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WP Notificator at WordCamp Athens 2025 This year I had the privilege of taking the stage once again at WordCamp Athens to introduce WP Notificator! A project that connects WordPress with real-world, physical notification devices. Sharing i...

I was honoured to present WP Notificator at WordCamp Athens 2025 last month. A project that brings real-world, physical notifications to WordPress, and the community’s reaction was amazing! 🥹

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Thanks so much for the feedback,really appreciate it! Totally agree, desk space is precious. The device I’m working on is definitely functional, not just decorative. It’s meant to earn its place by being genuinely useful.

I’ve been prototyping a small physical device that sits on your desk and quietly reports essential info from multiple software tools. From a design perspective, what makes something worthy of your desk space?

Hey y'all! If you wanna see the browser extension we made with Copilot on the stream, you can check out the repository (and the stream recordings) here! 💚🌸

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GitHub - Twitch The the world’s most widely adopted developer platform.This Twitch channel hosts our Open Source Friday Streams — become a part of the community by joining our Meetup group at https://www.meetup.com/g...

About to start streaming here if you wanna cowork for an hour together! <3

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Exciting news, Alt Ctrl Org has secured an amazing venue, Klara 13, just 400m from Messe Basel (WCEU venue).
A vibrant food court with a private space for talks & discussions!
Join us on Friday, June 6th, 18:00–21:00, free entry.
altctrl.org/the-venue/
Help us spread the word!

Supporting Open Source, Contributors, and WordPress Discover how GoDaddy supports open source, WordPress, and everyday contributors with funding, mentorship, and resources for a more inclusive web.

🌍 The open web thrives thanks to everyday contributors. GoDaddy, my employer, is backing web development languages & open-source projects like #WordPress for a better internet! #OpenSource #HTML #CSS #PHP
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So you say it’s the best… what else have you tried recently?

We’ve turned software into a soap opera over the last few months (though it’s been happening for much longer, with people just looking the other way). After all, #WordPress is just a CMS with only one superpower—the #community.

In other news, later this year, we’ll be back in #Paris, France, for #StrapiConf 2025, and I can't wait!
@strapijs.bsky.social

I mean, it’s 2025 (Happy New Year, y’all). Let’s not waste more energy on him; that’s his fuel. Things might change if we ignore his childish actions and shift our focus elsewhere. After all, as we say in Greece, ‘Υπάρχουν κι αλλού πορτοκαλιές που κάνουν πορτοκάλια.’ 🍊#WordPress

#WordPress wouldn’t be where it is today without #ACF, the page builders (especially WP Bakery & Elementor in recent years), and most importantly, the #COMMUNITY. Without these three ingredients, WordPress as software would just be a staging/beta for the .com SaaS.

I would love to see a poll instead of that pizza question in the #WordPress .org login form. Let’s vote…

It’s time to start planning alternative #WordPress related events that are independent of WordPress Central. We also need to start discussing how to make life easier for speakers and organisers at these events; speakers should at least have part, if not all, of their expenses covered.

The Supreme Leader lost the (first) fight. He threw a tantrum, referenced GDPR, and left the chat. How mature!

I’m SO glad to see more and more agencies from the #WordPress ecosystem recognising how great #Shopify is!

Modern e-commerce caching with Astro: Overview (part 1) | Netlify Developers Dig into a modern approach to caching for e-commerce sites using the Astro Storefront template.

🚀 To help celebrate Astro v5 Launch Week, we're releasing a series of guides on production-level caching with @astro.build and Turso.

1️⃣ Here's part 1: an overview of modern caching patterns for e-commerce sites that scale with the help of Netlify cache tags.

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Yet, some of our 'friends' criticised the organising team for overspending because we printed hoodies for the nine team members at a total cost of €220. I’m not surprised; I get it...

The Aftermath [ελληνική έκδοση] The first WordCamp Larissa is complete! It became a reality thanks to the hard work, ideas, and time that many people dedicated before, during, and after the event… Now that…

A few days ago, we released the Aftermath of #WordCamp Larissa: larissa.wordcamp.org/2024/the-aft.... It was a small event (sold out at 240 tickets due to limits) but incredibly successful, giving back nearly €2.4k to the community/central. 🎉

#WordPress

Interesting things are happening in the #WordPress plugin repository… unfortunately, not the good kind.

They are simple, practical, highly effective and allowed us to avoid printing folded badges for the schedule. #WordPress #wclagr

This allowed us to repurpose the tags after the event, for example, redirecting them to our feedback form.

These two tools were invaluable on the day of the event and the days after. They saved the day when we had to move the schedule 30 minutes later!

We paired this with NFC tags on all the event name badges. These NFC tags linked to URLs we could manage remotely via our @github repository and @Netlify
redirects, as the extra tools were hosted on Netlify - thank you so much, Netlify & GitHub -.

To solve this, I devised a simple but efficient solution. I coded a single page using HTML, CSS, and JS that loaded a JSON file with URLs and rotated through them for a set amount of time. After X rotations, the page was reloaded, and the updated JSON file was fetched.

This year at #WordCamp Larissa , we used multiple screens to display the schedule on the event day. The challenge was also to showcase our sponsors and rotate through various pages without physically going to each screen to reload or change the webpage.

Also, #WordCamp Larissa was probably my last WordCamp as an organiser. That said, I’ll still be active as part of the global WordPress community.

There are issues within our local community that have drained my energy, and I simply don’t have the time to deal with them.
I’ve never had an agenda, never promoted myself, and never expected anything in return for my contributions. That’s why I refuse to act like nothing’s happening.

I’m stepping down as a #WordPress #meetup organiser. I know it won’t make much of a difference, but it felt like the right decision after everything that’s been happening in the last couple of months. And no, it’s not just about the
@wpengine
situation;

Last weekend, we wrapped up #WordCamp #Larissa, and I’m thrilled to say it was a huge success! 🎉 I was honoured to be one of the organisers, pouring my energy into making this event unforgettable. It was incredible to see some of the ideas I contributed come to life and be embraced by the community.

Scope creep is more than just an annoyance; it's a financial pitfall. 🚧 #scopecreep