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Et Tu, Wapuu? Our Official 2017 Seattle WordCamp Mascot

Before there was the tech boom in Seattle, before there was Microsoft, Amazon, innovators and creators like UPS, Cinnabon, or REI, even before Seattle fully caffeinated the globe – the driving technology of the Puget Sound was aviation.

Beginning with that first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 – the Puget Sound would step into the era of flight just over seven years later.  It was the tech conference of its time – the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909 where William Boeing became fascinated with the idea of ‘vehicles that could sail the sky’1 and later buys the Heath Shipyard on the Duwamish River that became his first airplane factory in 1910. Incorporated in 1916 – the Boeing Company now has over one hundred years of innovation in flight worldwide.

So it was a natural choice to make this year’s WordCamp a salute to the technology contribution of expanding aviation as we wanted to encourage Seattle WordCamp attendees to ‘level up’ their WordPress skills and apply those skills to strengthen the WordPress community.

When we began the process to brand the 2017 Seattle WordCamp –  we wanted to add a Wapuu to our marketing this year and team member Lisa Stewart raised her hand and gave us not just one – but two Wapuus for this year’s WordCamp.

StickerGiant, one of our great sponsors for WordCamp, just featured our Wapuu Sticker sheet on their blog. Don’t forget to pick yours up this weekend!

Lisa is the award-winning creator and owner of BYO Small Business and has been using WordPress since 2009. She has over 30 years of experience as a creative entrepreneur helping Fortune 100 companies to small businesses with their brand, design, and websites. 

We had the chance to ask Lisa about the design process and designing our two aviators for WordCamp.

Why did you volunteer to design not one, but two aviator Wapuus?

“Ha! This is a bit embarrassing. Because our theme is aviation, I wanted to create a pilot Wapuu. My first thought was a friendly pilot, so I designed a leather jacket for the Japanese monster. As I added other accents to him (much like a paper doll) I realized something was amiss. Rut-roh. I was mixing my metaphors. It was then I realized that I needed to separate the components to produce two Wapuus.”

What did you enjoy about the Wapuu design process?

“I love being able to realize new ideas through research and design. When I learned about the global existence of Wapuu, I checked to see if Seattle had a Wapuu. We didn’t. So, I decided we must have a Wapuu to up level our visual components for the community. Researching aviators with Carla was too much fun. Adding accessories to round out their charming little personalities made me giddy. Also, getting to know the history of Seattle’s aviation was inspiring. I wanted to make sure that I combined all of those characteristics to form a kickass Wapuu.”

What was your inspiration?

“Wapuu of course, and our aviation theme. Initially, the barnstorming aviator was top of mind as I designed the Wapuu(s), because they’re daredevils. I love the personality and showmanship of barnstormers, even though their time was brief. Next, Carla and I researched the commercial pilots and extolled their attributes for the second Wapuu. He’s just as adorable. I now think of them as brothers and our Commercial Aviator Wapuu is ostensibly the more responsible brother to Barnstorming Wapuu. But, I’ll let you decide.” 

Tell me about your contribution to the Seattle WordPress Community as well as WordCamp this year?

“I was asked to create the new logo and design the Web site for 2017 Seattle WordCamp. The logo was designed in Adobe Illustrator and the Web site was redlined in Sketch. I didn’t realize how much of an overkill that was until Teri rescued the WordPress development. Thank you, Teri! I also participate in organizer meetings to identify other ways I could provide support to leads. For example, crafting image templates for content generation that includes blog headings and Instagram posts. As more projects are created, the more the team gets excited and asks me to contribute to help drive the energy of the event. I very much enjoyed working with Carla and getting to know her as a colleague and a friend. It’s delightful to be of service where I can.”

What do you hope people take away from the Seattle WordCamp this year?

“I hope people realize that they’re not alone and they can always get help -no matter what level of experience or skill set. The WordCamp conference helps bring the people together so that we can connect with our virtual friends IRL. Emojis are great until they’re not. The chance to watch the reaction on our new friend’s face after a punch line or their empathy as they help us work out a daunting task is priceless. Being new to the area, I love being involved in the Seattle WordPress community. “

What was the best part of this for you as a designer and developer?

“Being asked to contribute (HINT: Introverts need an invitation) is number one on the list. When the committee realizes my passion for design and helping out, we sit down together and plan supporting materials to give the attendees a better experience. I hope we accomplished that.”

