I’ve always believed that sharing knowledge is a powerful thing. I once heard that the best way to truly understand a topic is to present it to others – and I’ve found that to be true.
Over the past few years, I’ve given several talks and presentations to highlight best practices, showcase useful tools, and raise awareness. Below, you’ll find more details about each of them.
Git: basic concepts & functions – November 2022
Participating in the 28th Thessaloniki WordPress Meetup, and specifficaly as part of a workshop to create a block theme, I ‘ve presented the basics of version control (GIT), its concepts and functions.
Presentation: “Git: basic concepts & functions” (in Greek)
Video: “Git: basic concepts & functions” (in Greek)
Theme.json: block settings & styling – March 2023
As part of the 33rd Thessaloniki WordPress Meetup, and an ongoing workshop to create a block theme, I ‘ve presented how to setup a theme.json file to initialize a block theme, control block settings and setup styling.
Presentation: “theme.json: block settings & styling” (in Greek)
Video: “theme.json: block settings & styling” (in Greek)
The basics of WordPress – December 2023
During the 36th Thessaloniki WordPress meetup, as part of a group presentation, I’ve talked about the technologies that make up WordPress. Quickly covered PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JS. Also presented how those moving parts are working together and what are the responsibilities of each.
WordPress & Web Accessibility – March 2024
For the 39th Thessaloniki WordPress meetup, I had the great opportunity to chat with Alex Stine, the representative of the accessibility team of WordPress at the time.
We’ve talked about web accessibility in general, how it affects everyday activities and concerns about accessibility in WordPress.
During the meetup the recorded interview was presented and afterwards a follow-up panel discussion regarding web accessibility took place. As part of the panel, I ‘ve talked about accessibility standards (WCAG, ATAG, UTAG) and policies (e.g. ADA, EEA etc.) as well as tools that help test for a website’s accessibility.
Video: the interview recording
Forking the GPL way – November 2024
Participating in the WordCamp Larissa 2024, I ‘ve co-presented the “Forking the GPL way”. After explaining what a fork is, we went over GPL licensing and Open Source software. The purpose of this presentation was to draw a clear line over what forking actually is and how some people erroneously use the term to cover up code stealing.
Presentation: “Forking the GPL way” (in Greek)
Video: “Forking the GPL way” (in Greek)
WordPress & Security – February 2025
At the 25th Larissa WordPress Meetup, I gave a presentation on the common causes of WordPress security breaches. Also shared practical, easy-to-implement strategies for securing WordPress installations and minimizing security risks.
Presentation: “How to keep my WordPress site safe” (in Greek)