WordCamp Oslo 2018

Ten years ago, when you started a business, the first thing you took care of was making business cards. Today your first thought goes to a website. Often freelancers create their websites without a clear plan. It’s true that WordPress makes it relatively easy to build a website on your own, but it’s a good/recommended practice to start such a project by asking yourself some questions before embarking in this adventure.

• Do all freelancers need a website?
• If you decided to build one, what pages should definitely be there?
• What information is useful to your readers? What is worthless?
• And by the way, who are your readers? What and how do you write for them?

In this talk, I’ll explore common questions that freelancers have when deciding to build their own websites, and give some answers that will help you on your journey.

One of the most beautiful and powerful features of WordPress is its flexibility and extensibility – everybody can make WordPress to fit their needs.

But with great power comes great responsibility of doing things the right way. Any WordPress developer can tell endless horror stories of sites they took over from somebody else – modified Core, modified plugins, thousands of lines of code in functions.php, etc.

This talk introduces the main ways of extending WordPress and explain how to use them properly, with particular emphasis on WordPress hook system.

I will tell you how we at NRK are doing Universal Design with WordPress and what you can learn from it.

In Norway and Sweden embedded checkouts like Klarna Checkout, DIBS Easy and Collector Checkout have become very popular. These iframe based checkouts replace a lot of the default WooCommerce checkout, making it easy for customers to identify themselves and select the desired payment method. At the same time, custom checkout functionality can be a bit tricky to implement together with an embedded checkout solution.

In this workshop we will:

• Have a closer look at the differences between a payment method in the regular WooCommerce checkout and an embedded checkout.
• Install and configure Klarna Checkout for WooCommerce, a newly released plugin for Klarnas new v3 platform.
• Dig into how you can modify and customize the checkout page via hooks, filters and template files.

Google focus more and more on page speed in their rankings. Research says page speed is an important part of the user experience. But, websites are getting slower.

We want to teach you the key factors to performance based on intensive research and testing, and how to speed up all parts of your site (front and backend).

Google focus more and more on page speed in their rankings. Research says page speed is an important part of the user experience. But, websites are getting slower.

We want to teach you the key factors to performance based on intensive research and testing, and how to speed up all parts of your site (front and backend).

In this talk we’ll explore how and why you should say goodbye to the frontend frameworks you use.
Through live coding demo’s we’ll explore how new css techniques like CSS Grid and Flexbox can help you create more original, better and easier-to-maintain weblayouts in a fraction of the time.

Jag berättar om hur du kartlägger hela kundresan (customer journey mapping), alltså vad dina kunder upplever före, under och efter ett köp. Genom att titta på kundernas flöde och deras upplevelse som ett ramverk, bjuder jag på vidare insikter om hur man som e-handlare kan skruva på innehåll och jobba med konverteringsoptimering.

Learn how to quickly and easily add unit and integration test, coding standard and continuous integration (CI) support to your WordPress theme or plugin.

Sure WooCommerce can be used to sell physical and digital products, but did you know it can be used to create a membership site? Take bookings for services or accommodations? Create custom registration forms and sell tickets to events? Process recurring subscription payments? Learn how WooCommerce can be extended to do these and more!

Facebook’s Engineer for the Week website was launched in 2017, built by Dekode and hosted on the WordPress.com VIP platform. This site was the result of cross-continent, cross-company, cross-capability collaboration. We’ll talk about remote collaboration on high-profile WordPress projects, using the EFTW website as a case study.

Facebook’s Engineer for the Week website was launched in 2017, built by Dekode and hosted on the WordPress.com VIP platform. This site was the result of cross-continent, cross-company, cross-capability collaboration. We’ll talk about remote collaboration on high-profile WordPress projects, using the EFTW website as a case study.

WordPress has somehow become a commodity over the years. While back in 1996 I was still in a relative exclusive profession, nowadays it seems almost anyone can create a website in a matter of hours. And while it has become easy to create “a website”, delivering a superb website is not.

You have two options: either stay in your comfort zone and be just like the rest: keep creating ‘just nice websites’. Or you can embrace the concept of working in a more holistic way. Where you view your web design process as an integrated whole and not just as a bunch of pieces. Businesses that work from this perspective are far more succesful and more prone to lead the market.

In this talk I will share several elements of the secret sauce that can make holistic web design and development so interesting for your business.

In the end you will be able to get much better results from a holistic approach to web projects than by focusing all of your attention on just one area.

In 2000, the internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier wrote: “Security is a process, not a product”. In the same essay, he wondered: “Will we ever learn?”. Apparently not.

How many times have you considered your WordPress application security only once completed? How many times have you installed a security plugin and thought it was enough? Securing a web application doesn’t mean installing a plugin just before deployment. Not at all.

I’m very passionate about security and I’d like to share my thoughts with you. My focus will be the security awareness related to web applications. Is WordPress secure? I will answer this question very clearly. And you’re not gonna like it!

This talk is going to be about Progressive web application, however, in particular, will focus on service workers and offline storage.
I will show an application that is going to work offline with a full interaction with the user. Will show how we are able to save data in browser storage and rehydrate and resync back to the server when the user is online and back in business again.
For having a better PWA, I will implement a simple SPA using either Angular or Vue and then will turn the app into a fully offline-capable application.
I will talk about,

1. the Core concepts of PWA
2. Service worker
3. push notification
4. asset and network cache advance techniques,
5. Demonstrate our app on an Android device, which will show Add-to-home

screen button as well as run the app from home screen while there is no network.

WordPress sites often are used by cybercriminals to host phishing sites or other malicious content. With this in mind I looked into the status of Norwegian WordPress sites (defined as under the .no TLD). This is a presentation of that work.

At Dekode, we have been building websites based on modular and reusable blocks for some time, and we are excited to see that Gutenberg will allow everyone to use this approach.

The shift from templates to block layouts has not only changed how we design and code, but every aspect of how we do business. Modularity encompasses everything we do, and in this talk I will explain why it has made us a better agency and a better partner, with more empathy and respect. From design and code, to how it has changed the way we interact with our clients, advise them in projects, and ultimately how it has positioned us to become a long-term partner and advisor to our clients.

WordPress Multisite is a very powerful piece of functionality built into WordPress which is often under-utilised. In this presentation John will introduce you to Multisite and cover:

• The concepts of Multisite
• Installation and setup
• The management of sites and users
• The management of plugins, themes, and content
• What differs from a standard WordPress installation
• Advanced usage
• Gotchas and best practices

This presentation is primarily aimed at people who have experience building or implementing WordPress sites but have yet to dip their toe into WordPress Multisite.

Even though webpack doesn’t capitalize either the “w” or the “p” (dangit), it is an incredibly useful tool for any WordPress developer to have in their pocket. In this talk for intermediate to advanced developers, we will cover the core concepts of webpack, and how to use it in a WordPress theme or plugin. Webpack unlocks the power of ES6 modules and is both extensible and customizable, while giving you incredible power straight out of the box.

The WordPress auto update feature is nice – but doesn’t necessarily play nicely with Git. We struggled with the issue, until we found a simple and clean solution. It let’s us use auto updates for selected plugins, while using a manual Git flow for others. It’s easy to setup, especially if you are comfortable with WP CLI. And of course: It’s open source, so have a look https://github.com/front/wp-cli-build