Manage Your WordPress Site Across Multiple Environments

Whether your goal is to work on and preview your own website changes or to update and present changes for a client’s website, managing multiple WordPress instances can help your workflow. We’ll discuss the benefits of creating local, staging, and live WordPress environments for your site and how to manage changes across multiple environments. Duncan …

Headless WordPress on Vue and Nuxt

Headless WordPress is known to dramatically speed up your site (up to 8 times as fast, if you can believe Netlify!) It seems as easy as following a Smashing Magazine article, or so Benji Kostenbader, Front-End Developer at Top Hat, thought. But what about ACFs, Yoast, Forms, and Custom Post Types? Follow him on a …

Understanding (Yoast) SEO

For our May 2020 Meetup, Understanding (Yoast) SEO, we had a guest presenter give us an overview of the best practices for using Yoast SEO plugin, including: Setting defaults for search appearance and making sure only the content you want indexed gets indexed Generating the XML sitemap and checking it carefully Connecting your site to …

Security & Performance Lessons Learned from Multimillion Dollar WordPress Shops

Security and performance is important for any website. But what about a website with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month and millions of dollars a year on the line? In this session built for site managers and developers, Top Hat founder Ben Butler will share lessons from managing and building high-traffic WordPress shops to …

Build Ecommerce Sites With Confidence (Demystifying commerce)

Building an ecommerce can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you’re not just working with content anymore, now it’s taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy. Fortunately it doesn’t have to be scary. Join speaker Topher DeRosia to look at a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from …

Google Analytics + WordPress 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding GA

Installing WordPress is just the start of any Web publisher or developer’s journey. Knowing how your visitors’ experience your website and/or blog assists you in making changes that can have a positive impact on your search results, keeping your visitors on your site longer, and converting more customers. And, there’s no better (and free) tool …