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.

July 17, 2022 — In this session, we will learn how to make a Horizontal Pyramid Gallery by just using a Row block and Cover blocks.

July 17, 2022 — I have optimized performance at enterprise scale for the last 7 years, leading a team that has built a strong understanding of which optimizations are easy and which provide the greatest improvements.

Now I am offering that knowledge to you. In this workshop, we will focus on the web vitals with the highest impact for the least effort, the paint metrics.

Together we will improve these key metrics, get your site on screen faster, and identify common problematic patterns and fix them. This workshop’s road to quick wins will boost your confidence to dive into web optimization. How does becoming a performance advocate for your team sound?

You will need a laptop with the latest version of the Chrome browser installed. Target audience: anyone with a working knowledge of HTML and an interest in front-end optimization. CSS or JS experience is not required.

July 17, 2022 — Do you stare at a movie poster and wonder if that layout would work on a website? Considering building your own WP theme? Come join me as we turn the browser upside down for a handful of tips (and code snippets!) that will make you look at the browser in a whole different way.

July 17, 2022 — In this workshop, participants will learn more about the performance of their websites. What goes into having a fast website, and a good user experience? We will answer the question “Why should you care about site performance in the first place?”

We will learn about simple tools you can use to test and monitor your website, and how to interpret and act on the results. We will talk about setting a performance budget and how to weigh performance when updating sites. If you can, bring your laptop along, and have a plan for a specific website (or plugin or theme) you want to work on optimizing. We’ll take a couple of short working breaks to try out the tools we learn about.

July 15, 2022 — WordPress is changing rapidly and with each release of Core and Gutenberg, blocks become more and more powerful. Many of the layouts that you can design today were not even possible a few months ago!

During this workshop, we will design three unique block layouts using only Core blocks that utilize some of the latest functionality available in WordPress 6.0 and Gutenberg 13.6. There will be ample time for questions and we will also discuss enhancements that are planned for 6.1.

July 15, 2022 — Did you know, WordPress offers 10 Text blocks for writing content on your site!

* What are those 10 Text blocks?
* Why are there so many?
* When would you use each block?

These are just some of the questions we’ll be answering in this online workshop. Come join Ben Evans as he walks you through the 10 Text blocks in WordPress, and explains why it is important to use different blocks for different types of content.

In this online workshop, you’ll learn about…

* The 10 Text blocks WordPress offers for writing content
* The additional information each block adds to your site’s code
* Simple techniques of using the different blocks effectively, making your content more searchable and accessible

Audience: Users
Level: Beginner

Presentation Slides »

July 15, 2022 — The WordPress Block Directory is a category of free WordPress plugins that provide third-party WordPress blocks for use within the WordPress block editor.

July 14, 2022 — Most of us realize how incredibly valuable and stress relieving having recurring revenue can be not only for our business but for our state of mind.

We tend to price it in our normal fashion though. There are other considerations that are often overlooked and this ends up with our recurring revenue being less profitable than we expected.

Understanding how to apply two simple concepts can ensure that our recurring revenue leads to higher profits with less stress.

July 14, 2022 — This talk focuses on the future of Commerce and what it could look like with Full Site Editing (FSE).

It will give an overview of the Commerce landscape as it stands today and explore the impact that FSE could have on Commerce in WordPress.

Themes include the importance of personalization and customization and what is unlocked by FSE, how the approach to developing solutions for stores changes with the advent of FSE, and the great transition (the road from here to there).