October 8, 2016 — There’s an old saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You can build almost anything with WordPress, but should you? If you build a single landing page or a 5-page brochure site in WordPress, you may be burdening your client with the cost and effort of constant maintenance of a site they might update once in a year. But if you don’t use a CMS when you need one, managing that site is going to be a nightmare for the client. Here’s how to explain to clients what a content management system is, how to tell whether they need one, where to go if they don’t, and why WordPress is worth the higher cost of hosting, the ongoing maintenance, and the time it takes to learn how to use it in the first place.

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October 7, 2016 — WordPress、Joomla、Drupal、MovableType というCMS四天王（命名はオレ）で構築したサイトを攻撃してみましょう。本体の脆弱性あり、プラグインの脆弱性あり…。セキュリティ業界では評判の芳しくないWordPressですが、果たして四天王の中で ”最弱” なのでしょうか。その上で、WordPressによって構築したサイトの防御法の基本をたっぷりと解説します。

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August 2, 2016 — This one’s for everybody! In this talk, we’ll cover the organizational and technical benefits of running a multi-network, multi-site WordPress as the primary CMS at Boston University. We’ll highlight specific strategies, including organizational policies, development workflows, and team structure that allow us to serve over a million users per month. We’re here to help dispel the notion that a centralized approach to WordPress can’t successfully be implemented in Higher Ed.

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July 28, 2016 — The future of CMS.

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July 1, 2016 — Face it, a lot of great content is trapped in pages and an amorphous post content field. Looking at an example project we’ll see how a clean content structure can simplify content management and get your site prepared for future changes. It will make your client happy now as well as for years after the launch.

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May 12, 2016 — ACF è un plugin che facilita la creazione di interfacce complesse di ogni tipo. Questo intervento prenderà in considerazione le possibili applicazioni, il suo utilizzo in pratica, nella versione base e PRO, e le questioni legate alla sicurezza del plugin stesso.

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April 26, 2016 — ACF è un plugin che facilita la creazione di interfacce complesse di ogni tipo. Questo intervento prenderà in considerazione le possibili applicazioni, il suo utilizzo in pratica, nella versione base e PRO, e le questioni legate alla sicurezza del plugin stesso.

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April 25, 2016 — Tutti sanno che WordPress è pessimo, ma lo usiamo tutti, no? Questo talk esplora l’origine di questa patologia.

Si parlerà di codice datato, di sistemi di versioning obsoleti, di rilasci e bugfix, di sistema ibrido CMS/Framework, di programmazione orientata agli oggetti, REST API e di repository. Tutto questi aspetti possono essere ritrovati nelle credenze e nei miti che circondano spesso l’ambiente WordPress. Conoscere bene il funzionamento, del software in primis, della community che c’è dietro e della mission poi, è l’unico modo per comprendere a pieno la potenza del prodotto che usiamo nel nostro quotidiano. Se poi lo facciamo con ironia ci divertiamo tutti di più!

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April 12, 2016 — 2016-04-01

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Thierry Pigot : “WordPress appartient la communauté”

Président de l’association WordPress Paris, Thierry Pigot était sur le salon Agora CMS pour expliquer la valeur de ces “systèmes de gestion de contenu” et plus particulièrement de WordPress, un outil qui propulse 25% des sites web dans le monde et 60% des CMS devant Joomla ou Drupal. Il évoque également les ambitions de WordPress dans l’univers du e-commerce et la gouvernance de cet outil, partagée entre Automattic et sa communauté de développeurs.

ITweb.tv | AgoraCMS

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Thierry Pigot: “WordPress belongs to the community”

President of the association WordPress Paris, Thierry Pigot was on the Agora CMS lounge to explain the value of these “content management systems” and specifically WordPress, a tool that powers 25% of websites in the world and 60% CMS Joomla or Drupal before. He also mentioned WordPress ambitions in the world of e-commerce and governance tool, shared by Automattic and its developer community.

ITweb.tv | AgoraCMS

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December 11, 2015 — The Open Innovation Toolkit, part of the Obama Administration’s Second Open Government National Action Plan, harnesses public ingenuity to help address scientific and societal challenges. The first half of the toolkit, focusing on citizen science and crowdsourcing, was developed in collaboration with over 20 government agencies and built on the WordPress Multisite platform. This session will be a case study review of the project, challenges, and lessons learned. We’ll cover how the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy leveraged WordPress as a CMS and federal volunteers to create a low-cost resource to facilitate open innovation within the U.S.