April 17, 2019 — Taxonomies can give you product categories, or city tags, but did you know with the right tricks they can massively boost your sites performance?

Follow Tom down the rabbit hole of private taxonomies, learn the common data storage mistakes that cripple your sites performance nobody’s talking about

April 17, 2019 — The web sites and apps we create, both for ourselves and for our clients, need to collect user analytics for a range of reasons ranging from workflow to user experience to security.

However, user tracking can cross the line from insightful anonymised data collection to intrusive personally identifiable monitoring. GDPR, Europe’s revamp of its data protection and privacy regime, becomes enforceable on 25 May – the day before WordCamp Belfast.

The incoming ePrivacy Directive revamp also renews rules on analytics. This double overhaul creates refreshed obligations for you to inform your site users about any counting, tracking, and monitoring you carry out on your web sites and apps, to provide users with options over your counting and tracking, and to ensure that your data collection respects your visitors privacy.

In our talk, we will help you to achieve a healthy balance between data collection and privacy which respects your business, your users, and your refreshed legal obligations.

Our talk will cover:
How to understand your audience so that you can understand their data
Why minimal data collection and retention makes sense from an ethical perspective
What user tracking is and is not permitted under GDPR as well as the ePrivacy Directive revamp
How to explain your use of analytics and tracking in your privacy notices
How to provide your visitors with an opt-out of analytics and tracking
How to collect analytics with the greatest respect for user privacy
How to ensure information is not personally identifiable to an individual (Deaggregation/anonymisation/pseudonymisation)
How to determine a data retention and deletion period
Dealing with third party tools: Google Analytics as our example
What other forms of tracking cross ethical and legal boundaries

April 17, 2019 — In January 2017, I set 5 big business goals for the year. By May, I accomplished 3 of them… And then everything ground to a halt.

I didn’t move forward for six months as I battled depression, doubt, jealousy, imposter syndrome, shiny object syndrome, not-invented-here syndrome, and so much more.

You’ll hear about how I was finally able to identify what was stopping me, move past it, and what I’ve done to prevent a lot of this ever happening again. I hope you can learn from my mistakes!

April 17, 2019 — Open Source is an incredibly powerful concept that can be seen at the heart of progress and advancement in many spheres of life. The idea that people from every corner of the globe can come together to exchange ideas and build products that profoundly affect our lives is as crazy as it is exciting.

I’m fascinated by the fact that people who have never met can come together to form a community that produces software and/or hardware products like CMSs, cars, building equipment, AI appliances and apparel that help to enable whole swaths of people with limited financial, physical or other resources make meaningful contributions and improve their quality of life.

I talk briefly about the concept of Open source and specifically about how WordPress has played a significant part in taking this Nigerian university dropout around the world and exposing him to a community of the most incredible human beings at the forefront of democratising publishing and why Open Source should be near and dear to your heart.

April 17, 2019 — Doing manual code reviews is boring. People keep on making the same mistakes.

Ulrich will be showing how you can improve your code by using automated tools and what the positive effects of it are.

We will be looking at a few different examples how automation has improved the code quality in a team, and also in open source projects.

April 17, 2019 — Do you ask yourself “what kind of content I should write on my or my client’s site to attract more customers”? If yes, this presentation will show you a few ways of using the date to find relevant topics in any industry that these users are looking for.

I will try to help you replace a feeling of uncertainty that you might have when you are deciding what pages or articles you need to write next.

Instead, you will be confident that a large group of readers or potential customers are looking for them.

April 16, 2019 — We’ve all been there at least once: all of the sudden you get a blank page, or worse, a 500-error.

In this talk we’ll go over the step anyone can take to interpret the error, find more information about it, find the culprit and get it resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We’ll look into the wp_debug function, error logging on the server, php settings and of course some common errors, their causes and the necessary fixes.

April 16, 2019 — An introductory talk for people who are newer to WordPress and making websites in it. I will be going over how to use the dashboard to create a new website.

Topics covered will include how to create posts, pages, menus and how they correspond to the content displayed on your site. How to create galleries, and search for themes and plugins.

I will also talk about how to use Yoast and add a contact form to your site.

April 16, 2019 — Negli ultimi decenni le interfacce uomo-macchina dei sistemi informatici si sono evolute incessantemente con l’obiettivo di rendere l’interazione con gli utenti sempre più semplice e intuitiva.

Ci sono però ambiti specifici in cui l’interfaccia a “riga di comando” si dimostra tutt’oggi uno strumento insostituibile. Ne è la dimostrazione il crescente successo del progetto WP-CLI, supportato ufficialmente da WordPress.

Non è indispensabile essere programmatori o sistemisti per trarre un vantaggio diretto e tangibile dall’utilizzo di strumenti basati su riga di comando. Questo talk, dopo una rapida introduzione sull’argomento, presenterà una carrellata di esempi pratici e di semplice applicazione, in cui l’uso della command-line può far risparmiare tantissimo tempo.

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April 16, 2019 — Premi Invio e invece di una nuova riga ottieni un nuovo paragrafo. Vuoi creare un elenco annidato e semplicemente non sembra come lo vuoi. Hai incollato il testo da Word e il suo formato è completamente sbagliato.

La formattazione di un articolo in WordPress può essere noiosa e frustrante, ma è un passo cruciale nella scrittura per il web. Le persone leggono sullo schermo in modo diverso rispetto alla carta e la formattazione del testo li aiuterà ad arrivare alla fine.

Questo talk ti mostrerà come sfruttare le opzioni disponibili in WordPress e ti insegnerà come risolvere alcuni problemi comuni con alcuni tag HTML.

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