December 2, 2022 — In this Online Workshop, we’ll explore how to design sophisticated layouts using Columns, Group, Row and Stack blocks. These blocks represent the fundamental building blocks of every WordPress website. You’ll learn the nuances of each block type and how to configure them correctly, with a special focus on new features in WordPress 6.1. Join us for an interactive presentation followed by a group Q&A.

December 2, 2022 — This series of workshops looks at building a WordPress block, without using React JSX.

So far, we’ve built a WordPress block using plain JavaScript which supports custom styles via a stylesheet, and which uses block attributes and the RichText component to allow the user to edit the block content. Next, we will add a block control and an additional attribute to allow the user to edit the block alignment.

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December 1, 2022 — This lightning talk explains the efficiencies of Google Tag Manager and shows how it helps to improve data and event tracking for WordPress websites. Learn more about best practices for setting up Google Tag Manager.

December 1, 2022 — This session is for people who were put in charge of a WordPress site they didn’t set up, and have zero to low technical or WordPress knowledge. They might be:
• Volunteers for nonprofits or informal community/civic/religious groups.
• Employees at small to medium sized businesses or nonprofits.

In this workshop, you will learn:
• Basic concepts of WordPress and web hosting.
• Important habits for keeping a WordPress site healthy.
• How to identify and learn the specific editor in use on your WordPress site.

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November 30, 2022 — Chrome is not just a great browser for viewing websites, but also an invaluable tool for building websites. Out of the box, Chrome ships with “developers tools”. Many web developers are aware of this and make use of some of the tools it provides. However, most developers only scratch the surface of what the browser can do. Join in as we take a deep dive into the Chrome developer tools and learn, among other things, how to:

– Quickly test styling fixes
– Emulate handheld devices to test responsive designs
– Easily navigate and debug JavaScript
– Use the JavaScript console
– View form submissions
– Monitor AJAX requests
– Check for performance issues
– Troubleshoot caching issues
– Create and use your own snippets
– Share replays of website interactions
– Auto-generate front-end tests
– Share the current state of Chrome dev tools with another developer

November 30, 2022 — Templates are groups of blocks combined to create a design for a webpage. You could also say templates can be described as a full-page layout that includes things like header, sidebar and footer areas. This Tutorial will explore using, editing and adding templates to customize your site by giving your posts and pages their own unique look and feel.

November 28, 2022 — In March 2022, Google announced the end date of the current version of Google Analytics. (commonly referred to as GA-3/Universal Analytics) This lightning talk invites you to begin learning more about Google Analytics 4 and explains how to collect the data you’ll need to make year-over-year comparisons.

November 27, 2022 — Using core blocks in a custom site helps streamline development and keep the customer’s cost down, but it can also give clients too much ability to break a carefully crafted design.

This lightning talk is for anyone developing WordPress sites for clients or WordPress themes for the public. Learn more about the various ways of customizing core Gutenberg blocks in order to keep a site’s administrators and content editors within the guard rails established by the designer.

November 26, 2022 — Learn more about design patterns that help to make digital work more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities.

Cognitive disabilities are among the most prevalent types of disabilities, yet experts have struggled to provide web accessibility best practices due to cognitive disabilities being such a broad category. Fortunately, recent work by standards groups has begun to address this deficiency.

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November 25, 2022 — Search Engines play a big part in directing viewers towards websites. So much so that optimizing your site for search engines has become an important part of website creation.

* So how exactly do search engines work?
* You may have heard about SEO (search engine optimization), but why is it important?
* What can one do to make sure their site is ready for search engines?

These are some of the topics we’ll be looking at in this introductory workshop to SEO.

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