My talks notes from WordCamp London 2013

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Content marketing for real people.md

Content marketing for real people

Speaker: Alex Denning, Aalexdenning

• using blog as a tool for sharing knowledge
• define what you're writing about
• social media: easy to use, difficult to use well
• cannot automate genuine interaction
• building genuine relationship with your audience
• blogging isn't hard, the hard bit is to make the content getting attention
• don't just use the automated linked accounts for different social media platforms
• automate the auto-tweeting when the new blogpost is published, that is good, but do not automate your social profiles overall

Debugging WordPress.md

Debugging WordPress

Speaker: Mario Peshev, Ano_fear_inc

• debugging everywhere: php, mysql, css, html, js, servers ...

• Krumo: krumo.sourceforge.org

• object()

• error logging

• for PHP: Xdebug

• JS: console.table()

• FirePHP: connection between PHP and JS

• WP has JS helper functions: wp_send_json and wp.ajax (in admin), hooks for AJAX callbacks

• DOM element breakpoint (Chrome Dev Tools)

• define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);

• WP-CLI - commad line tool for WP:

  $ wp [install|...]

Developing for the new media manager.md

Developing for the (not so new) media manager

Speaker: John Blackbourn, @johnbillion

• interested in security, accessibility and i18n
• blogpost: Using the WP 3.5 Media upload with [...]
• media manager uses Underscore.js and Backbone.js
• examples of code in slides
• check: http://github.com/automattic/media-explorer

how do I know if my WordPress site is accessible.md

How do I know if my WordPress website is accessible?

Speaker: Graham Armfield, coolfields

• easy to check - with yes/no checklist

• speak covers just the most common accessibility issues

• accessibility: series of small steps

• can I access all of the parts of my website with the keyboard ONLY? Hover states?

  don't a:focus { outline:none; } !!!!

• does the tab order makes sense? problem with the lightboxes.

• are the links obvious (they should be underlined)?

• do all the images have the appropriate alt="" texts?

• do all videos have captions?

• NVDA screen reader - tool for analyzing the content for screen readers

• ARIA landmark roles:

  role="nav|[...]"

• rivers of white space in fully justified text - just text-align: left; and you are all set

• WAVE toolbar for the FF - for checking input fields done right

• colors should on the page should be contrast enough (Colour contrast analyzer)

• do not use only placeholders for inputs, always labels as well

Lessons learned from WP 3.6.md

Lessons learned from WP 3.6

Speaker: Mark Jaquith, markjaquith

• you need a clear goal when developing a new feature. Building a feature is not a goal.
• people want to make a difference. Let them.
• have people try the new features SOONER.

Lightning talks.md

Lightning talks

[crashed in the middle of the talk]

• book: Don't make me think: Steve Kurg

WordPress Security in 5 minutes

@hotchkissweb

• keep all the WP things up to date (core, plugins, themes)
• only use plugins that you trust
• change db prefix when you setup WP
• always backup (don't trust hosting comp.)
• attacks: brute force, don't use FTP, don't send password over email
• consider 2-factor authentication

WP migrations

• searchandreplace2.php
• script rewritten to v3

On learning.md

On Learning

Speaker: Nikolay Bachiyski, Anikolayb

• learning != easy happy (ice cream and sex are easy happy)
• the more we learn, the bigger reward
• on the long term the hard happy is way better than easy happy
• learning by DOING
• discovery is not really learning - not bad, but not learning either
• unit testing - learning by doing is not the best way
• teaching - another way to learn by doing - makes us understand the things in depth
• 2 book: pragmatic thinking and learning, thinking fast and slow
• best learning in deliberate and non-productive environment

Responsive theming in 2013.md

Responsive theming in 2013 – how things have moved on

Speaker: Rachel McCollin, @rachelmccollin

• lots of people are using just mobile for accessing the internet
• crucial to have the responsive site that has every single bit of content the desktop version has
• in early days of the rwd: just two, three devices, today every day the new device is on the market
• feature-proofing @media queries, not device-specific, but resize the window and when it starts looking bad -> time for the layout break w/ @media query

Shipping code for fun and profit.md

Shipping code for fun and profit

Speaker: Lee Willis, @leewillis77

• Lee contributed to WP core, WooCommerce amongst others
• don't just sit there, ship ASAP
• make people know if you don't support your software - not a problem, just let them know
• his source of WP people: https:/twitter.com/leewillis77/lists/giants
• test your WP code down to PHP 5.2
• security: $wpdb->prepare
• use WP APIs
• learn about i18n
• comment your code, always always!
• unit test your code, ie. PHPUnit
• xdebug, xhprof, Kint - google about it
• VIP Scanner
• if you sell the software, keep the docs public - documentation in the open

Ten years of wp - a founders view.md

Ten years of WordPress: A Founder's View

Speaker: Mike Little, @mikelittlezed1?

• his story, nothing to note down, just listen :)