WordCamp Norrköping 2015

WordPress has came a very long way since the first release in 2003. The publishing platform is now being used in a variety of ways. We want to take the time to display a few projects where WordPress has been used in interesting ways.

WordPress has came a very long way since the first release in 2003. The publishing platform is now being used in a variety of ways. We want to take the time to display a few projects where WordPress has been used in interesting ways.

WooCommerce is a popular and powerful e-commerce platform, but it adds an advanced layer to your WordPress-powered website. Keeping the installation up to date requires more of you as the administrator than a blog or a basic website does. In this presentation, we give you practical tips and advice on how to build an online store that works well and will function over time.

The presentation is intended for those who have basic knowledge of WooCommerce and want to learn more about how to build an online store according to current recommendations. You don’t need to be an advanced developer to keep up with the examples we will go through.

Content personalization and paywalls are emerging trends in the publishing space, especially amongst online media companies. Building a platform that is capable of handling high traffic, high availability while providing a dynamic experience for end users is an ongoing challenge.

In this talk we are going to give a practical example on how to implement a paywall and content personalization using a Varnish feature called Edge Side Includes. (ESI) A case study where this was implemented on the Aftonbladet Blog platform will also be presented.

WooCommerce is a popular and powerful e-commerce platform, but it adds an advanced layer to your WordPress-powered website. Keeping the installation up to date requires more of you as the administrator than a blog or a basic website does. In this presentation, we give you practical tips and advice on how to build an online store that works well and will function over time.

The presentation is intended for those who have basic knowledge of WooCommerce and want to learn more about how to build an online store according to current recommendations. You don’t need to be an advanced developer to keep up with the examples we will go through.

All websites we build have a goal, usually to convince a visitor to do something we want in one way or another. Optimizing websites for conversion requires knowledge about how we humans work, how we make decisions and how we can predict our irrational behavior and use it for good. In this session, we’ll explore working techniques and methods of high converting websites and landing pages, building ourselves a tried-and-tested toolset to make our website achieve business success.

Teamwork is a critical part of making your WordPress project a success. While defining a workflow and establishing development tools can help your team code together efficiently, it is equally important to establish processes for pushing content live.

This session is intended for developers and site builders looking to fine tune the tools they use to work better as a team and will focus on development environment, deployment, workflow and processes.

WordPress development can be quite cumbersome, especially if you deal with different clients and everybody has own server configurations or special needs. Using Services like MAMP are great for a quick start but if you need to match certain criteria it is good to be as close as possible to live environment.

Vagrant is a tool, which lets you setup a Virtual Machine on your computer, which reflects your live environment. And people from the community already built some special VMs for WordPress developer. Setting up a new WordPress (Multi-) Site is just a mater of seconds and you’re ready to go.

This session, will teach you what Vagrant is, how you can use it and what specific WordPress solution exists to boost your WordPress development.

WordPress is, by its developer community, seen as a perfect match for intranets. In the real world most companies sees SharePoint as a perfect match for their intranet. Since 2009 I’ve been working and talking about both WordPress and SharePoint with our customers nearly every day and there is quite a lot that needs to be done to bring WordPress as a serious alternative for most businesses.

Though in 2014 we got the possibility to build a social intranet for Reitan Convenience Sweden, owner of Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven with ~5000 employees, on WordPress. This talk will tell the story of what we learned and how it should be done 😉

What will happen to your website when it gets hit by a huge traffic spike? It will almost certainly go down if you are not prepared. Discover how to set up WordPress on Amazon cloud, covering vertical and horizontal scaling. Amazon offers many different components, but testing them can be time consuming and exhausting. Learn how to choose the right instances’ types and sizes, how to separate web server and database tier, and how to make them highly available with auto-scaling.

Being a WordPress developer means that our main programming language is PHP. Which works for building websites but not for running tasks. In this talk I will share my experience using Node.js as a platform to build on. Explaining why I have chosen for Node.js and show you how I used Node.js to build microservices that are supporting my WordPress projects.

Every web designer should know how to build a responsive website using some fancy CSS3 features. But dealing with different browsers and with constantly changing clients request can be a huge hassle.

This introduction session will give you a brief overview over the features of SASS. You will learn how to utilize SASS to speed up your development and handle those clients’ requests with ease.

My talk will be on developing WordPress themes using Sage WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate, gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap. I will go through the theme development process, then I will be guiding the audience through starter themes and reach Roots Sage project and present how to develop / test / finish theme development process.

Once you get the hang of the basics, it’s time to dive in and start getting work done with git. We will talk about staging your files, branching strategies and merge vs rebase. We will also touch on the topic of rewriting history – what it means, examples of doing it and when to avoid it at all costs.

As working remotely is getting more and more popular in the WordPress industry, many of us  are choosing to work from co-working spaces. But is everyone familiar with co-working etiquette?

In this talk, Franz will present some insights on how to be a good co-worker, boost your productivity in a co-working environment and nurture the co-working culture. He will share the most common challenges he has encountered whilst working from a co-working space and how he overcame them. Follow Franz at @franzvitulli.

WordPress is evolving, and a big part in that is the REST API that soon will be shipped in a WordPress installation near you. This is a presentation of what, why and how to use the API with some concrete examples and findings from the Swedish media startup KIT that recently launched their site based on WordPress as “just a backend”.

Finding the right balance between making money and contributing to any Open Source project is hard. By sharing some of his insights, success stories and failures Jimmy hopes to help future entrepreneurs building their own Open Source-based firms.