October 8, 2021 — Let’s talk about speed! One of the major factors leading to online frustration is a slow website. Users do not want to wait – and if you’re not careful, this can make you lose traffic before your page has loaded! As we all know, a dissatisfied user is worse than not having users at all! A better user experience is the driver behind Google’s anticipated Core Web Vitals update, which focuses on loading, interactivity, and visual stability of a website. This talk mainly deals with how you can speed up your WordPress website and make it faster for users, thus improving their conversions, importantly before Core Web Vitals come into force. We’ll start by looking at website hosting, latency and DNS, and then discuss how you can optimize the performance of your WordPress website. Solutions will be for all sort of users, from beginner to advanced, and for different hosting scenarios. Further discussion will be about different performance optimization strategies like cutting down your queries, tweaking the code base, caching mechanism, use of cloud services, scaling up/forward and so on. All this together shall help a newbie or even someone who has their website slow and frustrating for users, faster and better optimized. Thus, saving their day and being ready for Google’s update in May 2021!

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October 7, 2021 — Learn why spam is a problem for all WordPress sites, why you should control it, and tips for how to manage it.

October 5, 2021 — High-quality screenshot images can help visitors quickly learn the details they are seeking. Capturing great details can take a bit of thoughtfulness for accessibility and consistency.

October 4, 2021 — Hussain is a JavaScript enthusiast and enjoys working with Serverless technologies. Previously, he co-founded a WordPress agency where he was among the early adopters of WordPress as a headless CMS, with React and React Native as his preferred front-end choices.

When not working, Hussain loves traveling and treating his taste buds with great food.

In this session, Hussain demonstrates the steps necessary to add authentication to a Headless WordPress site using React, GraphQL, and Apollo Client.

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October 4, 2021 — In this lesson, you will learn how a tagline is used in WordPress and how to edit the tagline using the Theme Customizer. You will also review a standard means for managing the tagline.

October 3, 2021 — Lesson plans on Learn.WordPress.org are available for Meetups, educators, and trainers to present the material. This video will demonstrate how a lesson plan goes from idea to published on Learn.WordPress.org

October 3, 2021 — Would you like to submit a workshop to Learn.WordPress.org? Take a look at the process from submitting a topic to publishing.

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September 22, 2021 — This video shows the file structure of any WordPress installation with the emphasis on wp-config.php and what is in the wp-content folder. It will end with a an overview and a look at the MySQL database.