This document provides information on various WordPress plugins for membership sites, forms, social media integration, ecommerce, newsletters, and customer support. It summarizes the purpose and features of plugins like WP Members, BuddyPress, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, MailPress, Social Commenting, ShareBar, eShop, Shopped, and Ticket System. It also provides links to the plugin pages and notes the author's contact information and availability for consultation.
Introduction to some of the Accessibility Standards.
Accessibility consideration.
Ways to make the site accessible - HTML, ALT and TITLE, Links, CSS, Colour Contrast, Forms, Media, ARIA.
Third Party widgets/content.
Accessibility Checking / Testing.
Introduction to some of the Accessibility Standards.
Accessibility consideration.
Ways to make the site accessible - HTML, ALT and TITLE, Links, CSS, Colour Contrast, Forms, Media, ARIA.
Third Party widgets/content.
Accessibility Checking / Testing.
Using WordPress as a website (not a blog)Sara Rosso
A brief introduction to WordPress, a versatile open source CMS software that can be easily configured to be used as a website.
This presentation was originally given to the Foreign Press in Milan in June 2011.
All Things WordPress - The How, What and Why of SSLsMickey Mellen
This session was lead by Carel Bekker of ClickHOST and Mickey Mellen of GreenMellen Media. Learn about SSL certificates and why they're so important for your website.
We'll dig into why you need an SSL, how it can protect you, and how it can help you rank better. Then we'll dig into a hands-on checklist to walk through doing it on your own site.
Margaret Stewart of Facebook thinks designing elegant tools may be the highest-impact opportunity for designers today. At Pardot (part of Salesforce), we can attest to that.
The star of our app, Engagement Studio, was borne out of a desire to go deeper into interaction and interface design. By seeking out opportunities to make our users' experience truly meaningful, we blazed a trail that defied conventions and empowered the people we serve. A simple workflow builder became a canvas for bold automation and experimentation.
In this session, we’ll look at how our user-centric design process generated innovative new ideas that invite people to be creative. You’ll see how these phases came together to make meaningful improvements on a “common" interface:
- Reframing questions and infusing research early to discover opportunities
- Balancing product compromise with design principles
- Validating inspired concepts through clear UX objectives
If you’ve been meaning to revamp your website for a while—but haven’t gotten very far—you aren’t alone. Ready to finally check it off the list? Actionable steps are the way forward. In this talk, we'll go over how to approach your WordPress website like you would a client project and the 12 steps necessary to get it done.
Using WordPress as a website (not a blog)Sara Rosso
A brief introduction to WordPress, a versatile open source CMS software that can be easily configured to be used as a website.
This presentation was originally given to the Foreign Press in Milan in June 2011.
All Things WordPress - The How, What and Why of SSLsMickey Mellen
This session was lead by Carel Bekker of ClickHOST and Mickey Mellen of GreenMellen Media. Learn about SSL certificates and why they're so important for your website.
We'll dig into why you need an SSL, how it can protect you, and how it can help you rank better. Then we'll dig into a hands-on checklist to walk through doing it on your own site.
Margaret Stewart of Facebook thinks designing elegant tools may be the highest-impact opportunity for designers today. At Pardot (part of Salesforce), we can attest to that.
The star of our app, Engagement Studio, was borne out of a desire to go deeper into interaction and interface design. By seeking out opportunities to make our users' experience truly meaningful, we blazed a trail that defied conventions and empowered the people we serve. A simple workflow builder became a canvas for bold automation and experimentation.
In this session, we’ll look at how our user-centric design process generated innovative new ideas that invite people to be creative. You’ll see how these phases came together to make meaningful improvements on a “common" interface:
- Reframing questions and infusing research early to discover opportunities
- Balancing product compromise with design principles
- Validating inspired concepts through clear UX objectives
If you’ve been meaning to revamp your website for a while—but haven’t gotten very far—you aren’t alone. Ready to finally check it off the list? Actionable steps are the way forward. In this talk, we'll go over how to approach your WordPress website like you would a client project and the 12 steps necessary to get it done.
