WordPress and the IndieWeb: Why You Should Own Your Voice

You have a WordPress product or service to offer and you have a signup form. But now what? Collecting email addresses is great for vanity metrics but even better if you bring them into your sales cycle.

WordPress can be used to start a blog, make a site for a club, or power a business, large or small.

WordPress can also be used as a way to document your life, and save important things for later. You can bridge WordPress to other parts of the web that you use to store all of your data in one place, without having to worry about an app, hardware maker, or social media site going out of business and taking all of your content with it.

In this talk, you’ll learn how to own more of your content on your site first, while syndicating to social media.Come learn about how you can use WordPress to power and amplify your voice online, and reclaim the web from the walled gardens for the user!

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Published by david wolfpaw

WordPress theme and plugin developer and general nerd. WordPress maintenance and support through https://fixupfox.com Check out my personal blog at https://david.garden On the Internet, everyone knows I'm a dog.

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