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Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group

Philadelphia, PA

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We're a group of local WordPress developers, designers, and publishers who get together to share our knowledge and experience, and to meet other WordPress users in the area. This WordPress Meetup is open to all who love WordPress --- join us! Learn more about WordPress Meetups at https://make.wordpress.org/community/meetups/

The Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group is a group of WordPress enthusiasts in and around the Philadelphia area. We love working with WordPress in a variety of different ways. Join us and learn about WordPress and all it has to offer!

Meet other local users of WordPress, the Internet's most popular blogging platform and fastest growing content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work WordPress, develop and design themes and plugins, tips and tricks for WordPress, and more. This Group is for beginners and experts alike so come out and share your love for WordPress!

We plan on discussing a variety of topics including WordPress usage, designing WordPress Themes and styles, creating WordPress Plugins and Widgets, and using WordPress to its full potential. This is going to be a fun and informal way to meet WordPress fanatics just like yourself and share your experiences with the popular open source software.

WordPress MS, BuddyPress, and bbPress enthusiasts are also very welcome to attend! We plan on discussing these platforms and the features and enhancements they can provide to the WordPress platform at future meetings.

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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 11:00 PM UTCHAX: Ending the unequal web Drupal and WordPress perpetuate
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WordPress and Drupal were built 20 years ago, under the concepts of 20 years ago. But the web has leaned forward, way forward since then. What if we rebuilt CMS structures on the approaches we now have; what might that look like? Introducing HAX. A platform and approach that takes a radically different stance on the web and how we’re empowering others to be creative.

HAX is built on the W3C standard known as “Web Components” (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components). Web components allow developers to define new HTML tags that are valid and powered by JavaScript Object classes. Through a unique relationship at Penn State, I’ve gone from making it easier to design buttons, to making tags that understand other tags and can modify them (think gutenberg for any HTML input field, that writes things that are sustainable) or tags that are full blown CMS structures with authoring tools that unveil themselves based on JSON web tokens being validated.

Things written in HAX work anywhere on the web because of the web component standard. As we see our communities go all in on “headless” and hybrid headless efforts, come learn how Penn State is changing the game when it comes to content authoring on the web, starting with 100s of online courses and a radical information transparency activist (*cough*... me) leading the technical charge for social change.

In this talk you’ll learn about:

Lit / OpenWC and the Web component standard, useful in ANY web project

The HAX community’s development methodology

Life off the CMS island, when you used to be a long time resident

Activism when it comes to technical implementation and architectural design decisions
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Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 12:00 AM UTCHow to Get Started with Web Accessibility
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Web accessibility can seem overwhelming at first if you don’t have much experience with it. This talk will show you how to get started with testing your existing websites for accessibility and how to incorporate accessibility into your design and development practices.
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