Accessibility is a hot topic, isn’t it? Developers, designers, and users all need to think about how to make sure their work is as usable by as many people as possible. Depending on your role on a website, your accessibility focus will mean different requirements and tasks. This presentation was about how you as a […]
January 2020: Do you even need a page builder anymore?
This meetup features a head to head competition between Beaver Builder, a popular page builder plugin, and the block editor (formerly known as Gutenberg) as it’s been released in WordPress 5.3. We’ll build identical (as close as we can get, anyway) landing pages and compare notes on the process and outcome. Block Editor Feedback (Robin) […]
Email Marketing and WordPress
Setting Up Mailchimp Beau Moffatt shared a high level overview of getting started with Mailchimp (download the presentation). Mailchimp and Your Blog Robin Cornett talked about harnessing your WordPress site’s built in RSS feed to automatically generate an email campaign in Mailchimp: Intro to Marketing Funnels Kevin Stover talked about making use of marketing funnels (click […]
GDPR and WordPress
James Laws gave a fantastic presentation on the impact of the EU’s data protection laws (GDPR) (download) on all of our sites, what they mean for business owners, and the tools added in WordPress 4.9.6 to make compliance easier.
February 2018: Gutenberg
Thank you to Kyle Johnson for a great walk through of Gutenberg, the new editor experience coming to a WordPress install near you. Here are the slides, and a handful of resources. Resources: Gutenberg (the plugin) Gutenberg Handbook JavaScript for WP Gutenberg Development Course Create Guten Block Toolkit