November 30, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

November 4, 2020 — or those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:

– ACF & its awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

February 10, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

December 15, 2019 — Veteran WordCamp Philly speaker Tessa Kriesel will return this year, this time as keynote speaker. She will present “The Art of Building Community with WordPress.”

December 14, 2019

June 10, 2019 — Looking Back at 10 Years of WordPress Hosting with our hosting panel:

AJ Morris – Liquid Web
Tessa Kriesel – Pantheon
Ronnie Burt – WPMU
Josh Heicorn – CTO Pagely
Tara Wellington – Godaddy
Tony Gilharry – WP Engine
Chris David Miles – Bluehost
Chris Wales – Greengeeks

March 29, 2019 — Problem: You have a team of developers and you all work locally pushing up to one central development environment. Your client has been adding content to your live environment while your team is working away on other features. Your client decides they want to add calendar functionality to the site, which you can easily do with a plugin. However, configuring this plugin requires database changes. If you make any changes to your database, or even the development environment database, you are going to have to go make those changes again on the live site since they already have content in the site and you can’t copy over that entire database.

UGH! There has got to be a better way! We have all been in this situation more than once. So how do we get out of this situation?!

Solution: Configuration Management! We will talk about what configuration management is and how you can start to use it in your current workflow. We will also talk about WordPress plugins that make our lives easier by using similar methodologies.

March 8, 2019 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

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December 21, 2018 — The struggle is real. Managing WordPress core settings as well as other settings, like Advanced Custom Fields setup, and carrying those things over to other environments without completely wiping and replacing the entire database is a major pain point.

Maybe your production environment is holding your content where your client is entering data but your development or local environments are still being developed and settings and configurations are still changing. You do not want to push up your entire development database to your production environment and lose all the content your client is creating. That’s where configuration management comes into play!

We will cover what configuration management is, how you can start to use it and the concepts to take it even further!

December 5, 2018 — Whether you are just getting started with WordPress development or you are an advanced developer, there are always things that we can do to upgrade our workflows. Creating a process for your development workflow can help you save time, better estimate projects and in turn be more profitable.

We will talk about example workflows and things to consider to help you “fall in love with your development workflow.”

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