Category: General WordPress
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Blogging in the Age of AI: How to Stay Relevant and Competitive
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in the blogging world, with many claiming that it is the future. In this talk, we will take a closer look at the AI language model ChatGPT and Writesonic to help you streamline workflows while also discussing the limitations and potential pitfalls of relying too heavily on…
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Belonging in WordPress
For WordPress and the WordPress ecosystem to be truly accessible, it has to be available to everyone. When we talk about accessibility in WordPress, we usually talk about web accessibility. But our community is more than websites – it’s people. What if I told you that people in the disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent, and even…
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Passwords are Broken: Passkeys Are Coming to Save Us
Every day we learn about a new data breach that has exposed our private personal information, including usernames and passwords, to malicious attackers. As more and more breaches happen, including the breach that happened at LastPass last August, it is becoming increasingly evident that using the traditional username/password combo isn’t working. With less than 30%…
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Securing Your WordPress Website: Best practices and Tips for Beginners
Being a security enthusiast I always care about online security. I started to explore WordPress a year ago and was impressed with its ability and potential. It has got everything for an individual, business or organization to have their internet presence through own website. In fact, I created my own bio page using WordPress. After…
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Becoming a WordPress Developer
Starting in WordPress is addicting. So many people get stuck in the midst of wanting to go from customer service or design and want to get deeper into development. I will share my experience going from customer service to designer to developer to team lead. This will include resources I found helpful, bad mindsets I…
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Breaking Down The Block Editor’s Layout System
The WordPress Block Editor can be used to create top-notch designs and websites. Its versatile layout system is a key factor in its ability to accomplish this. Let’s take a closer look at the components and blocks that enable this, including Cover, Group, Columns, Rows, Stack, Content-Wide Width, Global Layout Styles, and how you can…
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It’s About Time
If you are a WordPress freelancer who struggles to manage your time, this presentation will help you develop a comprehensive time management system and put you in charge of your workdays. Improving your time management can free up space for more work and revenue. It could also give you more time to spend outside work…
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The Block Editor and Full Site Editing Crash Course for Freelancers and Agencies
Full Site Editing and the new block-based tools are beginning to significantly impact how freelancers and agencies build websites for clients, and will only continue to do so in the next few years. But much of the information on Gutenberg mainly speaks to those releasing themes to the general public, instead of addressing concerns of…
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How to Scale WordPress/WooCommerce
Many things come together to speed up a website. Some people still use PHP 7 or no object cache at all. This talk will give you insights into how big sites do their scaling and what you need to know to improve the performance of your site yourself or what questions you need to ask…
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Bringing an engineering spirit to everyday WordPress
I was an engineer before I knew what an engineer really was. Before I ever earned the formal title of “developer” in any professional setting, I learned to modify, extend, enhance, combine, and otherwise transform various aspects of the WordPress ecosystem to solve publishing problems on the web. In retrospect, this was engineering at its…