June 28, 2021 — Discussion panel about the present and future of WordPress with Full Site Editing.

Our panelists, highly involved in this new feature will discuss many topics about FSE and how it is going to be a new revolution in the WordPress ecosystem.

June 28, 2021 — Over the past years, APIs have grown to be the engine of the web, with OAuth 2.0 being the standard for enabling secure cross-platform connections to such APIs on behalf of a user. However, setting up OAuth requires extensive technical knowledge of the protocol and the platform. For a distributed ecosystem such as WordPress these are hurdles almost impossible to overcome.

This talk explains how we solved this problem for the Site Kit plugin and various Google APIs. It explores alternate approaches to enable a secure, seamless, and scalable connection between a WordPress site and third-party services to access user data in a way that can be leveraged by other plugins and services as well.

June 28, 2021 — Web forms should work. No doubt about that. And they should work for all visitors, regardless of device or ability.

Gravity Forms set as goal: to ensure that all forms created with Gravity Forms can be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. It has been quite an eventful journey and Morgan and Rian are happy to share this with you.

Accessibility always was a focus point of Gravity Forms but, with the fast development of changing accessibility requirements and legislation worldwide, more specialised expertise was needed. Therefore Rian Rietveld, web accessibility specialist from Level Level joined the team.

In this talk we show you the steps we took to test and improve the accessibility of the forms build with Gravity Forms. Like doing an initial audit, training the developers and designers, finding good solutions for issues without breaking existing forms, helping the Q&A team with extra test tools and writing documentation.

This talk is for everyone that wants to enhance the accessibility of a web project and wants to learn the way to implement this in their workflow.

June 28, 2021 — Starting out building blocks or experiences for the WordPress block editor can be a bit daunting. Where do I start? Custom blocks, block patterns or just styling core blocks.

In this Talk I will walk through the different options and share the benefits and downsides of each while talking about overall good practices for building great editorial experiences.

June 28, 2021 — Does your local community have that blank stare while attending your online meetup? Do you want to get them involved more? In this workshop, our presenters will share 10 ways to get your audience on their feet!

Practical tips to make your WordPress online events more engaging and welcoming. Many of these tips can apply or be adapted for Meetups, WordCamps or team meetings.

Come and join this session presented by two of the Community’s Team deputies, Angela Jin and Taco Verdonschot.

You don’t need to be a current event organiser to attend.

June 28, 2021 — Organizational change management is defined as moving an organization and its stakeholders from the current state to a future state.

The extent to which employees are ready, willing and able to adopt change is a key indicator of project success.

Ready, set, change! provides a simple framework for those who are responsible for change but are not change management experts.

In this session, participants learn how to successfully lead organizational change initiatives.

Discover how to approach and implement change and ensure business objectives are met while addressing resistance and delighting stakeholders.

June 28, 2021 — Most horror stories derived from interacting with clients in the capacity of a freelancer or an agency are caused due to the flawed nature of the presales conversation.

Companies seek a technical partner, but the RFP process is framed as a vendor filter, regardless of the competency of the customer.

How to position yourself as the industry expert instead?

This talk will discuss the main differences between vendors and consultants, how to approach an incoming request, what are the biggest flaws in the RFP process and other nuggets aimed at agencies and solopreneurs serving small and mid-sized clients.

June 24, 2021 — Learn the basics of how to use social media to grow your business or blog, including a list of ideas of things to share.

June 24, 2021 — Learn more about Google site quality guidelines.

June 24, 2021 — And introduction to WordPress security. It follows Google webmaster guidelines.

Presentation Slides »