WordCamp Bucharest 2018

WordPress is the foundation for many systems around the web right now. And over the years those systems have become mission critical for many organizations. While the scalability of WordPress itself is somewhat a solved problem, the ability to properly manage the lifecycle of multiple websites is definitely not. Just like WordPress enabled and democratized the web for content creators, Kubernetes enables and democratizes automated operations for devops and sysadmins. Furthermore, Kubernetes is now the common denominator across cloud providers, which could be an opportunity for the WordPress community to evolve. Devops and Operations executives which want to embark on a modernization journey can learn what it takes to reliably run WordPress on Kubernetes. It’s a practical introduction to key Kubernetes concepts and how they apply to WordPress. My talk will be centered around a few essential Kubernetes Operators and how to use them for solving deployment, scaling, upgrade, monitoring and alerting stories. https://github.com/presslabs/wordpress-operator https://github.com/presslabs/mysql-operator https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator

Ever fancied a native mobile app for your WordPress website? And that too on all mobile platforms? But you’re stuck up with the thought of time, costs and maintenance constraints? Wouldn’t that be amazing to be able to have a universal platform that could function both as a website as well as mobile app. Then, progressive web apps is the answer for you.

The talk shall revolve around progressive web apps, how they are revolutionizing the mobile web and you could be part of this journey also. What are its benefits, the concepts and technologies behind it. How to build one, test one, and even publish one. How you as a WordPress site administrator can benefit from it. Moreover, the talk shall briefly discuss the CMS support, tools, plugins to achieve app like experience, and push notifications in your progressive web app.

The talk shall also cover up about achieving the native mobile app of your WordPress website, making your website installable as an app and the getting the offline availability and offline browsing support for your WordPress website. The idea of this talk is not to eliminate the native mobile apps. However, giving awareness to website administrators and small business owners to have the possibility to have their own native mobile app with the removal of the constraints that pop up in their minds.

What’s the meaning of life? Nobody knows, but if you ask me – it’s happiness. As we tend to forget what means to be truly happy, especially today — when the world is moving so fast — I’d like to share a 10-year story of finding my work-life balance, involvement with WordPress and how it helped me shape into what I am today. WordPress (and its community) thought me that borders are only in our heads and that life is so much more than just staying at 5* hotels and spending money on things we don’t actually need. This is a talk about WordPress and its people, about how can we change our own and the life of others by making decisions that will impact the world we live in. This is kind of a talk that you will feel better afterward, seeing a lot of room for your own improvement too.

Date/Time component of WordPress core dates back to ancient PHP 4 times. As result work with dates, times, and timezones is full of pitfalls. Trivial actions in admin and code can lead to massive errors in output of time information. Errors that will confuse both people and software. The talk will summarize years of experience with bugs and edge cases in Date/Time component: 1. Point out the most common (and trivial to make!) errors. 2. Provide practical solutions for robust development and output practices. 3. Cover the work being done in core on resolving the outstanding issues and direction towards better functionality.

In his talk, Mitko will tell us about some of the ways WordPress websites can be AJAXed. The talk will start with explaining how the wp_ajax functionality works and show some tips and tricks, and then go into the WP API and some javascript frameworks that can help you AJAX your website.

My presentation will highlight how to turn the fiery love relationship between WordPress and SEO into a healthy, long-lasting marriage. We will be looking at how to craft an awesome theme that actually helps with SEO, at plugins, architecture and UX. We will also explore the common pitfalls of WordPress websites which usually end up killing rankings and conversions. Ultimately, my aim is to provide a roadmap to turn a WordPress website into a Google-dominating powerhouse.

The Accelerated Mobile Pages projects started at the end of 2015 but development has been continuous since then. Over the last 12 months, there was a strong focus on 2 main areas: getting faster of course but also handling better and more content types. And with a strong e-commerce bias which allowed sites such as EBay, Zalando or AirBnB to build AMP user interfaces efficient both on desktop and mobile. Recent changes in Facebook algorithm putting up front more content from your own friends and reducing traffic from publishers has brought more traffic to Bing and Google under the form of AMP pages. And not so far ago AMP can be used to build “Stories” à la Instagram but on your WordPress site. Many things happening in the AMP world over the last 12 months showing that AMP makes up a very beneficial solution in many use cases. Certainly not for every use case though and we’ll try to review the pros and cons of using AMP and when it is better suited, plus a guide on how to implement and a few pitfalls to be avoided.

Most WordPress vendors are freelancers, solopreneurs, small teams of 4-10 people. But scaling a business often requires tapping into an enterprise-grade market, one willing to pay premium for high quality services.

Working with small businesses is one thing, but complying with enterprise processes is a different game. It revolves around long sales cycles, proactive ongoing management, making your SLA stand out, defining the right processes, tailoring your offering, and adhering to the industry standards.

We will discuss both the technical and business end of working with enterprises, some tips for delivering successful products, and the cons of enterprise clientele.

I want to share some examples of how we did things in the past with shortcodes, widgets or metadata and how I think these things will look in the Gutenberg Future.
Even If I am a web developer I don’t want to target developers only, I would love to talk about how Gutenberg will impact the business, the relationship with our clients and some design decision from the user interface.

How to keep your team on track and achieve your goals easily without hassle and bossing around 😀

In the end of my talk, everyone should be able to make his/her Virtual Private Server to a blazing fast WordPress LNMP stack. We gonna talk about NGINX, PHP7, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis Cache, ways of speeding up WordPress an a few other performance-related things.

How does GDPR affect your online/offline business? Is GDPR such a terrible ghost? Do I need to move to Africa because of GDPR?

This would be a case-study like presentation in which we will showcase some simple marketing strategies that business owners in the WordPress field can use to differentiate themselves on social media as well as use Facebook & Instagram Ads properly as well as show freelancers some ways to properly brand themselves well in the marketplace. It would be pretty straightforward and step-by-step in a logical sequence so people can apply it.