January 3, 2023 — Learn how using the right WordPress actions and hooks can make or break your site’s performance and reliability.

December 18, 2022 — This talks suggests best practices and approaches to performance at scale in the WordPress ecosystem.

December 11, 2022 — Remember the famous WordPress “five minute installation” process? Find out what WP-CLI can do in five minutes. Keep watching and you might learn everything else that can happen from the terminal in 40 minutes.

October 11, 2022 — This session explains how to integrate external data into WordPress websites and how share data with external systems using REST APIs and webhooks.

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April 21, 2021 — In this talk, we cover the difference between site flows, user flows, task flows and user journeys, and when to use each.

January 19, 2021 — This talk explains how products can be more flexible, resilient, and organized using an Atomic Design approach. Codebases organized using Atomic Design are easy to navigate when you come back nine months later or hire new developers. This session covers splitting Atomic components, best practices, and common issues and mistakes.

October 28, 2020 — Many developers know to NEVER do changes directly on a live website, lest we break it.

What if though, you don’t have access to a staging or development environment? Or even if you do, what happens if you are in a situation where you do not have reliable internet access! Local development environments to the rescue!

We’ll touch on why it’s so important, and discuss the plethora of options available. Please note all examples will be shown from a Mac OS, but environments for Linux and Windows will be discussed.

July 16, 2020

July 16, 2020

July 11, 2020 — If you’ve ever wanted to build your own plugin for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up.
First, we’ll take a look at the basic requirements of a plugin. Next we’ll take our example plugin idea and break it into the various components and steps that we’ll need. We’ll code up the plugin together and install it on our sites, debugging any problems that arise. Finally, we’ll look at ways that we could further extend our plugin.
This tutorial assumes some HTML and CSS knowledge, but you don’t already need to be familiar with writing PHP or JavaScript.