November 6, 2021 — This talk will look at what meta boxes and custom fields can do for your content and compare three dominant libraries that make it easier to manage them.

December 29, 2020 — BigCommerce for WordPress is a brand new way to do ecommerce in WordPress. With a hybrid of local content and processes running over API the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin can help your store operate at micro-scale, enterprise scale, and everything in between.

This talk is a review of features and capabilities.

Correction: During the presentation, it was stated the BC Agency Partners get 30% of the monthly merchant fee. The correct number is 20%. Our presenter apologizes for the error.

November 17, 2020 — Building an ecommerce store can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you’re not just working with content anymore. Now it’s taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be scary. The session will highlight a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from building ecommerce websites so that you can move forward with confidence.

November 14, 2020 — This talk recommends how to increase engagement, lower customer acquisition costs, and, ultimately, improve store sales.

An e-commerce store is only as valuable as the number of visitors it converts to buyers. But Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is a successful online store. Building a sustainable, cash positive storefront takes time – and a thoughtful strategy.

November 4, 2020 — The WordPress HTTP API allows you to gather data from other parts of the web and present it however you wish. We’ll take a look at how it’s done, while taking into consideration performance issues.

We’ll look at both examples of what can be done as well as code samples to accomplish specific goals.

November 3, 2020 — Transients allow developers to easily micro-cache expensive queries and remote data calls in the most efficient way possible. They’re relatively easy to use and can make dramatic performance improvements in your site.

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November 2, 2020 — Building an eCommerce store can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you’re not just working with content anymore, now it’s taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be scary. This talk explains a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from building eCommerce websites so you can move forward with confidence.

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October 22, 2020 — BigCommerce for WordPress is a brand new way to do ecommerce in WordPress. With a hybrid of local content and processes running over API the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin can help your store operate at micro-scale, enterprise scale, and everything in between.

This talk is a review of features and capabilities.

June 6, 2020 — Do you want shoppers, or do you want buyers? An ecommerce store is only as valuable as the number of visitors it converts to buyers. But Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is a successful online store. Building a sustainable, cash positive storefront takes time – and a thoughtful strategy. We’ll go over some simple tips you can use to increase engagement, lower customer acquisition costs and, ultimately, improve store sales.

December 27, 2019 — The BigCommerce WordPress plugin uses headless ecommerce to create a hybrid of a SaaS and WordPress. It’s powerful, fast, easy, scalable, and inexpensive. This is not a deeply technical talk, but rather a discussion about how the ecommerce landscape is changing in WordPress.

This is not intended to be a sales pitch for BigCommerce, but rather a plugin overview, similar to an “Introduction to WooCommerce” talk. Obviously BigCommerce must come up, but this is more about the evolving landscape of ecommerce in WordPress with the move to SaaS based plugins.