June 7, 2020 — This lightning talk was an engineering story about building, iterating, and growing a customizable paywall.

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June 7, 2020

June 7, 2020

June 6, 2020 — Learn about Open Sourcing Mental Illness: a nonprofit built on a movement of changing how we talk about mental health in the tech community. This talk presents results from multiple years of OSMI’s Mental Health In Tech surveys, showing how employees feel about discussing mental health issues with employers and coworkers.

Find out more about resources, as well as where and how to get help.

June 6, 2020 — Do you want shoppers, or do you want buyers? An ecommerce store is only as valuable as the number of visitors it converts to buyers. But Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is a successful online store. Building a sustainable, cash positive storefront takes time – and a thoughtful strategy. We’ll go over some simple tips you can use to increase engagement, lower customer acquisition costs and, ultimately, improve store sales.

June 6, 2020 — Live during WCEU 2020 Online

June 6, 2020 — Education doesn’t stop at the textbook. In fact, it rarely even starts there. The best education is in life experiences. But you have to learn how to recognize them. There is a lesson in everything. This talk explores how you can grow from the most unlikely of places.

June 6, 2020 — We cover a few different things that have to do with web accessibility.
1. Why web accessibility is important for WordPress developers to understand.
2. What WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 are.
3. Then we offer our 11 easy steps that you can take immediately to help your website be more compliant.

June 5, 2020 — In this panel, we assessed the business decisions media companies face when considering migrations. We talked about the choices that our panelists have had to make, tough lessons learned, along with some practical considerations for executing a well-run migration.

June 5, 2020 — We all want fast sites, but what is fast? What is performant? We may know it when we see; yet quantifying and communicating about web performance effectively is still a challenge.

In this talk, we discussed our ever-evolving set of standards for what comprises a fast site. With special attention to the problems that ads and analytics present for publishers, we also discussed how antiquated notions of web performance are a ripe environment for abuses by 3rd party code.

Finally, we reviewed techniques for improving performance monitoring as a tool for institutional change.

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