Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful
A lightning talk given by Graham Armfield titled “Obscure WordPress Functions That Are Actually Quite Useful”
Accessibility Panel – June 2015
A LeanCoffee style panel discussion covering accessibility and vulnerability within WordPress.
Handling User Generated Content in WordPress
Getting lots of content into a site can increase the scope of the site, user engagement, and maybe ad revenue too. So why not get your visitors to add content for you? This brief talk shows how you can do that without giving everyone a login to the admin area.
Towards an Alternate Theme Structure?
In theory, child themes save you a lot of work. But not if you have to change lots of files for the child theme. Here’s an idea for an alternate theme structure that may overcome that.
Custom URL Rewrites
Darren Grant gives a 5 min. lighting talk on WordPress custom URL rewrites at the WordPress London Meetup.
Simple Usability Tweaks for WordPress Themes
So you’ve got your WordPress site up and running and visitors are finding it through search engines. But are you giving them enough information about your site once they’ve arrived? In this presentation I’d like to share some ideas for simple tweaks you can make to your theme that can help improve the usability of your site – specifically in the areas of search, blog pages, archive pages, ‘landing’ pages and ‘read more’ links. I’ll … Continue reading
Themes, Plugins and Accessibility
One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the ‘accessibility-ready’ tag for theme authors who wish to submit themes to the WordPress repository. The tag is used to indicate that a theme contains the best practices in web accessibility, and can form the basis of an accessible WordPress website. But uptake has been slow. This presentation looks at what you need to do to get your themes up to the ‘accessibility-ready’ … Continue reading
Those who don’t jump will never fly
Changing what you don’t like in the WordPress core, a plugin or a framework is not an easy task. Many developers don’t have a clue about what is important for accessibility. But telling developers they’re doing accessibility wrong or just posting: “this is all wrong, fix it” doesn’t always get accessibility on the agenda, or get a positive response. But if WordPress doesn’t give you what you want, don’t just grumble or be intimidated by … Continue reading
