Check out the folks who attended WordCamp Port Macquarie 2019:
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James Carmody
The Ultimate Digital Subscription Site using Easy Digital Downloads and Stripe
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With all the rage on recurring income, I will take you through my quest to find the best subscription solution on WordPress.
Together we will explore problems with other plugins, critical features needed, and super cool things that EDD can do to make your life easier.
James is the managing director at Creative Compass, a digital agency that specialises in WordPress websites, SEO, and marketing funnels. While James is not at the office (which isn't often) he loves getting his hands dirty in the garden, studying at uni, flying planes, renovating houses, travelling the globe, organising and speaking at meetups and …
Robert Li
Painless automated content marketing, how do you do it?
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Creating compelling, relevant content that demonstrates your authority in an area is one of the key requirements for being highly visible on Google’s search results. If you plan on being featured on page one, you must have a focused and agile content marketing strategy. The problem? Creating, editing and managing content is time consuming and labour intensive. By the time you’re happy to release content often you have missed the optimal window. So how do you create and publish relevant content at speed? This talk aims to provide it’s audience with actionable suggestions as to how to streamline content marketing workflows for both teams and individual content specialists.
Ex-Startup Founder, Lifelong Technologist, ANT Practitioner, WordPress Evangelist, Tinkerer, APAC Automator in Chief & Solutions Engineer for WP Engine.
Stuart Livesey
Crucial Tips for Beginners
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1. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
2. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t mean you should
3.When you fire up your computer fire up your common sense too
4. Why you should visit your website every day
5. Google is not your friend … it owes you nothing
I'm a grumpy old sod who: 1. Built his first website in 1996 2. Became involved in SEO, affiliate marketing and eCommerce in 1998 3. Began doing it full time in 2001 4. Began using WordPress in 2004. Over the years, together with my partner Toni, I've build websites for a wide variety of businesses. …
Jenna O’Connell and Mariane Power
Why driving impact is good for you, your business, your clients and the world.
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The latest research highlights the benefits of fostering purpose at work, from improving individual well-being, productivity and job satisfaction, to attracting top talent and boosting the bottom line. Not to mention the positive impact purpose-driven organisations have on the world.
In this presentation, we discuss the interconnection between wellbeing and business success, unpack value of driving impact in your work and the organisations you work with, and share practical, evidence-based strategies to help you improve your own wellbeing, boost optimism, and craft cultures of impact so that together, we can build a more sustainable future for everyone.
A sisterpreneur team, Mariane and Jenna combine their expertise across psychology, education, career development and organisational culture to deliver bespoke, evidence-based solutions to organisations keen to make their mark in the world.
Tim Butler
Analysing your Website performance
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Website performance is critical to ensure visitors remain on your website and a ranking factor for SEO. This talk will show you free ways to analyse your WordPress website and how to make sense of all the numbers. Common performance issues and fixes will also be demonstrated so that you can apply this to your own WordPress website.
20 years of IT experience, specialising in high performance websites and scalable infrastructure. Current Chief Security Architect at Conetix Web Hosting. Author of the NGINX Cookbook (Packt).
Kristen Symonds
Fast WP sites with AMP
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AMP is probably misunderstood by a majority of WP users. I will endeavour to answer the questions: What is AMP? When and how can you use it on your WP site?
Happiness Engineer for WordPress.com. Loves karate, bunnies, knitting, crochet, photography, painting, and calligraphy.
Nik Cree
The Anatomy Of The Perfect Website
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Having built hundreds of websites for clients over the past 11 years I see some things that work exceptionally well every time and other things that are invariably almost always failures.
Putting a website together is a science but not rocket science, and I will show you how we do it with our clients.
Simple things like …
– how big to make the logo and were to place it
– whether to use a background image or plain background
– why you should never use stock images
– the most important element to put in the top right that results in an insane amount of inquiries
– why the worst place to start is to replicate competitors websites
– how to automate your marketing and qualifying your leads before they pick up the phone (all in the website)
to …
– the most effective call to action
– the highest converting instruction on a contact form
– optimal layout of the header, sidebar, footer, body
– quick hacks to getting high converting copy
– effective use of proof and credibility elements
– how and why you should use your highest revenue products and services on the home page
None of this is about the visual design (that comes next), but about the functional design to achieve the purpose of the website.
Asking the question at the very start “What is the real job of the website?” is absolutely critical to the success of it. Hint what most people think is the purpose is usually wrong … it is something else so simple (and the same for 98% of the businesses we work with) – get this right and the rest of building a website just falls into place, almost!
If you buy a nice looking template then add your logo, content and branding, you are doing it all wrong. Why? Because most theme authors make their templates Pop and Wow, but don’t know build with the end in mind for business nor do they know where to place each element on the site to optimise the real purpose giving you the result you need. Every single element, image, text, block of colour and visual element should ‘earn’ it’s way onto the page, not be there just because it looks great.
For example, beautiful full width, image rich sliders look fantastic but hardly ever add any value to the visitor experience, often harming conversions of visitors to enquire rather than assist them.
