I thought I would write some notes from last weekend’s WordPress event WordCamp Bristol. The conference took place in the rather lovely grounds of Bristol Uni.
The Saturday kicked off with David Darke’s talk on Gutenberg and how to embrace it. One of the most useful talks of the day and I spoke to one fellow attendee at break who was kicking herself for having arrived late and missed it. Useful pointers on using Composer and on how you can make use of json in ACF at the file system level.
This was followed by Lizze Darville with one of those talks that can help to break up a heavily technical conference day. She spoke about tackling anxiety in the workplace and her delivery and ideas made it an engaging session.
Third up, was Rachel McCollin who spoke about WordPress MultiSite. At WD4D we do have a couple of customers on MultiSite but in both cases we have inherited the project from other companies. So, it was a useful talk, especially the Q&A at the end. I need to investigate Automattic’s own Syndication plugin.
After lunch, a fast-paced, fabulous talk from Jonny Allbut. A really great session. His was the only talk of the day which overran, crammed as it was with useful slides and tips. I made more notes for Jonny’s session than for all the others put together.
And straight after that, a talk on CSS grid. Quite complex and technical but there’s nothing wrong with that at a WordPress conference. I absolutely must follow up the further reading and list of resources supplied by speaker Michelle Barker on her final slide.
The day finished with Tammie Lister speaking about patterns in tech and in design. Obviously she’s an accomplished speaker, but I didn’t get a lot from the talk, perhaps due to tiredness or WordPress overload.
Most interesting sponsor I spoke to was weglot who might be able to help with a customer’s multilingual project.
I was only able to attend the Saturday due to family commitments. A shame, because Sunday’s schedule looks to have been filled with more WordPress goodness.
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