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.
Lot’s of web hosts now offer one-click installation of WordPress, but what if your chosen host doesn’t, or if you want more control over your configuration? What if you’ve used the one-click, but it’s installed WordPress in a subdirectory and you want your blog to exist in the site root?
You can do it all yourself and it’s probably easier than you think.
In this talk I will be taking you step-by-step through installing WordPress on your web server and setting up your WordPress site.
Before responsive design, there was “standard” design. Keeping the client in the loop with standard design was easy, you showed them a visual and then created a pixel perfect website based on that visual. But as more internet enabled devices came on the market, responsive design became more common and the practice of pixel perfect designs became increasing difficult to maintain, keeping the client in the loop using “the old ways” became impractical.
So how do we deal with this? What deliverables do we provide to the client and at what stages? There is no one-fit solution to this so instead I will tell you a few of the things I tried and how and why they failed. Hopefully you can then find a method to suit you and avoid some of the mistakes I made.
Changing what you don’t like in the WordPress core, a plugin or a framework is not an easy task.
Many developers don’t have a clue about what is important for accessibility. But telling developers they’re doing accessibility wrong or just posting: “this is all wrong, fix it” doesn’t always get accessibility on the agenda, or get a positive response.
But if WordPress doesn’t give you what you want, don’t just grumble or be intimidated by other developers, change it yourself – and give back to the WordPress community. You may be surprised how many people were waiting for that.
A month ago the Genesis Accessible plugin and the Leiden theme were published. Together they can make a Genesis website WCAG 2 accessible out-of-the-box. Find out how I created these things, and what the response was.
If you haven’t yet got your tickets for Bournemouth on July 12-13th get you tickets here: http://2014.bournemouth.wordcamp.org/tickets/ . It’s always a fun-filled weekend of learning and socialising!
Otherwise if you can’t make it, don’t worry because we’ll have an excellent review of the two-day conference from one of the organisers – Jonathan Harris.
Video coming soon
Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to the WordPress repo, and then finding a way to monetise it.
Manuel will be presenting his talk from WordPress Milan/Italy to share his insight into WordPress Security.
Have a nagging question about WordPress? Not sure who to ask? No question is a stupid question, so let us know what you’d like to know!
If you have a question you’d like to ask please submit to Ngaire or below and we’ll select the top 5 to answer on the evening.
The recurring business model that saved my business (and my sanity).
A profitable ‘micro’ 13-year-old web development business was close to failure…2 years on, I share with you how I turned this around, with WordPress at the ‘Core’ of my new recurring business model. The mess I was in, the lessons learned, the happy ending and my love of WordPress and its Community will all be revealed.
Video coming soon
