Category: Technology

Video: Creating Localised Experiences with GeoIP

Check out the video and deck from my first presentation on Thursday, 30 Apr 2015 at #WPLDN – Creating Localised User Experiences with GeoIP Here’s more about the talk and the slides are available below. Creating Localized User Experiences with GeoIP The Internet has made the world a much smaller place. Your website can reach practically anywhere on Earth. Wouldn’t it make sense to immediately serve your visitors the relevant, accurate content that they’re looking for, versus making them select their geographic location from a pulldown menu or a map? Not knowing the physical location of your visitors can limit … Continued

WooCommerce Scalability Talk

I’m talking at the London WooCommerce Meetup this evening about how to scale out a site that runs WooCommerce. I’ll go through a few different ways in which you can optimize your site in order to scale on any platform. The presentation is available on slideshare.net/eturbin. Woo commerce scalability notes from Edmund Turbin

Shortcodes for GeoIP

What is a shortcode? A short code is a placeholder for more advanced functionality. Shortcodes provide a simple way for content creators to call functions on a piece of code without prior development knowledge. A content creator can insert a shortcode in their page/post visual editor and WordPress will replace the shortcode with the intended output when the page is rendered. Shortcodes can be a single statement and can also have additional attributes. One popular way to embed a youtube video in your page is with the shortcode. An example of how this would look is [insert shortcode here]. The … Continued

First post

i’m typing this up at Heathrow on my way to Austin for training. Looking forward to meeting the WP Engine team, learning a ton of new things and experiencing Austin while SXSW is in full effect.  

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