November 18, 2021 — The talk explains why WordCamp conferences are wonderful events that can help Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students build their
Professional Learning Communities (PLC) before graduation.

Learn more about the opportunity to build a Professional Learning Network (PLN) with experts, business owners, digital entrepreneurs, and innovators, already in the business of web development, graphic design, and hosting.

November 18, 2021 — The WordPress project uses the Trac ticket tracking software to manage all tickets related to WordPress Core. However, Trac presents a lot of information, and is often overwhelming for new and experienced contributors alike.

This video will teach you everything you need to know about creating, updating, and browsing tickets so that you can effectively contribute to WordPress using Trac.

November 13, 2021 — This talk discusses a few accessibility testing scenarios and offers tips on how to integrate accessibility testing into your work.

How do you test the accessibility of your code? Can you check everything automatically…in the browser, at the command line, with GitHub actions?

What tools do you have at your disposal for this? What is the best workflow? And also: how meaningful is it?

November 11, 2021 — Learn more about the many possible uses of web components for WordPress pages, blocks and plugins.

November 10, 2021 — This talk offers some examples for creating a pixel-perfect WordPress design using the Elementor plugin.

November 9, 2021 — This talk explores the advantages and disadvantages of converting a WordPress website to a static site. You will also learn more about tools and services for creating static websites derived from a WordPress site.

November 8, 2021 — This presentation discusses the accessibility plugins available on WordPress.org (July 2021) and the pros and cons of each type of plugin by functionality. Gain a better understanding of the accessibility plugin landscape, knowledge of how to test accessibility plugins for accuracy and usability, and which plugins, if any, might be worth installing.

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November 7, 2021 — For anyone interested in WordPress development, this talk works through creating a portfolio site with the Twenty Twenty-One theme, using custom post types and custom fields.

November 6, 2021 — This talk offers a behind-the-scenes perspective of user-moderated usability testing.

The presentation covers these four aspects of usability testing:

– building a usability test
– tips and tricks of test facilitation
– user testing on a WordPress site
– reporting results

November 6, 2021 — This talk will look at what meta boxes and custom fields can do for your content and compare three dominant libraries that make it easier to manage them.