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Recent Presentation – Building the WordPress Community
May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I have had the good fortune to present this talk at two recent WordPress events – WordCamp New Zealand, and the Melbourne WordPress meetup just last night.
Both events were great, both chances to speak were both exciting and a tiny bit nerve wracking, I guess that’s normal but it all seems to me that all the important points were made, and the best news is that some action has been taken as a result of it with a number of new meetups being born across the ditch in NZ! So stoked to hear it – hopefully some more engagement will come in various places both there and here as a result. And hopefully more people will attend WordCamps as well (next one… WordCamp Sydney 2012 http://2012.sydney.wordcamp.org #justsaying)
WordCamp Sydney | July 21-22 2012
May 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
It wasn’t really a heat of the moment thing… All the way through WordCamp Gold Coast all I could think about was… we need a WordCamp in Sydney, it’s been way too long. And blow me down if there weren’t other people at #wcgold thinking the same thing.
So we talked about it over a couple of beers (as you do) and the idea kept getting more compelling so we came home from the conference and we read the instructions and muggins here filled out the form and applied.
So, now I can wear the WordCamp organiser badge… you know, if there were such a thing.
Getting to Grips with e-Commerce
April 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
I had the good fortune to be called on to speak at the March WordPress Sydney meetup last month and am only now posting my slides. Sorry for the delay, life has been… busy.
The talk was pretty informal and centred mostly around actually planning your e-Commerce store BEFORE you actually start building it… get to grips first with the things you’re going to want out of your store before you actually start building.
Having a solid plan will, or at the very least should, influence the choice of plugins you use. Because not all e-commerce plugins are created equal.
Here are the slides…
Creating a Wholesaler Role in WP e-Commerce – Part Two
February 17, 2012 By 4 Comments
So now we get to play with some of the other cool functionality I used to extend the Wholesaler experience for both Sarah and the user.
4. Customising the Registration page to allow for custom fields.
I mentioned Gravity Forms in the previous post as an integral part of this process. Sarah was already using this plugin because it’s awesome and makes lovely, functional forms really easily. So I was stoked to find that the added functionality we needed was available as an add on and yes, I mentioned also that this add on is only available to users with a Developer license. (Seriously, it’s so totally worth it, as you’ll see below…)
