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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October 30, 2020 — If you’ve never heard of Zapier, then your life’s about to get…well… a little happier!

This introductory talk explains the basics of Zapier, and demonstrates how creating workflow automations (or zaps) can eliminate hundreds of hours of repetitive work. Learn how to use Zapier to extend WordPress in delightfully creative ways.

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October 30, 2020 — This talk explains how to use free resources to examine and prune WordPress databases.

How tidy is your WordPress database? While WordPress site content can be exported and imported into a newly installed environment, many larger or more active sites need surgical precision to clean the database. This is especially true for eCommerce stores or sites where user content (such as comments, accounts) are active, and migration or downtime must be avoided.

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