September 20, 2023 — In September 2021 the team behind Web3 WP released the first Wapuu NFT (non-fungible token) collection. Wapuu is the lovable, open source, and (un)official mascot of WordPress. Wapuu swag has been created and collected at WordCamps around the world. Web3 WP built a generative art project of 2,222 unique Wapuus that can be minted as an NFT, collected, and traded by the WordPress community on the Ethereum blockchain.

In this talk, I will give an introduction to NFTs in general, how artists and creators can leverage digital collectibles and how I created the Swiss Wapuu NFT Collection that will drop at WordCamp Switzerland 2023. Every WordCamp Switzerland attendee will be eligible to mint a Swiss Wapuu NFT at a very low presale price and receive a t-shirt with the Wapuu they minted. Anybody else will also be able to mint a Swiss Wapuu NFT during the second presale which does not come with the t-shirt, though. This means you have 7 days to mint one of only 27 unique Wapuus, one for each canton.

All you need is a Web3 wallet like Metamask that supports the Polygon blockchain. This is a non-profit NFT project, which means that after covering expenses, all proceeds will be used to support Swiss WordPress meetups and WordCamps.

Just like the Web3 WP Wapuu collection, the Swiss Wapuu NFT collection, is another experiment to explore the intersection of WordPress and Web3.

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September 20, 2023 — On September 1, 2023, the new Swiss law on data protection will come into force. All Swiss websites will have to comply with it.

This new law is inspired by the standards of the European GDPR, however, with important nuances, especially at the level of enforcement.

Structure of this conference:

A. Data protection – introduction

Importance of data in the digital age
Some important stakes and challenges of data protection
The European law (GDPR) of 2018
B. The new Swiss data protection law

Background and legal-political issues of the new Swiss law
Important principles of the new data protection law (transparency, protection of individuals, justification of collected data, etc.)
What changes for private individuals
What changes for companies
C. Compliance of websites in SwitzerlandSWITZERLAND

Know the data collected and used on your own website
Eliminate the collection of unnecessary personal data
Technical considerations in the context of WordPress
Explain to customers/website visitors the purpose and context of personal data collected (writing a privacy policy, etc.)

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September 20, 2023 — We’ll cover best practices for converting subscribers into clients and retaining existing customers. From cart recovery emails to memberships and loyalty programs, we’ll dive into strategies to get more product reviews, recover abandoned cart revenue, and turn one-time customers into loyal fans.

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September 18, 2023 — Use a pattern to add a beautifully designed, ready-to-go layout to any WordPress site.

In this Tutorial, we will explore how you can utilize patterns to save time and enhance design and creativity. We will also take a closer look at creating custom patterns, using built-in patterns from certain blocks, and managing template part patterns.

September 16, 2023 — Learn.WordPress.org (Learn WordPress) is the WordPress project’s official learning platform. There, you’ll find hundreds of WordPress-related education resources, including live Online Workshops conducted almost daily!

Online Workshops are free interactive learning sessions that anyone can attend. These are conducted by vetted facilitators, who are often assisted by vetted co-hosts. Anyone can apply to facilitate or co-host an Online Workshop and the WordPress Training Team is excited to help you get involved!

If you’re interested in facilitating or co-hosting Online Workshops for the WordPress Training Team, then this workshop is for you! Come join Ben as he walks through the process of facilitating and co-hosting an Online Workshop. You’ll get an overview of the vetting process, and also a behind-the-scenes view into how facilitators and co-hosts prepare for an Online Workshop.

September 14, 2023 — Having an account on WordPress.org is useful for many different reasons! With an WordPress.org account you can:

• Post on the WordPress support forums
• Rate and review themes and plugins
• Join the Making WordPress Slack
• Track your activity and contributions to the WordPress Open Source project

In this session, we tour the different parts of a WordPress.org profile and demonstrate how to create an account on WordPress.org.

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September 14, 2023 — In this casual conversation, we discuss block variations and how you can use them to enhance the editing experience in WordPress. An often overlooked feature, variations are a great way to extend existing blocks and can be as simple or complex as you like. Many WordPress Core blocks you use daily are variations!

To kick off the discussion, we provide a brief overview of what variations are and how they work. Ryan Welcher then shares how he built the Advanced Query Loop plugin and why he opted for a variation of the Query block instead of building a custom block from scratch.

September 14, 2023 — In order to extend WordPress, a developer needs to have a foundational understanding of the WordPress database as well as knowledge of how to interact with and manipulate the data stored there. In this session, we’ll take a high-level overview of the WordPress database, review the default ways to interact with the core schema and data, as well as learn how to add and use custom tables for additional functionality.

September 14, 2023 — The WordPress HTTP Request API allows you to make requests to external services to fetch and send data between a WordPress site and the external service. This is very useful if you need to interact with external APIs. In this session, we’ll look at the helper functions that the HTTP Request API provides, and how to use them.

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September 12, 2023 — In this session, we will differentiate between synced and non-synced patterns and explore how to create and add them within the post editor and site editor.