Angela Jin Podcast on WordCamp US 2020 Cancellation and the Future of WordPress Education
Questions covered
- When do you not use the Build process? (by Mark)
- Teri and Patty Mentioned using Webpack and Auto Refreshing. Not Using the build process for smaller themes, but using it for big projects.
- Mark mentioned he is trying a project with fewer build processes. He was inspired by the idea of not having a dependency on dev tools.
- If you had to build a site in a day, what theme would you use / How would you approach that? (by Mark) Ruby mentioned a theme which she uses to create a business card kind of website – Seedlet
- How to Manage galleries better? (by Brain)
- Ruby shared a link on creating galleries.
- Mark shared the link for gallery block in the block editor
- Mark mentioned using Jetpack Galleries
- Ryan mentioned another approach that can be using any FE Galley library and making it work in WordPress won’t be too much work.
- Mark shared the link for one such FE gallery – Lity
- Cron Jobs in WordPress (By Patty)
- Cron job based on time instead of Triggered when the user hits the website
- Aseem shared an example from bitnami where cron can be set up in Linux
- Mark shared a link for paid service which can trigger cron.php at a scheduled time.
- Action scheduler bloating database –
- Search (by Gnana)
- Plugins which can make search better –
- Aseem mentioned Ivory Search
- Mark mentioned. – Relavansi
- Mark mentioned – SearchWP can search PDF as well
- Ryan mentioned – Search & Filter
- Mark mentioned query filters can be used like –
https://yoursite.com/?s=search%20term&post_type=your_post_type - Gary asked about Elastic search
- Plugins which can make search better –
- Full Site Editing (by Ryan)
- Ruby – “Using these “Template Parts” with FSE compatible themes, you would be able to modify all these templates & template parts using Gutenberg editor.”
- Ruby shared a link
- Next meetup topics
- Hosting Panels (managed vs self-hosted)
- Anything with Block Editor
- Accessibility