your Plugin for a .org Release

How do you get a plugin onto the WordPress.org repository? What steps do you need to take? Are there any specific requirements? These are just some of the questions this talk, aimed at anyone who wants to push a plugin to the WordPress.org repository will answer. We will go through the steps you need to take in order to prepare your plugin, some best practices in the plugin code and how to submit it to … Continue reading

WordPress for SEO Haters

SEO is a dirty word, tarnished by years of bad practice and self-defined ‘gurus’. But should it be ignored by developers? Keith argues the case for taking SEO seriously when building WordPress websites. He also gives his top ‘hater-friendly’ tips for SEO on WordPress. It’s easier (and harder) than people might think.

Websockets + WordPress = Magic

WordPress and Websockets what type of dark magic is this? The darkest, with the power of WordPress and Ratchet ( http://socketo.me ), we can harness the magic of realtime and push WordPress in unforeseen directions.

Is the wp-admin interface dead?

With the rise of WP-API and WP-CLI plugin developers can no longer assume that a user is interacting with WordPress from the admin interface. In this talk Tim looks at new approaches to developing plugins in our new potentially admin less world and asks the question, do we even need the admin interface?

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