February 28, 2019 — As a developer, access to debugging information is vital to troubleshooting your code or finding where performance bottlenecks are happening. By using the WordPress Debug Bar, and related add-ons, you’ll be able to track errors, SQL queries, access the query, and give get insight into what’s happening under the hood of your WordPress website.

February 8, 2019 — After working in WordPress Eco-system for 14 years, and growing a company to over 60 people, which makes it one of the largest WordPress Plugin Development company, I will share my story how we bootstrapped, and what will make a WordPress Product business successful in coming years.

I am Ex-CEO of weDevs, a solid WordPress Product company from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since inception of weDevs, back in 2013, we created dozens of plugin, released all for free in WordPress.org and sold add-ons and premium version. With over One Million downloads we have made over several millions of dollar from our WordPress Plugins.

I will share about the journey of weDevs and how we grew our team, a brief discussion about what to do and what not. I will talk about the moral background while making business decision.

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December 30, 2018 — The WordPress community builds amazingly powerful software to extend the platform with plugins. The developers who contribute plugins to the project should be proud of what they’ve created! The challenge is that often, they’re so close to the code that when they market their plugin, they position it as software for developers, rather than marketing it to the end user. In this session, I’ll give developers a framework for ensuring they market their plugin to their actual user, not to other developers.

December 12, 2018 — If you are a WordPress plugin or theme author, you probably have mixed feelings about the WordPress Support Forums. For many, they are a necessary evil of the WordPress product developer experience. While they are limited, the advantages they offer far outweigh the disadvantages when tackled well.

I’ve been providing support on the WP.org support forums for over 5 years for a wide variety of plugins. I’ll share my experiences and provide insight and tools that will make you a believer both in free support and in the value the .org support forums can provide to you and your business.

Attendees will gain a deeper knowledge of all the resources the WP.org Support Forums offer. They will also learn of new tools at their disposal to offer more effective technical support for their users on the .org forums.

See also: https://slides.com/mattcromwell/wclax18#/

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November 26, 2018 — In this talk, Scott draws upon inspiration from his WordPress classes at the local community college and his most asked question: “Which WordPress plugins do you think are essential?” Scott will run through twelve plugins you should install when starting off your new site, how to use them, and why. Scott will also give some good advice for how to find that one plugin needle you need from the 56,000 plugin haystack on the WordPress.org website.

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September 30, 2018 — As a commonly recognized symbol of commerce and logistics, the barcode is often taken for granted as the most primitive form of middleware. We think of them as tiny printed clipboards that transfer data from one computer to another. Barcodes have a plethora of uses in online transactions.

This talk focuses on building a barcode generating plug-in for WordPress, but will also cover the history of the barcode and how to recognize the various uses of barcode standards.

August 19, 2018 — You don’t need to be a coder to run a WordPress plugin business, but it has implications (and opportunities).

Ben Ramsden shares his journey since 2014 with GFChart, a premium extension to Gravity Forms.

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August 11, 2018 — I will discuss the tactics the attackers use to exploit code, the most common ways developers introduce insecure code to a site, and what you can do to help avoid these issues. You will learn, from the many security failures I have seen what not to do when adding a new feature to a site’s code.

August 11, 2018 — I will discuss the tactics the attackers use to exploit code, the most common ways developers introduce insecure code to a site, and what you can do to help avoid these issues. You will learn, from the many security failures I have seen what not to do when adding a new feature to a site’s code.

August 9, 2018 — Krótka ale barwna przypowieść o tym, jak WordPress wraz z pluginami może zostać wykorzystany do stworzenia MVP komercyjnych projektów. Case study realnych przypadków kiedy MVP oparte o WordPressa zweryfikowało plany przedsiębiorców i dalsze losy ich start’upów. Zalety używania WordPressa w początkowej fazie rozwoju biznesu, kiedy chcemy jak najszybciej wypróbować produkt na rynku.

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