March 16, 2017 — How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour?

Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site. This short talk will outline easy plans and steps you can take to prevent website disaster, even if the zombies come after you. Kate will share a downloadable action plan to help you get started.

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December 19, 2016 — How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour? Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site. This short talk will outline easy plans and steps you can take to prevent website disaster. Kate will share a downloadable action plan to help you get started.

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November 3, 2016 — The biggest and best-known ecommerce solution for WordPress does everything. It’s flexible, extendable, and almost infinitely configurable. It’s a Swiss Army Knife with 276 blades. But if all you need is a bottle opener, do you really need to walk around with a 2kg knife in your pocket?

We’ll talk about the things you need to consider when choosing an ecommerce solution. I’ll give you a list of questions to help you decide. And we’ll discuss some of the available WordPress ecommerce products so you can make an informed decision.

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November 1, 2016 — How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour?

Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site. This short talk will outline easy plans and steps you can take to prevent website disaster, even if the zombies come after you. Kate will share a downloadable action plan to help you get started.

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August 18, 2016 — How much money and credibility would you lose if your website went down for a week? A day? An hour?

Let’s take a look at some of the most common things that can go wrong with a WordPress site. This talk will outline easy plans and steps you can take to prevent website disaster. We’ll also share a downloadable action plan to help you get started.

Takeaways:

Create an action plan covering most common issues that could befall your site(s).
Know how to increase security by making it more difficult for hackers to break in.
Have resources available to help in case the site faces problems too big for a backup to fix ( i.e., hacked with no clean backup; host goes out of business and takes site down.

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April 23, 2016 — The biggest and best-known ecommerce solution for WordPress does everything. It’s flexible, extendable, and almost infinitely configurable. It’s a Swiss Army Knife with 276 blades. But if all you need is a bottle opener, do you really need to walk around with a 2kg knife in your pocket?

We’ll talk about the things you need to consider when choosing an ecommerce solution. I’ll give you a list of questions to help you decide. And we’ll discuss some of the available WordPress ecommerce products so you can make an informed decision.

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September 12, 2015 — The biggest and best-known ecommerce solution for WordPress does everything. It’s flexible, extendable, and almost infinitely configurable. It’s a Swiss Army Knife with 276 blades. But if all you need is a bottle opener, do you really need to walk around with a 2kg knife in your pocket?

We’ll talk about the things you need to consider when choosing an ecommerce solution. I’ll give you a list of questions to help you decide. And we’ll discuss some of the available WordPress ecommerce products so you can make an informed decision.

Prerequisites:
This talk is aimed toward business owners who need to add ecommerce to their sites and toward WordPress consultants (designers/developers) who wish to help their clients make the best decisions on ecommerce solutions. No coding knowledge is required.

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