No One Cares About Your Content (Yet): WordCamp Phoenix 2013Cliff Seal
While content as “king” may not be the best analogy, the importance of well-written, useful, textual content cannot be overstated. Tone can affect engagement, keywords can make or break your SEO, length can kill interest–great writing is vital. Content is not just blog posts or “About” pages, it is everything that gives information (including the way the information itself is presented).
You have a great business or cause, but there are countless others just a click away. How do you find the right people to get involved, and how do you make them care?
In this session, we will refresh how you view your own web content by seeing it through the eyes of the user, and we will discuss methods of improving UX by employing simple and effective psychology alongside common-sense SEO. We will also explore how methods of effective in-person conversation can be applied to web content strategy. Then, since better prospects will be finding and reading your content, I will show you how to target your audience, measure the results, and constantly improve your outreach.
Through being both appropriately satirical and data-driven, I take a unique approach to getting content creators to spend some time in the shoes of their audience, revealing some of the absurdities of our assumptions and demonstrating how to challenge and test them. Data, empathy, logic, and optimization, together, always lead to better engagement. More concretely, we will discuss:
- How visitors measure and absorb value when viewing web content (using data, psychology, and theories)
- How real conversation teaches us how to engage with visitors
- How to systematically and sustainably empathize with your target audience
- How to make content memorable through positive emotional interaction
- How to define and focus on your target audience
- How to identify and test your assumptions about user interaction
People Over Pixels: Meaningful UX That ScalesCliff Seal
Why does a user's experience matter—not just to an organization, but in a broader sense? And, if we can find a deeper meaning in designing for others, how can that help us achieve business goals?
Design is finally getting some attention in tech, and we ought to realize the importance of that opportunity and capitalize on it for the good of everyone. You might be surprised at how a focus on helping people actually results in the metrics that everyone cares about, like user happiness and team efficiency—and I'll back it up with statistics you can take back with you.
So join us as we talk about the foundation of great UX and how to scale our methods (no matter what size your organization is). Simply doing more of the same ol' stuff won't cut it, so we'll discuss how subtle shifts in thinking can help us continually improve our work for the benefit of everyone it touches.
Death to Boring B2B Marketing: How Applying Design Thinking Drives SuccessCliff Seal
Somewhere along the line, B2B marketing became less of an exercise in creativity and more a balancing act in the dark. Endless tools, contradictory best practices, and mind-numbing levels of optimization dominate the modern marketer’s day-to-day. After all, you still have to hit objective goals to prove your worth to the business—even though it’s almost impossible to know how each decision and effort impacts the overall outcome.
So, you play it safe. You administer tools instead of creating and experimenting. And you miss opportunities to truly excel, because just hitting your numbers is hard enough. No more! It’s time for you to do what you do best again: fearlessly connect with your target market and build empowered customers.
The principles and methods of "design thinking” will equip you to reorient around more audacious goals and pursue a higher level of creativity and risk. Embrace collaboration, conversation, ideation, and testing to find hidden opportunities—all without jeopardizing the good you’ve done so far.
Let’s put tools in their place and be unboring together.
The incredible power of the WordPress platform combined with the easy-to-teach-and-use interface of the admin area allows you, as a developer or project manager, to start an NPO off on the right foot while allowing for scalability- not only in a website context, but in all forms of online media.
Choosing typefaces and applying them to your WordPress website can be frustrating, even designers go around and around about this. There are so many options and decisions to make—it’s hard to know where to begin. What gives?
You will learn the importance of typography in website design, how to choose font families, and tips for implementation. Armed with the basic understanding of typography and how it relates to the success of your website, you will be confident the choices you make will be based on more than a whim.
Doug Devitre presents for CEBAA - Colorado Exclusive Buyer Agents Association at their annual meeting how to use social media to build relationships with clients and provide a higher level of customer service.
