Since the introduction of the WordPress REST API, the potential for using it to power React applications has generated much excitement among developers. But what is an actual use-case for these technologies, and how can it improve the user experience? In this presentation we’ll show how WordPress was used as a foundation for building an in-gallery video kiosk for the Clyfford Still Museum.
We’ll begin by looking at the design process for a museum experience: How digital design can reflect the physical space in which it is installed, and how graphic and movement choices affect visitors’ sense of intimacy. We’ll show how the video kiosk platform was built to scale with the museum’s growing video library, how we made the videos accessible to people with hearing impairments, and how we designed the system to be content-managed from afar.
From there, we’ll demonstrate how content-management via WordPress combined with the REST API and a React front-end provide an intuitive experience for administrators and users, save development time, and provide a smooth native-app-like experience. We’ll finish by detailing the hardware used to present the system in-gallery.
When it comes to leading a technical team, there are a number of challenges. In this talk, I’ll draw on my experience in building and leading teams of all sizes both within my own agency and at Automattic, and share the lessons I’ve learned over the last 15 years.
Things we’ll talk about:
* Building a culture
* Hiring
* One-on-ones
* Handling personality clashes on your team
* Handling under-performers on your team
* The value of off-sites
And, on the product side:
* Aligning the vision of your team
* Defining projects and shipping code
* The power of process
* Quality control
* Shipping schedules
This talk explains through an example the possibilities around the REST API of WordPress.
We can create any kind of integration with WordPress, it’s possible to create external systems to manage all the content and information behind the CMS.
This talk uses a small device with a microprocessor, like Raspberry Pi or Tessel to show the possibility of the integrations of WordPress with IOT.
In this specific case, I’ll interact with the crowd, asking them to scream very loud, and if they reach a number of decibels some post will be published inside the CMS by the integration with the WP REST API, and they can see live in the address that I will share with them during the talk.
I’ll explain briefly how it works the WP REST API and how this integration was made.
Building a better WordPress is more than refactoring code. It’s a 10,000-foot view of what we can learn from the tech community at large, affecting everything from how we build our applications to laying the foundation for what comes next.
WordPress is more than just a CMS. For some, it’s the backbone of their business, it’s their real-estate, it’s their voice, and channel for communicating online.
What can we do to make that experience better?
Let’s explore what Gutenberg could mean for the future of service providers and freelancers. Let’s also explore what the future of SaaS.
I would like to share my research on what I what I believe to be the greatest opportunities for WordPress and the community that supports it.
In this session, you will learn how to set up a podcast with WordPress in the easiest possible way. You will also learn some actionable steps to attract an audience, recording, equipment and even how to do well in Apple Podcast quickly.
You’ll learn about all of these items related to your new podcast:
– Plugins
– Hosting
– Equipment
– Tracking
– Calls to Action
– List Building
– Optimizing
– Transcribing
– Marketing
No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‚ÄúToday is a great day for a new WordPress site’s (Well, other than us!) Most people need and/or want a new website because something is inherently broken. When you learn that the business of WordPress is not about WordPress you will be light years ahead of competition. (Almost) Anyone can build a Website that looks great, but does it work and will it solve the business challenges at hand.
There are many tools that help us understand and improve the state of web performance on our WordPress sites. But it’s not always obvious which tool is right for the job and how to use it. When would I use “field” data from real users? What is my “lab” testing tool trying to tell me? In this workshop, we will examine the landscape of tools at our disposal: WebPageTest, HTTP Archive, Google Analytics, and the Chrome User Experience Report. We will use these tools and real world examples to better understand how slow a website is, what is causing it, and how to fix it.
Virtual reality technology is becoming more accessible every day. Platforms such as Oculus and Google Daydream have brought VR experiences to our mobile devices, offering very performant and advanced VR interactions. JavasScript based libraries such as A-frame lets developers build VR experiences for the web as well as view 360 videos using common mobile web browsers.
Using these libraries, a WordPress user or developer can include immersive content to enhance their digital content strategy.
This presentation explores a technical overview of webVR and how to convert conventional site content into Immersive experiences using WordPress.
At the start, the web was purely stateless Рevery request was the beginning (and every response the end) of a new conversation. Then we got cookies, so that servers could remember clients, and SSL so we could share information with servers that wasn’t seen by all the servers it passed through en route. These two technologies enabled e-commerce and are so foundational now it is hard to imagine the web without them. The problem is the way we’ve evolved the web has been down a path of increasingly aggressive data collection and reduced transparency for users.
We should have always been doing privacy by design, data portability, data transparency, and the right to be forgotten. We should not have become dependent on invasive ad tech and aggregated third-party data; we should not have handed over ownership of our own social graphs and connections so cheaply to private commercial interests.
While many (particularly in the US) may be uncomfortable with the legalistic and regulatory approach, preferring a more laissez-faire, self-governing model for virtually everything, the GDPR can be seen as an opportunity to start doing things right – applying the core principles of privacy by design not just where mandated by regulation but as a standard business practice.
In this talk I will outline the story and learnings from building the Playlist block for the Gutenberg editor. We will explore the epic wins as well as epic failures in the pursuit of building a block. If you are learning Gutenberg or React and have hit road blocks in understanding the flow or data or tools available, this talk will clear the air on many of those issues. We’ll explore local development tools as well as design patterns used in block creation. If there is one takeaway I want from this talk, it is that Gutenberg is not scary.
