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

Presentation Slides »

January 24, 2019 — This talk will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce. We’ll talk about:

* Keeping template files up to date;

* Useful actions and filters;

* Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations

January 11, 2019 — Let’s take a look at the upcoming page editor Gutenberg, scheduled for release in WP 5.0.

We’ll look at:

What are Gutenberg blocks?
What blocks are available, and how to use them
How to best prepare your web site for the update

October 10, 2017 — 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 with Gary Thayer will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce.

He’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

June 5, 2017 — 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

Presentation Slides »

June 5, 2017 — In this session, we’ll take a dive into WordPress and all of it’s settings and features. We’ll discuss:

– Posts vs. Pages
– WordPress.org vs WordPress.com
– Adding Content
– Installing Plugins and Themes