December 17, 2022 — Can games, learning theory, and psychology make content more engaging?

This talk shares real-world examples that show how gamification can improve blog posts, online courses, landing pages, membership sites, and more.

This presentation also shows how the block editor makes creating interactive content easier than ever.

December 16, 2022 — Learn how companies are trending towards more realistic and aggressive — and customer-friendly — content strategy.

December 15, 2022 — With the recent release of WordPress 6.1, Site Editor templates have become even easier to make more your own– unlocking more creativity and flexibility with how your post pages are displayed to the world.

In Exploring Category Templates and the Query Loop Block we will look at how to create Template pages for specific posts on the site, create a custom design for each template, and walk through editing the query loop block to display the posts differently on each template.

Target Audience
Intermediate WordPress users– folks who are familiar with the Site Editor Template system and Blocks.

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December 15, 2022 — In this session, we are going to take a closer look at how comments are displayed when you are using a block theme.

December 15, 2022 — Learn more about improving SEO on WordPress websites.

Topics include:
– why SEO for your business
– competitive keyword analysis to understand why certain websites are ranking
– mistakes to avoid during development

December 15, 2022 — Learn more about getting started as a web development streamer. The presenter shares her personal experience as a streamer. Find out how you can build on her lessons learned.

December 15, 2022 — Templates are the WordPress theme files used to render website pages. Getting acquainted with templates is an important step in learning to build themes for WordPress.

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December 14, 2022 — The business ecosystem around WordPress is multicultural and distributed. The strive for diversity, autonomy, and location independence that governs the open source world is what businesses have been successfully adopting so they can win clients all over the world and hire talent. But why is it that even though global business speaks English, we’re so often struggling to understand what the other is trying to communicate?

How do you navigate the minefield of culture-based misunderstanding?

December 12, 2022 — When visitors come to your site, you generally want them to do something specifically – to sign up for a newsletter, buy a product, engage with more content on your site, join an event etc.

A Call To Action (CTA) is an element on your site that asks people to take a specific action. In this session, we will look at how you can create your own CTA by only using the block editor.

December 12, 2022 — So far, we’ve built a WordPress block using plain JavaScript which supports custom styles via a stylesheet, which uses block attributes and the RichText component to allow the user to edit the block content, and uses a custom toolbar control to allow the user to align the RichText content. Next, we will look at adding additional support for managing the block styles, via the Block Supports API.

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