Many WordPress projects quickly outgrow their humble beginnings as blogs or websites and are now highly customised web applications. However the modern tools we have available within development teams can be tricky to use with the popular blogging platform.
This technical talk will guide you through how Git, Composer, and other tools can enhance your WordPress development – and help you take back control of your themes, plugins, database and environments in a growing application.
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We all live in a ‘gig’ economy. But how should you work with freelancers to make sure you are all trading ethically?
Is it OK to find the cheapest person anywhere in the world and send them your stuff? Are there ethical issues around fair wages? Are there ethical and legal concerns about client data? How to you deal fairly with copyright and software rights when working with an outsourced team? How do you find your own way to something robust and resilient that you can be proud of?
In this engaging talk you will explore these issues and create your own ‘map’ of what chimes with your values and business plus get access to our Web Designers Guide to Ethical Outsourcing.
Presented by Annabel Kaye. Annabel started her career in PR (non profit) before moving on to publishing and consumer law (Which? magazine) followed by advertising and HR. She founded Irenicon in 1980 (an employment law and HR consultancy) and has spent the intervening years helping some of the largest organisations in the UK (and some of the smallest) sort out the people and employment law issues that come with change. She founded KoffeeKlatch in 2009 specifically to support organisations outsourcing to freelancers. Her practical expertise in outsourcing to VAs, web designers, bookkeepers, trainers and more, is a key part of her speakers story. Follow her @annabelkaye
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Taking the leap and loving it.
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Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress admins.
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Elliot will share lessons learnt and decisions taken in development. Why we chose WordPress and how it enabled us to be flexible and pivot our business to find product-market fit.
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A lightning talk given by Graham Armfield titled “Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful”
Learn about our suggested design process and how you can get involved in the #wpldnBuild.
Following on from his recent lightning talk. Mark will be taking a deeper dive into Docker for WordPress admins.
If you’ve ever wanted to build something, anything, with the WordPress REST API but were not sure where to start or what to build, try making a plugin for a simple single page app like a quiz.
In this talk, I’ll go over the tools used and resources needed for me to learn enough to make a simple quiz plugin using the WP REST API and React having never used either before. I’ll spend some on the pain points (spoiler: not WP REST API related), what just worked, what needs to be improved and what I still need to learn. This is not a how-to talk, it’s more of a you-could-do-this-too-so-go-for-it talk meant to inspire you to try it for yourself.
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