We describe and compare here some of the best companies which provide the best social networking services.
First of all let's compare some of the main providers of social networking services.
SocialGO
What make their social networking ofeerings unique:
Stop the Green Light Panic - Lisa MelegariDavid Wolfpaw
Anyone who’s used Yoast has faced the tedious process of struggling to get that green light. But SEO is not the same process for all pages, or even all types of websites. In this talk, Lisa will share the basic ins and outs of SEO and point out situations where the “green light” rules can be broken. She’ll also cover some helpful tools and tricks to get the most out of your SEO beyond Yoast.
php[world] Hooks, Actions and Filters Oh My!David Wolfpaw
A basic primer for WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters. If you are getting started with WordPress and have basic PHP knowledge, these examples are a quick demonstration of how to extend and expand upon WordPress for your sites and your clients.
A basic primer for WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters. If you are getting started with WordPress and have basic PHP knowledge, these examples are a quick demonstration of how to extend and expand upon WordPress for your sites and your clients.
WordPress as a Minimum Viable Product - WordCamp Tampa 2014David Wolfpaw
WordPress Empowerment: Moving from Idea to MVP
WordPress is an easy way to get started building your minimum viable product. We’re going to discuss a few examples and ideas of using WordPress to quickly create a new project. We’ll then cover a few ways that you could get started, even with little to no PHP knowledge.
Becoming a Respected WordPress DeveloperDavid Wolfpaw
A few thoughts on becoming a respected developer for WordPress. This includes the basics of the loop, template hierarchies, custom post types, determining a workflow and helping others among other things.
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
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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/
2. Membership Websites
Contact Forms/Newsletters
Social Marketing
Ecommerce Storefronts
Customer Service Support
A Note on WordPress 3.4
3. Easy To Use
Set User Registration and Landing
Pages
Inline Registration
Toggle Pages/Posts to User Levels
Free
http://butlerblog.com/wp-members/
4.
5. Extremely Versatile
Learning Curve
Build Your Own Social Network
Allow Membership
Levels/Subscriptions
Free with Premium Addons
http://buddypress.org/
6.
7. Allows Easy Contact Form Creation
Does Not Offer Multipage or
Conditional Logic
Customizable Emails
Allows Ajax Submit, Captcha, Akismet
Free
http://contactform7.com/
8.
9. Extremely Versatile
Allows Multipage Forms and
Conditional Logic
Build Order Forms and Processing
Forms
$39 - $199
Worth the Investment
http://www.gravityforms.com/
10.
11. Allows You to Use Your Site's Theme
Collect Emails From Registered Users
Double Opt-in
Emails For Comments or Regular
Updates
Free
http://www.mailpress.org
12.
13. Allow Comments via Facebook and
Twitter
Handles Comment Threads
Shows User Handles Next to Names
Displays Reposts
Free
http://alexking.org/blog/2011/08/11
/wordpress-social-plugin
14.
15. Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Email, etc.
Sticks to Side of Pages and Posts
Can Allow Vertical or Horizontal
Positioning
Allows Custom Positioning, Multiple
Buttons
Free
http://devgrow.com/sharebar-
wordpress-plugin/
16.
17. Set Each Page/Post as a Product
Allows Option Sets, Shipping, Tax
Multiple Payment Gateway Options
Multisite Capable
Free
http://quirm.net/eshop-2/
18.
19. Allows Custom Shipping/Tax Options
Can Group Products on Pages
Gives Support for Custom Taxonomies
Huge Selection of Payment Gateways
Free With Premium Addons
http://getshopped.org/
20.
21. WordPress Advanced Ticket System
Allow Customer Interaction
Respond to Tickets Via Email and
Dashboard
Set Multiple Departments
Free
http://www.ticket-system.net/
22.
23. Happy Birthday WordPress!
New oEmbed Features (Insert Twitter
Links Into Posts)
Query Efficiency Improvements
Theme Customizer
Touch Support: jQuery UI Touch Punch
HTML in Captions