July 9, 2020 — Tips, tricks, tools, how-to’s, do-it-yer-dang-self, and music all add up to “What You Need to Know to Create Without Paying the Iron Price.” Sorry, Game of Thrones has altered my speech patterns. Where. Are. My. Flagons?! – Mother of Self Care

July 8, 2020 — This talk explains what Denis Žoljom does as a representative of the wordpress.org Theme Review Team (TRT). It also shares what other TRT volunteers do. Learn how TRT not only reviews themes, but how it also collaborates with other teams in making the future of WordPress.

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July 8, 2020 — Do you want to use online opportunities like the one WordPress gives you as a growth tool? This talk shares five areas of publishing regular content to achieve your personal or career goals.

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July 8, 2020 — Learn about creating Gutenberg blocks the easy way, without learning React.

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July 8, 2020 — The WordPress community thrives when we share our technical expertise with each other. But, we’ve likely all met someone who is technically brilliant but struggles as a teacher.
In this talk, I will share my tips and tricks for developing effective technical instruction from over six years of blogging and online content creation. While my background is in data analytics, users in web development, technical writing and other fields will benefit from a discussion of blogging effectively about tech (particularly code).
Not only will attendees have a path forward for developing solid technical blog posts, I will lay out the win-win that this skill will have on their careers and the community as a whole.

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July 8, 2020 — When designing WordPress themes, one of the biggest challenges stems from a core component of WordPress itself: the ability for site owners to change, modify, and build new content themselves. After all, modern web content needs to be flexible and evolving, but not everyone is a developer who can build custom layouts to fit each use case.
As content and functionality become even more modular thanks to advances like the Gutenberg editor, theme designers will have to accommodate even more flexible ways of visualizing and presenting information. How do we anticipate and accommodate the needs of a constantly evolving website while providing visual solutions that are clean, thoughtful, and consistent?
In this talk, we’ll discuss the principles of Atomic Design, how to stop thinking of your content as “pages” and “posts” in favor of the concept of “building blocks”, and how to extend this mindset to utilize the potential of Gutenberg as it is now, and where it might be going in the future.

July 8, 2020 — A star-studded panel session with 3 amazing marketers, moderated by a multi-year WordCamp Denver speaker & volunteer, and the WP Girl herself, Angela Bowman.
Panelists include:
• Jocelyn Mozak • Chris Lema • Robert Jacobi

July 7, 2020 — This talk explains how developers can start building Gutenberg blocks in JavaScript and React, even if you still haven’t learned JavaScript deeply.

July 7, 2020 — Learn about writing and managing documentation in the WordPress world. Dario Jazbec Hrvatin shares tools, tips, and thinking from his five years of experience as a professional documentation manager.

July 7, 2020 — If WordPress is safe, why are so many sites infected? How is it that security plugins don’t protect us? Learn more about good WordPress security practices.