As a web developer our purpose over the past 8 years has been to create websites that help businesses get more leads and enquiries, make more sales (in a way that is surprisingly simple), and recover the cost of the website in one to five transactions. A local Burleigh pest control business said recently that he has “…never had so much cash” since his site was made over – his words. And just one of the simple changes we made to his website accounts for a jump in his enquiries (you don’t need to be a developer to do this).
Another client, a book and manuscript editor, resisted using this element for a couple of years, and just this week said she relented and added it to here website. That one change she said, now accounts for 50% of all her enquiries.
If you are building a website (or need to give it a makeover), this session will reveal from the past 8 years in the trenches working with a wide range of businesses, what works and what doesn’t to create a high converting effective tool for a profitable business website.
I run a successful Online Marketing Agency that works with business to create websites that work… meaning they get leads and enquiries to turn into customers. Throughout my career I discovered some pretty cool tools and apps that helped in my business and now work with clients as well. I also run the "Business Owners …
Toni Livesey
Why I use WooCommerce as an eCommerce Solution
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You can do so much with WooCommerce from online shops selling products to setting up subscription sites, running events and more.
I won’t hold it against you if you choose to use a different type of eCommerce Solution but personally I like the control you have over your own website and your own online shop or eCommerce website.
My talk will cover:
I’m a wife, mother and grandmother who somehow found her way into building websites back in 1996. As the MC who introduced me at the Brisbane WordCamp put it… that makes me older than Google. Yes, I was around before the Google boys set up shop in their mother’s garage. By 1998 I was building …
Dee Teal
Project Management Principles for your Mental Health
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Whether you work alone as a freelancer or solopreneur, as a product maker, a developer, content writer, home maker, blogger, or business owner, there will be times you have to deliver things. It may be a product, it may be a renovation, it may be a website, a bunch of cakes for the PTA cake stall, heck, it could even be a tiny human… but you have made a commitment and now have to deliver.
Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, has organised many WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at WordCamps and meetups whenever she gets the opportunity, both at home and around the world.
Veronica Lind
Modern businesses don’t need to promote their products.
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Think about it. If you and your competitor are selling similar products and services, how would you be promoting yourself differently? Unfortunately, price cutting is not a long term strategy. So what is?
Veronica Lind is the co-founder and Business & Marketing Strategist at Vermilion Pinstripes, a sales marketing and communications agency helping local, regional and global executives build business confidence and thrive.
Kim C
From 10 Seconds to 2: A Performance Case Study
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What’s the best way to tackle the list of recommendations from GTMetrix, PageSpeed, and YSlow? How do you get the most out of your caching plugin? What can do you to shave off those last few milliseconds?
This presentation will look at a variety of performance adjustments that brought one of our website loading times down from 10 seconds to 2 seconds. We will cover caching plugin tips, webfonts, CDNs, resource hints and more!
Kim is a WordPress designer and developer based in Sydney. She founded her agency Bumbershoot Creative in order to bring together her web, photography, and videography skills. She has a passion for best practice web development and is always keen to learn new tips and trips. A lover of classic sci-fi, her two furry technical …
Stephen Rees-Carter
My Year on the Front Line, Cleaning Infected Sites
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Stephen joined the Wordfence Site Cleaning team part-time at the start of 2017, having virtually no experience with WordPress, Wordfence, or cleaning infected websites. His only real credentials were a love of PHP development, a keen interest in security, and the crazy idea that cleaning infected sites would be fun. After a year in that role, Stephen stepped back from site cleaning and joined the Wordfence team full time as a developer, so now it’s time for him to tell his story.
In this talk he will share stories from the more memorable sites he cleaned (names changed to protect the innocent), including revealing his all-time favourite WordPress malware, and the epic tale of the persistent attacker that almost thwarted the Wordfence team completely. Scattered throughout will be tips and ideas to help protect your site from compromise and keep everyone (except the bad guys!) happy.
Stephen is a senior developer at Wordfence, where he tries to frustrate attackers by helping to secure WordPress sites. During his time cleaning infected websites, he gained an appreciation for clever malware, layered obfuscation, and Harry Potter passages. When he’s not writing code or looking at malware, he can be found practising lock-picking and studying …
Ben McAdam
Growth/Scale is impossible if you get this wrong
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Ever feel like you’re working really hard in your business, but not earning enough and can’t hire help? The reason has to do with a core part of your business model that no-one talks about but it’s critical to get right. In this presentation, Ben will teach you what it is, plus what to do about it. Whether you’re just starting or thinking about starting your business, or you’ve been in business for a while, you’ll get something helpful from this talk.
Ben is a Profits Coach and Virtual CFO with over a decade of experience helping online and offline businesses improve their profits, free up time, and understand their numbers.
Jo Minney
Git amongst it! Version control for WordPress coders
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Git is the world’s most popular version control system, but the uptake of Git for WordPress development is low compared to the rest of the development community. Whether because many WordPress developers are self-taught, or because using Git with WordPress poses some unique challenges – lots of WordPress developers are missing out by not having this fantastic tool in their arsenal!
