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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November 25, 2022 — Learn how to make simple website improvements to get clients to stay and interact.

Topics include keyword/image ratios, navigation, WordPress plugins, website performance, keeping content interesting, the value of simplicity, use of color, and call-to-action.

November 25, 2022 — In the previous session, we built a simple WordPress block using plain JavaScript. However, the block was static. A user couldn’t edit the content in any way.

In this session, we add support for attributes, as well as implement the pre-existing RichText component. These changes enable a user to edit the content of the block.

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November 23, 2022 — Two years ago, this spekaer had never heard of a WordCamp, Meetup, Wapuu, or GitHub. She was too intimidated to touch or edit a website, let alone explain digital accessibility.

As many of her friends were retiring, hear how she started an unexpected, yet fulfilling new chapter which will hopefully inspire you.

November 23, 2022 — Learn how to use the Create BLock Theme plugin to streamline your block theme development processes.

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November 22, 2022 — In this session we will discuss the beta Gutenberg plugin, it’s role as WordPress’s “block editor”, and its project that follows a four-phase process that will touch major pieces of WordPress — Editing, Customization, Collaboration, and Multilingual.

Following the introduction of post block editing in December 2018, Gutenberg later introduced full site editing (FSE) in 2021, which shipped with WordPress 5.9 in early 2022.

We will also use a local WordPress environment to explore some of the beta capabilities only accessible once the Gutenberg plugin is installed.

Target Audience
Folks who manage their WordPress sites and are comfortable with the installation, management and use of plugins.

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November 22, 2022 — This Learn WordPress tutorial covers the key files that make up a block theme behind-the-scenes, some important settings in your block theme’s theme.json that switch on important tools for you as a theme designer (appearanceTools, Layout, and Color: Palette), how to create and use a style guide in the site editor to help you plan your theme before the heavy lifting begins, and mentions some limitations of designing in the site editor new theme designers should be aware of (such as the use of images and fonts).

November 22, 2022 — This talk will explore communicating across aisles. Whether you need to speak to advanced developers, those just learning WordPress, or better understand how you communicate to those on your own skill level, this session is for you.

We will also consider the exciting elements that neurodivergent individuals bring to WordPress and how neurotypical individuals might better collaborate with and empower neurodivergent individuals.

Finally, we will discuss how a community of employers, coworkers, and friends can provide platforms of discussion and learning that invite those of different backgrounds into the field, in particular people of color. Let’s learn to get comfortable with talking about uncomfortable things.

In October 2021, Decker began work as a Project Manager in a digital marketing agency. While this was not her first exposure to WordPress, it was her full-time introduction to WordPress developers and clients.

It was also her first experience working in a mostly white, male-dominated company and field. Her previous positions, including within her own business, were situations where women in leadership and women of color were much more common.