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Witt Witsan 3:22 pm on November 17, 2019
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WordCamp Tokyo 2019 – Keep, Burn & Add exercise

At WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Tokyo 2019 we followed last year’s exercise from WCUS and ran a Keep / Burn / Add workshop interactive activity. The idea is to explore from a high-level perspective where WordPress is going for that part of the community and how it could be improved.

Note: these are individual opinions, and as such, it should be considered as first-level research to be read and interpreted, not as an absolute list.

Attendees

❤️ Keep

  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/: drag & drop blocks
  • Appearance ⇒ Customize: Live preview
  • Automated SEO
  • CMS allows posting articles without deep knowledge.
  • Autosave feature (version-revision and auto-save functionality)
  • Handy posting from WordPress mobile app
  • Preview on HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. on the editor
  • General Setting allows changing Site Address (URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org)

🔥 Burn

  • Customizing themes (4 opinions): difficult to customize, hard to manage, and so on.
  • Too many configuration settings
  • Too many navigation menus
  • Tend to add too many customizations
  • Too many admin notices
  • Installation settings are difficult
  • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party management requires manual work on WP dashboard instead of https://wordpress.com/ page: auto-update is not working, version compatibility issues, risks, …

➕ Add

  • Multi-Language support with MultisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. (2 opinions)
  • Collaboration with live editing
  • Pre-set essential plug-ins (light-weight)
  • Customizable user interface
  • More Graphical User Interface than text-based UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing.
  • Easier use on mobile
  • Easier to operate visually (like Adobe Illustrator)
  • Hard to understand the difference between “.com” and “.org” for newbies. While “.org” seem to have more information than “.com”, it will be nice to have in-between information page to fill the gap between “.com” and “.org”.
  • Have thumbnails column with titles on “All pages” and/or “All Posts”.
  • Enhance automated SEO settings
  • A better learning experience for Gutenberg

Thanks to @miekoyo for writing this recap.

Add yours

This is the perspective of the participants at WordCamp Tokyo 2019 Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Design Table. What’s your perspective?

#wctokyo #contribution-day #workshop

Tammie Lister 3:20 pm on November 8, 2019
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WordCamp US 2019 fire, forage and treasure exercise

During WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US there was a fire, forage and treasure exercise for WordPress. During this, we decided things to:

  • 🔥Fire: That we wanted to get rid of.
  • 🍄Forage: Wanted to borrow from somewhere else.
  • 👑Treasure: What we wanted to keep.

🔥 Fire

  • Images: replacing, organising
  • Media library
  • WP Admin menu page
  • Non-GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ baked building blocks
  • Notification (alert UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. spam)
  • Badly formed notifications
  • Page edit button going to the wrong page
  • Changing color on the backend and it not showing up on the front
  • !working
  • Importer UI and experience
  • Hidden settings
  • Gutenberg gradient panel
  • Menu inflexibility and mobile issues
  • Mobile fonts whacky
  • Structure
  • Bloated (unorganised) admin menu
  • Finding stuff in admin issues
  • Access to dashboard issues
  • Plugins that don’t play well
  • Messy dashboard
  • WP way
  • CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. > WP Admin > Gutenberg journey
  • Themes being everything
  • Inconsistency with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. classes

🍄 Forage

  • Spotify buttons
  • Shopify dashboard consistency
  • Super cool proudly made with WordPress badges
  • Elementor type theme building in Gutenberg
  • Design system – Bootstrap, Polaris
  • Design creative ambassador program
  • Role manager
  • Mailchimp media image styles
  • Shopify ease of payment
  • Forms and lists of entries
  • Newsletter signup
  • Mobile layout visual editor
  • Image sorts
  • Easily organized files
  • Easier file management
  • Bear markdown
  • Development version control built in

👑 Treasure

  • Flexibility
  • Open to customization
  • PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party updating experience
  • WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/
  • APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.
  • Blocks
  • Cover blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.
  • Block templates
  • Writing drafts in Gutenberg
  • Social aspect of post
  • MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes
  • Page buttons
  • One-click install
  • Gutenberg
  • Child themes

What would you fire, forage or treasure?

#wordcamp-us #workshop

Tammie Lister 8:18 pm on December 18, 2018
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WCUS contribution day exercise: keep, set on fire, add

At WCUS contributors to the design team got together for a short interactive session of things within WordPress they wanted to keep, set on fire or add. Some interesting points came up so worth taking out of the workshop setting and writing up for everyone.

Note: these are not one opinion, they are the thoughts of everyone at the workshop.

❤️ Keep

  • Menus.
  • CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings..
  • The installation process.
  • Multiple ways of getting to different parameters.
  • New wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ logo.
  • Themes.
  • BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. plugins.
  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ * 2 votes.
  • Blocks * 3 votes.
  • Divi.
  • Add pages in navigation.
  • Amazing people.

🔥Set on fire

  • Page on front.
  • The current user-facing menu builder.
  • 10, 000, 000 metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. boxes
  • Interface inconsistency.
  • When WordPress breaks.
  • Static list tables.
  • Split UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing./ Blocks vs dash.
  • The automatic blogger style.
  • 2 color WordPress logo.
  • Widgets and WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Areas (in their current form).
  • Clutter on dashboard.
  • Widgets.
  • Comments (native).
  • Vulnerable themes/plugins.
  • Older packaged themes.

➕ Add

  • WordPress.com home page. Add real people.
  • Domain search.
  • Designed for mobile.
  • Ease of creating unique layout transitions.
  • WordPress first context collaboration.
  • Blocks everywhere!
  • Cleaner media organization.
  • Design system for admin / plugins.
  • Direct manipulation.
  • Context editing.
  • Other shapes.
  • Static output and disconnect from database.
  • Better onboarding.
  • PWA (Progressive Web Apps).
  • An actual media manager with file replacement and better media managing.
  • Color palette.
  • Visual page template creation / selection.

So, what would you keep, set on fire or add?

#wcus #contribution-day #workshop