Laura Byrne-Cristiano: Floating to the Top – How a Crisis Communications Plan and Content Strategy Literally Rescued Us

In the WordPress post Gutenberg world there are fundamental shifts in both user and development workflows, and moving forward that means how we develop themes for will also change. Let’s look at the current status of theme development, how you can get started taking advantage of the core editor right and how we can begin building themes for the future. Specifically, we’ll cover: • How to modify existing themes to take full advantage of the new editor and blocks. • Adding Theme Supports and Block templates to existing themes • What’s the difference between Block Enabled and Block Based Themes • Upcoming enhancements for Full Site Editing and Global Styles and how this will affect theme development.

Working remotely as freelancers or as part of a distributed team has gone from trending to essential. This way of working requires more people to be live streaming, using video conferencing, and creating video tutorials. Join me as I walk through my personal desk setup that was created to be more efficient in meetings without taking up a lot of space. The one-stand desk setup works great for YouTube videos, video conferencing, and recording tutorials.

In the last 18 months, we’ve seen rapid developments with Gutenberg and with the introduction of the block editor into WordPress core, there is no time like now to be looking at how to use the new block editor with your sites. This session is set to cover a brief understanding of the history of the editor in WordPress, but more importantly to look ahead and see how the block editor paired with the right tools can provide site builders the ability to build a site without the need for writing any code. Together we’ll be covering specific free and paid plugins that provide additional blocks or enhance your experience with the block editor, to create a truly no-code experience with WordPress. By the end of this session, you’ll want to start taking advantage of the new block editor and these plugins to update your existing sites and create new ones.

This talk explains how to gain competitive advantage by looking beyond Facebook and Google for digital marketing opportunities.

This talk explores the evolving role of a WordPress administrator, and the opportunity to better serve your organization through thoughtful change management. Presentation Slides » https://beta.speakerstack.net/presentation/the-evolving-role-of-the-wordpress-administrator/

SEO and content marketing share the same goal: getting your quality content seen! Learn how these two approaches can work together to reach more people. Presentation Slides » https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_NT3mPssUhBOs2XojiSXbPEM3gHAlscU/view

This talk covers the details of configuration and troubleshooting for email with contact forms, order forms and e-commerce communication.

This talk explains the importance and value of advocating for accessibility. Learn how to add accessibility techniques to your processes. Learn how making sites accessible can increase revenue and grow audiences.

Watch WooCommerce Happiness Engineer Luminus Alabi create a store from scratch using the TwentyTwenty theme. He addresses the some of the typical pain points of those who are building WooCommerce stores for themselves or clients.