July 11, 2020 — I recently completed my first client project that required building custom blocks for the client’s specific needs within the block editor. I will discuss the things I learned as a long time WordPress developer dipping my toe into custom block development. I will talk about what went well, what was difficult, and how client feedback influenced the process.

July 11, 2020 — If you’ve ever wanted to build your own plugin for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up.
First, we’ll take a look at the basic requirements of a plugin. Next we’ll take our example plugin idea and break it into the various components and steps that we’ll need. We’ll code up the plugin together and install it on our sites, debugging any problems that arise. Finally, we’ll look at ways that we could further extend our plugin.
This tutorial assumes some HTML and CSS knowledge, but you don’t already need to be familiar with writing PHP or JavaScript.

July 11, 2020 — React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal has recently adopted the library to create admin interfaces. This session aims to explain the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. Many examples will be presented to help you understand it and why it is so powerful.

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July 11, 2020 — The Internet has a greater environmental impact than the entire aviation industry—and that was before COVID-19. Now more than ever, it’s important to consider the impact of the websites we create. We’ll discuss the environmental impact of our increasingly digital lives, what we can do as designers and developers to help mitigate the problem, and why websites that are better for people and planet are better for the bottom line, too. Let’s debunk the myth that digital means green and explore ways to reduce our digital footprint. 

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July 11, 2020 — With so many image sizes the upload process can take minutes to finish, or never does! If you Google it there are probably 20 “best” plugins to fix this. I’ll explain what goes on in WordPress from upload to viewing the image on a post and cover the ways we can speed up the process.
The Pitch
I’ve taken over support for sites with as many as 45 image sizes, do you even know how many your largest sites have? For the vast majority of sites out there this is far too many, but even if you have 20 or 10 WordPress may be getting bogged down during a bulk upload, or worse your site may go down temporarily.
The Focus
I’ll show you the steps I take to identify how many images you have, what is creating them and how to begin to reduce that number or simply offload the processing. You will come away from the presentation with a broader understanding of WordPress as well as external solutions available to us.
Questions Answered
• I only use one size on our site, why does WordPress generate so many unused sizes? • How much do more advanced ways of processing images cost? • My developer tells me that… (you fill in the blank), is that right?

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July 10, 2020 — Congratulations! You’ve managed to become your own boss. You are living the dream, except that in your dream, you weren’t doing Every. Single. Thing. Yourself. April will share practical tips on how to decide who your first hire should be and how to successfully delegate those things you’d rather not do.

July 10, 2020 — Congratulations! You’ve managed to become your own boss. You are living the dream, except that in your dream, you weren’t doing Every. Single. Thing. Yourself. April will share practical tips on how to decide who your first hire should be and how to successfully delegate those things you’d rather not do.

July 9, 2020 — Use Ansible for task automation to manage WordPress sites. This includes automating plugin and theme updates/installs/uninstalls; deployments, manipulating files, and running WP-CLI.

July 9, 2020 — This one hour workshop explains why AMP is an interesting option for creating web applications. It includes some practical examples for learning more about how to use AMP.

July 9, 2020 — A Complete Beginners Guide to using WordPress! You’ll learn how to create Pages and Posts by adding text and images. Organize your content using Categories and Tags. Configure basic site settings including site title, home page and controlling comments. We’ll wrap up with setting a theme and learning how to customize it.