July 21, 2022 — Join us for a panel discussion with community organizers from the WordPress ecosystem.

You’ll hear firsthand experiences from meetup and event organizers about what it’s like to start a meetup program and build a community through in-person and virtual events.

They’ll talk about the struggles they’ve faced, what they’ve learned from them, and share advice for anyone interested in getting involved, whether that means joining a meetup or even launching one yourself.

July 21, 2022

July 21, 2022

July 21, 2022

July 20, 2022 — Optimizing images is an easy way to improve the performance of your WordPress website without requiring any coding skills! In this session, we’ll talk about:
• What image optimization is, and why we need it
• How you can optimize your images
• Tips, methods, and tools
• A demo of some image optimization methods

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July 20, 2022 — NO MO SLOW FLO!

Are you looking for an easier way to speed up your web page production workflow?

I will teach you how to use free wireframes and advanced blocks in WordPress to create stunning, mobile-ready, fast pages with ease.

Ohh…Yea, I said mobile-ready, my friends!

If you’re not familiar, you can think of wireframes as templates (or layout sketches) without any styling and advanced blocks as 3rd party Gutenberg blocks on steroids.

Wireframes allow you to easily integrate your own branding and advanced blocks give you page builder functionality without all the page builder bloat.

You know this means war…. On speed optimization and caching plugins that is, lol.

Whether you’re just starting out or already have some steak and potatoes in the game, this presentation is right for you!

Target Audience
-Template or Wireframe Lovers
-Block Editor Users
-3rd Party Blocks Advocates

Level
-Beginner – Intermediate

Primary Demo Tools
-Localwp
-Kadence Theme
-Kadence Blocks

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July 20, 2022 — Overview

Have you ever dreamed of having your own online store?

You can build an amazingly powerful and customizable online store with WordPress and WooCommerce even if you’re an ecommerce beginner.

During this session you’ll learn how to:

Get started with WooCommerce
Discover all the various option screens
Put your first product up for sale.
Target Audience

Beginner

Learning Objective

By the end of this session we hope you’ll have a solid baseline of understanding on how to get started with your very own online store.

July 20, 2022 — The WordPress Hooks system is what makes WordPress so extendable, and allows you to build anything on the foundation of WordPress, from a blog to an online eCommerce platform.

In this lesson, you will learn about filter hooks, how they work, how to choose the right hook, and how to use them in your code.

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July 19, 2022 — The Template Editor allows you to edit and create templates, using blocks. These templates control the look and feel of your site’s posts, pages, or page types. Let’s explore this feature that comes with block themes.

July 19, 2022 — Join Bud Kraus as he explores all aspects of blogging. Today’s session is one of two during which he discusses why blogs matter, the elements of a blog, setting up your blog, managing categories and tags, and using query loops with and without full site editing.