January 14, 2020 — The workshop shall revolve around Elasticsearch, its importance in your WordPress website, why and when Elasticsearch should be preferred instead of WordPress default search. There will be discussion about setting up your own Elasticsearch instance and how to integrate it in your WordPress website. Further, workshop shall throw some light on getting “query” relevant content faster by unleashing the power of Elasticsearch.
Integration of Elasticsearch in various cases with WordPress APIs like WP_Query shall be discussed.

June 28, 2017 — いつも使ってる WordPress に検索サービスの Elasticsearch を連携してみた話。
Elasticsearchってどんなものなのか。連携することでどんなことが出来る/出来そうなのかについて話します。

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November 11, 2016 — In this talk I will share with you the latest technologies that will make your WordPress website lightning fast and at the same time more efficient and easy to scale. Performance optimizations are good for any site. They make your visitors happy and help you save on hosting costs. And what is even more, if your site is well optimized, you will also be ready for that moment of fame you’ve been waiting for, as well optimized sites are easy to scale. Here are the most important points I will cover:

* How to analyze the performance of your site and see where optimization is needed.
* Which are the best technologies that can improve your WordPress loading times.
* How to maintain a healthy, efficient and easily scalable database
* How to make your site search faster and more resource efficient with ElasticSearch
* How to properly add CDN on top of all optimization for best results.

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October 9, 2016 — Стек Elasticsearch, Logstash и Kibana используется в Automattic не только для выполнения поиска по более чем 100 миллионам сайтов, но и для создания и хранения логов, котоые потом могут быть использованы для разных нестандартный и интересных задач, о которых Александр и расскажет в своем докладе на WordCamp Moscow 2016.

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June 30, 2016 — WordPress search is notoriously lacking. Why? MySQL is not search optimized. Elasticsearch is a scalable database that when coupled with WordPress produces extremely powerful results. This talk will cover what Elasticsearch is, why it’s important, and integrating it with a WordPress website using a 10up open source plugin called ElasticPress. ElasticPress has become increasingly popular in the WordPress community even being leveraged by popular hosting companies such as WP Engine.

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