With the holiday season upon us, we tried something different. We’ll take a cue from a well known holiday song and turned it into the theme for our gathering: The 12 Tips of WordPress.
We had 12 lightning talks from 12 different presenters. Each talk was only 5 minutes:
Talk 1: Design Your Store with WooCommerce Blocks
Presenter Jeremy Pry | @jpry
- Things have improved with “Wootenberg” Block Editor
- Protip: /all in the block editor search lists everything
- Protip 2: /filter list all filter block
- easy to change columns, add row, edit within in block
- Can edit all types of that item or just that specific item
- You can have a single featured product like a landing page
Talk 2: Spacer, Separator, Social Media: 3 Gutenberg Blocks I Can’t Live Without
Laura Byrne-Cristiano | @NewYorkerLaura
- Spacer: great for staff pages
- Separator: “white space” that isn’t white space
- Social Media: Embed it in the content and you can now caption it
- Slides
Talk 3: Responsive Tables with TablePress
John Davey | @jadesq
- Tables when they get down to cell phone size start to wrap text and becomes unreadable
- TablePress solution allows:
- Scroll mode to lengthen back and forth
- Flip mode puts headings on left and table on right
- Stack: stacks table on eon top of each other
- Collapse: has a button to display more
- Slides
Talk 4: CSS Sprites
Jon Ericson | @jon_e
- Downloading images: combines image download into one request rather than many requests
- Save time and bandwidth
- Need HTTP2
Talk 6: Lazy Loading of Images
Donna Botti | @DonnaBotti
- Defers non-critical resources until the moment they are needed, ie loads images as you scroll to them
- Important because Google defines speed as a critical item when it comes to your page ranking
- Formerly done with javascript, CSS, or plugins. Visible if the item is in the view port
- New way, browsers are supporting. Add attribute loading=”lazy”
- Slides
Talk 7: Dipping into WP-CLI
Liam Dempsey | @liamdempsey
- Can make changes to your site either locally or on a live site
- Super fast
- Can do multiple steps at one time
- Bulk add remove plugins
- Bulk change settings
- Bulk remove plugins
- And more
Talk 8: Speeding Up Your WordPress Site
Frank Olivo | @francoolivo
- optimizing images first is key
- use the Fast Velocity Minfy plugin
- WP Optimize
- Use SSL and HTTP2
- Backup before using!
- Video tutorial
Talk 9: Destination Already Exists? Not a Problem!
Matt Ryan | @MattRyan_co
- Can’t update a plugin when it’s already there but corrupted
- Easy Theme and Upgrades plugin lets you overwrite a plugin that is malfunctioning without deleting it
- It will pick up upon the settings you formerly had
- It will backup your plugin to your media library
- Slides
Talk 10: Adding Styles to Gutenberg Blocks
Paul Barthmaier | @_pbrocks
- Delivering Style with Block Filters
- Can add some javascript for some inline styling within blocks
- Slides
Talk 11: Crash Course on Static WordPress
Daniel Olson | @emaildano
- Static WordPress is pre-rendered as HTML
- It’s not a caching plugin
- Great option for brochure sites , high traffic pages, Agency pages
- Shifter is an option that does this
- Slides