Headless WordPress and You: A Practical Guide to Headless WordPress

A guided tour through the basics of headless WordPress. We will go through a very quick introduction to what exactly headless WordPress is. Then we will talk about why (or why not) to choose headless WordPress. Lastly, we will go over how to get started using headless WordPress with a real-world example of headless WordPress at its best.

Cloud on a Budget.

Step by step example of how to configure a your own WordPress hosting with Plesk and the AWS for about the cost of shared hosting. This course is meant to show people that setting up your own server isn’t as hard as they think.

I will go over basic set up of a AWS Lightsail I stance and provide instructions on how you can run basic maintenance, backups and security with plesk WordPress toolkit.

Developers: To get the most from this talk please have an AWS account and a registered domain with access to the DNS.

Welcome to Web 3.0, the internet you always wish you had.

I can have phone service on Verizon and you may choose to use AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint, but as long as we’ve got phones we can talk to each other or any other phone number that’s connected to the network. But why can’t Facebook users interact directly with Twitter users or Instagram users or vice versa? Crucially why couldn’t one website built on WordPress talk to another website built with Drupal or Kirby? The internet is an open communication platform after all! I’m going to show how this (and so much more magic) can all be done with some simple plugins in under an hour!

Over the past several years a group of dedicated bloggers, technologists, and designers has been innovating, building, and testing a suite of open W3C web standards to allow their personal websites to recreate the major pieces of interactive functionality that are part of the largest social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, etc. These larger pieces are now all working together across dozens of content management systems including WordPress, Drupal, WithKnown, ProcessWire, Elgg, Nucleus CMS, Craft, Django, Kirby, static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll and services like http://Micro.Blog and Mastodon. This means that instead of relying on smaller non-interoperable social media sites that obsessively surveil you and then pollute your stream with obtrusive ads, you can now better own and control your own data and comprehensive identity on your own domain name. In this talk we’ll take a high level look at W3C web specs including Webmention, WebSub, Micropub, and the forthcoming Microsub to see how you can make your own website a first class citizen on the (social) web. Using WordPress and a few simple plugins you can now close the circle of website-to-website intercommunication across the open web. Use your own website to read and consume web content, post your own status updates, bookmarks, likes, and replies while interacting directly with other websites. In many cases you can also do this with social platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, GitHub, Mastodon, and http://Micro.blog.