Lisa will be part of the panel on Sunday, November 5 Getting Picture Perfect Images Without Violating The Law at 1pm in Room 1 and around all weekend. Be sure to say ‘hi’.

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Your WordCamp Seattle Itinerary

As in years past, we want to share recommendations for sessions depending on what you do and why you’re here. WordCamp Seattle has something for everyone.

Read on to find our picks for all types of WordPress users! Keep an eye out for:

  • 💡 Serendipity slot! 💡 Follow your gut to learn something you’d normally skip.
  • 🌟 Can’t miss 🌟 We’re pretty sure you should go to this one.
  • 🆙 Level Up! 🆙 Go to a session to push yourself and start learning a new skill.

Your WordCamp Seattle Itinerary

Make it Your Own

Remember that these are just suggestions, and we’ve already shared tips for making your own schedule. Don’t follow these itineraries blindly, and leave room for serendipitous learning and networking.

When time slots don’t have a session that interests you, you can:

  • Go to the “Hallway Track” and network with anyone else who’s just hanging out
  • Choose the session you know least about and see what happens!
  • Visit the “Helpful Humans Desk,” and pick the brain of a WordPress expert
  • Go on a walk for a technology break and space to internalize what you’re learning
  • Mingle with our amazing sponsors and get some free swag

The Total Novice

You want to learn WordPress. You’ve tried it a few times and are ready to start becoming an expert. Immerse yourself in WordPress and soak up as much hands-on knowledge as you can!

The Webmaster / Manager

You’ve got a single site of your own built with a theme and plugins or you use a site someone else built to manage a web presence. You want to learn best practices about design and content to improve your site in the long term.

The Designer

You can pump out logos and brochures in your sleep and you’ve made your share of websites. Whether or not you want to learn how to code, immerse yourself in WordPress-related tech to expand your design ideas and understand how they get built.

The Budding Developer / Themer

You know HTML and CSS. You’ve poked around in a PHP file a few times. You’ve edited a theme and are ready to make a simple plugin. This is going to be fun.

The Business Owner / Freelancer

You make money from a website or maybe you build websites for money. You probably wear a bunch of hats and should peek at some of the other itineraries here too! When you’re thinking about money, clients, sales, and making a living, WordCamp will help you fine-tune your business and website!

The Oldtimer

This isn’t your first rodeo. Or WordCamp. You’re up on the latest gossip and have more than a few pieces of code to your name. For you, we’ve put together an eclectic set of sessions to inspire some new ideas and have you leaving WordCamp excited to keep plowing forward powering 30% of the web!

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6 Tips for Navigating the WordCamp Seattle Schedule Like a Pro

WordCamp Seattle is happening this weekend! We want you to have an amazing WordCamp experience, so we’re sharing some tips for navigating your way to a perfect WordCamp Seattle schedule.

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6 Tips for Navigating the WordCamp Seattle Schedule Like a Pro

TIP #1: CTRL/CMD + P!

In Chrome and Firefox, hit Print on the Schedule page to get a one-page front-and-back schedule with checkboxes next to each session to pick sessions to attend! (Thanks to our awesome webmaster, Teri for putting that together.)

(And we just added a PDF version to that same page that you can download and print if the native print doesn’t work.)

TIP #2: It’s Up to You

We don’t categorize our sessions into tracks. Here’s why.

Spend some time with the schedule before you come! Click on session titles to view the full topic description and presenter bio. Keep an open mind and look at every session that sounds even a little interesting.

TIP #3: Push Yourself and “Level Up”

The speaker team’s unofficial motto this year was “level up”! We want you to take your skills and networks to the next level with the WordPress community.

How do you do that?

  • Push yourself to go to sessions that are a little outside your comfort zone.
  • Learn from someone you admire and start building the skills that make you admire them!
  • Go to a session on something you might want to learn later.
  • Follow someone you just met to the next session they’re excited about.

Learning anything takes time! Don’t worry if a topic feels out of reach. A first exposure to a subject gives a broad lay of the land. Your second time learning, you start to put the pieces together. Your third time with information, things really start to click. You can get all of those at WordCamp!

TIP #4: Serendipity & the Hallway Track

The WordCamp Seattle schedule looks jam-packed but barely shows half of what you can do! The best WordCamp experience includes unexpected conversations, giving help, and getting some free advice. This is the “hallway track,” and it’s many people’s favorite part of WordCamp.

