In this presentation we will go through how anyone with a WordPress site can make their editing process more efficient by using block patterns … and how anyone who can do a little bit of coding can create their own set of custom block patterns and wrap it all up in a little plugin.
Wordpress has an impressive market share of 34% which makes it the single most popular framework around. Flipping this equation tells us that nearly two thirds of site owners probably have little understanding on how WordPress works.
We will cover a high level overview on the default structure of this CMS, how to extend it and how the theming system works. I will also be sharing my somewhat opinionated views on best practices from the perspective of a developer who has repaired dozens of malformed and under-performing websites built by those whose experiments and improvisations with WordPress have failed.
With the advent of Gutenberg and the increasing popularity of other page builders like Beaver Builder the WordPress ecosphere is increasingly embraching drag and drop process to achieve layout configuration. It is important to realize that the data generated via the page builder process generally lives within a single database field.
Joe Vangsness will give a presentation on the basics of SEO and demonstrate some of the tools and practices that are available today. The presentation will include:
The holy grail of search engine optimization is the rapid generation of organic search traffic. Eduard Babayan of Bluepen Software (http://www.bluepensoftware.com/) will go through the following outline of how they prepare a site to optimize visibility
Tue, Jan 14 · 6:44 PM
Wordpress has an impressive market share of 34% which makes it the single most popular framework around. Flipping this equation tells us that nearly two thirds of site owners probably have little understanding on how WordPress works.
We will cover a high level overview on the default structure of this CMS, […]
Roundtable discussion on how to be a good open source citizen – how to find a niche to address, survive the inevitable politics that comes with participating in any group and how to navigate the gap between pitching in and making a living
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Asking the right questions during the discovery phase of a project can reduce the amount of roadblocks and surprises in a development cycle.
Larry Walangitan is a full stack web developer with Chromatic: https://chromatichq.com/users/larry-walangitan and has been developing custom themes, modules and plugins for open source CMS websites for over ten years. He will show […]
“We Build the Internet Highway as We Travel”
What if we could solve the last mile problem, get lower cost internet, and provide neighborhoods their own private intranet at the same time? What if we owned, managed, operated, and used it as a cooperative? What do YOU think?
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“It’s the smallest businesses most at risk of cyber attack. 60 percent of hacked small and medium-sized businesses go out of business after six months.”
Vulnerability scanning with remediation, intrusion detection monitoring, WAF, core and plugin updates, and QA… You’ll disorient your clients trying to explain those terms. And good luck on getting them to pay […]
Sara Stoddard, product lead at Famous, will be demonstrating an early look at a new design tool called Famous which will become available in April in beta. Famous is a new designer tool that enables designers to design a progressive web experience from beginning to end all within one tool and without requiring any coding. In Famous, designers can import their artboards, add animations and interactions, view their designs live while creating them on any device, publish to the web, and see live analytics immediately.
This presentation will book-end the presentation that Joe gave last year where he described the steps involved to position an app for acquisition. This presentation will rewind the timeline back to the point where the app was initially developed describing the process of coming up with the idea, the prototyping steps and other behind the […]
Joomla has been around since 2005 and is designed as a community platform CMS. It has core features such as built in metadata and keyword tools, user management controls, cache management, and sophisticated taxonomy and media management systems. Kendall Cabe will cover the most recent changes in the Joomla platform and what to anticipate […]
Learn how teaching web skills can be a great way to promote your web development services and lead to more fulfilling (and profitable) work.
Since 2010, Scott Winterroth has taught a WordPress workshop which has become a cornerstone for his business’ marketing strategy. At this meetup, Scott will share how he uses training and tutoring to […]
ATTENTION WORDPRESS DEVELOPERS: we have a must see presentation coming up next month!
Tiny Screen Labs builds native iOS and Android mobile apps that are connected to WordPress. TSL uses WordPress as more than just a CMS, for our client’s use-cases, WordPress becomes the entire back-end to handle transaction processing, data management, credit card transactions and […]
Net Neutrality regulations prohibited ISPs from:
BLOCKING discrimination against any lawful content by blocking websites or apps.
THROTTLING slowwing down the transmission of data because of the nature of the content, as long as it was legal.
PAID PRIORITIZATION creating and providing an internet fast lane for companies and consumers who paid premiums, and a slow lane for […]
