November WordPress Meetup

We are super excited to announce that since this month's meetup coincides with php[world] we'll be welcoming a few out of town WordPress community members to speak at the DC meetup this month!

We'll have food and drink and mingling starting at 6:30pm and talks will start promptly at 7:00pm.

Here's a sneak peak of the talks we'll have this month:

David Laietta: WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters — Oh My!
If you’re starting out with WordPress development or plan to build your own themes and plugins, hooks are going to be very important. Even if you just want to make changes to existing themes, knowing all of the actions and filters available to you and how to use them can speed up development time and let you do things that you can’t by editing templates alone. This talk will introduce you to WordPress actions, filters, and hooks. We’ll cover what they are, explain how to use them, and provide a few examples in action. Get ready to get more out of your site by powering up your themes and plugins with hooks!

Jenny Wong: Using Geo Technologies to Locate Your Boss
Trying to find a time to catch a meeting with Joe, Human Made's CTO, can be a task in itself. He is constantly on the move, which is a problem when you are not sure what timezone or location he is in. In this talk, we will look at how we can harness technologies such as GeoIP and Geolocation to keep track of him. I will be sharing how we created a WordPress plugin that integrated Foursquare, GeoIP, and the WordPress API into an internal site; the quirks and pitfalls of these technologies; and issues that have to be considered before trying to store time zones.

Zack Tollman: HTTPS is Coming: Are You Prepared?
Google, Firefox, and the IETF are currently engaged in major initiatives to convert the web to be secure by default. Page ranking, new browser APIs, and HTTP/2 are all pushing websites to require HTTPS. An HTTPS only web is imminent. Unfortunately, according to SSL Pulse, 75% of the top 1 million websites that use HTTPS are not actually secure because of misconfiguration. Do you know how to configure HTTPS properly? In this talk, we will discuss the key aspects of HTTPS to empower developers to deploy truly secure HTTPS sites.

As always, venue and food/drink is sponsored by CHIEF (http://agencychief.com).