October 14, 2021 — Review of proposed features for the upcoming 5.9 release.

October 14, 2021 — This presentation offers expert advice for recruiting and coaching new WordPress Meetup organizers.

October 14, 2021 — Configure the WordPress General Settings to meet your site’s needs. This walkthrough will give you an understanding of the options in the General Settings tab and the basics of your website.

October 13, 2021 — With a humorous nod to the popular PBS Masterpiece Mystery TV show, this talk investigates the death of a website, ruminating in all manner of murder mystery deduction to consider possible suspects.

October 12, 2021 — The WordPress Editor uses blocks to transform how you create content: it turns a single document into a collection of components for adding content.

October 12, 2021 — This talk shares simple ways to create accessible content, and recommends resources for getting started, including WordPress plugins.

topics:

– Why an accessible website is worth it (just in case you’re not convinced or need to make the case)
– What you can do to start creating accessible content
– How WordPress makes it easy to create accessible content
– What plugins can do to help with your accessibility efforts

October 11, 2021 — This talk shares resources to help start your Accessibility journey and offers encouragement for taking your first steps.

In 2019, Sally Thoun had never heard of a WordCamp, MeetUp, Wapuu, or GitHub. She had heard about Accessibility but wasn’t sure exactly what it was all about. She was intimidated to even touch or edit a website and left that to her agency developers.

But what a difference a year makes! Last summer, she dove headfirst into Accessibility and WordPress. This new direction became a rewarding and fulfilling journey. In this talk, Sally shares her experiences to inspire the same purpose and passion that the selfless WordPress and Accessibility community has inspired in her.

October 10, 2021 — For the WordPress to be truly accessible, it has to be available to everyone. That means not only being available to those with disabilities, but also to others in the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, and senior communities.

This talk explores some of the lesser known accessibility challenges that people in our community encounter with their digital experience. It suggests how we can all be advocates for one another, and deliver a better experience to more site visitors.

October 9, 2021 — You might know something about cognitive and neurological disabilities, but have you ever considered how these impact the way someone interacts with a website? This talk offers an opportunity to learn more.

October 8, 2021 — Let’s talk about speed! One of the major factors leading to online frustration is a slow website. Users do not want to wait – and if you’re not careful, this can make you lose traffic before your page has loaded! As we all know, a dissatisfied user is worse than not having users at all! A better user experience is the driver behind Google’s anticipated Core Web Vitals update, which focuses on loading, interactivity, and visual stability of a website. This talk mainly deals with how you can speed up your WordPress website and make it faster for users, thus improving their conversions, importantly before Core Web Vitals come into force. We’ll start by looking at website hosting, latency and DNS, and then discuss how you can optimize the performance of your WordPress website. Solutions will be for all sort of users, from beginner to advanced, and for different hosting scenarios. Further discussion will be about different performance optimization strategies like cutting down your queries, tweaking the code base, caching mechanism, use of cloud services, scaling up/forward and so on. All this together shall help a newbie or even someone who has their website slow and frustrating for users, faster and better optimized. Thus, saving their day and being ready for Google’s update in May 2021!

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