January 22, 2019 — Haven’t you wished you could ask any question to an “expert” at WordCamp? Problem is that many talks have short Q&A sessions – and while we encourage speakers to visit the Happiness Bar after the talks, it’s still difficult to ask sometimes. Also there could be someone ELSE in the room that has a great answer, or would love to bond over the subject you’re interested in.

January 22, 2019 — 10 minutes to provide crucial ways to limit your legal liability online that are often overlooked. Privacy Policies are legally required by many states and how a website deals with visitor’s PII must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed, many distributors such as Amazon or Ebay won’t allow you to sell if you don’t have a privacy policy, Terms of Use are necessary to limit where you can be sued, how to make TOU more enforceable.

January 22, 2019 — You don’t need to be an established developer – this is an Intro talk into PHP. Hooks are a great way to see immediate advantage of learning and using custom PHP.

Hooks are one of two things:

Action Functions (add, edit or remove functionality)
Filter Functions (modify output)

Both of these are native to WordPress Core and are also created by Plugin developers to help you – a fellow developer – out. Learn how to use these powerful tools to your own advantage for customization and getting the results you want.

This is a Lightning Talk so it will be limited to the core concept itself and you will see up to three practical examples of an action and filter respectively.
You will walk away with the knowledge of how to find these hooks within a plugin or WordPress core and have the confidence to experiment with these.

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January 22, 2019 — Enhance Your WooCommerce Store With Plugins and Other Things

January 22, 2019 — This is an advanced PHP talk. Having worked with and extended several high use and highly customized WooCommerce sites, we will go over a core method for approaching large features being added to the shop. From complex gateways to intricate edge cases of user roles and currency management, there needs to be method to the madness. The session will include a fundamental approach as well as coding examples of handling advanced WooCommerce functionality.

January 22, 2019 — Answers to your e-commerce questions from an experienced and diverse panel of experts from e-commerce and the WordPress community.

January 22, 2019 — Know a young child interested in learning computer science and coding, but the child’s reading level makes it difficult to know where to start? You’ve come to the right place! In this session we will go hands on with free online games that teach computer science and coding techniques to children as young as 4! These programs start with pre-reader courses and grow with your child so they can use the same program for years to come.

January 22, 2019 — In this session the kids and I, will talk about the obstacles we face in getting them to focus on building their entrepreneur ideas. Parents are busy with work and responsibility, sure we want to help our kids build their ideas. Why haven’t we yet? How can we help them do it themselves using WordPress? Let’s talk about helping create the kidpreneurs of the future!

January 22, 2019 — With almost 20 years experience working with both professional services and product clients, while building and managing development teams, Pat is a veteran WordPress community subject matter expert. Drawing from lessons learned and experience working with all sizes of organizations and clients, Pat’s goal is to discuss how to successfully work with clients and increase Lifetime Total Value in executing your service or product.

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January 22, 2019 — In this talk I aim to explore some of the main issues that surround SVG uploads and why we’ve not seen this feature in WordPress yet. We’ll also look into why they need to be sanitised and the problems that can occur if we don’t properly secure them.