November 17, 2022 — This presentation is about how to automate WordPress using the REST and GraphQL API’s. There are quite a lot of plugins to help you automate WordPress, plugins however come at a performance cost, might fail and they need to be regularly updated.

WordPress REST and GraphQL API’s make it easy to automate all sorts of tasks, while handling errors gracefully without needing to resort to using any plugins.

In this talk we will look at how you can use the WordPress REST and GraphQL API’s to create all sorts of automations, uptime monitoring, image generation, database cleanup, backups, updates, ….

We will have a look at different no-code, low-code tools to help you setup automations, Zapier, Github Actions, Pipedream, Cronhooks, CloudFlare Workers etc.

January 17, 2021 — This talk explains how to automate WordPress tasks. There are examples for using tools like Zapier, Gravity Forms, and AirTable.

November 3, 2020 — These days, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The tech industry is facing a veritable raft of ethical, moral, and political crises. Automation and industrialization are reshaping our world. And sitting in the middle of all that? You and me. We’re digital designers, we’re developers, we’re product owners. But each day, our work is changing — more quickly than it ever has before.

Here’s the question we have to ask ourselves: what do we want that change to be? In this talk, we’ll look at some of the challenges facing our industry, and ask ourselves: what kind of work do we want to do?

October 30, 2020 — If you’ve never heard of Zapier, then your life’s about to get…well… a little happier!

This introductory talk explains the basics of Zapier, and demonstrates how creating workflow automations (or zaps) can eliminate hundreds of hours of repetitive work. Learn how to use Zapier to extend WordPress in delightfully creative ways.

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October 30, 2020

October 2, 2020 — Have you ever caught yourself repeating the same task over and over again? If you can document steps of a task, you can automate it! Learn how to harness the power of forms and Zapier to save hours of tedious work. This talk will inspire you to look at every task in your business and ask: Can this be automated?

July 28, 2020 — En la meetup haremos unos cuantos ejemplos prácticos que vas a poder implementar ya en tu web 😄

AutomatorWP es totalmente gratuito https://automatorwp.com/ y lo puedes descargar directamente desde el repositorio de tu WordPress. Además tiene integraciones con un montón de plugins populares.

No es una meetup apta para ansiosas/os como yo, porque te van a entrar ganas de automatizar de todo en cuanto la veas 😂

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July 9, 2020 — Use Ansible for task automation to manage WordPress sites. This includes automating plugin and theme updates/installs/uninstalls; deployments, manipulating files, and running WP-CLI.

June 17, 2020 — As WordPress developers, there comes a time when you wish you can connect the different web apps you use daily or even automate some of the tedious tasks.

Well, thanks to the many great web tools out there, yes indeed you can do that, and with no coding needed.

In this talk, we will look at some of the popular and powerful web tools available, and how you can use them and WordPress together to automate your posting, create leads from form entries, schedule periodically SMS and many more.

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May 30, 2020 — From high-level concepts like the development of systems and processes to detailed examples of how to harness the power of forms and Zapier to save hours of tedious work. You will leave this talk will inspire you to look at every task in your business and ask … can this be automated?

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