March 27, 2021 — Many developers know to never make changes directly to a live site because of the risk of breaking the website.

But what if you don’t have access to a staging or development environment? Or even if you do, what happens if you are in a situation where you do not have reliable internet access!

Local development environments to the rescue!

March 27, 2021 — Die meisten von euch werden sicher die administrative Rolle verwenden, wenn ihr eure Seiten bearbeitet. WordPress hat allerdings noch vier/fünf weitere Rollen. Eine Rolle definiert sich durch eine Gruppe von Berechtigungen und mit jeder höheren Rolle kommen neue Berechtigungen hinzu. Im ersten Teil des Vortrags möchte ich diese Standardrollen kurz vorstellen.

Im zweiten Teil werde ich dann auf die Frage eingehen, wie man diese Rollen ändern kann bzw. wie man eigene Rollen anlegt. Ein häufig benötigter Anwendungsfall ist hier beispielsweise die Veränderung der Menüs einer Seite durch das Redaktionsteam, dem hierzu standardmäßig die passende Berechtigung fehlt.

Zum Schluss gebe ich noch einen Ausblick, was mit eigenen Rollen noch möglich ist und wie man hierüber Inhalte nur bestimmten Rollen bereitstellen kann.

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March 26, 2021 — The Internet has a deep-rooted trust issue. How do consumers know whether the information presented by websites can be trusted? How can website owners claim ownership of their content?

Blockchain was invented for timestamping documents. With a timestamp, you can prove that you didn’t tamper with your content. With timestamps, search engines can prove your integrity. How are WordPress and blockchain timestamps building blocks for a better internet today?

This talk explains how we can truly fix the broken web with open-source code and community.

March 25, 2021

March 25, 2021 — Learn to customize how Google Analytics tracks your traffic data by using UTM tags. With these parameters, you can tell exactly how visitors end up on your site.

March 25, 2021 — Giving time estimates for projects and features is a shared reality of many developers’ recurring tasks. Unfortunately the whole business of work estimation is inherently broken in many ways that cannot be fixed. Navigating risks, fuzzy scopes and missing specifications is less science and more of an art to be mastered.

As a senior developer, I have been a key part of creating many quotes along the years and I will share the mistakes and insights from my journey. I cannot fix the work estimation but I can help you avoid a few pitfalls and give you better tools. Estimation work has been sort of taboo in the developer community and it is time to break the silence.

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March 25, 2021 — Entras en una web porque parece que te interesa lo que ofrecen pero a los 5 segundos ya has vuelto a la búsqueda de Google sin saber muy bien qué había en esa página. ¿Por qué? ¡Porque daba una pereza increíble leerla!

Te faltan manos para contar las ocasiones en las que te ha ocurrido esto, ¿a que sí?

Ahora la pregunta es, ¿cómo vas a evitar que a tus clientes les pase lo mismo con tu web?

Celi Garoe es copywriter y redactora digital especializada en ecoturismo, negocios sostenibles y cualquier empresa que promueva un modo de vida más responsable.

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March 24, 2021 — This talk helps WordPress developers understand how cache works and how to utilize it correctly. WordPress developers often fail to get it right, especially since the caching happens on so many levels in the web stack.

March 24, 2021

March 23, 2021 — This talk shows how to leverage WordPress as a backend system and use different technologies or platforms as the front end.