The original team behind WCBos (Kurt, John, Jake, Erick, Amanda and Daisy) have been discussing how to mark the 5th Anniversary. We’d like to do a lighthearted and inspiring talk about how far the Boston WP community has come (through the meetup and camp), but also what its meant to various people in the community, including ourselves. There are some mind boggling stories to be told. So the talk is about what the community has put into WordPress and what WordPress has given us.
We’re still yammering about the right format- whether its a panel or an actual talk, but we’ll be soliciting stories from the community to tell. We really don’t intend to make this about ourselves, but rather about the somewhat extraordinary way WordPress has transformed the lives of people in the Boston community. Its a “thank you”.
Project management is not most creative or development professionals’ favorite topic. You want to get through the administrative work and on to the fun of design and/or coding. But that administrative work is critical. Not only is it key to the success of most gigs, but it’s also key to growing your career.
Perspectives from a veteran project manager will help creatives and dev stop dreading the “project management” part of projects. We’ll learn strategies for managing clients, setting timelines, and managing people. We’ll share our favorite tools (hint: not spreadsheets) and great ways to make management more egalitarian. We’ll even prove project management can be fun!
In my agency, we handle a couple of 1,000+ site multisite networks for the mortgage industry. This talk will go over the challenges we’ve faced, both technical and business.
My talk will be to take a completely fresh install of WordPress and walk the audience through how quick and easy it is to setup a basic ecommerce shop using WooCommerce. I will setup the whole site build in a product, discuss marketing tools and show how easy it is to get setup and processing transactions. Then I will also discuss some of the more complex features and options the system provides and how far you can push it if you want to by sharing some real world examples my company and I have created and launched for our clients recently using the same tools.
In theory transferring a WordPress website should be a straightforward process that involves few well-defined steps like: export your database from the old host, import it on the new one, move your files, reconfigure WordPress and change the DNS records. In reality though the migration process has some challenges that, if not addressed properly, may cause serious downtime and data loss. Needless to say how this could affect your business – revenue stream loss and bad reputation being just some of the implications.
I plan to walk the audience of the presentation through the different steps in the migration process with examples how each step can be optimized so that the risks are minimized. The following will be covered in details:
1. How to plan the migration
2. How to perform each step of the real website move, dry run migration
3. How to handle the domain propagation issues once the migration is over
4. What to do if you noticed missing data after the process
Designed to help bridge the gap between the creative and the technical, this talk is all about strutting and selling your stuff in the tech industry. From one-man blogs, to freelance developers, to big ol’ agencies–-This session is meant to get the geek-inclined started in the wonderful world of marketing, and help the artsy-inclined gain some confidence in tech. Some of you may be wondering:
How can I get more people to read my blog posts?
Wait, I should be writing blog posts?
Which plugin is best for SEO?
I hate talking to people! Do I have to talk to people?
Don’t worry. We’ll get to that.