US DOJ warns of looming web accessibility enforcement. Weglot scores funding. WP-Wallet and Image Source Control launch. Block dev tuts. The Block Protocol and WordPress. WCUS and WordSesh calls for speakers. Why the web is a miracle and Mozilla’s vision for its evolution.
Upcoming Events 📆 WordSesh 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from May 28 – June 1. Registration is free. 🆓 WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education. It is happening on September 21-22. There is a call for speakers. 👩🎓…
Conference Updates WordSesh Americas completed it’s one-day live broadcast this week with a series of impressive talks. (Kudos to them for a diverse lineup!) Recordings are available if you have a WPSessions Membership. 👍 The call for speakers for WordCamp US 2020 (October 27-29) will close this Sunday, May 31, 2020, at 11:59 pm CT…
WordSesh, a great virtual conference for WordPress, is happening again on September 25, 2019. Registration is free! 🎟️ This time around, WordSesh has been designed especially for attendees across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. 🌍
The next WordSesh event is Wednesday, May 22, 2019, and a call for speakers is open. The speaker application deadline is Friday, April 19.
Congratulations to Brian Richards and all those who supported WordSesh (including sponsors) this past Wednesday. Over 500 people watched the live stream, and it’s not too late to get a ticket to get access to see the recordings. All speakers delivered excellent informative presentations, but if you are an eCommerce store owner you can’t afford…
A reminder that WordSesh is happening next week on Wednesday, July 25th. If you haven’t already gotten your ticket for this online event, get your now and join in for some great talks from some great speakers in the WordPress community.
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the upcoming WordSesh schedule and go spelunking through make.wordpress.org to surface some recent gems making their way to WordPress.org – both the project and the website.
Brian Richards has taken over WordSesh from Scott Basgaard, and is hosting the online event on July 25th. It’s being revised from 24 hours to 12 hours, which should be a plenty big window for people around the world to tune in for at least parts of it. Be sure to subscribe on the WordSesh…
One of the things I said was important in my WordSesh talk on the future of WordPress was better access to WordPress.org data. Well, Greg Ichneumon Brown has posted a gold mine in an update regarding the new WordPress plugin directory design, which is in active beta. The beta version of the upcoming plugin directory…
This trac ticket by John James Jacoby proposes to make wp-settings.php a series of action calls instead of being, “a mishmash of globals, function calls, class instantiations, and do_action() calls”. The proposal makes sense to me, particularly for the reasons John spells out in the ticket description: “By breaking wp-settings.php up into many clearly named do_action() calls, it…
If you aren’t familiar, WordSesh is a 24 hour conference live on Google Hangout, founded by Scott Basgaard. And WordSesh 4 is happening Saturday August 20th, 2016. You might still have time to submit your ideas if you want to participate. I’ll be speaking along with some wonderful people from the WordPress community. A full…
This weekend, WordSesh 3 will begin. WordSesh is 24 straight hours of live streamed presentations and discussions from a variety of intelligent folks in the WordPress world. It starts at 0:00 UTC Saturday, which really means 7:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday for those of us in America. It’ll run through Saturday evening. The lineup…
I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I’d share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered around development — mostly theme development. I was introduced to WordPress in 2008 and by…
The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he’s announced the second WordSesh is going to be December 7th. If you’d like to get a glimpse…
The First WordSesh was a huge success and we are crazy enough to do it again. We’re currently pulling ourselves together and have begun planning the next event. We hope to have firm dates and additional details for you as soon as possible. Are you ready for more sleepless hours of incredibly awesome and free WordPress presentations?
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