Category: Development

  • Streamlining Your Web Development Process: From Intake to Migration

    Creating websites for clients involves a structured and efficient process to ensure high-quality results and client satisfaction. This session will walk attendees through our proven workflow at JLLB Media, providing actionable insights and strategies to enhance their web development projects. The talk will be divided into four main sections: 1. Intake: Understanding Client Needs –…

  • New Kid on the Block: Crafting Custom Blocks

    Discover how custom blocks can reshape your WordPress experience. We’ll explore creating both static and dynamic content blocks that cater to your site’s specific requirements. From setting up your development environment to crafting interactive and responsive blocks, this presentation will give you a primer on making your own blocks, stripping away some of the starting…

  • AI Tools and Techniques: What’s Helpful and What’s Hype-ful

    It seems like every day a demo comes out showing a new AI tool that everyone has decided is “the next big thing” and will “change jobs forever”. While many of the tools that have been released over the last few years have the potential to be super transformative, relatively few people have succeeded at…

  • UI Kit: How we do Full Site Editing

    In this session, we’ll talk about how we currently approach full site editing on WordPress at 10up with our tool, UI Kit. Why we currently use it to jump start client projects, what we’ve learned so far, and the future of the tool. We’ll also talk about related components and initiatives around UI Kit and…

  • WordPress at a galactic scale

    The new www.nasa.gov launched late last year. This talk will cover the technical considerations for launch and the lessons learned since then. Everything from search implementation, build and testings processes – both manual and in CI/CD, a very specific gitflow, caching concerns, and preparing for eclipse level traffic. In additions, there are hundreds of thousands…

  • Enhancing WordPress Security: Insights and Strategies

    In this presentation, we will explore the essential security measures needed to protect WordPress websites from common threats. The discussion will cover a range of topics including the importance of regular updates, the role of secure hosting environments, and the selection of reliable themes and plugins. Attendees will learn how to implement strong authentication methods,…

  • Improving WordPress Accessibility: Tools, Techniques, and Real-World Solutions

    Getting started with digital accessibility can seem overwhelming; join us in this session where we’ll cover various testing methods such as automated tools like WAVE and AxeDev, manual testing with keyboards, and strategies for reviewing and enhancing existing code. Making a website accessible to all takes work and doesn’t happen overnight; but that shouldn’t deter…