November 18, 2022 — Did you know that you can create all sorts of interesting art with blocks in WordPress? The possibilities are wild and wonderful! Join us for a look behind a piece of block art and perhaps you’ll be inspired to create your own.

Rich Tabor joins us to walk us through one of his block art creations. We’ll also introduce you to the Museum of Block Art, where Rich and other block artists showcase their creations. Perhaps you will be inspired to create your own piece of block art and contribute your creations to the museum!

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November 18, 2022 — This presentation suggests best practices for setting up WordPress and Gutenberg. Learn more about customizing settings, adding themes, and adding plugins.

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November 18, 2022 — Being able to extend and customize the editorial experience for users has been a part of any WordPress developer’s toolbox since hooks were introduced in WordPress 1.2. With the Gutenberg Project, developers have a new tool available: SlotFill.

The SlotFIll system can extend blocks and the UI for the Block Editor and Site Editor screens. This talk is a deep dive into how this system works. Learn how and where you can extend WordPress and how to create your own custom SlotFills.

November 18, 2022 — In the previous session, we built a simple WordPress block using plain JavaScript. However, the block was static, in that a user couldn’t edit the content in any way.

This week we will add support for attributes, as well as implement the pre-existing RichText component. These will enable a user to edit the content of the block.

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November 17, 2022 — WordPress 6.1, Misha, was released on November 1st, 2022 and is jam-packed with many new and exciting features inclusive of:

– Twenty Twenty-Three theme and variations
– New templates
– Better design tools
– Easier menu management
more

In this session we are going to unpack and do a live exploration of some major features which have been released in WordPress 6.1.

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November 17, 2022 — This presentation is about how to automate WordPress using the REST and GraphQL API’s. There are quite a lot of plugins to help you automate WordPress, plugins however come at a performance cost, might fail and they need to be regularly updated.

WordPress REST and GraphQL API’s make it easy to automate all sorts of tasks, while handling errors gracefully without needing to resort to using any plugins.

In this talk we will look at how you can use the WordPress REST and GraphQL API’s to create all sorts of automations, uptime monitoring, image generation, database cleanup, backups, updates, ….

We will have a look at different no-code, low-code tools to help you setup automations, Zapier, Github Actions, Pipedream, Cronhooks, CloudFlare Workers etc.

November 17, 2022 — Websites with a contact form, order forms or e-commerce solutions, it is important that the customer receives a response. It has become more difficult to make this happen every time. I’ll walk you through setting up DNS correctly dealing with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the like. I’ll also touch on 3rd party mail services.

November 17, 2022 — Early 2021 we migrated our first newspaper website to WordPress over the following months we migrated/launched a total of 11 newspapers to WordPress.
We developed custom plugins to ensure our editors can work seamless with our proprietary editorial system, that our customers can log in with the credentials of the previous website, to improve performance and scalability.
In this presentation I want to give you a brief overview of the obstacles we faced, the lessons learned and also of the success we had.

November 17, 2022 — Branding is often associated with high-price consultants, reduced to logos and color schemes, or considered a gimmick. But if you’re a freelance professional, a business owner, or you’re working in a small team, you have to work on your personal brand. Where to start? This presentation will be a better place than most.

Over the span of 30 minutes, I will give you an actionable blueprint for your branding strategy. The basis here won’t be The Big Marketing Bucks (TM), but authenticity and professionalism. You will walk away ready to:
– define your strengths,
– find the channels that suit you,
– build your value proposition by balancing the personal and the professional.

November 17, 2022 — How do you actually make a website more sustainable? In this presentation, we’ll take a website with high emissions and transform it – step by step – into a fast and efficient green site.