Plugins

How we created Google Docs-style editing for WordPress posts and pages

Poetica is a beta WordPress plugin that inserts Google Docs-style collaboration into your WordPress posts and pages. Co-founder and CEO, Anna Maybank, and full-stack engineer, Abby Millward, are going to talk about how they’ve rethought collaboration, from both a technical and design perspective, and why they think improving the editor experience in WordPress is so important for keeping up with changing user expectations. They’ll also demo the plugin and talk about some of the challenges of working … Continue reading

Adding Composer to your WordPress development toolbox

Neil be looking at how to use Composer as a tool to manage and maintain WordPress based sites & applications, from getting up and running with Composer, through managing full site stacks to adding composer support to your own plugins and themes.

BuddyPress; an overview of recent updates, and what to expect in the year ahead

If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it helps you run any kind of social network on your WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more. Find out more on https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/.

Version Control For WordPress Sites

The way WordPress was created is very “forward-centric” – you click in the admin area and the changes are applied immediately. It would be often useful, though, to roll back the change if it caused any sort of trouble (broken plugin update, human mistake, etc.). The talk discusses how a technique of version control can help with that, what are the challenges when applying it in the world of WordPress, and what approaches and tools … Continue reading

Building a WordPress Github Plugin Updater

Lets take a look at how we can get WordPress to look for plugin updates from private Github repositories. This talk covers why we need such a thing, how to look through WordPress source code to find an entry point to hook our custom updater, how we can get information from Github to tell us there are updates and writing some code to put everything together from what we have learnt so far.

How we created Google Docs-style editing for WordPress posts and pages

Adding Composer to your WordPress development toolbox

BuddyPress; an overview of recent updates, and what to expect in the year ahead

Version Control For WordPress Sites

Building a WordPress Github Plugin Updater

Front End Workflow Automation for Theme and Plugin Development

WordPress Security

Google Publisher Plugin

My First Plugin

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