August 17, 2024 — AI meets WordPress,
In code, they both express,
Future of progress.
— ChatGPT, probably

Many of us have played with Dall-E or ChatGPT to create images, ask questions and even write haikus. It’s often obvious that the bland results are created by AI, which — for the time being, at least — can’t compete with the human brain when it comes to truly inspiring writing.

But could AI help you better showcase this writing, leaving your company’s creators, critics and copy editors with more time to hone their uniquely human talents?

At PMC, we are exploring different use cases for what we’re re-labeling assistive AI. We’re doing it on behalf of the writers and editors who excel at producing trenchant reviews and informative news stories but maybe find generating SEO to be drudgery. AI can step in to take on this and certain other responsibilities, including creating catchy headlines and doing certain kinds of editing.

This talk will outline the corporate policies surrounding AI and delve into why we decided to develop our own ChatPMC and how it is currently being used. We will also look at additional plugins currently available that can help you with SEO, titles and editing.

August 15, 2024 — En esta charla María Valeria Di Donato nos cuenta qué tener en cuenta a la hora de crear un sitio web.

Desde la elección del Hosting hasta la integración con Analytics y Search Console.

Comentando aspectos sobre Instalación, Configuración, Ajustes, Estructura web, Plugins, Próximamente, Tema hijo, páginas complementarias que suman, Palabras claves, Imágenes y optimización, SEO on page, seguridad, legalidad, Diseño y buenas prácticas, Responsive, Gravatar, Landig Page, integración Email Marketing, URLs, Indexación, Sitemap, Optimización, Evaluación, Mantenimiento del Sitio Web, Medir y Analizar.

Una charla que apunta a que todos tengamos claro que, como dice ella, hacer una web no es solamente subir fotos y textos.

Luego de la charla se abrió debate y estuvo genial poder comentar respecto a cómo trabaja cada uno.

Gracias a todos los que asistieron y gracias si estás aquí viendo hoy el vídeo.

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August 13, 2024 — Blocks have become integral to most WordPress projects. While Core blocks cover a wide range of content types and many third-party block libraries are available, you may eventually need functionality that doesn’t yet exist. If you’ve never had the chance to build a custom block or are unsure where to begin, this session is for you!

We explained how blocks are structured and defined within WordPress, giving you a foundational understanding of block.json, attributes, block supports, and more. You will learn the differences between statically and dynamically rendered blocks, along with the pros and cons of each. Finally, we introduced tools that will help you quickly start creating your own custom blocks.

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August 12, 2024 — In this lesson, we’ll explore the essential components of a WordPress template. We’ll take a peek under the hood of WordPress and delve into the structure of WordPress blocks, how they fit together, and how they function within a template.

August 12, 2024 — Discover the role of the theme.json file in WordPress, which defines global and block-based styles for your theme. Learn where to find it, how it organizes design properties like color and typography, and why using the Site Editor is a more practical approach for customizing your theme.

August 11, 2024 — As the web matures we develop new technologies and create new conventions. But still – there are things that never change. Our eyeballs are no different from those of Arkhimedes nor does our nerve structure differ from that of Sokrates. In the end we are what we are and that sets us limits.

Cognitive psychology studies individual-level mental processes such as information processing, attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, decision-making and thinking. From this science we draw the backbone of our user interfaces and usability. We introduce here the fundaments from cognitive psychology relevant to web site user interface design.

Our cognition is a complex thing. We can and should make known the difference between what are conventions that guide our cognition and what are the actual ”hardware” limitations. As the web evolves we gain new ways of controlling the appearance and behaviour of the content there. Conventions we can change over time, but some things are constant. In this presentation we discuss this difference through examples.

Our goal is to learn to
– Learn the basic principles of cognitive psychology.
– Identify how the principles of perception affect web usability.
– Improve usability and accessibility by making use of the known principles of human cognition.

August 11, 2024 — In this talk, I will discuss the current state of automated and manual accessibility testing. How much can we rely on automation and how AI tools can speed up manual testing. We’ll also discuss what tools are available that can be integrated with WordPress.

August 11, 2024 — WordPress is open source. Linux is open source. The internet was built on open source principles. An unpopular opinion and a bold statement: Open source has no downsides. Then why doesn’t everyone release their code as open source? There are many beliefs and fears regarding to the subject. Roni has been open sorcerer on GitHub for 15 years and now shares the benefits, tips and some treats of contributing things open source.

August 11, 2024 — Yksinyrittäjille ja freelancereille suunnattu verkostoitumistyöpaja. Ryhmässä keskustellaan siitä, miten omaa verkostoa kannattaa hyödyntää ja kuinka yhdessä tehden saamme tuotettua parempia sivustoja asiakkaillemme. Tilanteita käydään läpi esimerkkien kautta ja osallistujille tarjotaan mahdollisuus verkostoitua paikalla olevien osaajien kesken.

August 11, 2024 — Since GDPR we have been worried about all the data we’re losing from our web analytics. I’m here to show that you can do a lot of things without setting cookies nor tracking any of the user’s personal information.

– How to make sure you’re not tracking any user data
– What you can do with basic page view data
– What you can do with custom event data

When we have an anonymous tracking setup, we can even consider removing the cookie consent banner completely.