October 29, 2020 — The web in 2020 is a bloated and over-engineered mess! Many modern web development “best practices” are making the web worse. This thought-provoking talk shares ideas on how to fix the problem as it explores an alternate set of best practices.

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October 29, 2020 — React.js has become one of the most well-known and popular JavaScript libraries. WordPress rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal recently adopted React to create admin interfaces.

This talk explains the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. The examples help to understand React and why it is powerful. Learn how to convert a static site into a dynamic React application.

October 29, 2020 — With the web ecosystem steadily moving towards JavaScript frameworks and JAMstack setups, let’s see how to get up to speed with those latest headless trends.

During this hands-on workshop, we will build a React front-end pulling content from WordPress with GraphQL, and using Gatsby as a static website generator. Some knowledge of WordPress Rest API, Node or React is a plus but not a requirement. We will go through each step following a homemade GitHub tutorial with concrete examples, including the initial setup and a deployment on a serverless hosting and continuous integration (CI) platform. As an extra, we will also explain how to easily make your Gutenberg layout work with your React website.

Bring your own bottle laptop (BYOL) and join us if you are curious about headless architecture.

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October 28, 2020 — This talk examines five elements of headless WordPress in-depth to help you evaluate if this is the right choice for your project.

October 28, 2020 — We will start at the beginning to understand what a plugin does and why you would want one. We will answer common questions like:
– Where do you find plugins?
– How do you know which plugins are good?
– How many plugins should you have?
– How can you find out more about a plugin before you download or purchase it?
– How can you work with a plugin developer to fix issues you are having with the plugin?

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October 28, 2020 — One evening at a WordPress Meetup presentation in a northern valley of Los Angeles, an attendee turned and punched Joe A. Simpson, Jr, in the arm saying, “accessibility makes me sooooooo angry!” Why does baking even the most basic WCAG 2.0 guidelines into your project cycle create such a reaction?

In this presentation, we’ll debunk common misconceptions designers, developers, and business owners have and learn how advocating for access to all improves your site SEO, design, user experience, and function through interactive audience examples and discussion to ease the pain of compliance.

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October 28, 2020 — Many developers know to NEVER do changes directly on a live website, lest we break it.

What if though, you don’t have access to a staging or development environment? Or even if you do, what happens if you are in a situation where you do not have reliable internet access! Local development environments to the rescue!

We’ll touch on why it’s so important, and discuss the plethora of options available. Please note all examples will be shown from a Mac OS, but environments for Linux and Windows will be discussed.

October 27, 2020 — This talk describes the journey of a “mere mortal” (not a web professional) to learn WordPress and build four sites to support his family businesses.

October 26, 2020 — 2020 година е една различна година, една година, която ни изправи пред много трудности. Много физически (натурални) магазини преминаха онлайн. Много онлайн магазини се разшириха и станаха още по-достъпни. Ситуацията научи хората и бизнеса да се дигитализират, и да преминат онлайн. Много хора без никакво понятие в онлайн света, взеха решение и започнаха да продават онлайн. WordPress + WooCommerce бе най-удобното и бързо решение в случая. Само с няколко клика и малко опит мнозина създадоха онова, за което си мечтаеха. Но те не се спряха до тук, защото кризата те първа започна и разбраха, че трябва да се разширяват и да мислят върху поредния маркетингов експеримент, за да постигнат повече продажби. На своя страна пък тези, които бяха вече опитали от онлайн света, решиха да се разрастват с огромни темпове. Мнозина от тях започнаха да изграждат своите големи маркетингови стратегии и да внедряват инструменти за продажба, като например фунии, лендинг страници за промоции, е-мейл маркетинг и прочие. Благодарение на WordPress + WooCmmerce, това бе възможно и се получи. Моят опит през всичките тези месец ми доведи до заключение, че онлайн магазини, които нашия екип разработихме на WordPress + WooCommerce отбелязаха между 200 и 500% ръст в продажбите си и това стана само с няколко клика, а именно заради това, че са на WordPress. Предизвикателствата те първа, обаче започват и смятам, че WordPress е най-доброто решение за тях!

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October 26, 2020 — Какво е нужно за добрия корпоративен или личен блог? Технологични и съдържателни акценти. И няколко примера от България за успешни такива.