To get the most from your time at WordCamp:

  • Strike up a conversation at the end of a session with the person seated next to you.
  • Ask a question of the speaker during Q&A or in the lounge after a presentation.
  • Visit with a sponsor and walk away with some awesome swag.
  • Look for an empty seat at a table during lunch next to someone wearing a WordCamp badge. Learn what they do and what they just learned.
  • Spend an hour in the Sunday contributor track answering questions in the support forums, translating WordPress into another language, or captioning a video. (Among many things!)
  • Visit the “Helpful Humans” desk and ask every imaginable WordPress question. (This is worth the price of admission alone!)

TIP #5: Take Breaks and Stick Around!

We agonized over the schedule and went through countless drafts before settling on this. Our goal was to keep a variety of presentations available throughout the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

If you need a break, don’t be afraid to skip a timeslot with sessions  that don’t catch your eye so you can stick around for more great sessions later!

Sit quietly and work on your website, go on a walk through downtown Seattle to get some fresh air, or just low-key hang out with whoever is around. There will be beanbag chairs!

TIP #6: See you Soon!

A few tickets are still available, so get yours right now. We’ll see you bright and early Saturday, November 4th and a little later Sunday the 5th because of the time change – don’t forget! (And if you can’t come to both days, please join us for one!)

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Death of the Media Query

Guest post by Saied Abbasi, Web Developer, Founder of WPHelp.Co, and WordCamp Seattle 2017 Speaker.

Maybe you’re a theme developer, maybe you’ve heard of a 12-column grid, or maybe you’re a blogger. Wherever you stand, let me let you in on a secret…

The most common solutions to make websites responsive are hacks.

Death of the Media Query

Death of the Media Query will be a discussion on how to employ ‘vanilla CSS’ to create designs that are fluid across devices. This will enable us to move away from our dependency on frameworks like Bootstrap, be less surgical with our code, and create templates that don’t break with an extra line of text.

Get ready for some buzzwords.

We’ll explore fluid solutions from a mixin that throws us back to Geometry class with the magic of linear interpolation, to CSS Grid areas that will change the rules of theme development, and to our dear friend Flexbox that finally came along and said “you want it centered vertically, no problem!” (In my head Flexbox has the confidence of an NYC construction worker).

Let’s think about a simple example with Flexbox.

You have a navigation at the top of your site with 5 links. The links run horizontally across the screen. In an ideal world, you want the first link flush to the left of the screen, the last link flush to the right of the screen, and the three remaining links to be evenly spaced in-between.

This should be easy — but no. You have your font size set just right, the text of each link covers about half an inch of the screen… so, let’s see, take 5 links carry the width of 100%, divide by 37 and multiply that by the square root of your font size in pixels — and voilà, if nobody ever changes the copy you have a perfectly spaced navigation… that only works on large screens.

As we’ll explore during Death of the Media Query, we want to avoid these situations where we have to get surgical with our code. You shouldn’t need your graphing calculator to create symmetrical designs. However, dealing with spacing in CSS historically has been tricky.

Instead, if we let Flexbox handle this navigation bar predicament, we can distribute space effortlessly. Just as easily as we can make a font size a few pixels larger, we can take five links, pin the first flush to the left of the screen, the last flush to the right of the screen, and space the other three evenly between… for all screen sizes.

Don’t believe me? Well you should come to my talk :]

 

 

Saied’s Death of the Media Query session is Saturday at 11am. Don’t miss it!

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Find Your Confidence with WordPress

Guest post by Kelli Wise, Agency Owner, WordPress Community Activist, and WordCamp Seattle 2017 Speaker.

Find Your Confidence with WordPress

Like so many of the speakers and attendees at WordCamp, I’m self-taught.

When I first started using WordPress, learning it meant reading a lot of different blogs, articles and Codex entries. My first website with WordPress took 3 days to setup since I was figuring it out as I went along and I didn’t want to mess it up.

Since then, I’ve installed and setup WordPress hundreds of times. I’ve broken it dozens of times. I’ve fixed it dozens of times. Not every site is a learning opportunity for me, but most of them are.

My first time speaking at WordCamp in Seattle was a walkthrough of how to setup a WordPress install as a website. It was my workflow and a recap of everything I had learned. With Q&A, it was less than 45 minutes long. I had a packed house and many of the attendees told me later that it was the first time they had ever had all of the instructions laid out for them in one place.

It was a talk I wish I had had available to me when I was getting started.

