Celebrated the 15th birthday of WordPress, we brought a cake made by Carmen Moreno, we hired the ULab breakfast catering and met up with a bunch of friends who came to tell us about their web project.
The numbers
- Aimed at the talk 64 people
- We had between 25-30 attendees.
We want to improve the number of targeted vs attendees and to equalize as much as possible, so I recommend you read the article that wrote the fellow Mau Gelves of the Meetup of Madrid on Minimum responsibilities of the Assistant to the meetups.
The talk
"Come and ask" event – Consultancy
This event is special, not only to celebrate the 15 learns of WordPress but because it is also the first with the concept "come and ask", ie where attendees come to present their projects and discuss their concerns and among all you see how to improve it. If you are interested in this type of event, the idea is to make one every 4 months approximately, so stop by the Page and sign up for the next.
On this occasion we had 3 speakers:
- Mariluz Bolorinos, who presented his Canalosera.com Family Entertainment channel: This is a family project where father, mother and son (who started with 9 years although he already has 14) talk about his hobbies, from cinema or television to books, technology or board games. Everything has a place on this channel, even some humorous videos. The complexity of the web, which is what interests us, comes by the different formats that house in the same, from podcast to YouTube, besides being a multisite to host also another blog that now is maintained by affection because Mariluz not updated for Añ You: Misbolorinos.com On hand-made beads. It is suggested on the one hand that the pass to HTTPS, because in short Google will penalize the webs that are not in that security standard, and then the possibility to use custom post types for the different types of input that it has.
- The Companions of the edmradio.es Online Radio: This is a very complete online radio website, which has both news and thematic programs and events. It also allows downloading or listening to the different programs in podcast format. The pack is completed by a chatbot and an online player to listen to what is playing on the grill at this time. It is precisely with this element that they ask for help because of an element keying problem according to the platform. You are suggested some options that pass, of course, by some specific plugin.
- Manuel Duran, and his project Barcocompartido.com.
Main topic: RGPD
Once finished the consulting part we entered fully into the main topic of the talk, which is the new law on data protection for users called RGPD.
If you want to go over everything we saw and what we didn't know about the RGPD, we'll let you Link to the presentation and the Script of the talk about RGPD. That also has all the information of the plugins and links that we talked about in the event.
Some important points to consider are:
- This law has two main scopes: the first layer of information that is more immediate and is that the user must be told why we need every data that is asked and what we do with it. The second one is more complete and it is about giving Legal information about us as well as about the cookies.
- In the first layer of information it is necessary to explain if the data that we ask the user we need to answer his comments, for news or events, to moderate the comments...
- In the comments is to put a check that default is born unmarked of acceptance of conditions. In other words, the user must expressly accept the defined conditions, it cannot be an acceptance by omission. Consent must be kept.
- The user's IP cannot be saved from this law. Google Analytics saves it so it must be anonymize. If we have it with a plugin, it has to be able to make it anonymous.
- The GDPR Plugin It solves almost everything necessary for the law. It only lacks the part of cookies, whose notice is not activated until the user gives consent, although it does save that consent. In this plugin besides cookie level you have to take care because you are marked by default. That must be removed so that all is born unmarked.
- At the level of the second layer, the Legal notice must be visible somewhere on the footer (foot) or on the menu.
- To know what cookies we have on our website, as there are plugins that may be adding more than unknown, click on the right mouse button on the web and go to the option inspect Element-> Applications-> Storage-> cookies. On each page may be loading different, so you would have to look at all the types of page we have.
- There is also information in storage – > Local storage. There appear a kind of cookies but instead of file is stored the information in database of the browser in local.
- WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Add the acceptance check on all comments and forms. You can see a valid acceptance text on the page Luislobelda.com.
- Plugin WP Comment Policy Checkbox : It is the one that puts in the comments the check to accept the privacy policy of the web and saves the consent in database.
- There are many websites that use Google fonts to teach cool fonts. As Google fonts saves the IP of the user we would be breaching the RGPD if we use Google Fonts. We would have to download every source we use and upload it to our website to stop using Google fonts. This is complex and perhaps not worth reaching this point when we are a small web.
- FacetWP Plugin: For Woocommerce, it allows you to easily add filtering by type of items, creating you shortcodes you can put anywhere you want. It's a payment.
- Plugin WP FeatherLight: Very light Gallery plugin.
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