January 9, 2017 — One of the most important parts of building a WordPress site from scratch, is brainstorming and building out the various types of data, and how they relate to each other.

In this talk we will cover:
Creating Custom Post Types
Creating Custom Taxonomies
Using Metadata for CPT’s and taxonomies
How best to make relationships between these two data types.
How to build performant queries.
And lastly we will look at some basic caching techniques that we can employ with Transients and/or Object Cache to make these queries even more performant.

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May 17, 2016 — Nello speech vengono analizzati i principali problemi relativi alla SEO on-site presenti nei siti in WordPress. In particolare si parla di: gestione dei meta title e description, duplicazione dei contenuti, gestione dei tag e delle categorie, utilizzo degli status code http, gestione dell’architettura informativa del sito e del linking interno.
Per ognuna delle tematiche trattate vengono fornite le best practices e i plugins che permettono di risolvere in maniera definitiva i problemi di ottimizzazione e di ottenere un’indicizzazione ottimale.

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February 9, 2016 — Edit WordCamp Videos Part 1

Video files and metadata

February 7, 2016 — With taxonomies and their individual terms, you can structure and categorize posts in various ways. That’s a matter of common knowledge. This session will broaden your mind, though, because there’s much more to taxonomies and terms. You can easily link individual taxonomies and synchronize their terms, you can use taxonomies for users, and you can facilitate taxonomies to store meta data. Finally, we will have a look at WordPress 4.4’s new feature: term meta.

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