March 16, 2023 — The Single template controls the layout of individual blog posts on your site, and the 404 page will be displayed when your site visitors end up on non-existent URLs and find no content. This Online Workshop will show how you can customize these templates to meet your design needs.

March 16, 2023 — 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.

Accessibility note: The slides in this presentation include animations and color contrast that may affect some viewers.

March 14, 2023 — Web designers and developers are each specialists with their own priorities, needs, and focus. Sometimes there can be a communication gap between the two, leading to misunderstandings and frustration. How can you learn to speak each other’s language and ensure your projects run smoothly and without hassles?

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March 10, 2023 — This session picks up from the last preventing common security vulnerabilities session (https://wordpress.tv/2023/03/03/lets-code-preventing-common-security-vulnerabilities/), and cover’s how to use nonces to prevent cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities

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March 10, 2023 — Are you ready to dive into the world of data and unlock valuable insights about your website’s users? This meetup is just for you!

Join us as we explore the exciting world of Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Search Console, and Clarity. These powerful tools will take your website to the next level.

I will guide you through the process of setting up these analytics and show you how to use them to gain valuable insights about your website’s users.

You’ll learn how to use GA4 to measure traffic and see how your website is performing, how to use Search Console to improve your website’s visibility and rank in Google search results, and how to use Clarity to gain a deeper understanding of your user’s interactions with your website.

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, this presentation promises to be both fun and informative.

So come along, grab your drink of choice, and let’s unlock the secrets of your website’s users! Everyone is welcome, so bring a friend and join the conversation. I can’t wait to see you there!

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March 9, 2023 — Did you know you can create an entire website on your phone? In this Online Workshop, we will go over what you need to create a website on your mobile and demo how to start building your website. See in action how a website is put together on a mobile phone. Future sessions will dive a little deeper each time.

March 9, 2023 — Color is often a barrier to making your websites open and accessible to everyone, but it is an easy way to make strides that make a difference.

In this session, we see examples of assumptions designers and developers make and how to test, correct them, and what best practices and tools are available to add to your toolset.

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March 9, 2023 — Several WordPress community theme developers and designers come together to discuss the Community Themes Initiative. The goal was to lay the groundwork and hash out ideas around building block themes collaboratively to submit to the official WordPress theme directory.

March 7, 2023 — Customer testimonials are extremely valuable for any business to grow. Testimonials highlight the positive experiences of existing customers, but they can also provide insight for prospective clients who look online before purchasing a product or service.

In this tutorial, we will look at adding a testimonial pattern and installing a new block to your site from the Block Directory.

March 6, 2023 — Join us for a discussion about migrating a shortcode or widget based plugin to blocks. Learn from your peers and from experts. This is also an opportunity to share any hurdles or pain-points you’ve encountered and discover how to overcome them.

Perhaps you’ve already migrated your plugin to blocks, or have at least attempted to do so. If so we would like to learn about the difficulties and pain points that you encountered during the process.
Perhaps you’ve yet to attempt such a migration, in which case we’re interested in learning about what’s holding you back. Is the documentation confusing? Is the learning curve too steep?
Perhaps you have a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory that still relies on shortcodes or widgets to render content, and which has yet to be migrated to blocks. Plugins that render their content via a shortcode or widget are ideal candidates for conversion to blocks.
The block editor has been incorporated into core for nearly 5 years now and usage and uptake are growing day by day. It is therefore more important than ever that plugin developers embrace the block paradigm.

This is one of a series of AMA sessions to provide plugin developers with the opportunity to connect with one another. This is a chance to share the challenges you’ve faced, or are facing, in creating a block implementation of your plugins.

We also hope to share advice and guidance, and to be able to point you in the direction of the resources you need to help you move forward with your block development projects, whether it be documentation, tutorials, or information about best practices.

Anyone interested in plugin development is welcome to participate. You don’t need to be a professional developer or have a specific level of experience.

Let’s see how we can improve the developer experience for all those who come after us on their block development journey. We can’t wait to speak with you.