WordPress is planning to raise its minimum PHP version requirement and if all goes according to plan, we will have a required minimum of PHP 7+ for December 2019. Few plugin developers currently know how to make the best use of the language features that PHP 7.2+ provides. That’s why I worked on a new …
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Moving your code to modern PHP
At the State of the Word, it was announced that one of the upcoming focuses of the WordPress project is raising the minimum version requirement of PHP. WordPress core is already PHP7.3 compatible but are your plugins and themes? In this talk, Jenny will be looking at the steps needed to check if plugins and …
Gutenberg best practices for WordPress developers that had no time to learn JavaScript deeply
The new WordPress block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg) is a radical change for developers used to working with PHP. If you needed to learn JavaScript deeply and quickly to update your plugins and keep everything working, you may still feel a bit overwhelmed. The development of blocks represents a major challenge for all of us not …
Why and how to do a website health check
Maintenance of your website is important but can be confusing, especially when you are not a developer. During the talk, Jenny will be sharing with us why site health checks are important to everyone. She will go through the consequences that can happen with an un-maintained website, and how you can perform a review yourself.
Testing components with react-testing-library
Frontend test automation seems hard but it’s only as hard as you make it. Are you bogged down by endless component tests and still not sure your application won’t break? Let’s hear the advantages of testing your frontend from the perspective of the people using it, and bust some myths about unit testing and the …
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WP at observador.pt – 5 years update
Five years after launch observador.pt’s traffic grew to massive numbers, and so did our technological needs. We’ll talk how our use of WP adapted through time, and what the near term roadmap looks like.
Everybody fails
The road to success is through failure. At Sau/Cal, we believe that if you aren’t willing to fail, you aren’t dreaming big enough. We bring on the best and then we encourage our team to constantly strive beyond what they’ve done in the past. To do that, we’ve built a culture which embraces “blameless honesty” …
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How to build a website when your client’s business is to run a business, not a website How do you run a website when your business is to run a business, not a website? Getting a website – and maintaining it as part of an actionable marketing strategy – still poses a challenge for many …
Want to migrate your website to Gutenberg? Here’s what happened when we did
Gutenberg is finally part of WordPress core and it’s here to stay. The new editor is evolving at a great pace and it won’t be long before we see tons of websites built with Gutenberg. Actually, there already are some… like ours. In this presentation I’ll describe the process of migrating our website to Gutenberg, …
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