Upcoming Events 📆
- WordCamp Centroamérica is happening now for the first time between April 15-17. 🌎
- WordCamp Greece is happening online today, April 16. 🇬🇷
- EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by GoDaddy Pro from April 27-28.
- WordCamp Venezuela is happening for the first time on May 6-7. 🇻🇪
- Speak Up! Black Speakers in WordPress Workshop from WP Engine is accepting signups. It will kick off on June 5th to support “Black voices in the WordPress community” and elevate “community members to leadership roles.” 🧑🏾
- WordCamp Europe 2021 has announced it will take place online, June 7-10. 🏕️
- The World’s Largest eCommerce Event is being held by Ecom World from June 28-29. 🛒
DAVID’S PICKS 📬
Video Picks
📹 Here are my video picks of the week:
- A very well-prepared talk from Anne McCarthy that deeply outlines the plan for Full Site Editing that is coming in WordPress 5.8.
- Learn how to deploy your static WordPress site “automagically” with Join Nate and Maciej Palmowski.
Podcast Picks
🎙️ Here are my podcast picks:
- Matt Report has two recent episodes of note. First, Matt Mederios talks with Nathan Wrigley about hosting the WP Tavern‘s new podcast, Jukebox. Then Matt talks with one of WooCommerce’s founders, Adii Pienaar, to explore topics mentioned in Adii’s book Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success.
- Women in WP has a great episode on creating custom solutions with WordPress. Their guest Lisa Ghisolf has been designing and building WordPress sites since 2008.
- WPCoffeeTalk: Michelle has an entertaining conversation with Jeroen Rotty. Jeroen works on Yoast‘s support team, organizes meetups, and has contributed to open source projects.
- Unemployable: What is the right time to take on an SEO strategy, and what steps should you take? If those questions interest you, you’ll enjoy Brian Clark and Jonny Nastor‘s discussion here.
- Changelog: Birgit Pauli-Haack talks Gutenberg 10.3 and Full-site Editing MVP updates with new co-host Greg Ziolkowski.
- Under The Radar: If you feel guilty about your reduced productivity during COVID, give this a listen.
- Jukebox: This is the bew interview podcast from WP Tavern hosted by Nathan Wrigley and interviewing Josepha Haden Chomphosy in the first episode.