It would have saved me a lot of time and mistakes. It’s also why I love speaking and teaching at WordCamp.

I don’t give ‘developer’ level talks.

I like to teach the beginning and intermediate level stuff to get people unstuck or build their confidence to use their websites.

I teach my web design clients how to use their WordPress sites, so WordCamp gives me a first hand look at what my clients need from me. What confuses them? What intimidates them? What do they need to know to keep their sites current? What do they need to know to prevent breaking things? My audience are my instructors so I can be better at helping my clients.

This year, I’m really excited to be running a hands on workshop.

My attendees won’t just be sitting there passively listening to me yammer on. They will be working along with real WordPress sites. Not their live websites where they might make a mess, but live sandbox sites where they are free to make a mess without hurting anything important.

Learning the basics of using your website can be intimidating. There are books, websites, online classes and more. The flood of information can be overwhelming. So most users simply leave things as they were setup by their web designer. They don’t ever log in to make updates or edits.

What they need is a safe place to practice and someone to walk them through what is safe to do and what should be left alone.

My goal for the workshop is to have everyone leave feeling more confident about logging in to their site and using it. After all, a website can be a tremendous tool for a small business owner or entrepreneur. You need to make the most of it.

What makes me qualified to teach this class?

Kelli WiseWell, I’ve been using WordPress for several years now. I’ve lost track of when I started using WordPress but it was around 2009 or 2010. I was designing websites long before that, but WordPress was a better choice for my clients.

I teach all of them how to use their sites. I’ve also taught this material for the local SBA. I’m one of the organizers for the Olympia WordPress meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Olympia-WordPress-Meetup-OlyWP/), and I speak there on a regular basis.

I’m a trained and experienced public speaker, so I won’t bore you to death – but I do still say ‘um’ too frequently. I used to speak at the Intel Developers Forum, the Intel Technology Symposium, and at AT&T sales functions back when I had a corporate job.

Being an introvert, I’m more comfortable on a stage than one-on-one, so if you see me around, you’ll probably see me sitting by myself. Come say hello because I’m a bit too shy to say hello to you.

You can find me online on twitter or my websites https://pintsizedsites.com/ (for DIYers) or https://kattero.com/ (my design agency).

I’m hoping you’ll join me first thing Saturday morning at 10 am.

Bring your laptop and your questions and be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your digital hands dirty.

You’ll have some time before the keynote to come to the room and get setup – things like getting your laptop connected to wifi and getting your sandbox site ready to go. After the keynote, we’ll dive in and start getting confident with WordPress.

 

 

Kelli’s Learn to Use Your WordPress Workshop is Saturday at 10am, right after the keynote. Seats are first come first serve that morning, but please let us know if you’re interested in attending it when you …

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Meet the Women in WordPress Panel Members

Guest post by Tessa Kriesel, Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon and Panelist on the Women in WordPress panel.

We are all looking forward to getting the chance to speak on the Women in WordPress Panel at WordCamp Seattle. We figured it would be fun to share a bit about ourselves before WordCamp starts!

Meet the Women in WordPress Panel Members

Meet Rachel Cherry

How were you introduced to WordPress?

Hi! My name is Rachel Cherry. I’m a Senior Software Engineer for The Walt Disney Company with over ten years experience in back and front-end web development and digital design. Before Disney, I spent over nine years working in higher education and am the Director of WPCampus, a community and conferences focused on using WordPress in higher ed. I also enjoy promoting the importance of an accessible web.

I got started with WordPress in January 2011 when I accepted a job at The University of Alabama. Within six months I had to learn WordPress, undergo a complete redesign, develop themes and plugins, setup a multisite, and migrate all of the existing content for the college I worked for and its seven academic departments. I was the designer, the developer, the QA, everything. I was thrown into the deep end and have enjoyed every minute.

In fall 2015, I founded WPCampus because, while WordCamps are great, the issues I encountered in higher ed were often overlooked. Higher ed is a unique and challenging space because it often requires delivering enterprise solutions with a much tighter budget. We needed our own space to share, discuss, and learn. Our community is special because our members have a bond and dedication beyond their love for WordPress: to further the vitality and mission of higher education. WPCampus has an active online community as well as annual virtual and in-person conferences.

I live in Pasadena, California but you can follow my adventures in life and code on Twitter, GitHub, and bamadesigner.com.

