WordCamp Singapore 2017

Modern WordPress Local Development could consist at least those key elements.

1. Ability to use latest or multiple version of PHP
2. WP-CLI built-in
3. Ability to use & test SSL locally
4. Latest LAMP and/or LEMP(Apache/NGINX) stack and ability to use SSH
5. Git built-in
6. Easy to use DB Tool support like Sequel Pro
7. And if local setup shuts down by accident, the db wont crash!
8. Does not put too much strain on local computer.

Considering all of this I will show solution like Local By Flywheel. I will specially focus on WP-CLI, and how to get started with setup ready to test WordPress nightly version. I will also talk about very common solution like VVV as well.

I will also show how to make setup ready for core contribution as well.

It will be a workshop where we we will learn how to create a theme for your WordPress site, and to use WordPress theme review guidelines to code a theme for WordPress.org theme directory.

Serverless WordPress is more secure and easy to scale for many traffic. I’ll talk about how to manage your WordPress site as serverless, and talk about next User Interface (bot, Voice and more).

This talk is about how we build, launch, and market products at Soflyy. I’ll be sharing the lessons we’ve learned and the mistakes we’ve made, going in depth and behind the scenes of our most recent product launch.

What started out as an internal tool to demo WP All Import turned into poopy.life, and then WP Sandbox.”

I will talk about how Gutenberg can be used for WordPress and how new feature affects the way we write the post on WordPress.

Have you ever worked on a live site, hit the update button, ended up with the “White screen of death” and figured out you don’t have a backup? That’s probably the worst nightmare of every WordPress developer. But how to avoid that? The answer is simple: Using multiple environments. In this presentation, I will point why and how to use multiple environments when it comes to WordPress development.

I will be covering the story of my entrepreneurial journey focusing on how WordPress helped me to upgrade from a struggling entrepreneur to a stable agency owner. Furthermore, I will also contemplate why additional management knowledge and skills is a must – and mere technical expertise is, not at all, enough – when it comes to running an Information Technology firm.

What does disaster look like to a WordPress plugin developer? It’s never fun to find out the hard way. This talk will be in the form of a few short stories about one disaster my company (BlogVault) faced recently: a major plugin vulnerability. I’ll be telling you what we did when more than 1000 of our customers got hacked overnight through our plugin… and how we recovered. Although this was one of the most harrowing experiences in the history of the company, it taught us quite a few lessons:

• Act fast
• Minimize damage, fix the root cause. Communicate, communicate, communicate
• Be honest & clear with your team, partners, and customers about your next steps. Be prepared for curveballs
• Not everything can be planned. Forgive delays and mistakes. Fix everything
• You don’t know what’s broken (for sure). Reinforce it all. What happened when?
• Stressful times call for simple measures. Note down what happened (and when). It’ll help with communications. Eliminate doubt.
• Our internal tool helped us identify signs of malware from 200,000 sites, but we also needed reaffirmation. What not to do when you face such a disaster: Panic
• This only makes everything worse. Shy away from the truth
• Whether your customers or partners leave isn’t up to you. Your company’s integrity is. Focus inwards only
• Your business is about your customers, who are having a tough time. Help them first. The Ultimate Takeaway: Reach out to the community. Lots of people have been in the same situation.

I am going to debunk the myth that WordPress can’t scale and as part of this session, I will include a demonstration of setting up a scalable WordPress cluster.

In these days, above of 50% of active WordPress sites are running translated site and some of the users (including a lot of my friends in Japan) have never tried themes/plugins
which haven’t localized in their language even though they are popular in the English world. It might be difficult for developers to learn every unique case, but you can collaborate with WordPress translator communities which are keeping growing and knows deeply about WordPress.

In this session, I will show you what we need you to start your project in localization and common issues around it.

It’s easy to explore e-commerce on a wordpress platform. After building a successful publishing model, we experimented with an e-shop last year: https://alvinology.com/shop/

A no-holds-barred sharing session by the team behind Taobaohacks.org on their technological fumblings in the world of WordPress – and why the grass might be greener on .org than .com

How the team behind TaobaoHacks.net survived a migration from WordPress.com to .org, gave their website a makeover and armed it with analytic tools. This talk is especially useful for newbies to WordPress who will learn about our decision-making process, some important points to consider before doing a migration, booboos that we made and how we got over them. Recommended for writers and content producers with no tech background, looking to set up their own publishing site.

This talk is about how you can build your mobile application with Ionic Framework and using WordPress as a backend. Pull content from WordPress and display it on your mobile app. Use simple HTML5 and CSS to create your mobile application and publish to multiple platforms such as iOS and Android.

The below-the-hood infrastructure for the modern, transactional web.

I am a self-taught web designer who formerly worked in a 9 to 5 customer service position. Learn about how I’ve become a web designer with zero knowledge about the web world when I started out.

With more mobile smartphones than desktop PC/laptop, it is critical to building for mobile. AMP enables publishers to build a mobile page that loads faster and consumes less data. In this session, we will cover:

1. Introduction to AMP
2. How to get started with AMP
3. Best practice for content discovery
4. Best practice for content monetization

Drawing from my experience of project management in 2 of Australia’s biggest WordPress projects I will bring some of the lessons I learned about how to break down your project and how to prioritize the work you’re doing. This applies not only to the work you’re doing for your clients, or if you don’t work alone, for your team, but will also help inform decisions you make about where to put your efforts in projects outside of work as well. It’s a dive into the concepts of working selflessly, a kind of ethos that guides the WordPress project in its open source ideals. It can totally change your relationships with your clients and can make what you offer irresistible in the marketplace as people come to realize your focus is on THEIR success more than your own.

Other than blogging about your daily life, blogging is also used in many companies as a way to market their products or services. There are also many bloggers who dedicated their time to build a business out of their blog. This session will discuss the “why” and “how to” of business blogging and various ways to monetize from it.

It’s mid-way through the project and you’ve discovered that the domain is managed by a 3rd party and no one knows how to access it. You are 3 weeks from delivery and your client is not responding. With a sure-fire process of avoiding scope creep and setting expectations right from the start, Shaan shares his sales and client on-boarding process that he uses to make sure his projects are set up for success and profit.

WooCommerce is the most deployed eCommerce shopping cart platform in the world. But catching up closely is the world’s most popular hosted eCommerce shopping cart – Shopify. Although WooCommerce is younger and raced ahead due to the dominance of the WordPress platform, its pervasiveness is being dealt a serious challenge by Shopify with its simplicity and adaptability to real-world brick and mortar businesses. I’ll discuss why WooCommerce will lose its dominance in a matter of years and suggests strategies that could avert the situation.

The concept of security starts from you – the human and the human mind. Securing web applications in general and WordPress, in particular, is not merely achieved by installing a plugin/software and letting it do the job for you. It’s a process, which I’ll divide into three categories, starting from yourself, the devices you use to WordPress itself and the infrastructure/host you’re using. Incorporating them would protect you against the majority of the attacks, making it very hard if not impossible to be hacked. We’ll also talk about what XSS, SQL Injection, and other common vulnerabilities are. These common vulnerabilities on the web today are described in the OWASP top 10 lists.