January 22, 2019 — Creating Your Very First Gutenberg Block

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January 22, 2019 — When working with the WordPress customizer folks tend to create items in PHP. In this session we will look at the customizer JavaScript API to implement dynamic settings, allowing us to bring live preview to complex settings.

January 22, 2019 — Sometimes, using Advanced Custom Fields Plugin (Free and Pro Version) can become a burden. This is normally because in our excitement to use the tool we by-pass the planning it takes to make the plugin work well and don’t always choose the right field for the job.

During this lightning talk I will talk about how to:

choose the right fields to use
plan out your use of ACF
organize your fields
create connections

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January 22, 2019 — Okay so you started a business. You have a least one customer and they give you money for your service or product. Yipee! It’s all straightforward from here, right? Unfortunately, no. Dr. Walling will highlight five toxic beliefs that have the power to seriously disrupt the health of your business and the well-being of your life. These beliefs include: 1) My business is my baby. 2) I love my customers and my customers love me. 3) The hustle makes the money. 4) I got this! 5) No time for feelings- this is business. She’ll explain how founders adapt these ideas and the serious consequence they can have. And of course, she’ll walk you through how to avoid embracing these dangers so that you can do your work and enjoy your life.

January 22, 2019 — We now think in blocks, this is the new “WordPress way”. In this talk you will learn how to build a block. We will cover creating a user interface in the new “Gutenberg” UI system, saving data and displaying it in the front-end. If you’re wondering what it means to build a custom block or extend a core block, this is for you.

This is a talk aimed at intermediate to advanced developers, who already know JavaScript somewhat deeply. Think of it as a getting started guide to a new way of working with WordPress that we’re just getting started learning how to work with.

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January 22, 2019 — The future of WordPress is changing. If you are a WordPress developer and primarily focused on PHP and some JavaScript, then you need to see what the road lies ahead for plugin and themes developers.

If you make a living out of building solutions for clients with WordPress, then you need to be on time for this introduction to the Developer Workshop.

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January 21, 2019 — Haven’t you wished you could ask any question to an “expert” at WordCamp? Problem is that many talks have short Q&A sessions – and while we encourage speakers to visit the Happiness Bar after the talks, it’s still difficult to ask sometimes. Also there could be someone ELSE in the room that has a great answer, or would love to bond over the subject you’re interested in.

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January 21, 2019 — I will talk about the importance of automating your WordPress development regardless if you are building themes, plugins or full websites. Also, I will provide resources on how you can set it up based on your current workflow.

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January 21, 2019 — Hi, I’m Christie. I work with Josh Pollock, whom you probably know, on Caldera Forms. I came onboard to his team in an effort to think that maybe what a product needed to be successful wasn’t more development and support, but rather more business strategy and marketing, fresh out of business school.

I’ve talked to many community members who either are interested in getting an MBA, or interested in “hiring a Christie.” I thought this was an interesting pattern, so I decided to put together a quick overview of advanced topics in business.

I’ll cover when I think an MBA helps, and when it doesn’t. Then, we’ll do a quick rapid fire of things I think you should know about business-ing: how do you read and act on an income statement? What about electing your pass-through entity to be taxed as a corporation while remaining a pass-through entity? What’s the three sentence summary of theoretical frameworks for marketing? What do organizational behaviorists say about building good teams? How does price elasticity of demand affect your pricing strategy? Then, we’ll take questions from the audience and hopefully all walk away a little more calm (and a little less eager to go to business school).

January 21, 2019 — Your client is not happy, it is not easy to edit the content like he was expecting it would be. You don’t understand what the heck is the problem, you integrated everything, but so many options seem to be the problem even for you to edit, so you are in the position that if you want to make your client happy, you need to use your CMS and add content.

But, you don’t want to be a content editor, and you don’t want to lose your client. How to make a better approach, easy to use and make win-win on both sides.