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
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
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If you’re not already using the customizer to add custom ‘options’ into your themes, then this talk will help you get started! Dave will cover the fundamentals of getting your theme ready for customizer action before showing you how to add settings, controls, sections and panels. Then the talk will touch on more advanced topics such as enabling live updates to preview your changes, exercising control over your website’s colours and finally how to add … Continue reading
Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector. The catering industry has very few tools available to help them create/store recipes, plan menus and work out costings that can be shared with members of staff and other branches of a chain. This talk would cover one solution to this, showing how WordPress has been used as an intranet for businesses in the restaurant/catering industry. Features include working as a … Continue reading
Using template wrappers, pre-processors, and more, for efficient WordPress theme development. Keith will talk you through how he structures his theme, and the tools he uses, to make development easier, faster and more fun.
The emergence of preprocessors, front-end frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 has made front-end a far richer and more complex development environment. I will showcase techniques and setup I use to enable me to use a few terminal commands to automate tasks.
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