Talks 13 - #WPLDN - WordPress London Meetup

January 28, 2016

Kimb Jones

10 Step Guide To Doing Your Own Thing (With WordPress)

I’ll share the 10 most important things I’ve learned since I started to use WordPress and the experiences faced in starting a WordPress-focused web development agency.

I’ll share stuff on how focusing on a single path and managing your ideas, risks, fears and failures will make you better at what you do. I’ll also include my own personal mantra about why I chose to go 100% WordPress, quite simply: “You’re either a genius or an idiot if you build your own CMS, choose wisely”.

My hope is that everyone can take something away from this talk. In the spirit of open-source and WordPress I feel that we should always be open and share our career paths if only to inspire the next generation not to make the same mistakes!

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January 28, 2016

Dave Green

www.makedo.net

Building Themes With The WordPress Customiser API

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 your own custom controls.

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December 17, 2015

Gary Jones, Graham Armfield, and Mike Pead

garyjones.io, www.coolfields.co.uk, and www.primaryimage.uk

Happiness Bar – Dec. 2015

Looking for advise regarding WordPress? Want to chat with the community about a concept you have? Have an idea about a plugin but don’t know where to start? Bring your questions (and advise) so we can share and learn from each other.

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October 29, 2015

Rachel McGuinness

www.wakeupwithzest.com

Fired Up For Business

Your energy and productivity are crucial for business success. Health is fundamental to your energy and productivity.

• Feel like you’re living in the fast lane?
• Energy levels on the floor?
• You’re surviving rather than thriving?

Rachel demystifies the mire of confusion about health, and shares her own “4 Pillars of Vitality” that are essential for living a healthy lifestyle.

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October 29, 2015

Keith Devon

highrise.digital

WordPress for SEO Haters

SEO is a dirty word, tarnished by years of bad practice and self-defined ‘gurus’. But should it be ignored by developers?

Keith argues the case for taking SEO seriously when building WordPress websites. He also gives his top ‘hater-friendly’ tips for SEO on WordPress. It’s easier (and harder) than people might think.

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October 29, 2015

Dan Westall

www.dan-westall.co.uk

Websockets + WordPress = Magic

WordPress and Websockets what type of dark magic is this? The darkest, with the power of WordPress and Ratchet ( http://socketo.me ), we can harness the magic of realtime and push WordPress in unforeseen directions.

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September 17, 2015

Tim Nash

timnash.co.uk

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 with WordPress from the admin interface. In this talk Tim looks at new approaches to developing plugins in our new potentially admin less world and asks the question, do we even need the admin interface?

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September 17, 2015

Abby Millward and Anna Maybank

chart-minder.com and www.betterworklab.com

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 CEO, Anna Maybank, and full-stack engineer, Abby Millward, are going to talk about how they’ve rethought collaboration, from both a technical and design perspective, and why they think improving the editor experience in WordPress is so important for keeping up with changing user expectations.

They’ll also demo the plugin and talk about some of the challenges of working with TinyMCE..

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August 27, 2015

Neil Pie

pie.co.de

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 & applications, from getting up and running with Composer, through managing full site stacks to adding composer support to your own plugins and themes.

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