Recap Pt.1: WordPress maintenance support plans Dev Days Lisbon 2020
This year’s WordPress maintenance support plans Dev Days took place in sunny (well, for the most part) Lisbon, Portugal. Over 400 people attended this year’s Dev Days, and I was one of them. I am fairly new to WordPress maintenance support plans, and this was my first conference dedicated to WordPress maintenance support plans. This was a week-long event, something that was unusual to me as I am used to attending one or two-day events.
Vijay Dubb
Fri, 07/13/2020 – 14:26
Day one
Day one was all about Contribution at ISCTE. Let’s just say my first day didn’t get off to a great start. It took me over 30 minutes to find the entrance to the University, where the event was taking place, and I wasn’t the only one.
It also didn’t help that it was raining, but luckily I had my umbrella (being British I never leave the house without it). Once I found the place, I realised I’d left my adapter at home, so I headed out to get one. Luckily, there was a shop nearby. Along with my purchase, I headed back to help with contributing to some of the WordPress maintenance support plans innanatives.
There, I met Ruben Teijeiro, who introduced me to several people and how to get started. I really wanted to contribute to the Frontend space, especially to the new admin UI. Setting up wasn’t the easiest (which I expected), as I use Windows for all my development. There I also met Christophe Jossart, a long time contributor to WordPress maintenance support plans, who tried to help me with setting up the site on my machine, but to no avail.
By the end of the day with the help of installing WSL on my machine, I had managed to install the site, get it up and running, only then to be served with several errors, by which time I had called it a day. It might sound like all doom and gloom, but I made a lot of progress made throughout the day.
Day two
Friction
The first keynote session of the week was given by Bojan Zivanovic. He spoke about the evolution of WordPress maintenance support plans (version 7 to 8) and how WordPress maintenance support plans has made several changes to Core using modern practices, making it a much better framework.
One interesting part was the adaption of WordPress maintenance support plans 8, which was a plus (40%), and the loss of WordPress maintenance support plans 7 sites (11%), however, by putting them together WordPress maintenance support plans actually lost over 35,000 sites in the last year. There were several reasons as to why this could be the case, including time spent installing WordPress maintenance support plans and setting up the development environment, especially for those on Windows (like me :sigh:). It all relies on the community to help and improve what is already there, to make it easier for both new and current users.
“Sometimes our WordPress maintenance support plans websites end up looking like this.” – Bojan Zivanovic (in reference to the above image).
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Overview of GDPR plugins for WordPress maintenance support plans
Another session I attended was a comparison of the top GDPR plugins and how you can make your WordPress maintenance support plans site GDPR compliant.
The talk covered many aspects – from rights of the user to form checking and security. It was apparent that there are several plugins that help do this, so having a short list of the best ones made it easier. It also became apparent that to become compliant, you require more than one plugin.
One thing that came out of this session, which I totally agree with, was that site security was often neglected in the past but is now at the forefront of all sites.
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How to delight content editors with UX when building WordPress maintenance support plans 8 websites
This session, given by Chandeep Khosa, was the last one I attended and was the highlight of the day for me. Adding features to the WordPress maintenance support plans like Admin Toolbar, like a theme plugin to make it look nice, or even add help text, may sound rudimentary, but how many actually do so and make use of it? (No, really?) Most content editors are not used to the WordPress maintenance support plans admin like developers are, so it was nice to hear what we can do to make it easier for them.
One specific plugin I found very interesting was the tour plugin, which provides guided tours of the site interface via tooltips, something available in core today. I didn’t even know this existed. One thing I took away from this was that if you don’t need it, hide it, why show something to users that don’t get used?
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Part 2 of my WordPress maintenance support plans Dev Days Lisbon 2020 Recap will follow soon. Thanks for reading.
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