April 15, 2021 — The talk acknowledges the wide array of accessible technologies and tries to offer a way to think about your options in a more digestible manner.

April 14, 2021

April 13, 2021 — do_action hackathons are community-organized events that are focused on using WordPress to give deserving charitable organizations their own online presence. Each do_action event includes participants from the local WordPress community coming together to plan and build brand new websites for a number of local organizations in one day. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, do_action hackathons have moved online. In this session, we talk about do_action events, and their importance in this post-pandemic world, and on how to effectively organize an online do_action hackathon.

April 7, 2021 — What is Customer Support in the WordPress World? As a customer support person in the WordPress World, you have to know how to use WordPress well enough to troubleshoot and find a solution for the end user’s issues. Additionally, you have to know the plugin, theme, or service you’re providing support for.

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April 6, 2021 — This talk goes over the basics of the CSS Grid specification.

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April 1, 2021 — This talk shares how The Commons gave Marija Zaric an opportunity to learn, contribute, and evolve. The web is built on open source by wonderful altruistic people.

March 31, 2021 — Plugin author Leonardo Losoviz introduces his GraphQL API for WordPress plugin and its capabilities.

This talk explains some of the advantages over REST: no under/over fetching of data, visual clients to create the query and visualize the data, and other benefits.

March 30, 2021 — This talk about the Domain Name System will be helpful to anyone who works with domains and publishing new websites.

The presentation includes three sections. It begins with a short explanation of DNS. Next, learn best practices with DNS (security, speed, stability, etc.). The last section shares practical approaches to making DNS management easier and solutions to specific problems you might encounter working with DNS.

March 29, 2021 — Learn how to encourage participation and engagement through horizontality, openness, and transparency.

March 28, 2021 — A recent (Comscore) study suggests users spend more time (87%) on a native app compared to mobile web because native apps are more predictable, they work offline, show notifications, and have access to mobile sensors.

However, 78% of the time is spent in the user’s top three apps.

Mobile web has a better reach (100 visits/ month for an average user) but does not does have a native-like experience.

This talk explains how we can get the best of both worlds by using Progressive Web Apps with WordPress to combine the capabilities of native apps and the reach of the web.