Testing the fortifications – Hack Yourself
So you’ve been to the security, that other security talk and that really scary one. You followed the ...
Tips on how to reduce the carbon emissions of your WordPress website
Did you know that the internet is thought to produce about the same carbon emissions as the aviation ...
Nine ways to make WordPress better with AI
When we think about AI, it’s hard to tell hype from a genuine utility. In reality, AI is ...
Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t
Code is Poetry is a dive in to good and bad programming principles, and how we can apply ...
AMP at the speed of live
For years, the Liveblog plugin has been the go-to solution for WordPress sites looking for a live coverage ...
Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch
This will be a live demo, where we use a free WordPress.com blog and use it to create ...
Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world
How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress? With the rise of page ...
Developing for WordPress with WooCommerce
Introducing ways to use WooCommerce as a platform to build user experiences and business solutions that go beyond ...
Why a greener web is good for everyone
The internet has huge potential to move us towards a sustainable future through dematerialising products and streamlining industries. ...
Introduction to Using Coding Standards in Your WordPress Project
Aimed at those who have never really looked into coding standards, Gary will give a broad overview to ...
Supercharging WordPress Development in 2018
Towards the end of 2015, Rareloop launched their WordPress starter theme Lumberjack, which built on open source tools ...
Open Q&A Session
This is an opportunity for you to bring those unanswered questions you may have about WordPress, whether that's ...
SSR using WordPress API with VueJS and Nuxt
Alessandro will talk of his experience building production ready websites using Nuxt (a VueJS SSR framework) interfacing with ...
All-in-one GDPR
We'll be looking at the development process and the problems solved by our compliance toolkit to help your ...
WP-CLI: An Intro and Interesting Use Cases
WP-CLI is the command line interface for WordPress. In this talk, John will introduce the core concepts of ...
Episode #1 – Organising a WordCamp & An Intro to WP-CLI
At the WordPress London Meetup on 26th April 2018 Ana Silva talks about her role as the lead ...
NatWest 6 Nations Match Centre on WordPress
Following on from our work with the British & Irish Lions tour of 2017, Sotic were engaged to ...
The Joys and Hardships of Adding Cloud Services to WordPress
In this talk Nic will step through both the product and engineering challenges of tightly integrating a complex ...
How Blockchain is going to disrupt Digital Marketing
David will take a look at how blockchain is starting to disrupt the digital marketing sector and show ...
Test quick, Build smart, Be awesome
A lot of the time businesses are so focused on the big shiny thing at the end of ...
Production Ready WordPress
It is common practice to move code through a series of servers in a multi-tiered development workflow. This ...
Scaling WordPress with containers
With the REST API in full swing, SPAs (Single Page Apps) are popping up all over the place, ...
Plugins Uncovered – Nov. 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
What you didn’t know you need to know about WordPress and databases
There are a number of ways to speed up sites. Caching is one of them. However caching can't ...
The Move to Modern PHP in WordPress
A look at the initiatives to improve the PHP landscape of the WordPress ecosystem.
Fun and Games with Regex
Think ‘regex’ and ‘fun’ can’t exist in the same sentence? I’ll teach you how to win at computer ...
Page Builder Panel – The Pros & Cons Of Them In Your Workflow
Featuring Doug Belchamber, Keith Devon and Mike Pead; this will be an open panel discussion around the use ...
Splitting Shipping based on shipping class in WooCommerce
Up until WooCommerce 2.1, each order had to be shipped via a single method with a single price. ...
WP_Model, synthetic ORM for WordPress (Part 1)
I have made an ORM for WordPress, before you roll your eyes at that statement I have built ...
The Role of Page Builders for Developers
Are custom page templates and shortcodes offering our clients and users the best content publishing experience? In this ...
The Themers Guide to WP-CLI
WP-CLI is a useful tool for automating tasks and optimising developer workflow in WordPress. WP-CLI is commonly used ...
Plugins Uncovered – March 2017
We all have our favourite go-to plugins, often using them repeatedly on our client projects. We may have ...
Leveraging the Customizer for Big Media
The Customizer is one of the most powerful parts of WordPress, its a great tool for users, and ...
Building Single-page Sites With WordPress
Single page applications (SPA) are big part of the future of web design. Using a JS library like ...
log($this), $monitor->that()
Logging and monitoring is an important, but usually overlooked aspect of web application design. We debug them for ...
Why switching to WordPress Coding Standards will make you a better developer
WordPress Coding Standards have been around for a while, yet many developers don’t write code that conforms to ...
WordPress DevOps for Beginners
A run through of dev ops for beginners covering some basics to get your started Git & Version ...
Modern PHP toolset for WordPress
Many WordPress projects quickly outgrow their humble beginnings as blogs or websites and are now highly customised web ...
Docker Deep Dive for WordPress Admins
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WordPress for SEO Haters
SEO is a dirty word, tarnished by years of bad practice and self-defined 'gurus'. But should it be ...
