May 10, 2023 — Email authentication is important because it helps to ensure that the emails you receive are actually from the sender they claim to be from, and have not been tampered with during transmission. By using email authentication protocols like DKIM, SPF, and DMARC, you can prevent spam, phishing, and other fraudulent email activities. This helps to protect your personal information and prevents attackers from accessing your sensitive data or infecting your device with malware. Overall, email authentication helps to increase the trust and safety of your online communication. However, email traffic from WordPress websites was long overlooked.

A new WordPress plugin makes it finally possible to DKIM sign your website’s emails.

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a security measure that verifies the authenticity of the email message by checking if it has been modified during transmission. DKIM signatures are added to the email header, which ensures that the email is delivered to the intended recipient and not marked as spam.

By signing your website’s emails with DKIM, you can increase the deliverability of your emails and build trust with your recipients. With the plugin’s focus on email deliverability, you can rest assured that your emails will reach the inbox, and not get lost in spam folders.

This feature also allows for the alignment of your transactional and non-transactional mail traffic, prerequisites of DMARC an BIMI. Before this plugin, it was difficult and expensive to implement this feature without relying on costly SMTP services.

I will explain what is email authentication and why you need to secure your website’s emails NOW.

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May 10, 2023 — The WordPress open source project is a strong global community that cultivates friendship, fun, and many personal and professional opportunities.

As today’s community members, we can ensure that WordPress continues to be this and more for future generations. Passion and enthusiasm alone are not enough to make a community sustainable. Instead, our leadership skills and their growth will help ensure a bright future for our community. In this talk, Angela will explore the concept of leading at all levels. You’ll identify the leadership skills you already possess and learn how you can continue to grow them, to strengthen your personal skill set and to better tomorrow’s WordPress.

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May 8, 2023 — In this Online Workshop, we will learn how to use the Site Editor to create a custom template for a unique post or page.

You might want to create a custom template for an event, a landing page, different types of blog posts or even have unique styles for different pages on your site.

We will look at two examples; 1)Creating custom templates for two different types of blog posts
2) Creating a custom template for a landing page.

May 7, 2023 — This video is an interview with a WordCamp attendee. Mr. Faizus Saleheen is been with WordPress for more than 6 years. He is also an organizer of WordCamp Sylhet.

May 5, 2023 — When working with any CMS or web framework, it’s a good idea to understand the basics of how it works under the hood. When you understand how your development tools function, you feel more comfortable and confident using them. In this session, you’ll learn the basics of the WordPress request lifecycle, walking through the process that happens on the web server when a browser makes a request to a WordPress URI.

May 5, 2023 — When developing plugins or themes there are certain considerations one needs to make if you want to make sure your plugin or theme supports multsite. In this session, we’ll cover those considerations, look at some specific multisite APIs, and convert an existing plugin to support multsite.

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May 4, 2023 — Have you ever wanted to update your site’s design, but wondered exactly what that would entail? It sounds so daunting, so maybe you’ve wanted to watch someone else do it first before you tried? If so, then this online workshop is for you!

Come join this informal live stream where Ben will update his personal blog’s design while answering questions from attendees. In this multi-part workshop, you’ll get to see the full process of updating a site’s design, including:

* Creating a local staging site of a live site and transferring updates between the sites
* Updating a site’s theme from Twenty Twenty-Two to Twenty Twenty-Three
* Editing templates and template parts in the Site Editor

This is Part 4 of a multi-part series.

May 3, 2023 — The category template allows you to create a custom page layout for a specific category of posts. In this tutorial, we are going to explore how you can create and customise a category template to display a post category archive.

May 1, 2023 — Five for the Future is the official contribution program of WordPress which encourages individuals and companies to pledge up to 5% of their time to give back to building WordPress. As WordPress scales up, this program will play a major role in helping WordPress grow with the times, and in taking our favorite open-source software to the next level.

We give an introduction to Five for the Future, and provide some practical tips and guidance for organizations and individuals on how they can make the most out of the contributor program.

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April 27, 2023 — Recreating a photography website.