Round up from WordCamp Bristol 2019 with Richard and Elliot

Ben speaks with Richard Bell and Elliot Richmond (both members of the WordPress Cheltenham Meetup) on their highlights from the first day of the most excellent WordCamp Bristol 2019.

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Talks discussed

Create folder in theme called ‘acf-Json’ to keep deployments in sync
Plugin: Block unit test for Gutenberg – generates page of all blocks on site to easily test

56% of people are afraid of public speaking
Brains wants to avoid threats and seek rewards
Brain sees perceived threat and increases heart rate so ready to run
Focus on on activating reward system
Create environment to inhibit threat response and activate reward system: walking, writing, talking things through, helping others, ticking things off, food!
Book: neuroscience for organisation change by Hilary Scarlett
TV: Naiya: Anxiety and Me
Bad website navigation / agenda could trigger mild threat response

Get every one on board early and where possible keep them on board as project continues
Don’t code until creative signed off
Make sure that all assets, colour pallets and image ratios are part of visual hand over
Test, test, test your backup
Typography/css test page
Code function to detect if on live or not, colour admin area
Nuclear custom web fonts
Split out functions and content parts in theme
Build output at the top of the file in single php tag then output HTML with variables in