May 1, 2025 — Let’s face it, usability testing can seem daunting. When should you do it? How do you conduct tests and extract useful information? And, perhaps most pressing, how much time and money will it take? As a UX certified professional with the world-renowned Nielsen Norman Group and a WordPress agency owner for the past six years, I’m intimately familiar with these questions, and now I’m going to share with you my secrets of how qualitative user testing can help you take a WordPress website from good, to great.

In this session I’ll provide answers to the main questions that website owners (or creators) need to answer when it comes to usability testing: What even is usability testing and what does it test for? When should I test my site, and how often? How can I run usability tests without a gigantic budget or team? How much time or money will it cost me? Join me and learn about the most cost effective UX research method at your disposal, and learn how to leverage it to build stuff better.

November 25, 2024 — Our local Aussie WordPress communities copped a fair bashing during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been slow to recover.

Recent upsets in the WordPress community haven’t helped either.

Our panel will discuss ways to reinvigorate and rebuild local communities to their pre-pandemic state – if possible!

October 13, 2023 — Every website contains information. Information is the reason that a website exists, so it’s a pity that how that information is organized is often an afterthought.

To be clear, information architecture is ***not*** the same as navigation design! User interfaces (the stuff people see and touch) are just the tip of a very important user experience iceberg. Good information organization starts with a well-designed, future-proof database and high-quality user research. And in WordPress, that means conscious decisions about how and where data is stored, and a solid understanding of the WordPress ecosystem and how the WordPress database actually stores stuff.

Join me to discover the essential tools and techniques that even beginners (whether designer, developer, UX professional, or project manager) can use to turn your next project from mess to success.

March 23, 2020 — Several months ago we got REALLY EXCITED when we discovered that some industrious individuals had started implementing Gutenberg for other CMS & frameworks.

Gutenberg for Laravel? Gutenberg for Drupal? Amazing!

Then we tried it ourselves. And failed, miserably.

Back to the drawing board – we needed a different way to integrate the shiny new block editor we’d already promised our favourite client with the mother of all websites.

We’re talking a custom PHP website built on a highly complex custom enterprise CMS/ERP system developed over a 15 year period. No sweat.

Fortunately for us, the latest craze in the WordPress development world – headless WordPress – came to the rescue!

Find out about our journey as we share what we tried before landing on our final solution, what we ended up with, what we’d do differently next time and what our key takeaways from this wild adventure were!

March 12, 2020 — Everyone and their dog seems to be using a page builder just now and there are many on the market all working a slightly different way.

October 21, 2019 — No longer just a humble blogging platform, WordPress is now the favourite CMS of choice for a majority of web developers.

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