After Party

Keep the good times going with a free after-party near the conference.  Beer and Wine provided and food available for purchase from Pepe’s Taco Truck.  5pm till 8pm.   At the offices of Tayloe/Gray,  221 N 2nd Street. (next to Courtyard by Marriott)  Only 3 minute walk.

 

Hosted by Sponsor Tayloe/Gray in downtown Wilmington, walking distance from the conference venue.

221. N. 2ND STREET WILMINGTON, NC 28401

A, P Why? Review of the WP REST API and see What it is Making

It’s here, what can I do with it now? A couple case studies on how to use the API and code samples to get you started. It allows us to further separate the data from the code. Use WordPress as a CMS and then via the API easily access or update that data to power whatever we like. We’ll touch how to set it up and a handful of examples and then explore an iOS app pulling all it’s data and assets from a WordPress site via this API.

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Using Varnish Cache with WordPress

Make your WordPress site fly with this one weird trick…except it’s more than one trick, and it’s only weird until you learn how it works. Varnish Cache can speed up information delivery by a factor of several hundred and earn you the coveted “A” in the TTFB column. This talk will provide an overview of Varnish Cache, what it is and how it works. Then we’ll explore setup and the ways you can integrate Varnish with simple WordPress sites before discussing more complex implementations, strategies for handling state, Edge Side Includes and other neat things Varnish does. HTTPS? Glad you asked. We’ll talk about that too.

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WordCamp Wilmington, NC USA is over. Check out the next edition!