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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December 9, 2022 — Global Styles (theme.json) is an area of WordPress that has received some of the most enhancements in the last few releases. WordPress 6.1 is no different. This Online Workshop will review how theme.json and Global Styles work while digging into many of the changes in 6.1. This functionality is incredibly powerful and necessary for building WordPress sites that fully support all of the design features in WordPress. Join us for an interactive presentation followed by a group Q&A.

December 9, 2022 — Create Block Theme has a fantastic new feature that enables theme developers to add external fonts to their block theme. Whether you want to download a font from Google fonts, or install a font you’ve downloaded elsewhere, Create Block Theme makes it painless to add them to your block theme.

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December 8, 2022 — In this session, we will look at how to restrict the movement and the removal of blocks or patterns. We will also briefly discuss how to restrict users from unlocking a block.

December 8, 2022 — Learn more about the importance of editor-first content creation experiences. Explore common anti-patterns that cultivate hostile editorial UX. Get practical tips and tricks for building intuitive and easy-to-use content creation tools in the block editor.

December 7, 2022 — Let’s explore how to use the Navigation block together. The Navigation block is an advanced block that enables you to edit your site’s menu, both in terms of structure and design.

December 6, 2022 — Marija will talk about how the commons gave her an opportunity to learn, contribute, evolve and why is that important. The commons today is an Internet. With the internet we have new ways of sharing software, code, images, website themes, information… enabling the growth of the digital commons that we have now. People can share their ideas easily due to that possibility. Ideas are the driving force of human progress and the building blocks of creativity. Digital commons are Wikipedia, Wikimedia, open source such as: Bootstrap responsive framework, WordPress CMS, Unsplash, and many, many others as well. Web is built on open source by wonderful altruistic people.

The commons is not about the profit, it is about people, the community, a dedication and persistence. It is open minded philosophy, a social, cultural and an an artistic movement. We are putting our curiosity, experiences, personalities, and beliefs in it. As technology improves, a question arises: How better can we be as humans? Fortunately, with the digital commons you can leave your footprint in a compassionate way. Technology with good people must bring compassion, the willingness to help others.

December 5, 2022 — SEO (Search Engine Optimization) refers to setting up your site for optimal discoverability through search results. Making sure the text on your site is discoverable is important. But did you know there are steps you can take to make your images more discoverable, too? This is called “Image SEO”.

In this Online Workshop, we’ll be looking at Image SEO best practices for WordPress sites.

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