November 30, 2020 — Most of WordPress becomes easier as you learn. Color starts out easy and becomes harder as you dive deeper into the subject.

Our goal is to dive deep enough to give you new understanding that makes you a better developer and designer but not so deep as to cause damage—well no permanent damage.

This is a lot of information to cover in 37 minutes so please be prepared for a fast ride.

November 30, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

November 30, 2020 — In this talk, you’ll learn some valuable tips for writing CSS in your own custom themes. You’ll learn the best way to include stylesheets in your theme, how to write CSS that’s easy to organize/maintain, when to use newer CSS features (such as Grid, Flexbox, Feature Queries, Custom Properties), and other ways to keep your sanity while writing CSS for your themes.

November 30, 2020 — In this session, Adam addresses the “big picture” of personal and website security and breaks down the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan online. He provides an actionable checklist on what audience members can implement immediately to better secure themselves online in addition to their WordPress websites.

After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of personal security online and how it affects website security as a whole, as well as steps they can take to mitigate risk in the future.

November 30, 2020 — You built your company, you have your website, and everything is looking great! But, you might be missing something- your compassion! Compassion is what drives companies and organizations to the right direction, no matter what you’re doing! It may be the small step to create a whirl of change for the people you serve. Follow Abbey Sager and her award-winning organization, Diverse Gaming Coalition, on how to shape your social media around kindness, boost your SEO with your philanthropy , and create an impact with your company.

November 30, 2020 — Before you start your next WordPress project, stop. Have you got a clearly defined scope? Are your requirements well defined? What assumptions are you making? There are many reasons why projects fail – we’re going to look into how to kick off your project the right way to increase the chances of success and keeping your clients happy.

November 30, 2020

November 30, 2020

November 28, 2020 — This talk covers:
(1) the basics of Docker
(2) Docker vs Virtual Machines
(3) Docker images, containers
(4) setting up WordPress with Docker

November 27, 2020 — Structured data helps search engines to more deeply understand our content, enabling them to deliver rich results, and to build the ‘personal assistant’ of the future. Early adopters are gaining huge advantages with rich search engine results, and increased relevancy. But there’s much more going on behind the scenes.

A revolution is underway, where we need to start to think of our websites not only as vehicles for our marketing messaging, but as the central source of truth for everything about our products and services, our brands, and all of our public data.