This talk is intended to show how AI is used to crawl the Internet to find WordPress sites with vulnerabilities and recruit them for cyberterrorist botnets in the ‘Hacking World War’, which is currently running underground.
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PHP: a glimpse into the future
WordPress is the most successful application that was ever written in PHP. As such, the two have a symbiotic relationship, where the proliferation of one benefits the other and vice versa.
WordPress performance trends 2020
Hristo gave his first talk about WordPress speed optimisations back in 2013 in London. Since then, a lot has changed – people have started caring more and spending more time optimising their websites.
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Keeping your site secure is difficult, and often times knowing where to start is the hardest step. With terms and acronyms like cross site scripting (XSS), cross site request forgery (CSRF) and others, it’s hard to know just what to do to keep your site secure.
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Miriam says that when she started with WordPress, it was a shiny, exciting product with endless functionality. But, as the years wore on, WordPress started to lose its lustre. The future of WordPress overall was in question.
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Headless CMS architecture is gaining a lot of traction in the CMS ecosystem. WordPress has the potential to become the best headless solution in the market but, although it’s already a nice option, not all the challenges have been solved yet.
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CSS Grid has been around for over two years in major browsers. While it’s amazing to work with, there’s still room for improvement. Currently, only direct child elements of a container can be placed with CSS Grid.
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When we think about AI, it’s hard to tell hype from genuine utility. In reality, AI is a bundle of over 25 different technologies, ranging from the ‘everyday’ to the cutting edge.
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Prototyping is important for a number of reasons: it gives us the opportunity to not only visualise a product before we compromise too much time and effort, but also to identify potential flaws in user experience, accessibility, or even functionality.
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Merary will be hosting a practical session covering the most relevant considerations for developers, testers, designers and project managers in relation to accessibility best practices.
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Every website should ideally be built so that whoever visits it, for whichever possible reason, is able to navigate through it: we can describe this idea as “universal design”.
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The New York Times release of Snowfall in 2012 took the web industry by storm. Media-rich and captivating, its design evoked wonder, fear, and desperation in the face of an avalanche. Snowfall was one of the first great art-directed digital experiences in this era of the modern web.
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