WP TLV

WordPress for Dev: Hardcore Topics

October 15, 2012 · 5:30 PM
Google Tel Aviv Offices, Levinstein Tower

This time the meetup will be dedicated to 3 hardcore lectures due to requests

Each will be a little longer than the first meetup (30 min each + 5 min for Q&A) and will dedicated to the following topics:

17:30 - 18:00: Networking

18:00 - 18:30: Lecture #1:

How to develop a Plugin that gets 130,000 downloads?

Ofer Wald | Transposh

Ofer Wald, of Transposh fame, the #351 plugin writer to date will share his experiences writing a popular wordpress plugin, things that you should do, pitfalls that you should avoid (and he has not...) and general outsider tips on the fascinating and super exciting world of wordpress plugin development.

18:40 - 19:10: Lecture #2:

Translating WordPress Themes to Hebrew Ninjutsu

Ido Schacham | CEO & Developer | idosius.com

Have you seen the thousands of beautiful WordPress themes that are available in English? Would you like to use one of them for a Hebrew WordPress website? Great! Find out how you could translate them to Hebrew using basic CSS & PHP plus WordPress ninjutsu skills.

19:20 - 19:50: Lecture #3:

7 MySQL Tips for WordPress

Moshe Kaplan | Co-Founder and CEO | dSero - the Anti AdBlock Creators

WordPress is a mix of PHP, web servers and MySQL. MySQL is one of the most important parts: your site performance relays on it, it stores your data and actually if anything goes wrong... hmm... you better be prepared for that.

We'll discuss hot tips that will prepare you for high traffic and possible disaster recovery.

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Niv Barlevy

somewhat missing for me, I thought the plugin develop lecture didn't really contribute as far as how to actually AVOID or overcome mistakes and obstacles .

0 · October 16
- Ofer Wald
  
  Well, you are welcomed to look at the presentation, if you don't see there any good tips on how to AVOID making mistakes, then whatever. I can only say that a clever person learns from own mistakes, and a smart one learns from others, and I am the first type.
  
  0 · December 4
- Moshe Kaplan
  
  Ofer, as a plugin developer, I think you had many great insights in the lecture. Maybe Niv has an extensive experience and may like to share it with the community in the future.
  
  1 · December 4
Maor Chasen

Could have been MUCH MUCH better. I personally came for the networking and for meeting ppl, but as a hardcore developer I haven't learned anything new. First session was not interesting, and the speaker simply talked about issues he had with building his own plugin. Second session (by Ido) was much better, very enjoyable (he's an amazing speaker, too), although it was more for moderate WP users and definitely not for hardcore developers. Unfortunately I wasn't present at the last session so I can't give my input on that one. In general, I'd love to see more meetups specially designed planned for *hardcore* WP developers. That means talks about how to deal with very advanced WP stuff, such as advanced caching methods, security things, scaling WP, etc. I'd even be happy to give a presentation. I have a lot of knowledge and I feel passionate about passing it to others. Hit me up for more details at [masked]. Thanks!

0 · October 16
- Ofer Wald
  
  Just read your review of my lecture, I am sorry you have found it to be not interesting. I thought that my problems with building my plugin may be other developer problems with their plugins, but I guess I was wrong. nm
  
  0 · December 4
Omer Levi

Open question for everyone: What topics would you like to get lectured on NEXT time?

0 · October 16
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- Niv Barlevy
  
  I would personally love to see some theme development and best practice
  
  0 · October 16
- Omri Allouche
  
  Thanks for the great talks last night.
  For next time - Wordpress Multisite - personal experience, pitfalls, and hopefully how to avoid them
  
  0 · October 16
- Ron Plotkin
  
  I would be interested in the following topics: 1. How to design and optimize a wp site for maximum speed to users, on mobile and desktop devices. 2. What are criteria for deciding to build a responsive site or theme vs. building a dedicated site optimized for mobile.
  
  0 · October 24
Eli Ken-Dror

Hey, I am looking for a front side developer, as a freelancer, for immediate work, very flexible with times.. Can someone recommend? interested? my email: elikendror - at- g-mail dot com.

0 · October 24
Ido Schacham

My presentation is available online at:
http://wptlv.idosius.com (built with deck.js)

I've also added your questions and comments, thanks for them. If you have any corrections, additions, or would like credit, please let me know.

0 · October 15
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- Omer Levi
  
  Hi Ido, thx for a lovely prezz :-) say, that R2 script you showed, does it basically do the same ass the olser cssJanus?
  
  0 · October 16
- Ido Schacham
  
  I haven't heard of cssJanus. Looking into it now, I guess so. Here's the URL: http://cssjanus.commo...
  
  0 · October 16
- Omer Levi
  
  Before the glorious days of NODEJS this is how we used to do things :-) thanks again
  
  0 · October 16
- Maor Chasen
  
  Ido, I really liked your presentation. IMHO it was the best talk.
  
  0 · October 16
- Maor Chasen
  
  To whom it may concern: Here's a more detailed list of L10n functions that WordPress features. I especially love the ones that run the translated string through built-in escaping functions, such as esc_attr_e() and others.
  http://codex.wordpres...
  
  0 · October 16
- Ido Schacham
  
  Nice one! Thanks.
  
  0 · October 16
Moshe Kaplan

The meeting summary and the presentation are here as promissed: http://blog.dsero.com/wordpress...

0 · October 16
Maor Chasen

Regrading Ido's presentation about theme translation and L10n, here's a plugin that was mentioned in the session, and that I really enjoy using. Obviously, it is not as good as Poedit, but it's a decent alternative that will get your job done.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plu...

1 · October 16
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- Niv Barlevy
  
  Thank you Maor
  
  0 · October 16
- Maor Chasen
  
  You are very welcome, Nir.
  BTW, if any of you are looking for great advice on advanced WP stuff, you should follow me on Twitter - I'm at @maorh
  
  0 · October 16
- Niv Barlevy
  
  Sure thing :)
  
  0 · October 16
reuven livneh

question to ofer Wald: from your Experience: best ways to make moeny from plugin developments.

0 · October 13
- Ofer Wald
  
  Great question, if you have an answer, please tell me! but really I have a few ideas but this is outside the scope of this lecture, maybe if I'll ever lecture on how to market your plugin and make money from it, but not this time...
  
  0 · October 13
Ofer Wald

If anyone has any questions for me to ask regarding my lecture, feel free to send those questions to me in advance, and I will attempt to answer them at the end of the presentation :)

0 · October 13
Ilan

Please announce this meetup on the local (Hebrew) WP Facebook groups -- there are about 5 groups dedicated to WP, plus a few related, like website development, etc.
An event in FB would also be nice because it shows in the calendar -- and gives notifications!
If you want, I'll volunteer to do all that.
;o)

1 · October 11
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- Moshe Kaplan
  
  Hi Ilan,
  
  0 · October 12
- Moshe Kaplan
  
  It's a great idea. Please let me know what are the relevant Israeli WP groups, and feel free to do by yourself
  
  0 · October 12
- Maor Chasen
  
  https://www.facebook.c...
  
  0 · October 12