Talks 5 - #WPLDN - WordPress London Meetup

August 29, 2019

Graham Armfield

www.coolfields.co.uk

What have the new HTML5 elements ever done for accessibility?

Ten years ago the HTML5 proposition saw the light for the first time. HTML5 introduced new and extended APIs to support more interactive pages, and a whole stack of new semantic elements to delight us.

So after a lifetime (in web terms), how extensively are these elements being supported by browsers, used by developers, and how have they impacted upon the accessibility of websites that use them?

We’ll look at some successes, some elements where more browser or assistive technology finesse is required, and a frustrating selection where we are still a long way from being ‘match ready’.

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August 29, 2019

Louise Towler

indigotree.co.uk

Taking WooCommerce to the next level with Laravel

Louise will show you how her her team built a packing application for a warehouse, the challenges they faced taking data from a WooCommerce website, and building a fully featured Laravel application. Using a bespoke WooCommerce plugin with a combination of technologies including the REST APi, webhooks and web sockets. Adding in real time information and third party APIs from shipping providers makes for a lot of complexity. Louise goes through the challenges some of the implementation and provides ideas for how you might tackle such a project.

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June 27, 2019

Josh Stopper

joshstopper.com.au

Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t

Code is Poetry is a dive in to good and bad programming principles, and how we can apply the good ones when using WordPress to make the most maintainable, scalable, and performant websites we can.

The talk focuses on the learnings of being a WordPress-focused developer for over 5 years, and how embracing open source and the lessons of those that came before us can make us as developers, and the websites we produce better.

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June 27, 2019

Vito Peleg

wpfeedback.co

Managing multiple clients while scaling big

The importance of building processes for scaling the agency. From lead generating processes to client management when hiring a team and working on multiple projects at the same time.

The talk will be focusing on the main processes for the 5 parts of any growing business:Sales

Service
Put out fires
Plan
Build

Through these 5 points, we will discuss the biggest stoppers of growth and how you can prepare for them in advance.

Product market fit
Poor service and communications
The value ladder.

The goal is that by the end of the talk, the audience will have the basic tools and inspiration to go and scale their own business beyond the “One man band” that is so very common in our community.

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February 28, 2019

Dan Maby

blue37.com

WordPress, the Community and Your Mental Health

Back in 2009 I discovered the power of WordPress. In 2012 I met the WordPress community. In 2016 I relied on the community!

Let’s have an honest discussion about the challenges of running your WordPress business. Building your own business, no matter what size, can be one of the most rewarding, satisfying and freeing experiences you’ve ever encountered. It can also be one of the most terrifying, isolating and lonely roads to take.

Having successfully started, developed and sold businesses, Dan has first hand experience of both the positive and negative impacts on his mental health.

Dan will talk candidly about some of his experiences and giving you some insight into his decision to launch the charity: WP&UP.

WP&UP supports & promotes positive mental health within the WordPress community.

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February 28, 2019

Philip John

vip.wordpress.com

AMP at the speed of live

For years, the Liveblog plugin has been the go-to solution for WordPress sites looking for a live coverage tool to deliver fast updates to visitors. In this talk we’ll learn how and why Liveblog was enhanced with the added support of the Accelerated Mobile Pages technology to deliver live coverage even faster via WordPress.

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January 31, 2019

Mark Sta Ana

booyaa.wtf

Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch

This will be a live demo, where we use a free WordPress.com blog and use it to create content for a static site using Gatsby. We’ll use Netlify to host the site for free. Finally, we’ll show how you can automatically rebuild the site when you publish a new post on WordPress.

This is not another “let’s get rid of WordPress talk”, this is a way to demonstrate to clients the versatility of WordPress and it can be integrated with the cutting edge technology based around the JAM (JavaScript, API and Markup) stack.

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January 31, 2019

Diane Wallace

dianewallace.co.uk

Promote Your Business Through Public Speaking

With the likes of WordCamp London 2019 and many other open-source events currently looking for speakers, developing your public speaking skills offers an opportunity to promote your business and share your experiences with the global WordPress community.

This will be an interactive workshop looking at the initial application process, enabling you to succeed from the start. Getting your speaker application right is the first step to getting in front of an audience.

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November 29, 2018

Mark Wilkinson

markwilkinson.me

Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world

How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress?

With the rise of page builders and ‘block-based’ layouts, and the imminent arrival of Gutenberg – WordPress’ new block-based editor – we needed a solution for transitioning towards this new way of editing content while sticking with the mature and stable technology stack that we know and love.

We, therefore, set out to find another solution and this led to the development of the HD ACF Blocks plugin that we use on most sites today.

This talk introduces the plugin, how we built it, how it works, and how it provides value to our clients and our business.

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Talks

What have the new HTML5 elements ever done for accessibility?

Taking WooCommerce to the next level with Laravel

Code is Poetry, but your poetry is s**t

Managing multiple clients while scaling big

WordPress, the Community and Your Mental Health

AMP at the speed of live

Gatsby and WordPress: Keeping it Cheap and Staying in Touch

Promote Your Business Through Public Speaking

Transitioning to a block-based editor in a pre-Gutenberg world

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