December 29, 2018 — In 2008, Joanna led colleagues at McKinsey & Company to develop and teach a new form of leadership that enables everyone, not just leaders, to be at their best more of the time. Today, the program is based on 400+ interviews with remarkable women and men leaders around the world – along with quantitative research, academic learning from a range of related fields, and a decade of field-testing.

Called Centered Leadership, this approach helps you build personal mastery of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions to inspire and unleash positive change. And it starts with self, becoming the change you most want to see. Imagine building on strengths, pausing in the midst of upset, forming trust-based relationships, engaging hope and fear to act boldly, and practicing recovery consciously to sustain your energy. Imagine finding your center when you need it most to improve your experience at work and in life. In her interactive session, Joanna will guide you through tools and practices with an invitation to (re)discover one insight about yourself at work or in life that sparks curiosity to explore more.

December 29, 2018 — As we inch closer to a mobile-only world, enterprises are struggling to deliver mobile experiences that meet or exceed expectations. Finding a CMS that can integrate with existing technologies while meeting the increasing demands of the mobile web is not an easy task. Technology such as Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) have emerged to improve the performance of web content on mobile devices, but the gains from those advances are not apparent in every CMS. While some are better than others, WordPress has emerged as the leader for the mobile web, specifically as demonstrated through AMP and PWA. This session provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the effects of AMP and PWA, based on the way different CMSs are harnessing these technologies to power digital experiences across the mobile web.

December 29, 2018 — GDPR, CCPA, Data Breach requirements, DPIA’s… Yeah, it’s a LOT! Worse, there’s a lot of confusing and conflicting information out there regarding what’s changing in the world of privacy laws and requirements. We’re here to clear that up.

A strong privacy framework can strengthen your client relationships while reducing legal liability, arming you to ship better websites and products with ethics and privacy in mind, from day one. When making decisions, it’s important to understand their impacts: The right decisions (with user privacy in mind) to not only reduce your exposure, but also make your website better. It’s not the responsibility of “someone else” to get privacy right, it’s the responsibility of the whole team who builds and maintains your website.

Starting with an overview of laws that are relevant to you and your U.S. business, (what you NEED to know), best practices (what you need to DO), as well as resources for maintaining compliance (where you can turn when you need answers) you’ll see how privacy impacts business and technical requirements of every WordPress site on the internet.

December 29, 2018 — Content security policies (CSPs) are a relatively new security element on the web horizon. CSPs use browsers to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and other code injection attacks resulting from execution of malicious content in the trusted web page context. CSPs can be used for simple purposes like enforcing https on SSL-enabled sites, to more sophisticated uses like authorizing only truly trusted sources and blocking others.

Most sites do not have CSPs installed, but it’s important to be aware of them and how they can be used to add an additional layer of security to your website.

December 29, 2018 — As developers we have an opportunity to start working with the new Gutenberg editor and bring it into projects where it can positively impact the editorial workflow. In this talk I’ll be sharing our team’s experience in extending Gutenberg core blocks with our work on the AMP for WordPress plugin.

In working with Gutenberg, often block functionality needs to be customized. We’ve found that it makes more sense to reuse and extend existing editor blocks as opposed to creating new ones. From a user experience perspective it’s important to avoid confusing users by just duplicating blocks and cluttering up the block inserter.

Through real examples I will showcase our experience extending core blocks as we added custom features to the AMP plugin. I’ll also address some issues and pain-points we ran into during the process and share the workarounds used.

Since Gutenberg is still a work in progress, this presentation is not intended as the absolute truth for extending core blocks, however it is a practical example of how we were able to add AMP features to a plugin by extending the core editor blocks. If you’re interested in developing for Gutenberg you’ll be able to learn from our experience and pick up practical tips for moving forward.

December 29, 2018 — WAI-ARIA means Accessible Rich Internet Applications. These are attributes you add to your HTML5 to (for example) inform blind visitors what is happening on your site.

How do you use ARIA and why? And why is the first rule of ARIA: “Don’t use ARIA”?

In this talk Rian will show you how to
– announce changes and error messages
– use the JavaScript function wp.a11y.speak()
– tell if a menu or accordion is closed or open
– give feedback on what’s happening on a one page website
– get the right documentation and examples

Discover that ARIA isn’t that complicated and is very useful for those visitors that use your site in another way than you do.

December 29, 2018 — A website is a living and breathing piece of your overall business & marketing plan. You need to feed it! This presentation will cover why a website isn’t a “set it and forget it” entity.

Learn about content creation types, determine the need for enhanced features (eCommerce, membership, LMS), ways to encourage visitor engagement, website security and site backups and when it might be time to redesign the site itself.

December 28, 2018 — In this video, I’ll show you how to easily add Persian calendar and date to the WordPress.
I do this with the Parsidate plugin, and I’ll explain to you the main settings of this plugin.

December 28, 2018 — Released last year, CSS Grid changes everything for the web and the WordPress communityIt means that, for the first time, we can think of layout on posts and pages as two-dimensional and fully responsive. CSS Grid is not another plugin hack or bootstrap patch. Quite simply, it’s the solution for which designers have been asking. It is here to stay and right now is the perfect time to learn it.
Why CSS Grid? How to use Grid? When to use Grid? Demos!

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December 28, 2018 — Do you have a complex WordPress eLearning, eCommerce or membership site that uses lots of plugins? You’ve probably run into challenges getting them all working together. When a user makes a purchase, how do you give them access to 2 things? Or, when a user completes 3 actions, how can you automatically trigger a fourth? In this session, we’ll look at ways that tools can help you build and automate workflows like these to make your user experience as seamless as possible as well as keep your admin effort to a minimum. We’ll also look at the implications arising from the release of WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg.

Some of the common challenges faced by users setting up complex websites that use a lot of plugins or require frequent admin intervention
An approach to solving these problems using plugins, CRMs and other applications

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