November 7, 2022 — This talk explores how commerce has evolved, the trends we are witnessing in customer behaviors and expectations, and how merchants — and those who support them — can adapt to the new normal by meeting their customers where they are.

The lines between the physical and digital worlds have converged, impacting the ways in which commerce operates. The shopping experiences that customers want and expect are dramatically different than before.

Consumers expect to purchase whenever they want, from anywhere in the world, and in their preferred local payment methods. How do merchants — and the agencies and developers that support them — adapt to a digital-first and borderless world?

November 7, 2022 — Learn more about the new default theme for WordPress 6.1. Twenty Twenty-Three is a unique, accessibility-ready theme that includes a collection of 10 style variations, submitted and curated by the WordPress community.

November 7, 2022 — In this session, we will take a brief look at what Internationalisation (or i18n) in themes means, as well as cover the common Internationalisation functions available in WordPress, and how to use them. We’ll then create a blank block theme, and then take a look at the strings that we might need to make translation ready, as well as how to achieve this.

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November 5, 2022 — This presentation suggests best practices for creating a WordPress website built for performance, customization, and automation.

It explores ways for choosing plugins and themes to streamline workflow and automate common tasks. Learn more about how to use the block editor for a drag-and-drop experience to create custom pages and posts.

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November 3, 2022 — You’ve spent a lot of time making your new WordPress blog, and now it’s time to make it public to the world! But you stop and wonder… “How exactly do people find my blog? What can I do so that more people will come and see what I blog about?”

In this online workshop, we’ll be taking a look at some ideas you can take home and try in order to get more views to your blog. Ideas include…

* Sharing your blog in creative ways
* Using links to engage your audience
* Properly using WordPress categories and tags on posts
* Using keywords to highlight your content in search results

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November 3, 2022 — Ever happened that, you stumbled upon to a website and you were just awestruck by the look and feel of the website and all you have said is wow and you can’t stop scrolling through the website. Or there may be the case, that you may have stumbled upon to a website and your reaction is ‘whuuuut’ and you don’t wait another second to leave the website. There are certains measures that make your site amazing, flawless, average or worse. Most businesses simply ignore the part of maintaining and continuously improving their website.
Let’s talk about website auditing. What are the measures that can make or break a website? There are different standards of rating a website in terms of UX, design, performance, security. This talk will put an emphasis on UX part mainly followed up by some real time examples and how businesses can improve the user experience and thus convert users into customers
It will be a fun session about improving websites with regards to user experience, What kind of behavior you would expect from users and what can they do to have better conversions.

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November 2, 2022 — WordPress 6.1 includes a new feature, the ability to register block template parts in classic themes.

This feature allows users to make changes to specific parts of the theme, without affecting the rest of the site layout or design.

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November 1, 2022 — This session is part of a series: Part 1 and Part 2. In this live demo, we will be re-creating block designs or design elements in the Block Editor. This will require using and nesting a variety of blocks.

October 28, 2022 — As content and functionality becomes more modular thanks to advances like the block editor, theme designers will have to accommodate even more flexible ways of visualizing and presenting the information. How do we anticipate and accommodate the needs of a constantly evolving website while providing visual solutions that are clean, thoughtful, and consistent?

This talk works through the entire thinking process as it relates to theme design. It offers a thorough checklist of steps and tools for designing themes that support WordPress core functionality, custom templates and content, common plugins, and an array of standard and custom Gutenberg blocks.

October 28, 2022 — One of the great benefits of the Global Styles system in WordPress block themes is the ability to create multiple variations that users can choose from.

With variations, theme developers can create multiple different websites using the same base theme code, providing a wider range of options to their users.

In this session, we’ll be creating a new block theme, and creating a few new Global Style variations for it, to ship with the theme.

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