WordCamp Jackson 2017

This talk is about how to start selling digital products online, using WordPress.

The WordPress codebase contains thousands of functions, including many hidden gems that are often overlooked, virtually unknown, or just not talked about. We’ll cover a variety of WordPress core functions that you may not know exist. Regardless of your experience as a developer, you’ll learn a variety of new gems you can use every day. If you’ve enjoyed the “Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist” sessions in the past, come back to explore even more new functions.

The struggle is real. Managing WordPress core settings as well as other settings, like Advanced Custom Fields setup, and carrying those things over to other environments without completely wiping and replacing the entire database is a major pain point.

Maybe your production environment is holding your content where your client is entering data but your dev or local environments are still being developed and settings & configurations are still changing. You do not want to push up your entire dev database to your production environment and lose all the content your client is entering. That’s where configuration management comes into play!

We will cover what configuration management is, how you can start to use it and the concepts to take it even further.

In this talk, you will learn how to use WP-cli, a command-line tool, for developing locally, as well as deploying a site to a staging or production server, and finally how you can use it to automate a lot of the processes you use regularly. This talk is designed for developers or those familiar with command-line and basic linux scripting.

How pair programming can help you code faster, cleaner, and with more confidence.

An overview of getting woocommerce up and running with regular products, variable products, downloadable products. Grant access with memberships and generate recurring revenue with subscriptions.

With nearly fifty thousand WordPress plugins available, there’s one for just about everything. However, sometimes a plugin doesn’t do exactly what you need. Working with existing plugins can be a frustrating experience when the developer has not considered how other developers might use it on a client’s web site. In this session I’ll share some common roadblocks working with plugins, how you can make your plugin extensible, and the benefits of building a developer-friendly plugin.

Jetpack can do many valuable things right out of the box – but if you’re not afraid to dig into the documentation and write some code, Jetpack can be even more powerful. I’ll talk about how theme and plugin authors can leverage the power of Jetpack and the WordPress.com API to make custom analytics views, do exciting things with Related Posts, create custom image galleries, and more.

Using a local dev environment to live server to develop modern WordPress sites. This will be an overview of the tools I use ( although there are a lot of different workflows unique to each developer ) this workflow is based on a model I use developed by and with blessing from, Brad Schiff. I will be using content from his “Git a Web Developer Job: Mastering the Modern Workflow” training course to discuss this crucial development tool.

Will look at best practices for bloggers, how to get started, how to get followers.

DIY WordPress

The ease of WordPress has catered to quick learners and do-it-yourselfers. It’s what makes WordPress so great and universal. However, many questions come with the DYI approach: What should I look for when selecting a theme? How I find good plugins to extend my site’s functionality? When is it better to hire someone else to develop my website? How can I prequalify a developer? Knowing the answers to these question can save you from a few headaches.