Last Saturday, we attend the 2016 WordCamp Manila at Microsoft Philippines PH HQ located at 6750 Ayala Office Tower in Makati City.
It was organized by a community-organised WordPress users together with bloggers, web developers, designers, artists, small business owners, entrepreneurs, educators and new WP users from the Philippines as well as WP enthusiast all across Asia.
The event is whole-day gathering of casual and informative talks from various top level and known speakers. Here are the 9 things we’ve learned from the 2016 WordCamp Manila:
1.) Be Happy with your work! Andrew Dela Serna, who works as Happiness Engineer from Automattic, Inc—a web development company based in San Francisco, California—discussed about what’s life working at Automattic, tools they’ve used, their culture and the people. Automattic is the company behind WordPress which was founded by Matthew Mullenweg in 2005.
2.) Going Global with WordPress Multilingual. Vietnamese Dat Hoang, a community and support member at the OnTheGoSystems, shared his knowledge about the growing use of internet and how Multilingual WordPress site is advantage. He talks about human translation, elements, URL format, translation management, and tips in plugins and themes.
3.) Scaling WordPress for High Traffic Sites. Paul de Paula, an accomplished Full Stack Engineer with a decade of experience in the IT Industry and currently working as Customer Success Engineer at Pantheon and in-charge of the application and performance issues servicing medium and large enterprises, shared his idea on what it looks like serving a huge amount of page views and traffic on WordPress sites. My take-home: With today’s cloud infrastructure and tools, WordPress itself can be scaled for a good site performance.
4.) Making Developer-friendly WordPress Plugins. A Cebu-based System Developer at OntheGoSystems, the makers of WPML, Toolset and ICanLocalize. Emerson Maningo discussed the importance of making plugins extensible to other developers, plugin development approaches, plugin documentation and support for other developers on your created plugins.
5.) Faster WordPress workflows (for agencies and freelancers). Eladio ‘ Ely’ Abquina, a Global Operations Control Center Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, explained WordPress workflows for agencies and freelancers. Ely discuss how WordPress ensures users with the quick and safe development of the website from project management, building a website in a quick time with a good looking design and output, and also some of the tools that he used when starting.
6.) WordPress on Azure. Edison Go Tan , COO at Elinnov, shared topics about WordPress on Azure, a cloud service from Microsoft. The advantages of having this kind of service for a WordPress website and other way of having a WordPress website live.
7.) Firefox Developer Tools for WordPress Development. Robert ‘Bob’ Reyes, Mozilla Representative (PHL) at Mozilla Philippines, briefly introduce the history of Mozilla, what Mozilla do aside from the Firefox web browser and showcase tools built into Mozilla Firefox that can be used by new and seasoned WordPress developers.
8.) Maximizing WP and Monetized. Christian Angelo Labao, Software Engineer at Nowcom Global Services LLC, teaches different ways to maximize WordPress and how to make money on your WordPress website legitimately aside from selling online products.
9.) WordPress as a Framework and the Future. Jason Bruno, Head Trainer at Vivixx Academy, shared his knowledge about WordPress as a framework and tackles about Headless mode, RESTful APIs, WPajax, wpdb, and other uses of the WordPress functions. The WordPress future, possibilities of WordPress as platform for newer technologies such us Internet of Things and Virtual Reality.
