WordCamp Bern 2017

«Einfach losgehen» am praktischen Beispiel Die Idee war schneller als die Umsetzung: Eine Wanderung über die Alpen und live darüber berichten: Alles mobil, ohne Laptop, also Website mobil bespielen, den Podcast mobil aufnehmen. Dabei eine Menge Automatismen im Hintergrund laufen lassen: Intro & Outro, Rauschreduzierung, Feed-Generierung und iTunes-Anbindung und nicht zuletzt die Community per Social Media mitnehmen. Alles nach dem Motto: Einfach machen und beim Machen lernen und optimieren.

Minimizing the back-end development effort with an MVC approach to WordPress theme development using the Timber framework, the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and some magic.

The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this taIk Maja will show some examples of good and bad design in terms of accessibility. She’ll give tips on how you can make your site more accessible by following some simple design rules and integrating accessibility from the beginning on into your design process.

The customizer is all about site management with a powerful live preview, so gone should be the days where clients have to save something without knowing what they actually have changed. Should be. There are still projects in the wild that don’t leverage the customizer. Let’s change that! In this talk I want to start with the fundamentals of the customizer and quickly jump into demonstrating how easy it is to add live preview to anything with all the specialized controls.

In this session I will share some insight on WordPress as a platform and as a tool to design and manage online courses. Attendees learn how WordPress components and plugins can help to create and distribute learning content, embed learner activities and enable communication between instructors and learners.

While freelancing, Tomaz made so many mistakes, he could write a book just about them. When speaking with his peers, he discovered he wasn’t the only one making them and soon after founded Codeable, with precisely the goal to make other freelancers’ lives easier by allowing them to focus on what they are best at and educating them where they lack.

In this talk, Tomaz would like to present the most common mistakes freelancers make and how to avoid them.

Performance is a key metric of every website. In my talk I am going to show you code that I have seen in my life as a professional WordPress Developer and that could/should be improved. Furthermore I am going to show you how to change needed but slow code to asynchronous code which does not interfere with the user facing frontend.

Having more than one WordPress instance alive? Than you might know about the pain maintaining several instances. Getting them hardened, updated, secured, backuped, monitored. Being a professional WordPress administrator I’ld like to give some insight views how we tackle these daily duties. It’s all about the topic “cat vs. cattle”.

Some have seen the new gutenberg editor. As an agency that has focused mainly on backend customizations (with custom types, fields, taxonomies) and quite complex company websites, gutenberg means mainly one thing for existing sites: a hell lot of work. At least if things are going to be “as incompatible” to everything we’ve done with tinymce as we think.In this talk, I will explain how we technically analyzed the “risk” behind the new editor/post-screen and how we try to keep about a hundred (highly) customized websites compatible.

You are stuck with a big corporate CMS. Change Requests can take up to 3-6 month. The process is slow and painful. Sometimes you have to make a bold move and change something. We did that change. We started to evaluate a new Framework for a content marketing platform of a big company in Switzerland. We decided to go on without any approval of corporate communication.

The website is live. Everyone is happy. And now we are on the move to integrate 2 more platforms on our new System. Which is indeed WordPress.

How we managed to get there. How we did find the right framework. And how we were able to convince the management that WordPress was the perfect choice I will show you in my short talk.

How using WordPress became a pillar of my success as a Personal Trainer.

You are a WP consultant. I am a customer looking for one. I post a request, and you reply. We exchange a couple of emails and setup a Skype call. We discuss project goal, you give some estimates, I try to negotiate the price. Finally, seems everything is set: I open a PayPal to make a first payment, and write an email with hosting credentials. You confirm you received everything and work may start… Looks good, isn’t it? But then why – please tell me why – this idyll is broken after several weeks (or even days) of work? I doubt you understood the goal, you have enough time for my project or even competencies to finish it. In your turn, you think I can’t formulate tasks, not willing to pay and don’t understand very simple technical things. As a result, we do a very small part of the job, and decide to stop the project. Both are happy this nightmare ended, and we leave for good, hoping next time we are lucky to find an awesome partner for better cooperation.

Does it look familiar for you? If yes, please join me to learn from my experience being in both shoes. I used to be a WP consultant, and failed a couple of important projects because of… OK, you will know lessons I learned. I also act as a technology broker – an IT professional who facilitates the delivery of projects by finding and managing a best possible contractor for the current need of its customer. In this role I also failed to deliver on time and within a budget, because of misunderstandings with hired WP consultants. We will discuss one business case from my practice. In the end, we will discuss your approach and tips you can share with others, how to build trustworthy relationships with your clients during whole project lifecycle.

Den gleichen Inhalt im Web, in Print und in der App. WordPress als Basis.

Marija will talk about her process of the creation of small business websites in WordPress from the moment she get the project from the clients to her process of listen, discover, concept with an emphasis of the designing in the browser and testing to the creation of the WordPress files for the website….

An update for WordPress, themes and plugins should fix things. Right. And it does. Sometimes, however, some new bugs crawl in despite the best efforts and thorough testing. The multitude of installations and different plugin setups makes it impossible to test any plugin in every situation that exists in the world. And sometimes an update produces an error unfortunately, and in some cases even a totally broken site. This is when angry users attack support forums demanding an immediate fix, asking for their money back, giving 1-star ratings, and sending the developers to hell and back. Rightfully so? I don’t think so. Maybe partially. But you can do a lot to prevent an update breaking your live site and putting you out of business.

So here are my tips for never ever having a broken live website for more than 10 minutes, when doing an update on core WordPress, your theme or your plugins.

During my talk, we’ll look at a few common theme concepts and explain how to layout the pages of your site to ensure that visitors get to the information they need as quickly and easily as possible.

Schritte und erste Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt Presence (Warum und Wie)

As developers, we try to follow best practices in our daily work. One such best practice is internationalisation, a term that’s used a lot in the ever globalizing world in which we live. However, it’s often not fully understood or not used to its full extent.

In this presentation, I’m going to explain the concept behind internationalisation, localization, and their benefits. I will show how culture influences the user’s behaviour and why we need to do more than just “making things translatable”. For example, internationalisation is also about date formats, text direction, meaning of symbols, and even humour.

Internationalisation has a massive impact on user acceptance and usability. I will highlight existing tools, interfaces, and best practices to get internationalisation right in the UIs we create and the code we write.

Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day. In this session, you will learn how you can optimize your websites for users and to be compatible with Google search engine. You will learn how search works. You will be given tips on how to do well on search and explore tools that Google offers which you can use to manage your online presence on Google Search. This session is suitable for WordPress users, website or business owners as well as web developers who want to learn more about your website presence on Google organic search.