Category: Meetups
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VIDEO: Accepting Payments (Donations, WooCommerce, Paywall) via Mobile Money & other Gateways in WordPress
During this meetup, we discussed the various ways of receiving payments on WordPress Websites with a Ugandan Perspective! We practically looked at Flutterwave’s payment plugins for WordPress (https://developer.flutterwave.com/docs/plugins ) and also looked at other alternatives for integrating Uganda mobile money payment gateways such as EasyPay and PesaPal. Watch session recording below:
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Speedup and Secure your site with CDNs like Cloudflare [Step by Step Video Demo]
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a system consisting of multiple servers, which are placed in different locations around the world. When you use a CDN with your site, all those servers will be loaded with versions of your site’s static files. This usually includes code like CSS and JavaScript, images, documents, videos, and other…
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Fighting WordPress Website Hacks – Practical Meetup
This meetup was about exposing the latest hacks, how the hackers attack and how to secure your wordPress website. Website hacking is not new to us and we have probably heard or even witnessed many hacking incidences in the past, the recent one being the hacks of data from the domain registrar and web hosting…
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Video Hosting for WordPress Websites
Are you looking for the best video hosting sites for your WordPress website videos to be hosted? Hosting your own videos by uploading them directly into the WordPress media library is not the best solution as it takes a lot of bandwidth on your server and loading time is very slow. The best alternative for…
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Audio: Alex Agaba Opens up on Making Money Globally in a Pandemic – 10th July Meetup
Alex opens up about how we was on-boarded at his new job across the ocean. The training and Cultural shock.Money, power cuts working in different time zones in the pandemic. He shares about selling time.
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Resuming physical meetups post COVID-19: How first in-person WordPress meetup went down in Jinja
This month, WordPress Jinja Meetup managed to organize the first physical meetup since last year when they were suspended following the outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic. The in-person meetup happened on Friday 23rd April at The Innovation Village – Jinja, an Innovation and Incubation Center for Startups based in Jinja City. Whereas most of the…
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Simple Tools for WP Threat Mitigation – WordPress Jinja Meetup Jan 2021
During this first meetup of the year 2021, we discussed the latest tips, strategies, and techniques you can use to mitigate WordPress security threats and stay protected. Speaker: Joan Logose. Download Presentation Slides: Watch Zoom Session Recording Meetup Rationale The last thing you want to happen is to wake up one morning to discover your…
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[VIDEO] Emails and WordPress Discussion – WordPress Jinja Meetup September 2019
During the this month’s WordPress Jinja meetup held last Saturday, we discussed issues related to: Using Gmail as an email client for your cpanel webmail, just as you would use outlook for managing your emails. Integrating your cpanel webmail account with your WordPress website using the WP Mail SMTP plugin to avoid sending ‘unvalidated email’…
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Technology Resources for Meetup Organizers for Virtual Events
COVID-19 is spreading and whether the response is overblown or not, conferences and events are being forced to overhaul their plans. We also recently postponed our monthly WordPress meetups in Uganda. This year is going to be rough for event organizers. If your event is coming up soon, you’ll likely have to cancel or reschedule. Sarah…
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WordPress Meetups Postponed over #COVID-19 #CoronaVirus
Hello Members, Following the WordPress Community team recommendations for event organizers in light of COVID-19 (https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/03/11/new-recommendations-for-event-organizers-in-light-of-covid-19/) and the President of Uganda’s address on avoiding the pandemic, ( https://www.yowerikmuseveni.com/address-corona-virus-covid-19-guidelines-avoiding-pandemic ), we are sadly postponing our earlier scheduled March Meetup on Choosing and Customising WordPress themes. Apologies to all those who look forward to the meetup each…