 He is a Swiss Digital Nomad that enjoys building solutions online. He is also a partner at Human Made, a top-tier wordpress agency and VIP partner. There he oversees the growing product of product portfolio such as Nomad-based, Happy Table, BT, Remote, and so on. Today he will discuss the possible path to success for anyone interested in working with WordPress. Remote working or generally being part of this movement. Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the loud talk to the stage. Who's coming to the after party? Oh come on, so much excitement. 8 o'clock as a car? Cool, I'll be there early, everybody else will be too. So, I came across this interesting photographic the other day and it shows the most popular jobs in the US from years ago to now. So back in 1978, let me see if I can move this out of the way a bit before I do something stupid. So back in 1978, the most popular jobs were farmers and stakeholders in the US. 20 tahun lepas, kita melihat bahawa yang paling banyak perempuan dan penyakit telah diperlukan dan kita telah mempunyai banyak perempuan. Jadi, terima kasih kerana mempunyai perempuan. Menurut saya, kita juga telah mempunyai perempuan yang sedap, dan itu mempunyai perempuan komputer. Dan itu adalah sebuah yang baik 20 tahun lalu. Jadi, cepat untuk sekarang. Dan kita melihat bahawa kita biasanya mempunyai perempuan komputer dan lebih banyak perempuan. Jadi, banyak perempuan seperti kita. Sebenarnya, saya membuat perempuan pertama saya pada tahun 1995. Apabila saya membuat perempuan itu, saya sangka saya melakukan sesuatu yang salah. Kamu tidak sepatutnya membuat perempuan. Saya tidak membuat perempuan yang benar. 10 tahun lalu, 2005. Saya masih tidak fikir itu adalah perempuan yang benar. Itu masih bukan perempuan yang benar. Sekarang, pada tahun 2015, saya mempunyai perempuan yang benar. Sangat hebat. Jadi, semasa ini bekerja, saya sedang membuat perempuan yang benar. Dan bahkan, sebenarnya, sangat popular. Sebab itulah hidup saya. Kamu boleh berjalan-jalan. Jika kamu dapat menerima perempuan yang benar atau perempuan yang benar, kamu boleh bekerja. Kamu boleh menjadi perempuan digital dan sebagainya. Kamu boleh menjadi perempuan yang benar. Tapi perkara yang ini tidak adalah perkara yang hanya berubah. Web juga berubah. Web design tidak hanya web designer. Kita telah membuat perempuan yang benar, membuat perempuan yang benar dan yang benar. Dan itu adalah sebahagian dari hari-hati. Dan saya rasa bahawa yang benar atau yang benar atau yang benar adalah sangat banyak perniagaan. Dan saya rasa bahawa perempuan yang benar dan yang benar dan sekarang, ia menjadi perempuan yang benar untuk perempuan yang berbeda. Dan ia menjadi setaikan perempuan yang benar dan sebagainya sebagai perempuan yang benar. Dan kami melihat itu di atas banyak perniagaan. Dan kami melihat itu di atas banyak perniagaan. Dan kami melihat perempuan yang benar dan sebagainya. Itulah kita. Ia adalah petang teman saya yang lebih sedap. Tapi kita lihat apa yang kita ada. Kita lihat ada perkara hari ini. Ya, ada. We got the athletic muscle. But the change happens instantly. You don't switch pages, you don't do anything like that. It's right there. dan ada sesuatu yang berlaku di rambut. Saya mungkin akan mempunyai sebuah kota, tetapi anda tahu, kita tinggalkan sebuah warna yang sangat berinteraktif semasa kita boleh melakukan semua sebuah kota tanpa mempunyai sebuah pakaian. Ia sangat hebat. Kita ada pengalaman ini sebab... Kita dapat mengalami kisah dari beberapa minit atau beberapa saat untuk menggabungkan website dan mengerti apa yang kita sedang mencari. Jadi, kita akan menggabungkan setiap keputusan yang orang-orang ada hari ini dalam termasuk apa yang mereka inginkan dari website ini. Ia sangat tinggi. Sebenarnya, ini bukan untuk berkata All websites are becoming platforms or web applications or complex tools that need to be like that. But rather that consumers are just seeking these experiences now. The modern front end for a lot of websites is JavaScript power. It is bringing in data from various APIs. And one way or another, it has a very fine on-page interactions. So in many ways the kind of work we do with WordPress and everything else will start gravitating towards these higher sets of expectations. So if platforms and web applications and all these cool tools I showed you represent one end of the spectrum and what we used to do normally or nationally represents the old way of doing things. And I came across this great example of this old way of doing things last week. I saw a company online they're advertising web services and they're doing per-page pricing. Do you guys remember? Do you ever see that? Or they charge $200 per page or $400 for two pages and maybe you get a discount if you have three pages? It's really weird because we just don't live on a web that works that way anymore. Do you imagine calling a company up and paying on a K? A lot of people have a website. One page. Cool stuff. He's going to call us in the future. Yeah, he's going to scroll. How does this work, right? It just doesn't. But now obviously with this