WordCamp Antwerp 2016

Jenny volunteered to help the WordCamp Antwerp edition out. And she even stepped up to the plate when one of our speakers had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances.

She’ll be presenting a talk on how to contribute back to a community that has given her (and us all) so much. So please, if you want to learn, get involved and step up to the plate yourself, this talk will certainly motivate you and tell you how to do it.

Lessons learned from scaling to millions of pageviews

3.14 things I didn’t know about CSS

This talk will showcase a series of obscure CSS fun facts, such
as CSS syntax gimmicks and quirks, weird tricks that involve CSS in
one way or another, and security vulnerabilities that are enabled by
(ab)using CSS in unexpected ways.

Since Ines cannot make it due to family matters, Tom decided to step in and do his talk on Responsible Web Design. This is mostly a UX oriented talk starting from the intent and the purpose of your site and how to incorporate that into a scalable, modular approach of building the architecture and frontend of your site.

What is REST, what is an API, what the hell does this have to do with WordPress, how can we use it, and what are the benefits.

Expect a lot of acronyms like MVC, SPA, API, REST, JSON etc.. and what that mumbo jumbo actually means for a webdeveloper. Introductory session but still very dev-oriented.

Might contain traces of nuts the Star Wars universe 😉

In this workshop, we’ll view how hacker will try to penetrate your website, how they will go about this, how you can recognise this and prevent it/block it.

A thorough overview of a great number of techniques to optimize the performance…

For those who feel the need for speed…

A Customer Focussed and Content Centered Process

Grow your Businesses by Connecting WordPress

• Use WordPress as interface for your customers to your business logic
• Use WordPress as platform for your customers to order stuff directly from an ERP
• Using WordPress as platform to request info from your administration and updating your CRM

In this talk we’ll take a look at the real-time web. We dive into concepts like reactivity and persistent connections. We’ll look into setting up a bi-directional application between clients and servers over websockets and we’ll use WordPress to power it all. Hang tight dorothy, we’re not in kansas anymore!

How to train your users to create accesssible content.

This talk is aimed at users, developers and project managers.

How we can work together to make the world of web more accessible.

So, you’re building this website, theme or plugin. For a client, or in-house. Initially, all is well. But then it starts: ‘simple’ changes, disastrous assumptions about who does what, frustration, anger. How can they be so stupid, right?

In this workshop, I’ll share my experience with mixed teams and how to make them work, and I’m looking forward to your stories and questions.

A story about punk, passion and pirates, musings of a two decades building free software.

How we manage releasing our SEO plugin

Supporting a huge plugin is not easy. Before releasing a new version we go through a large amount of checks to make sure the release is correct. After the checks thousands of people will start downloading the plugin. In this talk I will show how we at Yoast deal with the challenges that come with the release of a big plugin. We consider every aspect of plugin development, from choosing to fix the right bugs to the scaling of the supporting infrastructure.

It’s 2016 and eCommerce has grown tremendously, almost everyone now shops online. Still a lot of WordPress site developers don’t want to build eCommerce websites or webshops because they find eCommerce plugins and online payments complex.

And that’s a shame, because it could be really interesting to add eCommerce to your list of web development skills. Luckily, the good news is, you can learn how to implement online payments, allowing you to also benefit from the growing market.

In this talk I’ll tell you all you need to know about online payments for Belgian WordPress sites. We will discuss the entire process, starting with the software (WordPress, WooCommerce etc.) to the first payments. We’ll talk about MisterCash/Bancontact, but also the Dutch iDEAL (because the crazy Dutch like shopping over their border!).

And there will be room for questions!

It’s easier than ever to create responsive websites with WordPress since the addition of native handling for responsive images in core as of the WordPress 4.4 Clifford release. Understand why it is important to provide users with images that are appropriate for their screen size and learn what happens to images behind the scenes. This is a technical talk that will deep dive into how you can take advantage of responsive images in your sites.

• Introduction to responsive design
• Why responsive imagers are important
• How does WordPress implement responsive images
• Overview of the scrset and sizes attributes
• New functions and hooks as of 4.4
• New default size – medium large
• Customizing responsive markup
• Additional responsive plugins
• Closing remarks and summary

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/11/10/responsive-images-in-wordpress-4-4/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ricg-responsive-images/
http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-images-in-practice

Presentation about modern front-end development techniques.

With websites growing in complexity we have an increasing need for better tools to help build, test, and monitor our code. Everything from build scripts to monitoring and device testing are now important parts of the front-end developer’s job. After this presentation your front-end muscles increased by 31%.

Going from employee with no technical skills to freelance WordPress developer.

How to optimize your stack for better scalability

WordPress isn’t just used for your average blog that has 10 visitors per day. The tech industry has realized that the WordPress platform can be leveraged as the foundation for all kinds of content-driven websites. But when your website gets increasingly popular and your WordPress installation is under heavy load, that’s when things get more complicated.

WordPress is built on top of PHP & MySQL and in this presentations I will show you how to optimize your stack for better scalability. We’ll be talking about software like Varnish, Nginx, Redis & PHP-FPM. We will also cover topics like loadbalancing, session distribution, static file hosting, SSL termination & aggressive page caching.

Just enough infrastructure talk to make your WordPress bullet proof. But don’t worry, we’ll start from the beginning.

Digital Wallonia is a virtual and physical hub. It embodies the objective of the Wallonian Government to create an excellent digital playground beyond its territory, its actors and its users.
Digital Wallonia est une plateforme virtuelle et physique. Digital Wallonia incarne l’objectif du Gouvernement wallon de faire de la Wallonie une terre d’excellence numérique, à travers son territoire, ses acteurs et ses usages.

Digital Wallonia is a virtual and physical hub. It embodies the objective of the Wallonian Government to create an excellent digital playground beyond its territory, its actors and its users.
Digital Wallonia est une plateforme virtuelle et physique. Digital Wallonia incarne l’objectif du Gouvernement wallon de faire de la Wallonie une terre d’excellence numérique, à travers son territoire, ses acteurs et ses usages.

Alternatives for your customized website.

Many WordPress tutorials suggest, that you need a Child Theme to customize the layout of your website.

While you should never modify WordPress core nor WordPress themes themselves, this session shows common pitfalls of Child Themes and provides you with save and efficient alternatives.

Target audience: beginners to intermediate

Introduction, Benefits and Developer Guidelines

I’m using WordPress and BuddyPress to help me achieve the intranet projects my company is making me work on for 6 years now.

Although WordPress and BuddyPress are not necessarily solutions companies think of for their intranets, I have this conviction that considering a bit more some of their specific needs, my two favorite tools could help the hesitating ones to launch their collaborative or community intranets while making sure they keep the entire control over their data and knowledge.

During this talk I will tell you how I gradually developed a set of specific plugins to meet my needs around community intranets. I will also try to show you that WordPress, with a little help from BuddyPress can help any company of any size in improving the way their staff collaborates.