WordPress Orlando

Official WordPress User Group of Orlando, FL

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Accessibility and Security on the Web

Helena Zubkow – Including Everyone: Web Accessibility 101

If your website wouldn’t work for anyone living in the state of New York, would that be a launch-blocker? Of course! So why are we ignoring the even larger population of people with disabilities?

Designed for developers, project managers, and directors alike, the goal of this code-free session is to introduce everyone to the fundamental principals and business related factors of web accessibility.

Together we’ll explore the findings from data gathered at DrupalCon LA regarding accessibility in our very own Drupal community and examine the financial viability of a web accessibility initiative in an industry where time is money.

Based on my experience as a web accessibility specialist from both the perspective of a project manager and a front-end developer, I’ll share the knowledge I’ve gained with you to address the following important questions:

– What is web accessibility?
– Why does web accessibility matter to my users?
– Why does web accessibility matter for my company and clients?
– How will a web accessibility initiative affect my bottom line?
– How can I include web accessibility in my company’s culture and work plans?
– What tools can I use to assess and improve accessibility in my projects?
– How can I help the web accessibility community?

I am a ‘bot who loves to make the web better! I enjoy Drupal, web accessibility, and the occasional practical joke. My home is in sunny Orlando where I live with my handsome fiancé and a very mischievous Blue Heeler. The Drupal community is amazing, and I love being a part of it.

 

 

Irina Blumenfeld – Migrate WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

As more sites transition to HTTPS and Google giving preferred ranking to secure sites, it became important to properly install a TLS/SSL Certificate.
The process of moving to HTTPS can be intimidating starting from obtaining certificate to migrating all content to HTTPS.

Recently, Let’s Encrypt started offering Free TSL/SSL Certificates. CloudFlare offers Free TLS/SSL with HTTP/2 support

We’ll discuss how you can obtain a Free TLS/SSL Certificate, make your content HTTPS friendly, and how to migrate existing content to HTTPS.

We’ll also go over the benefits of serving your pages over secure connection, common problems with transition, and how you can test your certificate configuration.

See Irina’s post about Migrating WordPress to HTTPS on her site.

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WordPress Local Development Environments

If you missed the meetup on local development environments or need links to the software that we used, we’ve compiled a list of links to download all of the tools.

Demian Seiler – XAMPP (and MAMP and WAMP)

https://www.mamp.info/en/
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

Adam Soucie – ServerPress

https://serverpress.com/
Adam’s Slidedeck

David Laietta – Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

https://www.vagrantup.com/
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
https://github.com/bradp/vv/

Setting up each of these tools is fairly straightforward with the instructions on their sites, but as always, meet us at the meetup if you’ve got questions, or post up in the Facebook group.

http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Orlando/events/229106888/

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Meetup – WordPress SEO

Chris Edwards – Optimizing Your Website and Identifying Quality Content for SEO

SEO is a broad topic with many pieces and parts. I will dive into some of the secret tricks I have used on over 450 different websites that help them out rank their competition. I will focus on WordPress and one page websites/landing pages. Time permitting, I will discuss the importance of creating a blog for your business, covering how to write your topic title, best way to structure your article and how to identify the best content to blog about that will generate the best quality traffic.

Sandy Edwards – Local SEO and Why it Is Vital

Local SEO plays a large part in the overall placement of your website on the search engines. It involves 4 major players and 3 main ideas. Come and join us to see how to go about making sure your business, or organization’s Local SEO can be improved. I will discuss Google Plus, Yahoo, Bing, and Yelp listings and how to claim and optimize them. Also, I will cover the importance of the local listing providers, local citations, and why reviews matter. Time permitting, I will walk you through some of the roadblocks you can run into with local listings and how to overcome them.

Tools covered during this meetup:

Desk.PM – Minimal Writing interface for all sorts of platforms

PostStatus – Daily WP news from a talented developer and writer

DeepCrawl – High Performance Website Crawler

Hemingway App – Improve your writing

Grammarly – automatically find and correct writing mistakes

Smart Manager – WP eCommerce bulk editor for product management

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Lisa Melegari – Clean Content

For our second talk at the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Lisa Melegari taught us a bit about cleaning up content on your site, as well as reviewing past content to make sure that it complies with best SEO practices.

Strip away SEO tricks and the core principal of ranking on Google is quality content. Google loves fresh, clean content and sometimes our page lists and blog rolls can get a bit clogged. De-clutter your old content, put a fresh spin on your best articles, and see how a little spring cleaning can improve your WordPress site performance!

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Gregory Pearcey – Sparkling Structures

At the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Gregory Pearcey taught us a bit about making site structures and sitemaps to determine what pages we need, as well as investigating the template structure of a theme.

Most of us choose our WordPress themes based on the way it looks and we end up doing zero research on our theme’s template structure. Luckily WordPress allows us to easily modify our theme’s template structure, so that any theme can have a solid foundation. This presentation will review what files your theme should have that help to keep viewers engaged on your site. It will also cover how to alter your theme’s files, so they are optimized for search engines, leaving you with a theme that has a sparkling structure.

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Adam Soucie – Dirtless Databases

At the Spring Cleaning meetup on 3 May, Adam Soucie discussed methods for cleaning up your WordPress database and why you should do it. He offers several suggestions, including optimizing and repairing tables, as well as shows some code snippets to help and suggests plugins to use. Check out his slide deck below.

Is your site still running slow, like it’s just coming out of hibernation? Have you tried every optimization trick from caching to throwing cash at it? It might just be your database dragging you down. For both dedicated developers and beginner bloggers, we’ll show you MySQL commands, WordPress functions, and easy-to-use plugins that’ll get your databases slimmed down and ready for swimsuit season

For more information on Adam and his work, check out his site at http://adamsoucie.com/, and follow him on Twitter.