So this is kinda neat. I added a tiny little widget to my WordPress dashboard that allows me to speed up the process of publishing microposts (tweets) on my site.
Today I spent several hours trying to help a friend think up ways to take control of the messaging for his dance organization. It's more or less just him running it at the moment but it's on the order of 100 people who are interested and sometimes come to his dance events. Right now it's communicating mostly through Facebook and Instagram. We talked about ways to make a website, forum, blog, sell subscriptions, calendaring 1/
It quickly became obvious how much "enclosure" there is in tech. You can't even add a webcal .ics file to your android calendar! (Not directly, requires login to desktop Google calendar). And you can't export a Google calendar as an ics! (At all). In any case lots of companies want to be the middleman in your business eventually taking a huge chunk of revenues for what is essentially a trivial service.
For the time being, the #WordPress team doesn't want to add #JPEGXL support, even in their "Modern Image Formats" plugin, because Chrome & AVIF n' stuff. Uuuuuurghhh 😒
If you're going to #WordCamp Montclair (@WordcampMontclair) on Saturday June 1, 2024, join me for an Unofficial WordCamp Breakfast at Park West Diner & Cafe at 1400 US-46, Little Falls, NJ 07424 at 7am.
Wollt ihr mir helfen? Ich würde mich über einen #Boost :BoostOK: sehr freuen - danke vorab :)
Als ausgebildeter IT-Systemkaufmann war ich selbstständig mit der Erstellung einfacher Internetseiten (HTML/CSS/WordPress) und als "ebay-Verkaufsagent".
In zahlreichen vertrauensvollen Gesprächen mit Privat- und Firmenkund*innen konnte ich optimale Lösungen entwickeln und ggf. in #WordPress schulen.
Die eine oder andere schöne Erfahrung blieb mir aus dieser Zeit guter Erinnerung :)
Mein Spezialgebiet:
Online-Kundenservice ( #CustomerCare / #SoftwareSupport ), vom Onlineshop und über ebay und Amazon, bis hin zum Support spezialisierter Branchen-Software; #B2C und #B2B, auf Deutsch und #Englisch (B2-C1), per Ticket-System, Mail und telefonisch.
In diesem Bereich (o.ä.) würde ich auch gern weiterhin meine Stärke der Kommunikation mit Kund*innen ausspielen.
#WordPress#accessibility - if you're blind and want to go back to 90s technology, use #gutenberg editor's "move block" upwards or downwards key combination. ctrl-alt-shift-t for up, ctrl-alt-shift-y for down, well, screen reader won't tell you the block has been moved and you'll relive the 90s experience when you had to count button pressures to learn a remote control or cd player's usage. Moving block from toolbar is correctly notified instead. Hope it's fixed soon! https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/61168
Any tips on how to connect a WordPress form to Google Sheets without a 3rd party premium service?
I have a form that is rarely used by people (usually older folks) who want marketing mailed to them instead of email. The best way to do this is to have a form where they input their mailing info and have it connect to a Google spreadsheet.
Unless there's a better solution?
I don't want to have another annual plugin subscription to do this.
En el último episodio de HECHO CON BLOQUES hablamos de las nuevas funciones de #WordPress y el uso de #IA para mejorar textos y generar contenido. Se analiza el uso de herramientas de inteligencia artificial como la «escritura mágica» de Canva para corregir errores ortográficos y generar texto. También se habla de una extensión de Chrome llamada Merlin que puede usar IA para responder automáticamente a los correos electrónicos.
This post explores how I’m tackling the support system around Siren, and how I think it’s going to stand out as top-tier support. I also add some hot-takes on how much I hate onboarding flows😅.
Cancelled my wordpress.com plan today. Started using it during a lull in self-hosting.
Not intending to self-host Wordpress though - are there any good tools to convert Wordpress exports into something usable? I'm considering running a static blog off markup or something.