May 14, 2023 — If you own or develop and maintain websites, there is a constant threat of having a website under-perform, getting attacked, or just look outdated. Believe it or not, but by following the principles of 2,500 years old military book you can make websites secure, and have them perform and rank well.

May 14, 2023 — AI models are taking the world like a storm. ChatGPT, the AI model by Open AI recently became the fastest growing app in the world, its user base went well over 100,000,000 users in January 2023. While corporations were planning to invest billions in Open AI, Google announced in February 2023 the release of its own language model, Bard. Even though AI still has a lot of way to go, it has an amazing potential and can be of invaluable help for website owners. At the same time, many people fear AI and expect that it might eventually replace people and make certain professions redundant. We will have a look at how site owners can benefit from AI (SEO, copyright, translation, development, design, etc.) and also explore the “dark side of AI” – the supposed dangers and threats that may come with it.

May 10, 2023 — This tutorial explores the various editor modes in the block editor that you can select to improve your writing or editing experience.

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.