Archive for August, 2018

  • The Gutenberg Team: Roundtable with the Gutenberg team (Part 1)

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speakers: Matías Ventura, Andrew Duthie, Ella Van Dorpe, Gary Pendergast, Grzegorz Ziółkowski, Jorge Costa, Riad Benguella, Tammie Lister

    August 10, 2018 — Ask your questions to the group of people building Gutenberg. Learn its design language, how to create blocks and extend the new editor interface in various ways.

  • Fumito Abe: necco LunchをAlexaで入力!Woocommerce + Apple Pay + Pay with Googleで決済!

    WordCamp Osaka 2018Speaker: Fumito Abe

    August 9, 2018 — “株式会社neccoのメンバーが交代でLunchを作ってるnecco LunchをWordPressとECカートプラグインであるWoocommerを使ってシステム化しました。

    さらに入力はAmazon Echo(Alexa)を使い、決済はStripeを利用してApple Pay,Pay with Googleを採用。音声入力での購入体験とキャッシュレス決済の少しだけ新しい未来をゆるりと自社の制度をつかってご紹介します。”

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  • Kim Camp Smalley: Evaluating The Accessibility Of Websites

    WordCamp Atlanta 2018Speaker: Kim Camp Smalley

    August 9, 2018 — The number of companies facing legal action for inaccessible websites is on the rise. Inaccessible websites and digital content can limit access to users with disabilities. WordPress users can employ web accessibility evaluation tools to help determine if their content is accessible to users with disabilities. This session will provide an overview of several WordPress plugins, web-based tools, and accessibility resources. Designers, developers, and content creators can utilize these tools to evaluate websites against recognized guidelines and create a better user experience.

    Takeaways:

    -Understand the laws and standards regarding web accessibility.
    -Great techniques and tools to evaluate your WordPress site for accessibility.
    -Identify the limitations of automated evaluations.

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  • Tricia Clements: Where’s the content? Effective Video use in your WordPress Blog

    WordCamp Atlanta 2018Speaker: Tricia Clements

    August 9, 2018 — “You’ve spent hours (maybe months) creating a gorgeous website or maybe you paid someone else to design it for you, but what’s next? How do you consistently add content to your site? Learn tips and hacks to use video to create content for your blog, social media, newsletters and much more.

    Never run out of content again!

  • Christina Hills: How to Make Your WordPress Site Come Alive with Pictures p2 of 2

    WordCamp San Diego 2018Speaker: Christina Hills

    August 9, 2018 — Everyone likes to look at pictures, it’s what makes your website attract readers. In this session for the person who is not a professional graphic designer, Christina Hills will show you some easy tips to make working with images much easier for you. Best practices for the featured image and how to get it to show up correctly when you share on Social Media. How to organize, compress, and store your images in your media library, for faster load times. Plus where to find high quality, low cost (and free) images to make your website stunning. You will walk away with practical tips and tools you can use right away whether you are a business owner, free lancer, or just starting out learning WordPress.” (this talk falls under beginner/intermediate)

  • Christina Hills: How to Make Your WordPress Site Come Alive with Pictures p1

    WordCamp San Diego 2018Speaker: Christina Hills

    August 9, 2018 — Everyone likes to look at pictures, it’s what makes your website attract readers. In this session for the person who is not a professional graphic designer, Christina Hills will show you some easy tips to make working with images much easier for you. Best practices for the featured image and how to get it to show up correctly when you share on Social Media. How to organize, compress, and store your images in your media library, for faster load times. Plus where to find high quality, low cost (and free) images to make your website stunning. You will walk away with practical tips and tools you can use right away whether you are a business owner, free lancer, or just starting out learning WordPress.” (this talk falls under beginner/intermediate)

  • Łukasz Kołodziejczyk: Różne oblicza analityki

    WordCamp Poznań 2018Speaker: Łukasz Kołodziejczyk

    August 9, 2018 — Analityka – temat o którym dużo się słyszy, choć często bywają to jedynie ogólniki. Wykresy, tabelki i mnóstwo liczb – jak się w tym wszystkim odnaleźć? Dlaczego analityka to nie tylko Google Analytics? Jak zbudować strategię rozwoju swojej strony na podstawie danych? Odpowiedzi na te pytania i nie tylko usłyszymy podczas prezentacji Łukasza. Dowiemy się, jak pozyskać dane kluczowe dla rozwoju bloga czy dowolnego typu strony opartego na WordPressie.

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  • Vineet Talwar: WordPress Backups. Disaster management and recovery

    WordCamp Poznań 2018Speaker: Vineet Talwar

    August 9, 2018 — We will talk talk about the different aspects of backups. What to backup? Where to backup? How to backup? Goes without saying that the audience would want to know the tools that can be used. We will hear about the tools and techniques to do both automatic and manual backups.

    Finally we will move a little deeper into the technicalities – leveling up and elaborating upon backups using WP-CLI and a talking about a brief discussion on Git for code management and making automated cron jobs that takes backups with the help of WP-CLI and stores them securely on Amazon S3.

  • Paweł Ćmachowski: WordPress i pluginy jako baza MVP dla projektów komercyjnych

    WordCamp Poznań 2018Speaker: Paweł Ćmachowski

    August 9, 2018 — Krótka ale barwna przypowieść o tym, jak WordPress wraz z pluginami może zostać wykorzystany do stworzenia MVP komercyjnych projektów. Case study realnych przypadków kiedy MVP oparte o WordPressa zweryfikowało plany przedsiębiorców i dalsze losy ich start’upów. Zalety używania WordPressa w początkowej fazie rozwoju biznesu, kiedy chcemy jak najszybciej wypróbować produkt na rynku.

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  • Zac Gordon: JavaScript for WordPress Workshop PART 3

    WordCamp Seattle 2017Speaker: Zac Gordon

    August 9, 2018 — In this workshop we will learn about JavaScript fundamentals like the DOM, Events and JSON all using native JavaScript. Then we will introduce the WordPress REST API and look at how to use it in both WordPress themes and stand alone JavaScript applications. Come get a foundation level understanding of this important topic of JavaScript and API driven WordPress development.

    Some experience with jQuery or JavaScript is encouraged.

    COME PREPARED!
    Make sure you come prepared! Come early to make sure you’re ready to go.

    For this workshop you will want to have the following:

    Laptop
    A working local WordPress install with SSL on your laptop (Zac suggests using Local by Flywheel or DesktopServer for easy setup)
    A Code Editor

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