At each WordCamp, we cover different topics (like business development, inspirational talks, search engine optimization or design) because WordPress is not only about development. Nevertheless, today we present you Andrej Šimunaj, founder, and CEO of the largest Croatian WordPress agency — AM2 Studio — who will talk about how to get “Custom URL structure in WordPress”.
With 10 years of experience, Andrej is one of the most experienced developers in the Croatian WordPress community. Could you tell us more about yourself?
I live in Zagreb, love to travel, outside of work, I am devoting as much time as I can to my family (wife and 3yr old daughter). I’m honest, open and straightforward, in my spare time I’m trying to do as much recreation as I can and I enjoy getting together with family and friends over a barbecue. My wife (and everybody else that knows me pretty much) says I’m a workaholic, but I don’t see myself as one because I love what I do (both development and business side of things), so for me, there is no Work vs. Life. It’s all Life.
What’s your connection with WordPress, how it all started?
WordPress is my passion, I have been working on 450+ projects ranging from small corporate websites to high traffic sites and complex web apps based on WordPress. I started working with WordPress back then when Joomla was still a thing, before custom post types when WP was powering less than 5% of the web :). I was always curious, so I basically started creating small projects for fun and learned WordPress in the process. Entering the WP space was easy and the community was growing so it felt right to be in the space. I started working on client projects, one thing led to another and here we are.
The Talk
Andrej will talk about “Custom URL structures in WordPress”. We ask him to tell us more about his talk.
I will be talking about creating custom URL structures in WordPress as well as utilizing custom template files within a theme to show content on those URLs. This is a very helpful feature, not a lot of people are familiar with WP Rewrite API and how to use it so I think it will be interesting. Most common scenario where we would need custom URL structure is to create endpoints for content related to multiple taxonomies or custom fields (eg. Let’s say we have post type ‘Speakers’ and 2 taxonomies – ‘type’ and ‘level’, and we want to create an endpoint like this: ‘/speakers/design/advanced’). Another example is migrating a site from another system to WordPress with 1000s URLs and mapping those URLs to resolve on the correct new endpoint (very important for SEO).
Get your tickets today!
We have released 200 tickets with a price of $20 (around 130 kn) and you can buy them at the Tickets page. The ticket gets you the entrance on the conference day, lunch, goodies from our sponsors, WordCamp Split t-shirt and the entrance to the afterparty with free drinks included.