idea of this past and the future in mind of different ways of doing things most people building websites and it definitely includes us as the WordPress community and this is where I'd say that WordPress as a collective freelancers and agencies and all that kind of stuff can sometimes feel a bit stuck in time. That's if we're a part of this closed ecosystem. We might go to work camps but not job script conferences. We might go to work camps but not like a PHP Con or whatever it is. And not too long ago people who sold web services as part of WordPress would install WordPress maybe a premium theme add some plug-ins and maybe do some custom CSS. And today that's evolved to include custom theme development and probably some light plug-in functionality. And when I talk to people in our community I often get the impression that people view WordPress as this self-contained unit. So that you create everything inside of WordPress and that is the product you sell. So I'm still not sure if calling yourself a WordPress developer is the right sort of wording or if you should just be calling yourself a developer. But let's try to figure it out. Generally speaking though we need a different perspective that WordPress is a tool which is used with other tools. And not a solution which is simply deployed with themes and plug-ins and then those themes and plug-ins in WordPress go live somewhere out on the countryside by themselves and they won't talk to anything else. So I guess what I'm trying to say in this roundup that way is that moving forward in WordPress is a lot more about moving out of WordPress yet continuing to use it as a foundation to manage larger ideas. So if you consider the traditional WordPress website this is what it's usually like. It's front-end powered it's WordPress theming use WP admin for all the content and we're able to easily install plug-ins and themes from WordPress.org or other platforms. If we go a step further we have a publishing platform where we're still using WordPress admin but then we're disconnecting the front-end and using it in a decoupled fashion so we're using something as React or Backbone or Angular things that you've seen today whereby we have this JavaScript powered front-end and we're able to do whatever we want on the front-end but then communicate very nicely with the WordPress backend through the WordPress API plug-in. And this is where we're kind of at now in terms of a lot of clients are asking for this kind of product where they're getting the best of both worlds they're getting a JavaScript front-end they're out of the language of the browser and they're receiving WordPress as a backend tool so that people can author content manage content, change it, whatever it is. So it is this great situation the next step beyond the publishing platform is the application platform whereby we may not even use WPM anymore in any significant way to create content rather just to capture and manage it. I know this sounds confusing right now but I'll show you guys some examples. So Human Made which was briefly mentioned before is the company that Tom Joe and I own we're about 38 people around the world and we've done work for Sky, Airbnb, PayPal bunch of different companies and most recently I think it was Greenpeace and we launched it, it was pretty fun. One key difference between us and a lot of other agencies is we don't really consider ourselves a WordPress company we try to stay open to different ideas which is why we consider ourselves a technology company even though our work is 100% WordPress. So earlier this year we organized a day of rest actually quite a few people in this room were there which was a conference on using the rest API and it was really amazing seeing all the use cases there and all the examples were mostly around decoupling the front end again so what I was talking about before in terms of using WordPress as a publishing platform as opposed to disclosed WordPress and it's a really simple example because it does highlight the actual decoupled state this is our website it's WordPress powered but it uses React front so we use React.js on front which means that when you click between different tabs it instantly loads so there's no page search so the experience is a lot quicker and this is a very simple example of how that works we also have a small button in the bottom left which shows the API request but this project is actually available on GitHub so you guys can all check it out that's super easy to see but the basic setup and the principle here is we're using it as a publishing platform we have WordPress and then React grabs the data from WordPress that's pretty straight forward for now it gets more complex when we start doing more things so Adam Tables is another platform that we have for restaurants so we aggregate all the different tools that they have so we add terminals where they have the where they receive tickets the point of sale online orders, payroll, inventory whatever it is they never run a dashboard so this dashboard runs in not really real time but more like near time so it's