November 26, 2017 — WooCommerce provides Storefront as its official WooCommerce theme. Storefront is a very clean, responsive theme based on Underscores. While Storefront is great out of the box and there are several add-ons for purchase, what if you want to customize it yourself?

Fortunately, there are many hooks and filters available for developers. Learn how to use them to create your own custom child theme based on Storefront.

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November 26, 2017 — A frank and honest discussion with women who have been involved for different amounts of time in WordPress – ranging from development to designer to marketer.
Panelists include:

Michelle Ames
Christine Baker Marriage
Tracy Rotton
Shanta Nathwani
Miriam Goldman

November 25, 2017 — I was very fortunate to be able to interview Thierry, Grégoire and Mathieu for this episode. It took a few weeks to get our schedules to mesh but the wait was well worth it.

Thierry, Grégoire and Mathieu are very active in the Paris WordPress Community. They are members of the WordPress Paris meet up which can be found here: https://wpparis.fr.

They have volunteered at WordCamp Paris and WordCamp Europe.

Thierry, Grégoire and Mathieu also have a podcast called Very French Trip which can be found here: https://veryfrenchtrip.com.

November 24, 2017 — This talk will deliver some easy to implement principles you can use in across the board facilitating more efficient, transparent, delivery of your ‘projects’ whatever they may be.

November 24, 2017 — Craig has seen WordPress businesses as a publisher and an e-commerce user, and also helped hundreds of business grow their online businesses. Craig will outline some of the pitfalls and power plays of small & medium businesses that have helped him grow his business and will help you grow yours.

November 23, 2017 — Blogging works when done well and correctly. Long-time WordPress blogger and two-time author Christoph Trappe shares the seven steps to get on a blogging routine and stay with it!

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November 22, 2017 — As a founder and moderator of a WooCommerce PL Facebook group I often see questions about customizing WooCommerce themes, texts or simple functions. I think that when you are a beginner developer or a shop owner who wants to make some simple adjustments you do not get a WooCommerce Themes 101.

CSS, text tweaks, filters hooks. These are the most common things and usually they sound very complex when you do not know what they are or how to use them.

One of the most common answer to changing some texts in WooCommerce is to customize the translation files. But this is not a good solution and only for a short term – when the translation is updated you lose your customizations.

Let me introduce how to deal with these situations by showing you simple hacks that can be done to WooCommerce.

I will cover:
– Child theme concept,
– CSS tweaks,
– Text tweaks,
– WooCommerce templates,
– WooCommerce filters and hooks.

After this workshop you will be able to make these customizations on your own and you will do it the right way.

The talk is intended for beginner developers and shop owners who want to start working with WooCommerce themes.

November 21, 2017 — Arlington County is just across the Potomac River, and in 2012, our proprietary CMS was not able to meet the high-tech demands of our content authors and our audience. WordPress “microsites” were popping up all over, funded by a purchase card and $10/month hosting. A small group convinced the Public Website sponsors to go with WordPress, and our main site, http://www.arlingtonva.us, went live in 2014. Hear how we convinced the stakeholders: Finance, Procurement, Security, Privacy, Records, Comms and IT, to embrace open source. See our project plan and re-use it in your agency!

November 21, 2017 — Too often vital information is locked away in somebody’s email in box, personal or office shared drive, or often hard to find on a SharePoint site. For the US Department of State, it is only compounded when over 25% of the entire diplomatic workforce transfer to another country every year. When they transfer their knowledge often goes with them. So the Department of State is making an effort to make knowledge management priority #1.

The Office of eDiplomacy has been crafting new knowledge management collaboration environments harnessing power of WordPress. We have been using WordPress Multisite, BBPress, BuddyPress, Gravity Forms combine with open source and commercial plugins and theme, to make a cost efficient KM portal.

This presentation will cover what plugin work well to create a dynamic, intranet focused KM environment for your organization.

November 21, 2017 — The National Park Service’s Common Learning Portal allows members of the NPS workforce to find formal training, informal learning resources, and communities of learning all in one website. Due to the decentralized culture of the National Park Service, educational content for the portal comes from a vast network of subject matter experts and learning and development professionals.

Members of the NPS workforce who contribute to the varied Content Teams have many goals for doing so – ranging from an online platform to advertise formal training, to a collaborative work group facilitating organizational culture change.

In the workshop you will:
– See a demonstration of the WordPress features which The National Park Service has implemented to support decentralized content teams.
– Hear about the robust training initiative which NPS staff successfully implemented to support a custom technical training and content strategy for each content team.
– Discuss the benefits to engaging decentralized content teams as it pertains to platform adoption and organizational change management.