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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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Crossing the bridge from corporate comfort to start-up solitude
Corporate life does not prepare you for the day you set out on your own. For many creating a new business or consultancy whether by choice or no choice is a frightening leap into the unknown.
Quentin talks about the highs and lows of being your own boss. In particular, he tackles the unique start-up challenges of: isolation, minimal resource, team building, choosing business partners (or not), delegation, cash flow, multi-tasking, planning as well as off and online marketing.
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