May 25, 2023 — Have you ever wanted to update your site’s design, but wondered exactly what that would entail? It sounds so daunting, so maybe you’ve wanted to watch someone else do it first before you tried? If so, then this online workshop is for you!

Come join this informal live stream where Ben will update his personal blog’s design while answering questions from attendees. In this multi-part workshop, you’ll get to see the full process of updating a site’s design, including:

* Creating a local staging site of a live site and transferring updates between the sites
* Updating a site’s theme from Twenty Twenty-Two to Twenty Twenty-Three
* Editing templates and template parts in the Site Editor

This is Part 5 of a five-part series.

May 25, 2023 — This Hallway Hangout was a casual conversation about building block themes for clients and ways you can curate the Editor experience in WordPress. We also discussed common challenges and pain points, reviewed existing solutions, and identified new improvements to WordPress that would make block theming easier for client work.

The session began with a demonstration of new curation techniques available in WordPress 6.2 followed by a brief review of how to build a starter block theme. If you have begun building block themes for clients or are interested in block theming, this session is especially for you.

May 25, 2023 — An introduction to my easy to use workflow on how to measure and test your own growth-marketing strategy. I have been using this successfully and brought an example you should try on your website.

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May 24, 2023 — Whether working alone or with a team of people, understanding what version control is, how to use it, and how it can improve your WordPress development process is imperative.

This session is designed to teach developers the basic concepts and best practices of version control. This session will be focused on Git and GitHub as our version control tools.

May 24, 2023 — In this presentation Adam Zielinski, a member of the development team that created WordPress Playground, introduces this exciting new implementation and also demonstrates it. He explains the technologies that make the magic happen, and runs through a variety of scenarios and use cases.

May 23, 2023 — In this session, we will use various patterns to create a Services Page. Patterns allow you to add beautifully designed, ready-to-go layouts to any WordPress site with a simple insert or copy/paste. Learn how to add and modify patterns to suit your design needs.

May 23, 2023 — In this presentation Adam Zielinski, a member of the development team that created WordPress Playground, introduces this exciting new implementation and demonstrates it. He will explains the technologies that make the magic happen, and run through a variety of scenarios and use cases.

May 23, 2023 — Social media is an important marketing arm for many websites and businesses. But in most cases, the content lives and dies relatively quickly. How can you use social media to improve your website SEO?

Michelle will share how she turned a surprise viral video (currently at 31.5 million views) into website SEO gold.

Plus, she’ll share how to create strategic social media content that can improve website rankings in Google, regardless of how well they perform on their respective platforms.

May 23, 2023 — Have you ever felt too ashamed to admit to yourself or others about your state of mind?

I learned that there is nothing ever more important in life than my own health – both physical and mental. There have been many times where my path changed and even when I had to break out of my own life in order to protect my health.

There is a myth that we all have a destiny and that we know it from a young age. Don’t envy those people!

Only by stepping back once in a while and by reconsidering my personal decisions, did I became who I am today: a pioneer who likes new challenges and who needs to reinvent herself from time to time.

Nevertheless, deep inside I am also afraid of change and I struggle with mental health issues. Leaving the comfort zone can be very scary but everything you want lies on the other side of fear.

In this talk, I will give you my insight on why stepping back is important to your progress and to find out who you really are.

We’ll discuss reevaluating personal and professional priorities and values, how to understand when you need a rest, and how to keep your mental health up.

May 23, 2023 — Front-end performance refers to the speed and responsiveness of a website as experienced by the user. It can be improved by optimizing images, minifying code, using a content delivery network (CDN), and reducing the number of HTTP requests, among other things.

Front-end performance in WordPress can be tricky because there are so many chefs (theme, plugins) that contribute to what the HTML document looks like. Fail to keep an eye on things and they will get out of control.

This talk is not at all about server-side performance (even though that is also important), instead, it focuses on how the user’s device processes the page returned by the server, the main challenges, tools that can help you, mistakes to avoid, and yes – because everyone cares about them – Core Web Vitals.