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Chathu Vishwajith will help you toughen security measures for your WordPress site

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SECURITY! That word brings to mind frightening stories of SQL injection, data loss, web page defacements and other breaches.

Here’s announcing Chathu Vishwajith, who will guide us on this subject with real world examples, through a talk titled “Hardening WordPress is an art”!

For every WordPress plugin, theme or client project you accomplish, it is important to have in place the best security measures to defend your work from being ruined by the bad guys. Chathu’s talk is sure to help you upgrade your website’s security.

The speaker Chathu is an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. He is also the co-founder of a software development startup. He brings with him the experience of hardening security for over 20 WordPress websites. He has successfully handled massive DDOS attacks as well.

 

How can WordPress help with sustainable development? Attend Samantha’s talk to know more!

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Here’s announcing Samantha Pathirathna, our next speaker on the subject of “WordPress for Sustainable Development”!

Samantha is an award winning entrepreneur, and began his WordPress journey as the Chairman and Managing Director of ECO TREATS TOURISM (PVT) LTD.

After having donned multiple hats as researcher, consultant, trainer and scholar, Samantha is convinced that WordPress can be leveraged to play a major role in achieving sustainable development goals. To learn more about sustainable development goals, do check out the United Nations page on the subject.

The subject of protecting our planet’s natural resources is more important today than ever before. Don’t miss Samantha’s talk that will throw light on WordPress’ promise to make a difference in this arena, and be prepared with your questions!

 

 

Our bronze sponsor WPML has you covered for your multilingual needs!

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The WordPress Multilingual Plugin, or WPML is a well known choice among WordPress developers and agencies to transform websites to a platform facilitating the creation and display of content in multiple languages.

We are proud to have WPML as our Kalu (Bronze) sponsor!

 

WPML is known for strong forum support, and works well with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins. In fact, other plugin developers often comply with WPML programming requirements and boast of WPML compatibility as a key selling point.

The platform comes with several add-ons that allow website developers and users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even strings within themes and plugins.

WPML is known to power websites right from simple blogs to corporate and enterprise sites. It is no surprise that 500,000 commercial websites from around the world are backed by WPML.

WPML is looking for talent for their international team, and if you think you are a good fit, follow this link to apply for a position: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring.

Announcing the WordCamp Colombo schedule

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We are glad to announce the finalized schedule for WordCamp Colombo 2017!

Registration for the day long event will begin at 8.30 am. Make sure you arrive early at BMICH and grab your front row seats. Or, the back row seats if you wish to ask tough questions to the speakers and make heads turn. 😉

The day will be packed with a mix of talks aimed at WordPress developers, business owners and users. You have a chance to make lots of new friends, so please keep your visiting cards ready!

Starting 9.30 am, the morning half will have long talks by Himash, Rahul and Samantha. Each long talk will last 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and 10 minutes buffer time. The 10 minute buffer is a great time to grab some tea and snacks, and also make friends with attendees.

Lunch time is between 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm.

Between 1.30 pm and 2.15 pm, we will have lightning talks (10 minutes each, no Q&A) by Dwain, Harshadewa, Asith and Prasath. Finally, we will have long talks by Asif, Chathu and Takayuki, followed by the keynote speech by Stéphane Boisvert.

WordCamp Colombo 2017 will end with closing remarks at 5.30 pm and the after party double decker bus will leave at 6.00 pm. The after party begins at 8.00 pm.

Check out and bookmark the final schedule here: https://2017.colombo.wordcamp.org/schedule/

Dwain Maralack will speak on his journey with WordPress turning him into an engineer

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The word ‘engineer’ is derived from the Latin ‘ingeniare’ which means ‘to contrive or devise‘. Dwain Maralack, our next speaker, is going to tell us exactly how WordPress helped him become an engineer, and we all can learn from his example.

While WordPress is loved the world over for its ease of putting together websites, there is no end of opportunities to skilfully engineer complex solutions.

Dwain’s will describe his life’s rocky journey from being a beginner to where he stands now, as an engineer and a developer. He will talk about how WordPress has helped him learn more about software engineering and design patterns, and how the platform has exposed him to other technologies as well.

Furthermore, Dwain will throw light on the opportunities for developers to learn more about the inner workings of WordPress.

Dwain Maralack is a developer at Automattic, and describes himself as a servant, husband, programmer plus an all round fun-loving guy. He hails from South Africa and has spoken at WordCamp Capetown in the past.