With just under 6 weeks to go until WordCamp Singapore 2019, we’re happy to announce the first 6 presentations!

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Images in WordPress: How do they work?

Mike Schroder

A walk-though of the current way that image uploads are handled in WordPress, and some of the improvements coming in 5.3. Attendees will learn about the limitations and strengths of the current systems and hear thoughts on how this can be improved in the future.

Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee enthusiast, and supporter of Open Source. As a full-time contributor sponsored by GoDaddy, he’s a WordPress committer and previous release lead. He is one of the maintainers of media and authors of WP_Image_Editor, the current base infrastructure for handling images in WordPress.

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Face Your Fear: The Headless WordPress!

Ian Labao

A detailed run through how you can fully utilize WordPress as a headless CMS with a demo on how it all works.

Ian is an experienced and ambitious software consultant/engineer looking for challenging roles in the IT industry with expertise in working with the latest technologies in diverse types of projects

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COPE with WordPress

Leonardo Losoviz

COPE (Create Once, Publish Everywhere) is a technique which allows to publish content across different platforms from a single source of truth, enabling to feed content to dissimilar platforms such as web, emails, or an iOS or Android app, while minimizing the amount of duplicated information and reducing maintenance to the minimum possible.

Leonardo Losoviz is an independent open source developer, creator of a framework for building modular websites called [PoP]. The only non-musician in his family, this doesn’t bother him, because coding is also making art. He lives in a loop: he dreams of code and, when he wakes up, he codes his dreams. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Secure WordPress Without Coding Skills

Francesca Marano

Is WordPress insecure? Not at all! However, an outdated WordPress installation with a weak password and poorly chosen plugins is definitely insecure.

Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, web hosting company. She is part of the WordPress community team, organizing meetups and WordCamps in Torino and taking part in many other WordPress events worldwide.

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How and Why to Publish Your Site on IPv6

Lawrence Hughes

IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol. Already some 27% of global traffic is going over it, and many countries are already over 50%. Many mobile service providers are already over 90% IPv6. It is important for you to provide your content over both IPv4 and IPv6 and with WordPress it is actually quite simple. I will show you how to do this.

Lawrence is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Sixscape Communications and has a total of 45+ years in IT, in computer graphics, cybersecurity, messaging and networking,

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Getting more done in less time – introducing WordPress automation using Ansible.

Ivan Yordanov

When you are creating and managing WordPress sites for a living, regardless if you are a freelancer or working for an agency, it’s always great to see your customer base increasing. This, however, leads to the question – what happens when you start struggling with the time for managing all of your client’s sites? The answer is actually pretty simple – automation.

Ivan Yordanov is providing infrastructure and application support to the SiteGround enterprise clients. He has helped with the launch and has been involved in the maintenance of many complex multi-server infrastructures for big WordPress projects.

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These are just 6 of the amazing talks that we have lined up for WordCamp Singapore 2019. Subscribe or follow us on social media to be the first to know when the next round of speakers will be announced.