Lighting talks (10 min each)

Lightning talks are short 10 minute presentations with the purpose of introducing you to a topic that you can then further research or experiment on your own.

Robert Dall: How to submit a Trac ticket like a pro.

Unsure how to submit a trac ticket? So was I? Here is a quick 5 – 10 presentation about best practices on how to submit a Trac ticket.

Topics:

  • What is considered a trac ticket. ( For example a non-bundled theme is not ment for trac)
  • Screenshots of the issue FTW
  • Keeping your WordPress up to date.
  • Why is BBQ so important in Trac
  • What each Component means
  • Workflow Keywords
  • Link to your website issue

Jon Jennings: Displaying an RSS feed in WordPress: going beyond the Codex

There’s a dozen widgets out there for including RSS data in your WordPress sidebar, but what if you want to manipulate the data yourself?

Fortunately WordPress includes an API to help you fetch & manipulate data from an RSS feed. I’ll show this and explain briefly how it works. We’ll also talk about why this API is much more powerful than it appears at first. We’ll see a couple of cool things you can do with it and I’ll show you where all these ‘secrets’ (they’re not actually that secret… heck, I managed to find them) are revealed.

Wes DeBoer: How To Manage Relationships Between Custom Post Types

Need to know how to manage the relationships between different post types in WordPress? We’ll look at some common data relationships and how to achieve them in different ways. For example one-to-many or many-to-many with real world examples.

Mike Schroder: Working with Images the WordPress Way

Image manipulation in WordPress was an alchemy of mixing GD functions and WordPress functions together to (hopefully) turn out the desired result. As of WordPress 3.5 and above, GD is abstracted out, and a new class, WP_Image_Editor, allows easy manipulation of image files.

This lets you perform simple resizing, crops, flips, rotates, and real-time streaming of those results using Imagick or GD. But, that’s not all! You can also easily extend WordPress’ classes to add your own functions, or replace the entire engine with your own.

This session will walk through what changed for image manipulation in 3.5, and explain ways you can take advantage of the new APIs, both through using them directly and extending them for plugins of your own.