Tell Us a Fun Fact About Yourself

A fun fact about myself? I was once featured in a Slack ad. I tweeted about how much I loved Slack after they sent me some swag to give away at a conference. Months later, they messaged me to ask if they could have an artist draw something based on my tweet and use it in an ad campaign. Soon, I saw my tweet featured in a full page ad in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and more. You can see the ad here:

Meet Tessa Kriesel

How were you introduced to WordPress?

I was already doing Joomla development and someone needed a WordPress site so I started digging in and loved it. However, the story of how I got involved with Joomla, and open source, is quite interesting.

Back in 2007, I was obsessed with Guitar Hero. I wanted to setup a site where people would be ranked and could compete against one another online. The site would need user account capabilities and a way to enter scores to validate against the other player and rank them in a bracketed hierarchy. I figured out that I could get most of the way with a CMS, and Joomla had recently been founded and seemed promising.

I had never worked with PHP or MySQL and was still fairly new to web development in general, but I dug in and was able to get 90% there. I recruited a fellow gamer that was a PHP developer to help me complete the rest of the bracket system. Somehow, users started coming in, very quickly. I wish I could remember the number of users we had by the time I walked away, but I know it was well into the thousands.

The best part was that Activision recognized our mission and asked us to start posting our tournaments in their online community. I was stoked. I never imagined the site would get as far as it did, and then to be recognized by ACTIVISION, the creator of my favorite video game! They were super supportive and sent me tons of GH swag like guitar stickers, pins, sweat bands and more.

After having my first child, I no longer had time to maintain the site or play video games anymore and I stepped down. The site has since been drastically changed and renamed, but you can still find a few of the original posse over at http://ghshredders.com.

You can follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tessak22.

Tell Us a Fun Fact About Yourself

I have always been a bit of a tomboy. As a child, my family’s weekend hobby was mud-racing, which I later ended up doing myself when I was 16. I can fix a car, enjoy four wheeling, being outdoors and shooting archery.

Meet Miriam Goldman

How were you introduced to WordPress?

It was 2008, and my friends and I were starting a band for a local church. They wanted some young people to help lead their worship time. The job fell to me, as the web developer of the group, to develop and design a website, as we had ambitions to branch out.

Knowing that I wanted to go with a CMS, I did my research. I came down to Drupal and WordPress – and WordPress won out, for the ease of updating the templates, and adding the plugins. I ended up tinkering around with it over the next few years in my spare time, and then got lucky enough to be hired by a company that used it exclusively, in 2012. Since then, it’s been my main specialization in my day job.

Tell Us a Fun Fact About Yourself

I’ve played clarinet since I was 13, and saxophone since I was 15. From 2009-2014, I was part of the pit orchestra for local musical theatre productions – in where I almost got taken out by a rogue dodgeball that fell into the orchestra pit during a production of Hairspray.

Meet Bridget Willard

How were you introduced to WordPress?

Hello! I am Bridget Willard and I came to WordPress (dot) com from Leo Laporte in 2007, the same year I heard about Twitter. In 2013, I attended my first WordCamp when my Twitter friend Pam from Pam Ann Marketing said she wanted to meet at WordCamp Orange County in 2013. I began to attend all of the WCOC’s with my BFF/Blogging Buddy Carol Stephen and in 2017 I was on the organizing committee. I built bridgetwillard.com in April 2015 — my first self-hosted WordPress site and started working for GiveWP.com in December of 2015.

Tell Us a Fun Fact About Yourself

Most people don’t know that I was the second string nose guard for the 8th grade flag football team.

Meet Francesca Marano

How were you introduced to WordPress?

Buongiorno! My name is Francesca Marano and I am the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround. Before that I was a freelance websites creator, an executive assistant, a factory worker in a kibbutz. I loved every job I had in my life and learned something from each one of them.

I live in Torino, Italy but I feel at home in every place where I can connect to the wi-fi and sit down to write my next talk submission with a good cup of tea (Countess Grey from Fortnum&Mason is my current favorite).

When my son was born I joined a group that would forever change my life, both professionally and personally. You will never guess how my involvement with WordPress started – I became a member of a knitting club. No coding classes (although I almost graduate from a Coding, Art & Multimedia curriculum in Italy, I dropped out, three exams from graduation, when I realised my professors didn’t know who Jeffrey Zeldman was), no WordCamps: all the ladies of the knitting club had a blog, why didn’t I have a blog? So I got one. And I started tinkering with it. Soon I found myself helping other people setting up their blogs and websites and my new career was born.

