SEO/Analytics, WordPress, WooCommerce, Machine Learning, IT, mobile, technology, and UX
I’m going totally off topic, but hackers, developers and geeks in general have a continuous need for caffeine. Great quantities are required to code or build.
So if you are in Rome, you might as well get caffeinated with something really good.
Here espressos and cappuccinos are the primary source of caffeine (there are very few places where to have good tee). Drinking these is a ritual, something close to sacred. There are variants to meet the taste of every
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A couple of years ago, I accepted the challenge of setting up the digital presence of a Mobile Operator Startup. We started working early November and were challenged to be online by December 15th.
When you are put in front of impossible deadlines you need shortcuts. I met with my new colleagues and they told what we had: a LAMP infrastructure and PHP development skills. We agreed on employing WordPress with WooCommerce, to buy a commercial template and
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Recently I gave a talk at Wordcamp Rome 2018 about “Using WordPress in a large business” where I touched the key challenges addressed in managing a high traffic e-commerce website powered by WooCommerce and WordPress.
One of the topics was about considering your database “like a garden”, keeping it from overgrowing and maintaining it clean. As the number of orders increase, the impact on database performance can be devastating.
We have addressed this issue drastically, importing orders
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Some days ago I attended a presentation by Oded Lavie to a group of parents and students at the Open Day of a university. In his profile on LinkedIN, Oded Lavie describes himself as a “Creative thinker. Curiosity driven. Problem Solver. Content lover. Helper. Mentor. Learner. Speaker. Proud Omni-Potenialite”.
His talk was inspiring. He made the point that we should do only what is really useful. To re-enforce this concept he described a recent situation where a customer requested to
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It have been listening to Security Now podcast with Leo and Steve since episode one and this has had a strong influence in my approach to security and technology.
After listening to the Three Dumb Routers episode I decided to abandon the single ADSL/WIFI Router solution I was using with a more secure architecture. I didn’t just want the segmentation described by Steve, I wanted increased
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Version 1.2 - Added review of Relevanssi Search Plugin Version 1.1 - Added screenshots of Better Search Plugin
Search is very basic in WordPress so I’m trying to find some better solutions. In particular I have the following goals:
