Author Archives: Petya Raykovska

About Petya Raykovska

WordPress Polyglots Team Contributor and mentor. Director of Agency Operations @ Human Made I move a lot, travel for music, love carrot cake and make things happen.

Video: Pascal Birchler: Centralizing WordPress Professionals #WCEU

Thousands of people around the world make a living with WordPress. Despite this, professionals in our ecosystem are poorly indexed. In this talk I present my take on creating a central platform for WordPress professionals, called WP Talents. I talk … Continue reading Video: Pascal Birchler: Centralizing WordPress Professionals #WCEU

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Video: Tom Willmot: Distributed, Open Source, Happiness #WCEU

Our traditional understanding of motivation is broken. Thankfully the science is now clear. Explore how a culture which embraces Open Source and remote work promotes the real drivers of motivation and ultimately leads to a happy, motivated team.

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Video: Tammie Lister: Mighty Morphing Design #WCEU

Beyond the land of responsive design lies the world of adaptive experiences. Where not only does your site work well on different screen sizes, it adapts to them. Mighty morphing design works on any device, in any place. Yet it … Continue reading Video: Tammie Lister: Mighty Morphing Design #WCEU

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Video: Ryan McCue: The WordPress REST API #WCEU

The REST API is an upcoming feature in WordPress, allowing access to your site via a RESTful API. The API brings WordPress into the future from the dark ages of the XML-RPC API. Find out what exactly the API is, … Continue reading Video: Ryan McCue: The WordPress REST API #WCEU

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Video: Bryce Adams: How I Built a WordPress Powered SaaS in 3 Days #WCEU

I’m not the best developer. I’m not the best designer. But with WordPress, I, and you, can be anything. WordPress enabled me in less than 3 days to build a fully operational SaaS and solve a problem that pained many. … Continue reading Video: Bryce Adams: How I Built a WordPress Powered SaaS in 3 Days #WCEU

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Video: Mark Forrester: From Commercial Themes to the Fastest Growing Ecommerce Platform Online #WCEU

A reflective look back at our journey, including our growing pains and lessons we’ve learned, from some of the earliest “premium themes” to a team of 50 supporting the biggest ecommerce plugin for WordPress.
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Video: Karim Marucchi – Tales of Acquisitive Growth and the Lessons I’ve Learned #WCEU

Three stories of the many acquisitions Karim has made over the last two decades. He will share what was learned from those experiences, and the impact the WordPress community has made on how we can all grow together.

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Video: Silvan Hagen: A UX Design Process for Building an Open Source Plugin #WCEU

This talk is about bringing the principles of user experience design together with the development team to build a stronger and better solution. I’ll be talking about the benefits of user experience design early in the development process and the … Continue reading Video: Silvan Hagen: A UX Design Process for Building an Open Source Plugin #WCEU

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#WCEU Video: Tom Willmot: Distributed, Open Source, Happiness

Our traditional understanding of motivation is broken. Thankfully the science is now clear. We’ll explore how a culture which embraces Open Source and remote work promotes the real drivers of motivation and ultimately leads to a happy, motivated team.  

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Video: Nikolay Bachiyski: A Few WordPress Security Principles | #WCEU

Writing secure code is more than three-letter acronyms, escaping, and sanitization. It’s a state of mind, just like writing useful and maintainable software. In this talk we will show the natural evolution of the attitude towards security of a WordPress … Continue reading Video: Nikolay Bachiyski: A Few WordPress Security Principles | #WCEU

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