In 2015 a friend told me about contributing to WordPress without being a PHP developer, I couldn’t believe I could make a difference without writing one single function. I started contributing to the Polyglots team and then became more involved with the Community team. I help other communities grow through mentorship, organize meetups and WordCamps in Torino and take part in many other WordPress events worldwide.

Tell Us a Fun Fact About Yourself

I love to knit, dance, sing in the car at an awfully loud volume even though I am completely tone deaf.

 

 

Don’t miss out on what promises to be a fun an informative panel at WordCamp this year. It’s happening on Saturday, 11/4 @ 2pm!!

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Let’s all get to know Zac Gordon before he teaches you JavaScript

One of the most exciting sessions we have on our schedule — and that’s really saying something! — is the Intro to JavaScript Workshop with Zac Gordon.

Let's all get to know Zac Gordon before he teaches you JavaScript

Zac is a professional educator and previously taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites.

We wanted to ask Zac a few questions so you could know who you can spend three amazing hours with on Saturday afternoon! We think this is a truly incredible opportunity worth way more than the cost of admission.

WCSEA: So what makes you think you’re qualified to teach this workshop anyway? Have you even done this before? ;P

ZAC: Well, I like to think I’m qualified 🙂

I have a background in education and have been teaching JavaScript and the WP API full time for the last year and a half.

This workshop is my effort to try to take everything I teach in my Master Course and condense the importance stuff into a 3 hour workshop.

WCSEA: More seriously, we’re really excited to have you doing this workshop for our attendees! Who are the folks who can benefit most from your training?

ZAC: Two types of people benefit:

  1. Folks new to JavaScript
  2. Folks who use a little JavaScript or jQuery and want to know vanilla JavaScript in more depth.

WCSEA: As many will know, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg told us to “learn JavaScript deeply” in 2015, but why? What’s so great about JavaScript? What are the things it lets us do that we couldn’t otherwise?

ZAC: First of all, JavaScript is the primary language for building interactive websites so there is a ton we simply can’t do without it.

Now with the Era of JavaScript Frameworks™ we can more easily build full apps, plugins or decoupled sites entirely with JavaScript.

WCSEA: That all sounds really cool! What are a few sites where we can see vanilla JavaScript & WordPress together in action?

ZAC: We really don’t have to look further than WordPress Core-related projects like Gutenberg, the Customizer and a lot of other areas where more and more interfaces use JavaScript.  I have also seen many agencies using React and Vue in their client projects within WordPress themes or in decoupled applications.  Exciting times we’re in here.

WCSEA: Presumably people should know what WordPress is before attending this workshop. What skills do people need to get the most from the session? Do they need to have anything prepared ahead of time?

ZAC: Folks should have a copy of DesktopServer or Local setup to run WordPress on their computer and have a Code Editor like Atom.

If you’re using a different local environment like XAMPP or MAMP, make sure you’ve got a local SSL certificate ready and can use HTTPS locally.

That’s about it!

WCSEA: When someone walks out of the room at 3:30pm on November 4, what will they know that they didn’t before?

ZAC: JavaScript language basics, how to work with the DOM and JavaScript events, how to add JavaScript to a WordPress theme (or plugin) and how to start pulling in content with JavaScript via the WP REST API.

We will pack in a lot!

WOW! That sure is a lot of amazing stuff you can just learn at WordCamp Seattle 2017.

We hope to see you there! To make sure you can get a spot in Zac’s workshop…

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The Value of Community Sponsorship

Have you been wondering what the heck a Community Sponsorship is when you go to purchase your WordCamp Seattle ticket (and why on earth would anyone pay $250 when they can get their ticket for just $40)?

The Value of Community Sponsorship

As you may know, our sponsors are what really make WordCamp possible and allow us to put on this incredible, professional-grade conference for just $20/day.

In years past, we’ve had a lot of smaller companies and solo shops also express an interest in helping to sponsor WordCamp and participate in a more meaningful way, but the $1000 Bronze Level may have been a bit too steep for them.

So this year, we wanted to offer a way to let those folks give back and participate as a sponsor even though they might not have the deep pockets.

Listen below as the veritable Bob Dunn and our astonishing WordCamp Sponsor Wrangler, Eric Amundson discuss Community Sponsorship opportunities at WordCamp Seattle 2017.

At just $250, Community Sponsorships are an extremely affordable way to attend WordCamp, contribute back to the WordPress community, and improve your WordPress Karma.

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