July 30, 2018 — A “lessons learned” talk from the perspective of trying to get a full-time WordPress based business going. In this session, Wesley will be going over the highs and lows of starting a WordPress based business and the freedom that it can bring. Wesley will share some of the hurdles he faced and how he successfully overcame them to be on the way to establishing full-time income through WordPress. This talk will cover topics like market focus, team building, pricing strategies, time management, reoccurring revenue, and more.

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July 30, 2018 — Extending WooCommerce in small code snippets can help solve small problems. Extending WooCommerce like a pro requires planning your approach, a deeper understanding of the WooCommerce structure and implementing with well architected code. This session will provide developers with methods and a base knowledge for building their own, complex WooCommerce extensions and add-ons.

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July 28, 2018 — Much of a company’s digital resources are spent on optimization and tools that increase traffic. But what happens after the click?

At the heart of design are words, images, color, and layout. During this Panel we will investigate how deliberate use of design can increase the value of our marketing strategy.

July 28, 2018 — Don’t let your efforts go unnoticed. Sometimes putting yourself out there holds you accountable for your marketing efforts. This can be a bad thing but it can also earn you the reputation as a very successful marketing professional. Learn the art of reporting and data analysis buy leveraging a very powerful tool called Data Studio.

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July 28, 2018 — Let’s be honest when someone drops the word “E-Commerce” in a website discussion they are talking about $$$$ and in the world of WordPress nobody does this better than WooCommerce. Throughout my years of assisting business owners, I’ve experienced the exciting and not so exciting parts of this landscape and I’m coming here to tell you at the end of the day… it’s not so scary. In this session, we will look at the common considerations one needs to take into account when implementing there first E-Store such as product types, memberships, subscriptions, and evaluating payment processors (ACH, PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.Net, and more). Once we know the basics we will then set up a digital E-Store from scratch to show you how easy it is to start making money.

@WordCampJax @_scottanderson9

July 28, 2018 — How to Choose the top 10 Plugins you will need based on your website purpose. With over 50,000 plugins on the WordPress repository, it can be a daunting task finding the right ones for your website. Many websites are built generically, without any thought to real design, which limits their effectiveness. This talk will examine the purposes of websites (the top 4 categories) and explain what types of plugins are needed, and how to go about finding and evaluating the ones you will need.
With multiple plugins available in each area, how does one choose the right ones? This talk will benefit new users and business owners alike, and is focused on those who are relatively new to the WordPress community.

@WordCampJax @JohnRehg

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July 27, 2018 — How do you deal with queries from people who clearly know nothing about your website, yet email you incessantly with offers to write for you? I will explore why you may want to consider having guest posts on your blog, identifying guest authors (good ones), the kinds of spammy material you’re likely to encounter, and share my own experiences from managing guest posts and authors from running my website of over 15 years.

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July 27, 2018 — Have you seen tutorials online with out of date information on how to start building a headless WordPress app using Angular JS (Angular 1.x)? This talk will cover how to connect to the WordPress REST API using Angular JS. We’ll cover the WordPress setup using Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Post Types, as well as setting up the Angular routes to connect to the REST API to get and display the data.

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July 27, 2018 — The pace of modern front-end development doesn’t let up. New standards, APIs, techniques, and best practices are being introduced on a monthly basis.

This presentation will walk a front-end developer through vital new standards that we will be seeing more frequently.

This includes

– Deep dive into CSS Grid
– CSS Custom Properties (aka CSS Variables)
– Positioning
– CSS Filters and Blend Modes
– And more

The topics will be presented to focus on the basic terminology, usage, concepts, and techniques of these new standards

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July 27, 2018 — A beginners guide to the dark arts. Topics include: determining what keywords have the most volume and best intent, optimizing your content, positioning your content for Quick Answers (position zero), what the heck is this schema & structured data, how to stroke people’s ego for backlinks and much, much more.SEO presentation