Birgit Pauli-Haack of Pauli Systems will walk you through the basics of SEO and how to make sure you ongoing postings are helping your site’s search engine visibility. She shows you are few tools you can use to test your own site, what to look for on Google Search Console, and how to submit your sidemaps. You see how to start using Yoast SEO plugin to improve your writing focus before you publish your next blog post or landing page.
Charlie Rose of SEOMechanic, will then take it to the next level and talk about Local SEO and gives you tips and tricks of keyword search, ways = to find out what people are actually searching for. And how to gauge intent of your visitors. He’ll mention a few of mistakes to avoid.
Charlie Rose has 20 years of experience helping companies fast-track success in organic search results. You can read more about Charlie on the seomanic.com website
Birgit Pauli-Haack, founded of Pauli Systems a web development and strategy company in 2002 and with the team of developers, designers, copy writers and project managers, she helps business and organizations how to connect online with their customers and donors. Check out her full bio on the Pauli Systems’ website.
Between Mid April and Mid May, we conducted our topics survey among our members and here are the results.
The Top 6 WordPress Topics are now scheduled for the second half of 2018
Ensuring Search Engine Visibility – Onsite SEO (July 21, 2018)
Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls to Avoid When Moving Your Site to SSL (August 16, 2018)
Reusable Blocks for Content Creators (Gutenberg) (September 20, 2018)
3rd Party Editors for WordPress (October 18, 2018)
REST API, Best practices for Developers (November 15, 2018)
The Business of Being a Web Developer (December 20, 2018)
Call for Volunteers
We won’t have a meeting in June, both our co-organizers will be traveling. One of the questions in the survey was “Would you be interested in organizing an event within WordPress Meetup SWFL?”. 50% of the participants answered Maybe(6) or Yes(3). When we get back, we will schedule a video conference call with all to discuss how we can get more people involved in organizing meetups. If you are interested, feel free to submit your name, via email to gcicinelli@gmail.com and you’ll be invited to the video call, too.
Online Events for WordPress Developers
Online JavaScript for WordPress Conference June 29th, 2018!
Learn Javascript Deeply – Matt Mullenweg, State of the Word 2015
Gutenberg Development ~ Beginner's Tip of the Day #24 🤓:
As it will roll out at first, Gutenberg is not a replacement for rich front end site or page builder plugins. It is a greatly enhanced editing experience, but not a replacement.. yet. #WordPress#Gutenberg#Deeply
Gutenberg Development ~ Beginner's Tip of the Day #16 🤓:
If you find yourself starting to or wanting to rebuild Core blocks… It's possibly time to switch to a template or reusable blocks approach.#WordPress#Gutenberg#Deeply
While the audio, video and single image widget section were already merged into Core with 4.8, the Gallery widget is slated to be merged into core for the 4.9 release.
We did our own test on our test site. I really like it:-) It also shows, that you need to be consistent when uploading images to your library. The Widget displays the caption section for the image underneath the image, and it looks much nicer if you fill out the caption field for all images to be displayed in the Widget.
How to use the Gallery Widget?
Got to Appearance > Widget
Click on Galllery widget and select the widget section
Give the widget a Title
Click on “Add Media” to select the respective images from the Media Library
Make adjustments to other settings, like column number and type of display
Click on “Insert Gallery” button
Preview in Gallery Widget admin screen
Click on Save
Note: You might see in the video that the desired number of columns is set to 2, however, the display in the widget admin screen shows 3 columns. That is a known issue and already in the issue tracker as #190
Livestream ticketsfor Couch WordCampers will again be available for free. They will be released closer to the event. You can subscribe to updates at the website
Gutenberg – 1.3
Since our meeting, there were two more updates to the plugins. It’s now in version 1.3. If you’d like to test it but don’t want to set-up a new test site, send me birgit.pauli@gmail.com an email and I will give you access to the tt.wpswfl.org site where we keep the Gutenberg plugin updated
You can catch up all things Gutenberg on this Storify including links to online discussions, documentation, blog posts on how to interact w/ Gutenberg in Themes and Plugins.
WordPress ditched React… see what happened next.
Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress.org will not use Reactjs as it’s new javascript library because of the license that is attached to the open-source library. This decision requires a rewrite of Gutenberg, once the decision is made with of alternative Javascript libraries, the Gutenberg time will change over to the new framework.
This will delay the release of Gutenberg a few weeks and with it the 5.0 release.
if you have a Gmail account and you need more email addresses, you don’t need to create a new account. Just add a + sign after the handle and another string before the @ sign. Example:
How to get backlinks for your site and how to disawow bad ones
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Creating web apps with WordPress & Gravity Forms
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3rd Party Editors for WordPress
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The Business of being a Web Developer
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Make WP_CLI Work For You: Extending WP_CLI With Custom Commands
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How to find and work with hosting companies?
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The Top 6 Topics will be scheduled.
We already have speakers for the following topics:
How to set-up an e-commerce site and evaluate features – Chris Christoff
Understanding WordPress Vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF, WTF) – Chris Wiegman
Creating web apps with WordPress & Gravity Forms – Colleen Brady
Tools & Plugins to Schedule Social Media posts – Birgit Pauli-Haack on September 21, 2017
We are in the process of coordinating dates with the speakers. The meetings will be announced on Meetup. but you can already mark your calendars with the dates.
Save the Meeting Dates:
All 6 pm all at Rocket Lounge, Downtown, Fort Myers.
September 21, 2017 – Tools & Plugins to Schedule Social Media posts
October 19, 2017
November 16, 2017
December 21, 2017
January 18, 2018, and
February 15, 2018
Question: What topics do you find missing?
Answers:
Dealing with online harassment; hiding identity online — (not a WordPress topic)
WordPress 101
How to prevent or avoid spam comments and messages, if that’s even possible (Should be covered in the Plugin Topic)
Troubleshooting – where DIY’ers can find help for some nagging issues
REST API
Best practices for developers
We keep the suggestions related to WordPress for the next survey, which will be held in December.
John Maeda talked about the Three Kinds of Design. He used his Design Tech Report 2017 PDF as prompts on screen, which was interesting.
You can read his Design Tech Report here. You can also listen to the report via Vimeo.
Listen to John Maeda explains how WordPress actually produces Computational Designers. It’s in this video close to the end:
— Birgit Pauli-Haack – next #WCEU (@bph) July 18, 2017
I particularly was fascinated by Maeda’s remarks about China. Listen to him yourself. Especially how Chinese people use their
smartphones.
John Maeda @johnmaeda On China: how.chinese designers work with mobile. QR Codes for tracking offline interaction and voice blogging #WCEUpic.twitter.com/YfIBlqL3x7
— Birgit Pauli-Haack – next #WCEU (@bph) June 16, 2017
CSS Grid – Creating Web Layouts the right way! Finally.
CSS Grid is finally here. I had given up on ever getting into the nitty-gritty of Cascading Styles sheets. Our designer-developer is so proficient in it, that I was able to delegate that part since 2006 or so. Wholeheartedly agree with Morten, when he says “Web Layouts are broken. We just refined how we break them.”
NEED AND EXAMPLE?
Layout files like this are not uncommon. They are almost a badge of honor. Right?
For everyone who wants to really dive into the talk and see Morten go to all of his 106 slides, watch it on WordPress.TV
Well worth your time!
Cathedral and Bazaar
How do we build Community? Like we build open-source. Eric Raymond wrote about his time at Linux – the open-source operating system, in his book Cathedral and Bazaar. Andrea Middleton at WordCamp Europe