November 3, 2020 — With the web ecosystem steadily moving towards JavaScript frameworks and JAMstack setups, let’s see how to get up to speed with those latest headless trends.

During this hands-on workshop, we will build a React front-end pulling content from WordPress with GraphQL, and using Gatsby as a static website generator. Some knowledge of WordPress Rest API, Node or React is a plus but not a requirement. We will go through each step following a homemade GitHub tutorial with concrete examples, including the initial setup and a deployment on a serverless hosting and continuous integration (CI) platform. As an extra, we will also explain how to easily make your Gutenberg layout work with your React website.

Bring your own bottle laptop (BYOL) and join us if you are curious about headless architecture.

November 2, 2020 — 2020 is almost over! How are you not committed to video marketing as the pillar for all your marketing?

Learn how using one video per month will allow you to do more with less, show up for your community, and get leads just from solving your prospects problems one story at a time.

November 2, 2020 — W3C web standards are the foundation for building a web page to work well with Google, screen readers, and all assistive devices. This talk explains why the fundamentals we use for Google to index and rank pages are also the foundations for website accessibility.

November 2, 2020 — Building an eCommerce store can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you’re not just working with content anymore, now it’s taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be scary. This talk explains a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from building eCommerce websites so you can move forward with confidence.

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November 2, 2020 — This workshop is a continuation of the Troubleshooting Basics workshop. It is aimed at a beginner audience and will help participants learn about using logs to troubleshoot WordPress issues.

The continuation of the Troubleshooting Basics workshop is aimed at a beginner audience. The workshop will cover the following topics:

November 1, 2020 — How does one of the most iconic food and beverage brands in the South end up being mostly developed in an apartment in Sherman Oaks, California? This talk explains how Adam Bell landed the landmark 158-year-old business, Cafe du Monde, migrated it from Magento to WooCommerce, and helped develop scripts to enable the fulfillment system to accept orders where no plugin existed.

It’s a story not just about web or e-commerce development but also about building relationships and trust between clients and developers.

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November 1, 2020 — This talk offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the WordPress.com VIP team manages high-impact, high traffic, enterprise site launches.

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November 1, 2020 — The goal of this presentation is to break down the industry jargon of web hosting into language that everyone can understand. The talk covers everything from basic hosting to running your own server.

October 31, 2020 — This talk suggests five ways to help enrich your space with more diverse kinds of people. The tech space could be more diverse, but whose responsibility is that? What are the best ways to increase diversity without tokenizing people?

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October 31, 2020 — Inclusivity is at the heart of an effective content strategy. Accessible code may be imperative for inclusion, but the value of code is compromised when content is not meaningful to our readers.

This talk explores what we can do as content authors to ensure our readers feel that we are speaking with them, not at them. It reaches beyond semantic markup and structured content to recognize the strategic value of inclusive content.

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