October 4, 2022 — Learn more about SEO fundamentals, including elements of SEO, analysis and measurement, social media, and WordPress SEO.

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October 1, 2022 — Learn about the design concept of vertical rhythm. This approach seeks to create asymmetrical balance between the vertical lines in design typography.

Gain insight for choosing a proper font size, line-height, and margin/padding to balance layouts. Find out how a simple trick and a tiny bit of math has a significant impact on design aesthetics.

September 30, 2022 — This talk offers different plans and views on how people in the WordPress industry can use social media. The discussion focuses on WordPress businesses that create or develop products.

September 30, 2022 — WordPress theme development follows the WordPress template hierarchy, which determines which templates are used depending on the content being rendered.

Fortunately for the new block theme developer, the Site Editor allows you to create all the primary templates you might need, right from your WordPress install.

In this session, we’ll start with a quick review of the WordPress template hierarchy. Then we’ll create a blank block theme, using the Create Block Theme plugin, apply some ready-made default styles via theme.json, and create all the primary templates a WordPress theme would need.

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September 29, 2022 — In this workshop, we go over the basics of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). Let’s learn how to do this work together to make the WordPress community a more inclusive and welcoming community where everyone can feel a sense of belonging.

September 29, 2022 — Learn more about Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and its connection to modern design. HCI is the study of the interaction between people and computer-based systems which takes into consideration the physical, psychological and theoretical aspects of this process.

September 29, 2022 — In this session, we will learn how to make a minor tweak to our theme.json file to add a pattern from the Pattern Directory to our list of patterns when clicking on the Inserter.

September 28, 2022 — In today’s session, we are going to look at how we can personalize our 404 template when using a block theme. A 404 page is also known as an error page or page not found.

September 28, 2022 — WordPress software is used on millions of sites and is considered secure; however, sites still get hacked every day. What can you as a WordPress user do to make sure your site is secure?

Join in as we take a look at the big picture of website security and break things down in a simple, approachable way. We’ll walk you through some of the most important things you can do today to secure your WordPress site better and help to mitigate risk.

September 28, 2022 — This provides a demo of the Amazon Alexa voice assistant with a WordPress blog.