Websockets + WordPress = Magic
WordPress and Websockets what type of dark magic is this? The darkest, with the power of WordPress and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learn more than the average Web Developer
Steve is going to teach the 10 things that people MUST know BEFORE they Build a Website. It’s ...
Using AWS to super charge your WordPress site and scale to 100,000s of users
The talk will be about how to scale WordPress in Amazon web services and which plugins help you ...
Catering for WordPress
Building an online integrated information and support system for the catering / hospitality sector. The catering industry has ...
Accessibility Panel – June 2015
A LeanCoffee style panel discussion covering accessibility and vulnerability within WordPress.
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, ...
Version Control For WordPress Sites
The way WordPress was created is very "forward-centric" – you click in the admin area and the changes ...
Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. ...
My WordPress Theme Structure
Using template wrappers, pre-processors, and more, for efficient WordPress theme development. Keith will talk you through how he ...
Is WordPress always the right tool for the Job?
A case study of how we have used WordPress in creative ways and a few of the bumps ...
Building a WordPress Github Plugin Updater
Lets take a look at how we can get WordPress to look for plugin updates from private Github ...
Running Multiple WordPress sites under NGINX
Some details of how I run multiple separate WordPress installations under NGINX on one VPS or dedicated server.
Front End Workflow Automation for Theme and Plugin Development
The emergence of preprocessors, front-end frameworks, HTML5 and CSS3 has made front-end a far richer and more complex ...
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional
15 years in the Hosting industry. Rackspace from 100x growth in 10 years. Why I believe in WordPress. ...
Should You Be Using Vagrant?
A lightning talk answering the question: "Should You Be Using Vagrant?"
Cacheing WordPress with .htaccess
A lightning talk discussing WordPress cacheing using the .htaccess file.
SEO for WordPress
A lightning talk covering SEO for WordPress.
Use WordPress to Find Clients
Rob Cubbon discusses how he uses WordPress to find clients.
Handling User Generated Content in WordPress
Getting lots of content into a site can increase the scope of the site, user engagement, and maybe ...
WordPress Security
The recent HeartBleed vulnerability has brought web security into the mainstream news recently. This talk will cover some ...
Let’s move it!
Migrating WordPress sites, from server to server, or from domain to domain, is a remarkably fraught experience. There ...
Tips and tricks for using WordPress as an application platform
Dan Westall (http://www.dan-westall.co.uk/) will share tips and tricks for using WordPress for application prototyping, covering recommended plugins and ...
Google Publisher Plugin
Michael Smith will be discussing the Google Publish WordPress Plugin.
WordPress Sites for Academics
WordPress sites for Academics - how us geeks can help and assist non-geeks to use WordPress
Writing blogs and articles – lessons from writing for newspapers
Peter Curtain gives a talk on writing blogs and articles, his lessons from writing for newspapers.
The Heartbeat API
With the launch of WordPress 3.6 comes the Heartbeat API, a simple yet powerful way of implementing a ...
My First Plugin
A guide to playing with content using a filter.
Content Discovery Re-imagined
Understanding reader's interests and appropriately tailoring your WordPress homepage for them.
I feel the need, the need for speed
Darren Grant gives a lightning talk on optimising WordPress.
“It’s not me, it’s you!” – finding new love with the WordPress Double-O framework
Dave Stewart will introduce and demo the Wordpress "Double-O" framework, a new MVC theme architecture that runs on ...
WordPress Attacks
Rob will give a short talk covering some areas of WordPress vulnerabilities and how to avoid them.
Object Caching
Scott Cariss provides a brief overview of object caching within WordPress.
Scaling WordPress
Scaling WordPress; Luke Williams discusses some of the challenges at the WordPress London Meetup.
Custom URL Rewrites
Darren Grant gives a 5 min. lighting talk on WordPress custom URL rewrites at the WordPress London Meetup.
NDEP Case Study
Keith Devon gives a 5 min. lightning talk covering a case study of NDEP.org at the WordPress London ...
Getting started with WordPress web apps
This talk will give you an introduction to using WordPress to build web apps. It will include: the ...
Build a mobile theme to use with your WordPress site
Mobile website development is a hot topic at the moment. More and more users are accessing websites via ...
WP-API
Access your WordPress site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API
Themes, Plugins and Accessibility
One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the 'accessibility-ready' tag for theme authors ...
From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control and Deployment Tools
FTP is a great tool for transferring files from computer to server. Or is it? Perhaps it is ...
Using WordPress for eSports
A few months ago Dan and a few others started http://exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed us to ...
Introduction to WooCommerce
In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. ...
Developing and selling WordPress plugins
Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to ...
Security for Mid/Advanced Hosting
Manuel will be presenting his talk from WordPress Milan/Italy to share his insight into WordPress Security.
Ask the Experts!
Have a nagging question about WordPress? Not sure who to ask? No question is a stupid question, so ...