October 30, 2020 — During this session, I will share the 6 Principles and the best practices that they spawn as well as practical tips for applying them in “real life.”

May 29, 2020 — ¿Por qué y cómo debo asegurar mi WordPress? Alfonso Frachelle nos muestra las mejores práctica para que tu sitio web hecho en WordPress no tenga brechas de seguridad.

April 2, 2020 — This talk provides an overview of coding best practices with a focus on the WordPress coding standard. We’ll discuss how to use tools to easily automate your coding environment, project repositories, and processes to write code that complies with established standards. We’ll cover Javascript, CSS and PHP linters and formatters with tried and true tips and tricks to getting these tools setup to work for you.

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March 3, 2020 — In this talk, I draw from both general software engineering best-practices and from the WordPress world. We get into testing, templating, coding standards, dependency injection, security, extensive use of WordPress’s in-built capabilities like admin table lists, custom post types and the like.

November 11, 2019 — We gained experience by building several WordPress plugins and offer them for free or selling them on different platforms. I will tell you the story of our MultilingualPress plugin and what we learned by developing a Multilingual Plugin.

November 10, 2019 — Die meisten Menschen sind seit jeher auf Wettbewerb mit anderen Individuen ausgelegt. Daher wundert es nicht, dass Menschen gern solche Tätigkeiten vollführen, bei denen sie sich mit anderen messen können. Bisher kannte man solchen Wettbewerb jedoch hauptsächlich in Spielen oder sportlichen Wettkämpfen. Doch immer mehr wird dieser motivationssteigernde Mechanismus auch in anderen Kontexten wie beispielsweise der – religiösen Bildung! – eingesetzt.
Gamification bedeutet, die Besucher der eigenen Website, über die Vergabe von Punkten für das erfolgreiche Absolvieren bestimmter Aufgaben zu belohnen und über den Wettkampfaspekt und Konkurrenz mit den anderen Besuchern, zu einer höheren Aktivität zu animieren.
Nach einer kurzen Einführung in das Thema und dem kennenlernen der wichtigsten WordPress Plugins dafür berichten wir über unsere Intentionen im schulischen Einsatz.

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August 4, 2019 — As a developer in the WordPress ecosystem, you’re part of a large open source community; and being part of a community, being a good neighbour goes a long way. You’re thinking of or already developing components for WordPress, but developing is just the beginning: allowing your code to be used or modified easily will get you more goodwill within the community. That means documentation; meaning useful code comments, user manuals and API docs.

We’ll discuss documentation standards, best practices, and how to make your users and other developers sing your praises.

July 26, 2019 — In this talk, I will introduce several tools and best practices for developing WordPress sites in a local environment. I will compare the most popular options and show a quick 5 minute tutorial on how to use each of the top 3 (Local by Flywheel, Desktop Server and MAMP)

June 20, 2019 — Jon is a payments expert and has spent the last ten years helping web hosts, software companies and developers earn recurring revenue by bundling payment processing with their core product offering as a value-added-service.

Jon attended 11 WordCamps last year and is passionate about empowering the community by educating store owners and store builders on how to lower costs through interchange optimization and increase security through best practices.

When he is not snuggling with his cats and cooking with his wife he loves to travel and enjoys seeking adventure in the places he visits through watching live music, rock climbing, trail running, hiking and surfing.

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March 18, 2019 — You know what you want your website to say, but figuring out how to say it may have you repeatedly banging your forehead on your keyboard. You’re not alone. Even the best ideas by the smartest idea-makers can get lost in translation. Or in over-the-top metaphors. Or in unnecessary, verbose sentences. So sit down, put that thesaurus away, and learn how to make your mark on the web in your own words. I’ll review writing best practices, and guide you through the relatively painless process of getting from idea to published website copy, all in a way that makes sense for you, your website, and your intended audience.

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