May 4, 2017 — Vachan will explain how to start a marketplace simply with WooCommerce.

His session will cover:

Brief Intro to WooCommerce [based on real-time stat of the audience]
What is a marketplace
How to setup a marketplace
Handle Payments
Handle Logistics
Vendor Relationships

May 2, 2017 — Dustin Hartzler is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic and lives in the western Ohio area with his wife and two small children.

Dustin has been a Happiness Engineer since 2013. He is currently with the Woo Commerce Team where he enjoys helping people debug and troubleshoot their Woo Commerce issues. He finds it challenging because of all of the different variables that come into play, hosting, themes, plugins, etc.

April 30, 2017 — Customise Posts is a feature plugin, coming soon to a future version of WordPress.

This talk will include a demonstration of Front-End Editing done through the Customiser, and the technical details on how to easy it is to add support to your theme.

Luke will finish with a discussion and Q&A on the future of editing in WordPress.

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April 29, 2017 — At Automattic, we say that “communication is oxygen”.
Learn how a distributed company of 500+ people communicates on a daily basis across different timezones and teams. This talk will also give a glimpse at how P2 blogs are used internally, in the context of customer support.

April 29, 2017 — The purpose of this session is to share knowledge on how to use the new WordPress Plugin Directory to find the best plugins you need for the website you build. Additionally, it’s meant to help plugin developers to prepare their plugins for the upcoming implementation of WordPress Plugin Directory 3.0. Join the session and discover possibilities hidden in the new directory

April 29, 2017 — We’ll look at why, even when writing proprietary plugins or themes, it’s important to consider simple enhancements that will influence future code structure and decision-making points. Whether you are working on in-house or client-specific projects, or building a commercial plugin to be sold the world over, as the engineer you should be considering the small steps you can take to make your life easier in the future.

April 29, 2017 — Cache makes for a speedy site, but it can make new updates to your site a long and frustrating process. Sometimes just moving your logo a couple pixels can be an arduous task when your multiple layers of cache won’t clear. Fear not, simple changes to your site can make cache headaches a thing of the past. In this talk, we’ll run through version control, deployment tools, and cache-busting tweaks that will make updating your site a frown-free process again.

April 29, 2017 — The best thing about WordPress can sometimes also be the worst thing about WordPress: Plugins and Themes. Lucy will give you the tools you need to understand why your site breaks, how to find the cause, and how to fix it.

April 27, 2017 — WordPress’s popularity has made it a prime target for hackers. Many WordPress site administrators only learn way too late about the important of pre-emptive security hardening after they have become victims of an attack and have suffered the consequences – loss of visitors, search engine ranking and damage to data.

Vlad Lasky from Aussie WP Expert shares his strategies and approaches to recovering compromised WordPress sites.

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April 27, 2017 — WordPress is being used in more and more enterprise level projects, so what are the best practices for building these systems ensuring they scale and perform correctly?

Our panel of experts are:
– Dee Teal (MC)
– Rheinard Korf
– Dion Beetson
– Peter Wilson
– Jeremy Kelaher

More info about panelists

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