November 25, 2024 — Learn Javascript deeply, This was said by Matt and WordPress in 2015.
I wasn’t that excited about that. I ignored that advice.
I continued on my Merry Way with PHP, which is both good and bad. WordPress is made with PHP.
I like PHP, I like server side code and have spent a lot of time in it.
Now blocks came out and I was kicking myself.
I was terrified to dive into the block editor because change can be so daunting, and it’s always so much more comforting to stick with the familiar.
I struggled to understand the code inside WordPress docs and I got stuck. Fast.

How do I get this new block stuff to talk to PHP?
In this talk, I will show you how to go from hating blocks to loving them with these development techniques.
In this presentation we are going to make a PHP Shortcode, and then make a dynamic block to show how this works.

Let’s do this.

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August 26, 2019 — SEO for business results with WordPress and getting organic traffic. It is still possible to use organic traffic to get results. How do you structure a website to get 100,000 page views per month? How do you make sure you turn traffic into revenue for a WordPress website? What technology works well with WordPress to get great SEO results? Do you want to get great SEO results and grow your business? In this talk, we will discuss how to do that as well as showcase studies of real results. We will cover content, site structure, site speed, AMP and structured data, measurement and Google search console, monitoring and social media automation. With these 7 items, you too will be able to get great results from organic traffic.