With the start of the new year, now is the time to ensure that your content is up-to-date.
How do you get a plugin onto the WordPress.org repository? What steps do you need to take? Are there any specific requirements?
These are just some of the questions this talk, aimed at anyone who wants to push a plugin to the WordPress.org repository will answer. We will go through the steps you need to take in order to prepare your plugin, some best practices in the plugin code and how to submit it to .org.
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!
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.
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.
Video coming soon
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.
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.
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.
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?
Video coming soon
