October 20, 2023 — Picture this: you’re leading a team, and change is barreling toward you like a freight train. You might be tempted to run for the hills, but hold onto your hats because change isn’t just an inevitable part of business; it’s an exhilarating opportunity for growth. In this electrifying talk, we’re going to unpack the game-changing Lippitt-Knoster Model. It’s like the GPS for your change journey, helping you dodge roadblocks and cruise through transformations with finesse.
I’m not just your guide on this adventure; I’m the Head of Marketing steering my own merry ship through a sea of changes. From the spectacular successes to the hilarious hiccups, I’ve learned that change isn’t just a journey—it’s a joyride. We’ll dive into real-world examples that’ll have you laughing, learning, and ready to tackle your next change management challenge head-on.
Key Takeaways:
Strap in with the Lippitt-Knoster Model: Your trusty toolkit for mastering change.
Decode the secrets behind change fiascos and triumphs alike.
Collect ninja-level strategies to sail through resistance and ride the winds of change.
Walk away with a treasure trove: a take-home framework to fuel your change escapades.

October 17, 2023 — In this session, we will explore how you can display posts using the Query Loop block and how to utilize category templates if you want to change the design or the look and feel of a page that displays posts by category.

October 17, 2023 — In this tutorial, we will learn how to apply and clear duotone filters to images, create a custom duotone filter, add duotone to videos, and lastly add duotone filters globally in the Site Editor.

October 16, 2023 — As we focus on our careers, we tend to neglect a certain aspect of us called Life. A balance of both can in fact take us further and that is what Utsav wants to bring to light. On this topic, Utsav will talk about why Work-Life Balance is important, how one can achieve it, and what companies can do to make it easier for their team members. He will talk about the 8-8-8s and the untold 12-12 of our daily life. Developers tend to have a very hectic and unplanned schedule and most of their work is brain work. They tend to fog their brain hence losing health as well as not being able to deliver. Which is what he will address in this session.

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October 15, 2023 — This technical talk is about WordPress plugins and the pitfalls to avoid building plugins.

Each example will be punctuated with demonstrations of the “why”, along with relevant anecdotes from the speaker’s 30 year experience working within support.

October 15, 2023 — This talk offers a comprehensive understanding of how AI can enhance your website management and free you from routine tasks like a genie granting a wish. You are invited to re-imagine your approach to website management, using new tools and knowledge to adapt and thrive in an AI-empowered landscape.

Whether you are a WordPress pro or beginner, this session will open your eyes to the power of AI automation with ChatGPT.

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October 15, 2023 — WordPress Playground is an innovative tool that lets you run WordPress directly in your web browser, within Visual Studio Code, or as a standalone local environment. This innovative solution changes the game for WordPress development, testing, learning, and showcasing.

Learn how to leverage the unique capabilities of WordPress Playground by running some examples:

– Showcase your plugin or theme on your homepage with admin access on the frontend without registration and without the possibility of getting hacked.

– Build an entire website and preview it in Visual Studio Code.

– Run WordPress with NodeJS and use it as a local environment.

– Test your code on different WordPress and PHP versions.

– New applications built on top of WordPress Playground.

October 15, 2023 — Not every project needs custom developed blocks to provide a great block editor experience for clients. You also don’t need to be a JavaScript expert to make adjustments to the WordPress core experience.

This talk covers tools and methods for developers to curate the editor experience. Learn about the nature of block.json and theme.json, and when to use block styles and block variations.

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October 15, 2023 — This talk expains what “script kiddies” and hackers do to breach your WordPress site, install malware, steal data and more. Examples will show how to understand and mitigate these attacks.

October 15, 2023 — In this workshop, learn how to adapt a shortcode-based plugin so that it also renders content in a custom block for use in the WordPress editor. The plugin will therefore no longer need to rely on the build-in Shortcode Block.

Starting with a scaffolded project, you will go on to build out a dynamic block that works with a CPT (Custom Post Type) and a CT (Custom Taxonomy). Learn how to use the hooks provided by the @wordpress/core-data package to pull content into the editor while also ensuring that the content is correctly rendered in the front-end. You will also learn how to use block attributes both in the editor and in the front-end.

You will learn how a dynamic block differs from a static block and the use cases for each.

If you already have, or are thinking of building, a plugin that uses a shortcode to render content, and would like to learn how to also render that content in a block, this workshop is for you.