Do you design and develop websites or apps? Are you really proud that you have mastered two distinct disciplines? Or do you feel a bit insecure that neither your design or development skills match those of a ‘specialist’?
If you’re anything like me, you sometimes feel a bit of both and wonder how to pitch yourself for potential work or where your skills fit as part of a wider team.
I’m going to argue that we should not undervalue our skills, I’ll share some ideas about ways of working and make a plea to the wider web world to take us more seriously.
So you’ve heard about Gutenberg and you know all your plugins are ready for it. But you aren’t a coder, you don’t jive with javascript, and you certainly don’t prance with PHP. What happens when you realize you need one of those fancy blocks and you are just not ready for the deep dive into development?
That’s the day you realize … WordPress has your back. You can build a block WITHOUT any code knowledge necessary. And no, that’s not an exaggeration.
Workshop Length: 1.5hrs
An introductory talk for people who are newer to WordPress and making websites in it. I think its a topic that isn’t covered enough at events these days and I’d like to encourage newer users to dive in to WordPress.
I will be going over how to use the dashboard to create a new website.
Topics covered will include how to create posts, pages, menus and how they correspond to the content displayed on your site. How to create galleries, and search for themes and plugins.
I will also talk about a couple of popular plugins, for example how to use Yoast and add contact forms to your site.
