Speaker: Japh Thomson – Serverless Architecture for Augmenting WordPress – A Case Study

Posted on August 10, 2016 by DeveloperWil

Hands together for Japh Thomson Director of Hosting Operations at Human Made, developer, occasional WordPress contributor. Professional helper. Collector of interests.

Japh is a long standing member of the Australian WordPress community and veteran WordCamp speaker.

He’s going to be speaking about the tricky subject of serving responsive images at an enterprise level, efficiently and cost effectively.

This is the story of how he took advantage of technologies outside of WordPress itself, leaning on Amazon Web Services, to achieve that.

You can follow Japh on Twitter.

Speaker: Jordan Gillman – Questioning the Journalistic Status Quo

Posted on August 9, 2016 by DeveloperWil

We’re welcoming Jordan to our WordCamp Sydney speaker family.

Jordan is designer who started learning to code by necessity – and now considers himself to ‘know enough to be dangerous’.

For the past 7 years he has been working with churches and other faith-based organisations to help them communicate better online.

Jordan lives in Wollongong with his lovely wife, 2 daughters and insane Pug called Pixel.

He’ll be talking about the journey of taking a published magazine from printed copy to online with the relaunch of Eternity News from the Bible Society of Australia

Eternity News has been a print publication for many years – and are just now launching their own foray into the world of online news (after being part of the Bible Society website for many years).

With a crack team of ex Fairfax/ABC staff and a blank slate for what a ‘news’ site is – they are hoping to question the conventions of how a news website works – all on top of WordPress.

Jordan will be talking through some of the process, decisions and development they undertook to get there.

You can follow Jordan on Twitter.

Speaker: Kris Howard – My Website is Old Enough to Vote – The Challenges of Maintaining a 20-year-old Website

Posted on August 9, 2016 by DeveloperWil

We welcome Kris into the midst of our WordCamp Sydney 2016 speakers.

Kris is a veteran IT business analyst and software engineer who cut her teeth during the first dot-com boom.

She heads up engineering delivery at Canva and has worked for NineMSN, the Commonwealth Bank as well as in a range of startups.

When she’s not messing around with WordPress, she’s probably knitting or giving a tech talk.

Kris maintained a legacy site since 1996 and embarked on a 6-month project to move it over to WordPress.

Hear her talk about the migration process, the challenges she faced and of course some of the things she wished she’d known about beforehand but had to learn the hard way.

You can follow Kris on Twitter.

Speaker: Sam Bizri – Edupreneurship with WordPress

Posted on August 8, 2016 by DeveloperWil

Say a big hello to Sam Bizri. He’s an educator and a catalyst award-wining online learning designer at the University of Sydney.

Sam is passionate about EDTECH and lifelong learning and graduated with Master in Business & Tech (UNSW) and Master in eLearning (UTS).

He has been designing, building and teaching website design since early 90’s and specialises in developing online learning solutions for SME’s, RTO and non-profit.

His popular training programs focus on developing online courses, digital marketing and eCommerce at the Center for Continuing Education.

Sam also runs regular sessions at the Genesis Entrepreneurship Program for inspiring students and at alumni Startups promoting WordPress and the Tech side of things.

Sam will be talking about planing, designing, building and delivering online training courses for your product and services utilising some of the best plugins and themes to run your websites in both private or public mode; Free or paid courses by converting the CMS to an LMS.

You can follow Sam on Twitter.

Speaker: Bronson Quick – Using WordPress As A Headless CMS

Posted on August 8, 2016 by DeveloperWil

Meet Bronson. When he isn’t collecting Smashing Pumpkins memorabilia he’s coding WordPress goodness with the wonderful team at Human Made.

He also talks about WordPress on the WP Dev Table podcast and maintains Chassis, a lightweight WordPress + Vagrant development environment.

Bronson is going to take us on a wonderful tour of the new WordPress REST API and how it can be applied to MVC frameworks using JavaScript.

The WP REST API infrastructure was introduced in WordPress 4.4. The introduction of this infrastructure allows WordPress developers to now use WordPress as a headless CMS. A headless CMS has its frontend component (the head) stripped and removed from its backend, and what remains is a backend delivering content via an API. Some common use cases for headless CMS are as follows:

Serving data to other web applications
Mobile Apps
Websites and web apps built with MVC-style JavaScript frameworks

Developers can install the WP REST API plugin to expose endpoints for WordPress for posts, pages, media and users. Developers can also extend the WordPress core REST infrastructure to register their own endpoints for custom post types and WordPress options.

The WP REST API plugin will expose database content via JSON. This data can be used by developers to create sites using JavaScript frameworks such as React and also use the JSON data in mobile apps.

Bronson will explain and demonstrate how you can use WordPress and the WP REST API to create a website that uses React on the frontend and WordPress on the backend as a headless CMS.

You can follow Bronson on Twitter.