October 22, 2020 — BigCommerce for WordPress is a brand new way to do ecommerce in WordPress. With a hybrid of local content and processes running over API the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin can help your store operate at micro-scale, enterprise scale, and everything in between.

This talk is a review of features and capabilities.

October 21, 2020 — Anyone who has experience with WordPress Multisite knows how it works: Each site exists as a separate silo, and all content and tags stay within each particular site. But what if this compartmentalization didn’t have to be the case? What if the WordPress Taxonomy system could be used to create categories and tags that span across many sites? And what if related content from other sites in the network could surface no matter where in the network you happen to currently be? This talk will look at a plugin, developed at the Harvard School of Public Health, that does just this. It will discuss how this plugin allows many thousands of articles across the school’s some 2,000 websites to be tagged according to subject, indexed, and made easily available to users looking for further reading on any given topic. This system has wide, potential application for other settings in which WordPress Multisite is used.

October 21, 2020 — While you use the internet and web every day, you may not have ever stopped to consider how all of it works. When managing your website, there are lots of components and systems working together to keep your site working. Understanding how all these work together allows you to make changes to improve your site as well as better communicate with the developers that you may get support from.

In this talk, we will be exploring:

What exactly is the internet?
How do servers and hosting work?
How do domains work?
How do browsers work?
How does the page cycle work?
What do all the acronyms you encounter (such as FTP, DNS, JS, and more) mean?
How does all this make your WordPress site work?

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October 21, 2020 — “What could I have done to avoid being hacked?” is a question you’ll often hear after a site is hacked. In some cases the answer is complicated, but a lot of the time it’s relatively simple and there are many checklists and guides online outlining the ways sites can be hacked, plus how to secure them. However, a lot of people learn better from seeing and doing than reading (often boring) checklists. So rather than look at checklists on slides for 30 minutes, we’re going to hack into WordPress instead!

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October 21, 2020 — Con Settembre ricomincia il Meetup WordPress Torino. 🎉🎉🎉
Questo mese, visto che in periodo vacanziero è uscita la release 5.5 di WordPress (più precisamente l’11 Agosto), vogliamo dedicare questo incontro alle novità contenute.
Molti di voi magari le hanno già viste, ma reputiamo che sia d’obbligo almeno farne una panoramica: alcune di queste sono davvero interessanti e meritano un approfondimento!

October 21, 2020 — Over 100 guests of the WPCoffeeTalk podcast have been asked the same set of questions in order to learn about them, their work, and their community involvement. This talk shares data, anecdotes, clips, and conversations that not only characterize the guests but also suggest who we are as a community.

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October 21, 2020 — We all know that 3 seconds is all it takes to lose the attention of visitors to our web pages. But there’s hope yet! We can all win on the web by leveraging the brain’s strengths and limitations. An understanding of how the human brain processes visual information can greatly help us win our visitors over and keep them where we want them, instead of losing them to cyberspace.
In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

October 21, 2020 — WordPress has always been recognized as a very welcoming platform for developers at any level of expertise. Introduced in WordPress core over a year ago, the block editor not only brought an entirely new editing experience for users, but it also redefined the way plugins and themes are developed.

In this talk, I want to present how the JavaScript ecosystem has flourished in recent years, creating a wide range of opportunities for contributors working on the Gutenberg project. At the same time, I want to explain many of the architectural decisions that have sought to make the transition as smooth as possible for those familiar with developing products and services based on WordPress.

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October 20, 2020 — WordPress helps in changing and empowering the way we engage, interact, and inspire others. Content needs to be communicated with authentic voices that have authority on digital platforms and beyond. If you are going to share your voice, where do you start? How should you think about the way your content influences other people? And how do you find your authentic voice?

October 20, 2020 — This year has been a year like no other, challenging each of us to rethink how we work, play, relate and create in our community and our lives. To think of thriving in such uncertain times seems like a challenge in and of itself. As digital creators using WordPress, we have an empowering foundation available to not only create security for ourselves, but also for those we connect with. Though the times might be uncertain, our capabilities and tools aren’t. By staying focused on our purpose as creators, we can find our way to thrive and stay secure no matter what is happening around us.