In this talk we’ll be covering:
– Git vs GitHub vs Bitbucket – What’s the difference?
– What are the challenges using Git with WordPress
– How to get started with Git & BitBucket
– A suggested workflow for theme & plugin developers
– How to use automatic deployment for faster development
– Alternative workflow options
– How private workflows compare to public repositories
Jo Minney is a WordPress developer based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about UX, data-driven decision making, cats and travel – not necessarily in that order.
Sally Eberhardt
Keynote: How to make the most of your WordCamp experience
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WordCamp is a wonderful experience whether it be your first or fiftieth but can be a little overwhelming for first-timers and introverts. Here we look at some self-care tips and how to make the most of this great learning and networking opportunity.
Sally is an author, writer, erratic blogger and small business owner who advocates for connection, communication and collaboration. Sharing about networking is my passion.
Ricky Blacker
WordPress Hosting Survival Guide
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Hosting is essential to every web site in the world, and getting the right fit for your needs can be daunting with all the options available out there. In this presentation, Ricky will take you through how hosting has changed over time, what is available now to help with your WordPress site, how to get the most from your hosting, and what you should be looking for in choosing the right provider.
Ricky is a self taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients. He originally started his own web design business after being made redundant from a factory job in 2013, but now works for WP Engine as a Pre Sales Engineer, providing a Digital Experience Platform for WordPress user around the world.
He is a Co-Organizer for the Sunshine Coast & Brisbane WordPress Meetup Groups, as well as the Brisbane Web Design Meetup group, and was one of the amazing team who put together the Sunshine Coast WordCamp in 2016 and WordCamp Brisbane in 2017/18/19, and has spoken at WordCamps in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Ricky is very passionate about building the WordPress community and helping others to learn how to use WordPress and what it can do.
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Luke Bennett
Utility-first CSS with Tailwind
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Writing CSS doesn’t have to be hard. Utility CSS frameworks make styling HTML fast, easy and scalable. I’ll show you how.
The Essential Plugins You Should Install On Every Website
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With the plethora of WordPress plugins available to download, it can be difficult to filter out the good from the bad. While there are many excellent plugins out there for many different needs each website has, there are a handful that I’ve found to be indispensable from my websites no matter what purpose it serves. Here you will learn the essential plugins that every website needs.
Cameron Jones is the founder of the premium plugin store Mongoose Marketplace, best known for the Mongoose Page Plugin used by more than 30,000 WordPress websites. He lives on the Gold Coast, plays for AFL and cricket clubs and takes care of a very hungry teenager.
Jake Jackson
Surviving Depression: My Story
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Working from home comes with challenges; while you get more freedoms it can and does isolate you from society. If you combine that with running a business, having a mortgage, and being a single-income household, it can be very stressful and is a challenge to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This talk is about my struggle with Depression and Anxiety and the ways I manage my illness.
Owner and Developer at Gravity PDF, Dad of one (two if you count the dog), volunteer RFS Fire Fighter, and Port Macquarie local.
Cath Fowler
Beginner’s Guide to SEO: From Tumbleweeds to Traffic
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You’ve got a beautifully designed website that looks a million bucks. But there’s just one problem. Noone knows it exists. If you’re getting next to no organic website traffic. If you want to be found online you need some understanding of search engine optimisation. In this session you’ll learn:
– What is SEO?
– Why should you care?
– The 3 main pillars of SEO
– Technical considerations (plan and build a site Google will love)
– Creating search engine friendly content (keyword research, where to put your keywords, what makes great website copy)
– Why backlinks matter
– Your local SEO secret weapon – optimise your Google My Business listing
– Busting SEO myths
– Tools and WordPress plugins I love
Cath Fowler is an award-winning SEO consultant and copywriter who helps businesses get found and look good online. With over 15 years of marketing experience, Cath uses SEO smarts and compelling copy to establish your brand as the leader in your local area or industry.
Wil Brown
Generating Leads, Qualifying Clients and Winning Proposals
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You can’t run a business using WordPress if you don’t have a handle on generating qualified leads.
In this talk I’ll show you how to..
* Select and research your ideal client or niche
* Educate prospects at different steps in the sales funnel
* When to use Google, Facebook and LinkedIn ads in your funnel
* Set up landing pages with WordPress for your funnel prospects
* Use a a High Value Content Offer to build trust and book a free discovery session
* Ask the proper questions upfront to qualify prospects
* Running a discovery session
* Pitch a value-based proposal (not hourly or fixed)
* What to include in a proposal
* Payment terms & getting paid
I’ll give you the proposal template I use to win large projects.
Dad / WordPress Consultant / Developer / Conference Speaker and Organiser. Living in Sydney.
These are the people that make this event happen. They work tirelessly for weeks and months to plan, coordinate, and execute the best event possible. If you get a chance to thank them, please do!
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