The document provides 40 tips over 5 sections to optimize a WordPress website for speed, SEO, maintenance, social media, and analytics. It recommends plugins and tools to improve performance, rankings, backups, uptime monitoring, social sharing, and traffic tracking. The author also promotes his own services for WordPress support and optimization.
I've Got 99 Problems and a Keyword Ain't One!Woj Kwasi
Not all keywords are created equal. Search engine results pages can look dramatically different depending on a searcher’s intent. This changes their search experience as well as how they discover and interact with your content.
Discover how to take your keyword research to the next level as we take you on a journey through time and space drawing on Kwasi Studios’ study of search engine results pages for 2,000 keywords. You’ll learn to place proven keyword research techniques in the context of user journeys, intent and the diverse range of properties that form search engine results pages.
Woj recently went to Mozcon & he'll talk about the future of SEO in a zero-click, voice & fraggled world. He'll cover why it's important to shift your mindset, stop faking it and our need to run tests. He may even discuss building your brand to kick ass locally, making your content more memorable and ranking for questions. Heck, why not throw in how we can stop losing our money to Google and a set of steak knives!
How to make your Web Development project a success. What you should do? And here is a mistake. You'd better ask What you shouldn't do. I've prepared a pile of articles covering top 10 mistakes when it comes to starting a website development project. Why repeat someone's mistakes when it is much easier to leave them aside. Do not waste your time and money on solving that deadly mistakes.
Visual search has the potential to change how we discover new ideas and products. As such, the likes of Pinterest, Google, and Amazon have made visual search a priority.
It is a complex field, however, requiring sophisticated technology and huge quantities of training data.
In this presentation, you will discover:
- What visual search is
- How visual search works
- How effective the main visual search engines are today
- What you can do to start optimizing for visual search today
In this talk I share my findings after 4 years of working on Digital PR. We'll go through different ways of making an attractive campaign that journalists would like to feature on their articles.
I don't use Linkdin a lot but you can find me at @JazBatisti on twitter if you have any questions.
A presentation on how to use Houzz as a an advertising and marketing platform to built environment companies, architecture, interior design firms, design build contractors and those companies who supply them.
You know WordPress, you're probably using it for some of your sites. You've done all the basics as far as optimization, it's time to go deeper. Showing you the advanced controls of several WordPress plugins and the new possibilities offered by the recent WordPress releases, Joost is going to show you how you can use WordPress even more effectively to build and optimize your sites. For those of you who dare show your sites, Joost can even give advice for improvements right on the spot. So bring your laptops and make sure to take notes, as this session is going to be packed with tips and tricks.
I've Got 99 Problems and a Keyword Ain't One!Woj Kwasi
Not all keywords are created equal. Search engine results pages can look dramatically different depending on a searcher’s intent. This changes their search experience as well as how they discover and interact with your content.
Discover how to take your keyword research to the next level as we take you on a journey through time and space drawing on Kwasi Studios’ study of search engine results pages for 2,000 keywords. You’ll learn to place proven keyword research techniques in the context of user journeys, intent and the diverse range of properties that form search engine results pages.
Woj recently went to Mozcon & he'll talk about the future of SEO in a zero-click, voice & fraggled world. He'll cover why it's important to shift your mindset, stop faking it and our need to run tests. He may even discuss building your brand to kick ass locally, making your content more memorable and ranking for questions. Heck, why not throw in how we can stop losing our money to Google and a set of steak knives!
How to make your Web Development project a success. What you should do? And here is a mistake. You'd better ask What you shouldn't do. I've prepared a pile of articles covering top 10 mistakes when it comes to starting a website development project. Why repeat someone's mistakes when it is much easier to leave them aside. Do not waste your time and money on solving that deadly mistakes.
Visual search has the potential to change how we discover new ideas and products. As such, the likes of Pinterest, Google, and Amazon have made visual search a priority.
It is a complex field, however, requiring sophisticated technology and huge quantities of training data.
In this presentation, you will discover:
- What visual search is
- How visual search works
- How effective the main visual search engines are today
- What you can do to start optimizing for visual search today
In this talk I share my findings after 4 years of working on Digital PR. We'll go through different ways of making an attractive campaign that journalists would like to feature on their articles.