usually 5 or 10 minutes deleted but this is not for the context of this it's on a website and it's a dashboard that sits on a wall yet WordPress is power man similarly we also send out emails based off of that so WordPress no website no front-end we can be ingesting data from one place processing it and then setting it out by email but in this case all the servers and all the waiters so that's also fun to give you guys a bit of an overview we take a bunch of data from different places store it with custom post types and custom post types for me at least was the sort of turning point where I was like, this is WordPress that's really cool I got to WordPress in 2009 and then custom post types came out in 2010 and it was just like why is everybody else not getting so excited about this you can create any kind of data structure you want easily show again on your website so to me custom post types and REST API together are incredibly powerful yet they're not that complex let's look at another example Nomadbase is a tool that we have for people who consider themselves location and environment for other workers nomadic and we have a nice little tool here which is a single page application in that regard where I can see now my entire capital map and also see who is in a particular city and that's all fed through forceware data twitter check ins, instagram check ins so we'll see here right now there's probably a couple of us here John's here Gary's here Sharon's here it's pretty fun but again all WordPress powered and again it's a similar setup where we're taking information from a lot of different APIs and processing and capturing inside WordPress and pushing it out to different places so this is the real nature of WordPress as an application platform who saw the talk on Amazon Alexa before no and you guys Hida are you here because you had such a great talk on using WordPress in a GUI-less fashion I wanted to remind everyone what that was the right side might be a bit more creative and it has a bit more imagination but the left side is certainly correct and that was a great example where Hida was using one echo to give it speech functions it was feeding into WordPress and then other stuff really really cool I was really surprised to see that Jokes aside if we come back to the idea of what are the jobs out there and what can we or sort of popular jobs where is this all going and let's imagine for once that software developer becomes insanely popular how do you as a developer or someone working predominantly in WordPress stay ahead of the game for lack of a term I think the first one is learning JavaScript I know it's something that's said a lot especially in the last year but it is insanely valuable WordPress is mostly built on PHP and it is a backend tool but if you want to be able to use the full power of WordPress you have to understand how it fits in the larger ecosystem the second is start with the end in mind if you have a vision of building something stick to that vision and work your way down in terms of what you can and can't build as opposed to thinking these are the tools I have at the bottom and then trying to work your way up from that because that's that'll limit you a lot in terms of WordPress way of doing things or some older way of doing things whereas there's a lot of cool things you can do with JavaScript you can build anything you want that's the beauty of it so having this sort of unlimited vision in that regard is really important I think and lastly it's proposed to anyone who develops on WordPress to make it invisible or in the Hides case it's whereby WordPress takes a backseat and plays an important function but then allows you to still do a lot of cool things in this case who uses Slack in here yeah a bunch of you so this is our Slackbot and where is Nol it just pumps it out and saves it in chat but this is again WordPress powered so this is the same Nomad based app I showed you before we created a couple custom endpoints for it and Slack now is able to use that data so if you can take one thing away from this talk it's not only about working inside of the WordPress ecosystem but understanding that WordPress is but just one component in a much larger industry that is growing in many different beautiful ways so at the end of the day build a full shed and see you at the end of the party thank you well we might have a video program for Nomad based point just Nomad block would you want to use it I'm happy you're fulfilling me how do I get in for a restaurant or to play with GitHub for the restaurant ah okay so the dashboard is just to go back you're talking about this right so the dashboard in this case is WebView so it's open on Chrome or any dashboard so we usually purchase the dashboard for a restaurant and then we have a full screen button which is just like a JavaScript line that makes it full screen but yeah that's how we build it so it's it's not connected to the dashboard or pre-installed on the dashboard it's just requires an internet connection if it's for a restaurant specifically then questions cool thank you