More and more developers are using WordPress to build and sell online products (web apps, SaaS, etc.), and providing excellent user support is a skill certainly not to be taken for granted.
How not to give appalling user support
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Sharing knowledge
Jenny will be speaking about the importance of sharing knowledge and how to generate topic ideas to share with the community.
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WP-API
Access your WordPress site’s data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API
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Speaking at a WordCamp
WordCamp London will be 20th – 22nd March. We’re about to open the call for speakers and we’d love for as many of the WPLDN meetup to apply as possible. In this presentation I’ll share with you some of my knowledge and experience as both a WordCamp organiser and a speaker. I’ll talk about why you might want to speak at a WordCamp, how to put together your application, how the speaker selection process works, and what speaking at a WordCamp involves. I’ll also answer any questions about WordCamp London and about the speaking process.
Video coming soon
Contributing to WordPress
Open source projects like WordPress thrive on the community that surrounds it. This month, Jenny will be talking about:
- Why it is important that we all contribute
- How anybody regardless of skill levels can get involved
- How to get started
- Contributor Days
Themes, Plugins and Accessibility
One of the recent WordPress accessibility initiatives has been the introduction of the ‘accessibility-ready’ tag for theme authors who wish to submit themes to the WordPress repository. The tag is used to indicate that a theme contains the best practices in web accessibility, and can form the basis of an accessible WordPress website.
But uptake has been slow.
This presentation looks at what you need to do to get your themes up to the ‘accessibility-ready’ standard – whether or not you intend to submit them to the repository. It’s not hard to do, and the benefits can be enormous for many, many people. Graham will also be looking at whether it’s worth following the ‘accessibility-ready’ steps for plugins too.
Presented by Graham Armfield – a Web Accessibility Consultant with his own company Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to help them improve the accessibility of their websites – by testing the websites for accessibility, and advising the designers and developers on how to fix issues found. He’s also a WordPress developer, and has built many accessible WordPress websites for clients. He’s an active member of the Make WordPress Accessible Team and has spoken on accessibility to many WordCamps and other WordPress meetups.
From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control and Deployment Tools
FTP is a great tool for transferring files from computer to server. Or is it? Perhaps it is about time we changed. This presentation looks at changing your development workflow to use version control and deployment in order to improve your development cycle.
Using WordPress for eSports
A few months ago Dan and a few others started http://exodusesports.com. They used WordPress, which allowed us to get off the ground quickly, taking advantage of a lot of newer technologies ranging from the new WordPress restful api with angular to websockets for realtime match results, but not forgetting the basics including extending the XMLRPC interface, custom post types and posts 2 posts plugin to link it all together.
Dan will be talking about building it, the problems, the solutions and were they are going next.
Introduction to WooCommerce
In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. I’ll be building a store from scratch ‘live’ in only 20 mins. I’ll show you how to set up your shop, add products (simple, virtual, grouped, affiliate and variable), add product galleries, add sections to your shop, set up checkout, how to take payment and more. We’ve been running WooCommerce on pootlepress.com (http://pootlepress.com/) for the past year and I’ll give you some tips and tricks on how to optimise a WooCommerce store.
