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, 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 …
Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP
The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. Wouldn’t it make sense to immediately serve your visitors the relevant, accurate content that they’re looking for, versus making them select their geographic location from a pulldown menu or a map? Not knowing the physical location of …
My WordPress Theme Structure
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.
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 we have had along the way.
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 …
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 development environment. I will showcase techniques and setup I use to enable me to use a few terminal commands to automate tasks.