I don't use Linkdin a lot but you can find me at @JazBatisti on twitter if you have any questions.
A presentation on how to use Houzz as a an advertising and marketing platform to built environment companies, architecture, interior design firms, design build contractors and those companies who supply them.
You know WordPress, you're probably using it for some of your sites. You've done all the basics as far as optimization, it's time to go deeper. Showing you the advanced controls of several WordPress plugins and the new possibilities offered by the recent WordPress releases, Joost is going to show you how you can use WordPress even more effectively to build and optimize your sites. For those of you who dare show your sites, Joost can even give advice for improvements right on the spot. So bring your laptops and make sure to take notes, as this session is going to be packed with tips and tricks.
Slides from the Wordpress 102 workshop (afternoon session) at the Canadian Association of Labour Media Conference (CALM) in Hamilton, Ontario - May 26th, 2012
https://slocumthemes.com/build-perfect-wordpress-website/
NOT downloadable from here. Please, download from Slocum page
How To Build The Perfect
WordPress Website
A 9-Part course by SlocumThemes.com
40 WordPress Tips: Security, Engagement, SEO & Performance - SMX Sydney 2013Bastian Grimm
My talk at #SMX Sydney 2013 featuring 40 tips on WordPress security, WordPress SEO as well as a huge set of plug-in recommendation to get the maximum out of WordPress.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
19. 01 Tip Section #1: Speed
Install WP Super Cache
With GZIP enabled!
20. 02 Tip Section #1: Speed
Move .htaccess directives to your
server config (if possible)
And disable .htaccess parsing.
21. 03 Tip Section #1: Speed
Combine CSS files into one
big CSS file
Same goes for JavaScript,
which should be loaded in the footer.
22. 04 Tip Section #1: Speed
Use CSS sprites
Ask your developer if you don’t know
what this is.
23. 05 Tip Section #1: Speed
Add a PHP opcode cache
Pick one, all are better than having none.
24. 06 Tip Section #1: Speed
Kill some plugins...
And try to replace them for similar ones.
Some plugins are god awful.
25. 07 Tip Section #1: Speed
Still slow? Switch to better hosting.
WestHost rocks, go to
http://www.westhost.com/blog-yoast.html
(yes that’s an affiliate link)
36. 16 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Backup your database
every few hours
Use Lester Chans WP-DBManager plugin
37. 17 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Optimize your database every day
Using the same WP-DBManager plugin
38. 18 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Backup your files every day
Use WordPress Backup:
www.blogtrafficexchange.com/wordpress-backup
39. 19 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check your queries
Use the Debug Queries plugin to check for
plugins gone mad
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-queries/
40. 20 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Run Akismet
Kill those spam comments.
41. 21 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check the referrers for comments
http://tools.davidnaylor.co.uk/
42. 22 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Remove those nonsense widgets
Technorati rank? Wel.... OK
Blog value: nonsense.
43. 23 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Track your uptime
Use Pingdom, or another tool,
but be the first to know when your blog is down.
44. 24 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Check 404’s
Use the 404 notifier:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/404-notifier/
and fix them using Redirection
45. 25 Tip Section #3: Maintenance
Remove unneccesary meta info
// Remove Really simple discovery link
remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link');
// Remove Windows Live Writer link
remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');
// Remove the version number
remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');
54. 32 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use Google Analytics
(and my plugin for it)
55. 33 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use RSS link tagger
rebelic.nl/rsslinktagger
56. 34 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track traffic coming from Twitter:
yoast.com/twitter-analytics/
57. 35 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Install canonical URL’s so your
Analytics doesn’t
interfere with your SEO
58. 36 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use comment redirect to track first
time commenters
59. 37 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track comments as a goal!
Use an onclick javascript with a minor delay.
60. 38 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Track RSS subscribers
the same way
61. 39 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Start optimizing:
which traffic leads to
more subscribers?
And yes that means forgetting about Digg.
62. 40 Tip Section #5: Analytics
Use my blog metrics plugin
Improve yourself each month!
63. 41 Tip Section #6: Shameless plug
Bonus tip #41:
Can’t fix it? Don’t have the time to?
Hire me & my team to do it for you:
joost@orangevalley.nl
+31 6 24 555 808