March 17, 2019 — WooCommerce now powers over 30% of all online stores, both big and small. While the basic WooCommerce package covers a lot of needs, business use cases often require special attention.

This talk will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce.

We’ll talk about:

Building a streamline customer service experience for your business
Keeping template files up to date
Useful actions and filters
Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations

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March 17, 2019 — This presentation is geared towards complete beginners, who would like to know the basics to start using WordPress. I’ll cover the differences between WordPress.com and a self-hosted WordPress install, pages and posts, what are the basic configurations to do, do’s and dont’s, best practices, so that anyone can start using WordPress right away!

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March 17, 2019 — Pourquoi est-ce que le mot “courriel” n’est jamais utilisé dans WordPress? Quelle version de “Français” dois-je choisir pour mon site, et quel en sera l’impact?

Cette présentation répondra à toutes ces questions, en plus de vous donner un aperçu des récents travaux effectués à la traduction “Français du Canada” dans l’écosystème WordPress et comment vous pouvez contribuer à accélérer la disponibilité et l’étendue de traductions propres aux particularités linguistiques du Québec.

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March 17, 2019 — WordPress and the Learning Ecosystem

This presentation describes how WordPress can become part of a greater information ecosystem. Although we’ll review this using a free WordPress based Learning Management System as the source of the information, the presentation will cover the existing free tools available to share the information with systems such as HRIS or Production planning systems. We’ll also cover how all of this fits into the GDPR scheme.

March 17, 2019 — When there is a problem on your WooCommerce store, knowing where to start in finding the solution can be overwhelming.

I’ll give you an overview of WooCommerce troubleshooting basics, including real life examples, and by the end of this session you’ll be equipped with the tools to track down and solve common WooCommerce issues – from payment problems to display issues.

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March 17, 2019 — Before even starting a project, plan what the content is by visualizing it. We’ll see how a book isn’t a record album yet they’re both a post. We’ll see that they all have different properties and we’ll plan out their entry. CPTs, postmeta and taxonomies; oh my!

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March 15, 2019 — Swashata will give you insight about what today’s front-end development terrain looks like, how much benefit it gives to us and how we can bring the same to our WordPress themes and plugins.

In this session, you will learn about the modern front-end development techniques ES6+ javascript features, CSS compilers like SASS, LESS along with build-time asset optimization. For this people use different compiler setups like babel, sass, and bundlers like web pack, parcel etc. Well, that’s a lot of tooling to learn and maintain, plus an overhead of time and cost. Swashata’s session will give you the solution for the same.

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March 15, 2019 — Surbhi will share the story about her journey from being clueless to understanding the social media brand strategies, campaigning, user engagement, advertising and best methods to manage and grow an online reputation.

Her session will provide the key takeaway and approach one can implement while entering into the design, WordPress, marketing & scaling by helping others. She will also share the secret of How maintaining break from professional life can be helpful to be more productive.

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March 15, 2019 — Interview with developer Gary Jones, a WordCamp and Contributor Day organiser, on why he contributes to the WordPress open source community and would encourage others to do so.Gary organised the contributor event in London, UK in 2018 and has been a long term organiser of WordCamp in the city.

March 15, 2019 — Interview with agency director Dan Maby, an organiser of WordPress London and WordCamp London, on his enthusiasm for the platform and the community.The video is part of a series of interviews by the Make WordPress Marketing team at WordCamps and MeetUps to highlight the community and encourage contributors.