November 14, 2024 — A deep dive into the capabilities of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), showing how developers can create highly customized and flexible WordPress sites. This session will cover ACF’s full potential, from basic field setups to complex conditional logic and custom theme integration.

Key Points:
– Introduction to ACF: Brief overview of ACF, its features, and why it’s a must-have tool for custom WordPress development.
– Basic Field Setup: How to create custom fields and apply them to different post types, pages, or taxonomies.
– Repeater Fields & Flexible Content: Examples of dynamic content creation with repeater fields, flexible layouts, and their integration into WordPress themes.
– Conditional Logic: How to use ACF’s conditional logic to show or hide fields based on user input, allowing for more intelligent content entry.
– Custom Theme Integration: Practical walkthrough on how to display ACF data in custom theme templates, emphasizing dynamic content management.
– Extending ACF with Custom Post Types and Taxonomies: How to use ACF alongside custom post types and taxonomies to create complex site structures without relying on external plugins.
– ACF JSON: How to use ACF’s JSON feature to store field group data and sync across environments, making collaboration between team members easier.

Presented byMatt Graham

October 4, 2023 — In our increasingly digital world, remote work has become a mainstay, especially in the dynamic and fast-paced WordPress domain. Whether you’re a coder, a content writer, or anywhere in-between, maintaining mental health while working remotely can be a unique challenge. Join Matt, someone who’s spent many years in the WordPress space, as he delves deep into personal experiences, learnings, and insights garnered over 5 years of remote work while navigating the complexities of mental health.

August 4, 2019 — As a developer in the WordPress ecosystem, you’re part of a large open source community; and being part of a community, being a good neighbour goes a long way. You’re thinking of or already developing components for WordPress, but developing is just the beginning: allowing your code to be used or modified easily will get you more goodwill within the community. That means documentation; meaning useful code comments, user manuals and API docs.

We’ll discuss documentation standards, best practices, and how to make your users and other developers sing your praises.

July 26, 2019 — From the brains of @themattyg comes a panel discussion on the use of page builders now that Gutenberg is in core. Joining us will be @MichelleAmes and guests yet to be announced!

Questions that could be touched on:

What does Gutenberg solve that Page Builders don’t? Vice Versa?Should page builders continue to be their own interface or adapt and integrate into Gutenberg as a collection of blocks?Why would a user want to use both a page builder and Gutenberg on the same site? Would they want to?Should developers focus on developing for page builders, Gutenberg or neither?How are you using Gutenberg today? How are you using page builders today?How do we change our approach to building sites for clients, when they have this new level of control?When starting a new WordPress site, what considerations would you take when choosing between a page builder, Gutenberg or the classic editor? Which one would you choose?If you already use a page builder on your site, would you consider switching to Gutenberg?

May 29, 2018 — You’re building websites, have a grand ol’ time, then it hits you: a copyright takedown notice. What did you do wrong?
The Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt aims to demystify copyright, fair use, and creative commons; what you can use on your website and when, be it images, videos, audio or text.
Come for the knowledge, leave with a prize for the team that finds the most items on the Creative Commons Scavenger Hunt!

December 1, 2017 — This is going to be an interactive session to teach people about using Creative Commons license, mostly images. Our goal is to give a challenge and see how many people are able to find open source and copyright free images. This will include some tips as to where to find them, as well as implications of not using proper credit.
Feedback

December 1, 2017 — You’ve seen it before, one big file of PHP code and HTML all mangled together like a coughed up furball. There’s another, dare I say, a better way of structuring your code so that not only you as the developer can go back and make updates with ease, but others can as well.
Feedback

June 24, 2016 — There are many ways of building web and mobile apps, but with built-in database handling, a decent view structure, a REST API, and a host of other features, WordPress is just as good – in some cases, better – than other frameworks out there. We’ll learn a few different methods of tackling building a web and mobile app with WordPress.