Hosting WordPress on Azure App Services / Full Site Editing Overview

== Advantages of Hosting WordPress on Azure App Services with Auto-Renewing SSL ==

There are many things to consider when finding a host for your WordPress website. We'll go over some of the benefits Azure App Services provides, that make it a great host, as well as some of its drawbacks. We'll go over the basics of setting up a WordPress website on Azure App Service from an existing backup or creating a new one from scratch. Additionally, we'll review recommendations for how to optimize your WordPress site for cost and performance.

Additionally, there are many factors that impact your website's SEO performance and safety. One of those is having an SSL certificate for your WordPress website. We'll go over setting up your Azure App Service instance to use a free auto-renewing Managed SSL certificate.
PRESENTED BY: Michael Merrell

== What You Can Now Do With Full Site Editing ==

With the introduction of Full Site Editing in WP 5.9, we can now use WordPress as a web design system.

Using the block theme, Twenty Twenty-Two, Bud Kraus will demonstrate how to use patterns, templates, and template parts to design any aspect of your website solely with blocks and without the use of code.
PRESENTED BY: Bud Kraus

== ABOUT THE PRESENTERS ==

Michael Merrell is a husband, father of 4, and extremely lazy blogger.

Based out of the High Plains of Colorado Michael has been working in the Software Engineering space for over 15 years. Formerly a Lead .NET Software Engineer, he is currently working as a Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on Application Development and Innovation. In his spare time, he enjoys playing video games with his kids, watching movies and TV, writing code, and blogging. He's a domain hoarder and has been working with WordPress for nearly 20 years.

Bud Kraus is a well-known WordPress Instructor and Site Developer. He has taught WordPress to countless people in class and online. His favorite work is to breathe new life into old WordPress projects.

He is currently re-developing his "Joy of WP" service to feature free and low-cost WordPress courses for anyone who needs to improve their WP skills.

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