August 15, 2023 — In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to add media or third-party content to your site using Embed blocks or by pasting the relevant URL into your site.

August 13, 2023 — Why do we care about diversity in WordPress? What does diversity look like in your part of the world?

August 13, 2023 — Anyone is welcome to attend this event that is part of the Contributor Mentorship Pilot program. In this insightful talk, we will explore the world of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) within the WordPress community. Led by Jill Binder, the founder and lead of the Diverse Speaker Training Group (#WPDiversity), this session is designed to give attendees an understanding of DEIB for WordPress events (Meetups and WordCamps):

1. What is Diversity Equity Inclusion Belonging (DEIB)?
2. What does diversity mean in the context of WordPress?
3. Why does diversity matter at WordPress events?
4. Why do diverse speaker line-ups matter?
5. How to get involved with diversity in WordPress

Join this exciting session to learn about Diversity in WordPress!

August 11, 2023 — Global variables are a concept in PHP that allow you to access these variables from any scope during a page request. WordPress ships with a specific set of global variables, and it’s useful to know what they are, and how to use them correctly. In this session you’ll learn how global variables work, the list of global variables available in a typical WordPress request, and now to correctly use and interact with them.

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August 10, 2023 — Learn.WordPress.org (Learn WordPress) is the WordPress project’s official learning platform. Learners from all around the world use content on Learn WordPress, and regularly submit feedback to team.

When feedback is submitted, it is first validated. Validators see if the feedback is about an error on the site, a notice about outdated information in the content, or an idea for improvement. They then decide what the best next step of action is and flag the feedback to the appropriate roles in the team.

Feedback validation can be completed by anybody! If you are interested in making Learn WordPress the best WordPress education website out there, then this Online Workshop is for you! Come join Ben as he walks through the feedback validation process, explaining each step along the way.

August 10, 2023 — – General overview of different terms like Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and Deep learning.
– Few WordPress plugins that have implemented Machine learning to perform different tasks.
– Demonstration of Training the algorithm and implementing it into a custom plugin.

August 10, 2023 — This topic will focus on finding the perfect balance between work life and real-life duties, so that a person can find joy in working with WordPress instead of being frustrated. The topic will cover the identifiable symptoms of a burnout, how to prioritize self-care to prevent getting burned out, and finding your own daily dose of inspiration for working with WordPress.

August 10, 2023 — Customer success is vital to the success of every business. That’s to say that you cannot succeed until you help your customers to succeed. But how can you help them succeed? The primary step is identifying the success gap and closing it with a robust content strategy. This presentation will define the success gap, its types, why you should care for it, and how it helps build a robust content strategy.

August 10, 2023 — WordPress’s wide spectrum of usage ranges from powering the most sophisticated websites like The New York Times to providing an easy-to-use digital presence for local small and medium-sized businesses all over the world. With countless options for ready-to-use themes and plugin libraries, WordPress is undoubtedly one of the best platforms for creating amazing websites. However, sometimes the same cookie-cutter design and functional restrictions imposed by WordPress themes and plugins can degrade the user experience of a website.
Every website caters to a unique audience and, hence, requires careful consideration and a user-centered approach for acing the architecture, design, and content that best match user needs. In this talk, we will discuss how we can use the base frameworks of Design Thinking, i.e., Empathetic User Research, Framing (and Re-Framing) User Problems, Ideation, Prototyping & Testing, and Periodic Modification to build an intuitive and functional website that matches user intent.

August 10, 2023 — The topic “How to Get Started With Content Marketing in WordPress” will include a definitive guide on content marketing in WordPress. It will showcase what it takes to get started, how to generate content ideas, and some proven content and SEO hacks to write content that ranks. The talk will discuss everything that beginners need to have a headstart in content marketing in WordPress.