Having little experience with WordPress or Web Development, a need to manage data online brought me to WordPress. With a few key plugins, WordPress becomes an amazing information management tool. This presentation will demonstrate how a real life need to manage associated data was modeled in WordPress. Presentation topics will highlight techniques for capture of associated data, how to present data on the Front End, and some valuable plugins to simplify some setup tasks. Techniques for using Custom Post Types and the Advanced Custom Fields plugin will be highlighted, along with how to display associated data on the Front end of an application.
Intermediate Topics in WordPress Development
What does it mean to be an “intermediate developer”? Not a senior, not a beginner, but someone in the middle, at the top of the bell curve.
Let’s look at what it means to move beyond being a beginner. Explore some of the skills that help you move up the career ladder. There won’t be much code, but that doesn’t mean this won’t be a technical talk.
Help! I’m Behind on Gutenberg!
You missed the boat on Gutenberg. Either you believed its release would never actually happen, you thought there would be time to learn about it once it was out (and didn’t), or you didn’t really pay attention to what Gutenberg was and how it would impact you and your work until it was released this past December. Now you’re worried because you feel behind professionally and you’re not sure how to fill the gaps in your Gutenberg knowledge. Most importantly, you think: are you too behind to catch up? Do you need to find a different career? A different content management system?
The short answer is: no. Gutenberg is here to stay and, just like anything else, you can learn what you need to learn in order to continue your work with WordPress. We’ll talk about creating your own personal curriculum to “learn Gutenberg” by working through how to identify the gaps in our own knowledge and then how to identify resources to fill those gaps. In doing so, we’ll cover the basics of what Gutenberg is and how incorporating its existence into our workflows will impact different types of experts including content managers, project managers, designers, and developers.
As a case study, we’ll look at how I (a developer) “caught up” on Gutenberg after a 2018 where I didn’t have the time to focus on the ever-changing landscape of the Gutenberg project until right around its release.