October 21, 2020 — While you use the internet and web every day, you may not have ever stopped to consider how all of it works. When managing your website, there are lots of components and systems working together to keep your site working. Understanding how all these work together allows you to make changes to improve your site as well as better communicate with the developers that you may get support from.

In this talk, we will be exploring:

What exactly is the internet?
How do servers and hosting work?
How do domains work?
How do browsers work?
How does the page cycle work?
What do all the acronyms you encounter (such as FTP, DNS, JS, and more) mean?
How does all this make your WordPress site work?

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October 21, 2020 — “What could I have done to avoid being hacked?” is a question you’ll often hear after a site is hacked. In some cases the answer is complicated, but a lot of the time it’s relatively simple and there are many checklists and guides online outlining the ways sites can be hacked, plus how to secure them. However, a lot of people learn better from seeing and doing than reading (often boring) checklists. So rather than look at checklists on slides for 30 minutes, we’re going to hack into WordPress instead!

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October 21, 2020 — Over 100 guests of the WPCoffeeTalk podcast have been asked the same set of questions in order to learn about them, their work, and their community involvement. This talk shares data, anecdotes, clips, and conversations that not only characterize the guests but also suggest who we are as a community.

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October 21, 2020 — We all know that 3 seconds is all it takes to lose the attention of visitors to our web pages. But there’s hope yet! We can all win on the web by leveraging the brain’s strengths and limitations. An understanding of how the human brain processes visual information can greatly help us win our visitors over and keep them where we want them, instead of losing them to cyberspace.
In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

October 21, 2020 — WordPress has always been recognized as a very welcoming platform for developers at any level of expertise. Introduced in WordPress core over a year ago, the block editor not only brought an entirely new editing experience for users, but it also redefined the way plugins and themes are developed.

In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

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October 20, 2020 — WordPress helps in changing and empowering the way we engage, interact, and inspire others. Content needs to be communicated with authentic voices that have authority on digital platforms and beyond. If you are going to share your voice, where do you start? How should you think about the way your content influences other people? And how do you find your authentic voice?

October 20, 2020 — This year has been a year like no other, challenging each of us to rethink how we work, play, relate and create in our community and our lives. To think of thriving in such uncertain times seems like a challenge in and of itself. As digital creators using WordPress, we have an empowering foundation available to not only create security for ourselves, but also for those we connect with. Though the times might be uncertain, our capabilities and tools aren’t. By staying focused on our purpose as creators, we can find our way to thrive and stay secure no matter what is happening around us.

October 19, 2020 — The internet is the single most effective information sharing tool in all of history. We can build on the work and progress of others in a completely unprecedented way. The implications for the progress of humanity are both serious and exciting!

But it’s also in danger. Find out why Aaron thinks open systems and the open web will steer our future or how the lack of them will ruin it.

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October 13, 2020 — Learn what the WordPress Community Team is and how it contributes through education, connection, and support. We’ll tell you about WordPress events, working groups, and contributor roles. Highlight the importance of our Diversity and Inclusion programming. And share with you how anyone can get involved with the community team!

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October 12, 2020 — This video is the second part of the Organizing Meetups series, and is aimed at all WordPress Community members across the world that are interested in organizing meetups.Part 2 is aimed at supporting meetup groups that would like to organize online events during the pandemic. This video will go into detail on the in-s and out-s of organizing online meetups, including topics like how to organize online meetups, how to keep them engaging, experimenting with different session formats, finding topics and speakers, among others.