January 22, 2019 — Know a young child interested in learning computer science and coding, but the child’s reading level makes it difficult to know where to start? You’ve come to the right place! In this session we will go hands on with free online games that teach computer science and coding techniques to children as young as 4! These programs start with pre-reader courses and grow with your child so they can use the same program for years to come.

January 22, 2019 — In this session the kids and I, will talk about the obstacles we face in getting them to focus on building their entrepreneur ideas. Parents are busy with work and responsibility, sure we want to help our kids build their ideas. Why haven’t we yet? How can we help them do it themselves using WordPress? Let’s talk about helping create the kidpreneurs of the future!

January 22, 2019 — With almost 20 years experience working with both professional services and product clients, while building and managing development teams, Pat is a veteran WordPress community subject matter expert. Drawing from lessons learned and experience working with all sizes of organizations and clients, Pat’s goal is to discuss how to successfully work with clients and increase Lifetime Total Value in executing your service or product.

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January 22, 2019 — In this talk I aim to explore some of the main issues that surround SVG uploads and why we’ve not seen this feature in WordPress yet. We’ll also look into why they need to be sanitised and the problems that can occur if we don’t properly secure them.

January 22, 2019 — Creating Your Very First Gutenberg Block

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January 22, 2019 — When working with the WordPress customizer folks tend to create items in PHP. In this session we will look at the customizer JavaScript API to implement dynamic settings, allowing us to bring live preview to complex settings.

January 22, 2019 — Sometimes, using Advanced Custom Fields Plugin (Free and Pro Version) can become a burden. This is normally because in our excitement to use the tool we by-pass the planning it takes to make the plugin work well and don’t always choose the right field for the job.

During this lightning talk I will talk about how to:

choose the right fields to use
plan out your use of ACF
organize your fields
create connections

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January 22, 2019 — Okay so you started a business. You have a least one customer and they give you money for your service or product. Yipee! It’s all straightforward from here, right? Unfortunately, no. Dr. Walling will highlight five toxic beliefs that have the power to seriously disrupt the health of your business and the well-being of your life. These beliefs include: 1) My business is my baby. 2) I love my customers and my customers love me. 3) The hustle makes the money. 4) I got this! 5) No time for feelings- this is business. She’ll explain how founders adapt these ideas and the serious consequence they can have. And of course, she’ll walk you through how to avoid embracing these dangers so that you can do your work and enjoy your life.

January 22, 2019 — We now think in blocks, this is the new “WordPress way”. In this talk you will learn how to build a block. We will cover creating a user interface in the new “Gutenberg” UI system, saving data and displaying it in the front-end. If you’re wondering what it means to build a custom block or extend a core block, this is for you.

This is a talk aimed at intermediate to advanced developers, who already know JavaScript somewhat deeply. Think of it as a getting started guide to a new way of working with WordPress that we’re just getting started learning how to work with.

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January 22, 2019 — The future of WordPress is changing. If you are a WordPress developer and primarily focused on PHP and some JavaScript, then you need to see what the road lies ahead for plugin and themes developers.

If you make a living out of building solutions for clients with WordPress, then you need to be on time for this introduction to the Developer Workshop.

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