November 13, 2019 — Everywhere you go, you hear about it: data is everywhere. Data about us, our tastes, our health, our friends and relationships. The implications to privacy and security are obvious, but we also need to talk about attention (our ability to process data has not grown nearly as fast as data have multiplied), memory (should databases ever forget?), comprehension (how do you keep up?), and truth (critical reasoning matters).

The first half of this presentation is dedicated to data literacy – what everyone (especially tech professionals) should know about data. The second half of the session reviews tools you can use to manage your attention and decision-making in light of all this data flying around everywhere. Then, speaker Evan Volgas brings it all back to a WordPress neighborhood near you and go over five things you could immediately start doing to work smarter with data and WordPress.

November 13, 2019 — Anastassia Zukova discusses the impact site builders and builder themes have on quality, creativity, and dignity of the web design profession and the future of automation in digital design.

November 13, 2019 — At a WordPress Meetup presentation, an attendee turned and punched Joe A. Simpson, Jr, in the arm saying, “accessibility makes me so angry!”

We’ll debunk common misconceptions designers, developers, and business owners have and learn how advocating for access to all improves your site SEO, design, user experience and function through interactive examples and discussion.

November 13, 2019 — One of the most confusing (and exciting) features of using WordPress is plugins! And if you are not a developer or coder, how do you know for sure which ones you need and why?

In this session, Christina Hills walks you though, step-by-step with lots of visuals, the Top 10 plugins you need and how to properly evaluate them. You’ll also learn the exact steps to take when a plugin goes “bad” so your website is up and running in no time. Watch this non-techie session and you’ll walk away understanding the Wonderful World of WordPress Plugins!

November 13, 2019 — You built a plugin. It was fun — until it wasn’t. Now the support takes away from your family time. If you stop supporting the plugin, it can weigh you down with creator’s guilt. So, what are your options? We’ve seen big products sell like iThemes to Liquid Web and Sucuri to GoDaddy, but is your product worth selling? Mike Demo breaks it down.

November 13, 2019 — WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites. You can use it to speed up maintenance and deployment tasks, and to aid in theme and plugin development. Join Diana Thompson to learn more about this powerful tool for managing and developing WordPress.

November 13, 2019 — Everyone in the WordPress community is talking about the new editing experience in WordPress. Wherever you fall in defense of or against the new editor, it changes how we interact with WordPress from a content editing and a development perspective.

In this talk, Chris Reynolds explores some of the ways Gutenberg changes how we build things as well as the types of things we can build to enhance and improve the WordPress editing experience.

November 13, 2019 — New to WordPress? Ever wondered what difference is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? Then this is the session for you!

Join Justice Anderson to learn the difference and get tips on how to build your first self-hosted WordPress Site.

November 13, 2019 — This talk is aimed at freelancing WordPress professionals and small WordPress agencies who want to grow their business into something bigger than a one-man band. Linda Gunn shares her story and lessons she’s learned over the decades – focusing on hiring staff, managing stress and creating processes to set yourself up for success as a scalable WordPress agency.

Linda began her company in her living room in the 1980s, as a single mother who needed to find a way to take care of her children. Now, her WordPress agency has 35 full-time employees working out of a beautiful two-story office in North Long Beach.

November 13, 2019 — While it is important to understand where SEO and accessibility (a11y) overlap in order to optimize correctly for both, it is important to note that optimizing for one is not necessarily akin to optimizing for the other. In other words, if you’ve optimized a page for search engines, it does not necessarily mean you made it accessible and visa versa. What it is very important to UNDERSTAND that there IS overlap – and if you understand the overlap, you can successfully optimize for both.

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