Archive for 2024

  • Useful debugging plugins

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    June 20, 2024 — While WordPress’s built-in debugging options should cover most of your needs, there are a number of plugins that can help you debug your code.

    Let’s look at two useful debugging plugins.

  • Examining the state of your JavaScript

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    June 20, 2024 — When developing in JavaScript, debugging your code at various points can help you see what’s happening.

    Let’s examine some ways you can view the state of your JavaScript code.

  • El paso a paso de un plan de acción que sí cumplas

    WordPress Meetup ValenciaSpeaker: Meritxell Mayans

    June 20, 2024 — En esta sesión desglosamos los distintos pasos que tienes que dar para crear un plan de acción alineado contigo, con tus deseos y con tu realidad. Antes de fijar el típico objetivo que luego no cumples, vamos a analizar tu situación real y lo que realmente quieres y necesitas para poner un objetivo SMART+P; para crear un plan de acción que sí cumplas porque saldrá de ti y estará alineado contigo.

  • What is accessibility, and why is it important?

    Speaker: Wes Theron

    June 18, 2024 — This lesson introduces the concept of web accessibility, explaining what it is, why it’s important, and how it benefits everyone. It covers key principles from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and addresses common misconceptions about accessibility. The lesson highlights the importance of creating accessible websites from the outset. It presents tangible examples of the difficulties faced by people with disabilities, such as low-contrast text and inaccessible interactive elements.

  • Testing your content for accessibility

    Speaker: Wes Theron

    June 18, 2024 — This lesson provides an overview of testing and fixing accessibility issues in your WordPress content to ensure it is usable by as many people as possible. It covers the importance of accessibility, built-in WordPress tools for checking semantic structure and color contrast, and recommends plugins like WP Tota11y, Sa11y, and Editoria11y for additional checks. The lesson also suggests using OS apps and browser extensions to test technical aspects and emphasizes that authors and content managers can significantly improve accessibility without coding by being mindful of key elements such as heading levels, text size, color contrast, links, and alternative text for images.

  • Uncovering the Cover block

    Speaker: Wes Theron

    June 18, 2024 — The Cover block allows you to display text and other content on top of an image or video. It is a great block for headers, banner-style displays, call-to-actions, and more. Explore various ways you could utilize this container block.

  • Tools for accessibility testing

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    June 18, 2024 — Accessibility testing is a crucial part of the theme development process.

    It ensures that a website with your theme installed is usable by everyone, regardless of their abilities.

    This lesson will introduce you to some tools and techniques for testing your theme’s accessibility.

  • Best practices for developing an accessible theme

    Speaker: Jonathan Bossenger

    June 18, 2024 — Digital accessibility is a broad term that means ensuring that as many people as possible can use the web.

    The easiest way to deliver accessible themes, plugins, or sites is to think about it from the outset.

    In this lesson, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of accessible HTML and how to apply them to your WordPress themes.

  • Setting up your header and footer

    Speakers: Wes Theron, Kathryn Presner

    June 17, 2024 — In this online workshop, we will learn how to set up the header and footer within a template using a block theme. We will also examine how to incorporate the Navigation block within the header and footer template parts and use patterns.