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Leveraging the power of composer in WordPress projects – Hands-on workshop

Composer is a popular dependency manager for PHP. It allows you to declare your project dependencies and will automatically manage them for you.

Most non WordPress PHP projects use composers by default. Composer adoption was initially slow within the WordPress ecosystem, but now that WordPress has dropped supporting PHP 5.2, a lot of WordPress projects have started utilizing the power of the composer.

In this workshop, you will first be briefly introduced to the composer and then shown different ways by which you can leverage the power of composer in your WordPress projects, including automatic management of plugins and themes as composer dependencies.

About Sudar:

Sudar has been programming for more than two decades and is a polyglot. He has written production code in more than half a dozen programming languages – and most of it was using Vim!

Sudar first discovered WordPress in late 2005 while searching for a self-hosted blogging platform for his migration away from Blogger. After tinkering with WordPress for his blog, he published his first WordPress plugin in late 2007 and has since continued to release more than 24 plugins with a total of nearly a million downloads.

Towards the end of 2014, Sudar decided to shift his career towards WordPress and joined 10up, a leading WordPress design agency that makes web publishing and content management simple and fun.

He blogs about WordPress and web development at http://sudarmuthu.com

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Web Vitals for WordPress

Web Vitals (https://web.dev/vitals/) is an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. Site owners should not have to be performance gurus in order to understand the quality of experience they are delivering to their users. The Web Vitals initiative aims to simplify the landscape, and help sites focus on the metrics that matter most, the Core Web Vitals.

Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that apply to all web pages and each of the Core Web Vitals represents a part of user experience that is measurable in the field. Site owners should pay attention because an upcoming Search ranking change incorporates these page experience metrics (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-experience.html).

This talk explores how WordPress developers and website owners can check, monitor, and improve these vitals. I’ll dive into some technical details about the Core Web Vitals, while also providing some helpful graphics that help illustrate the key concepts. I’ll talk about how each Vital relates to WordPress and the technical stack delivering the site and offer concrete advice on how to improve each aspect.

About Adam

Adam started programming writing games in assembly code, and eventually a CMS in Java and websites large and small before discovering and embracing WordPress. He is an active core committer and focused on improving JavaScript in WordPress core. Adam is a Developer Programs Engineer at Google where he focuses on making open web better for everyone by empowering developers. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.

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Getting started with WP-CLI – Introduction & Use Cases

Getting started with WP-CLI | Introduction & Use Cases by Achyuth Ajoy from Automattic

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Different perspectives of remote working – Panel Discussion

Hear from our esteemed panelists who have extensive experience in the various fields. Get to know about the different perspectives of remote working and the ways to transforms the business via simple techniques.

  • Kumaran Anandan – Kumaran is the CTO and Chief Mentor at Tiny Magiq.
  • Praveen Venugopal – Praveen is the eCommerce Technologist at DCKAP.
  • Bigul Malayi – Bigul works as a QA Analyst with OnTheGoSystems.
  • Maria Daniel Deepak – Daniel works as a WordPress developer with Elegant Themes.
  • And
  • Sudar Muthu – WordPress plugin developer from 10up.
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Building an eCommerce website using WooCommerce

A showcase on building your eCommerce store using WooCommerce, touching on a range of the plugin’s features, and how it can be used with other extensions to cater to the needs of any kind of e-store.

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Schema.org – from basics to mastery

Slow sites frustrate consumers. Frustration costs money. To delight consumers, beat competitors, and to please Google, your site will need to load in under a second. Web performance is no longer an art, but a science. You have 600 milliseconds; how will you spend them? Come and explore the theory, and take home practical tips, tricks, and tools.

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The Principles of Custom Post Types