Anthony Hortin

We’re happy to announce another speaker and another WooCommerce talk. I’m sure after your appetite has been whet about WooCommerce after Jen’s WooCommerce Case Study you’ll be have all sorts of ideas of products and services you can sell online with WooCommerce. Anthony will show you how you can build a membership site using WooCommerce!

Anthony’s presentation will show how you can create a membership site using WooTheme’s WooCommerce plugin. Although there are a number of membership specific plugins around, WooCommerce brings with it a number of benefits. First and foremost, WooCommerce is a trusted and well supported plugin, which is easy to setup and use. It’s currently estimated to be powering approximately 28% of all eCommerce sites. Other benefits include the number of available extensions, and in particular, payment gateways, which are ideally suited for membership sites. On top of that, if you want to sell products to your members, you automatically have the ability to do so, nice and easily. Anthony will outline the benefits of using WooCommerce, over dedicated membership plugins. He’ll also discuss which plugins (along with WooCommerce) would be required and how to go about setting them up.

During Anthony’s presentation he will covering the following areas:

• Benefits of using WooCommerce
• Benefits of WooCommerce over other popular membership plugins
• Plugins required (WooCommerce plus others)
• How to set up and configure the various plugins

Anthony runs a boutique design & development studio in the South-East suburbs of Melbourne. Maddison Designs works with a wide range of clients, from micro businesses through to large corporates, specialising in custom WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores.

Anthony has been developing for the web since the late 90’s. His love for WordPress was realised back in 2005 and he’s been happily using & coding for it ever since. He’s passionate about giving back to the WordPress community and has contributed to both the WordPress Theme and Plugin Directories and can be frequently found on the WordPress support forums.

Anthony is the author behind the highly popular Easy WP Guide an easy to read WordPress manual for end users and WordPress consultants.

Back in 2013, Anthony was a co-organiser for WordCamp Melbourne and each month he helps organise the WordPress Melbourne meetups.

You can follow Anthony on Twitter.

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Troy Dean

We’re very pleased to announce another speaker for WordCamp Brisbane 2015! You might know Troy Dean from his WP Elevation Podcast, if not you should definitely subscribe and catch up on the past episodes as Troy interviews both WordPress focused business owners as well as digital business entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech space.

Troy will walk you through a simple framework to help you build recurring revenue into your business so you can stop trading time for money.

Most WordPress-based businesses already have plenty of opportunities to create recurring revenue. During this presentation you will learn how to identify your recurring customers, how to package what they are already buying into a recurring revenue model and why recurring revenue really is the holy grail for you and your clients.

Troy Dean is co-founder of Video User Manuals and WP Elevation.

His past clients include QuickBooks, IBM, F1 Grand Prix, The Ashes, Westpac and Jessica Watson.
He is also host of the WP Elevation podcast which consistently ranks in the top 3 in iTunes for his category.
In his spare time he is a rock god in several bands.

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Jen Jeavons

We’re happy to announce yet another speaker to our lineup. Jen Jeavons from Pixel Palace will be giving a WooCommerce case study.

Coffee Beans Delivered is Pixel Palace’s very own eCommerce project. Conceived after years of building online stores for clients they thought it would be fun to put our money where our mouth is and try it for themselves. In the presentation they’ll cover the business concept, branding and design, SEO and WooCommerce set up plus tips and tricks they’ve learnt along the way and insights from a client/user perspective on running an online store that as developers you may not consider.

In our presentation Jen will cover:

• How they named the business for SEO purposes
• The business model
• The SEO techniques and results that have seen the site sit at #1 / #2 (under wikipedia) for “coffee beans” in Australia.
• Branding and site design aesthetic (which has seen it featured on numerous design blogs).
• WooCommerce plugins and extensions we’re using (including follow up emails, cart messages etc).

Jen Jeavons is the director of Brisbane based digital design studio – Pixel Palace. For more than a decade, Pixel Palace has been specialising in handcrafted custom online solutions. Jen heads up a small but crazy clever team from their Kelvin Grove office servicing a broad range of clients worldwide. Clients include well known local businesses such as Shingle Inn and reach as far as America with clients including high end LA fashion labels and celebrity stylist and Harpers Bazaar spokesperson Anita Patrickson. Pixel Palace specialises in custom WordPress sites and WooCommerce setups.

You can follow Jen on Twitter.

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Charlie Carter

We’re excited to announce another speaker for WordCamp Brisbane 2015! Charlie Carter will be talking about how to make WordPress accessible.

Following on from Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Charlies’ talk will discuss the many options that developers can do to improve accessibility within the WordPress platform. His presentation aims to offer practical insight and advice into making your WordPress more inclusive without the bloat.

Charlies’ talk will include the following topics:

• WordPress intro
• Making WordPress Accessible Initiative
• WordPress Accessibility plugins
• Tenon.io and Access Checker
• CAPTCHAs
• Colour contrast
• Captioning

Charlie is the Founder / Director at Webbism. A web accessibility consulting business that aims to make the web a more inclusive place. Charlie is the founder of the Brisbane Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup in Brisbane, Team Lead for Accessibility at the Emergency Wiki 2.0 and member of Universal Tux, a group that aims to enhance accessibility within Linus and FOSS (free and open source software). Charlie is a founding member at The Loft Project and lives on the Sunshine Coast.

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Dee Teal

Freelancing, on the face of it is an exciting idea. Being your own boss, being the manager of your own time, working from home and basically working for yourself can be incredibly rewarding.

It can also, however be terrifying. Instead of just being a writer, or a designer, or a developer you now also have to be a bookkeeper, accountant and all round office dogsbody/tea-maker.

In attending this talk, audience members who are already freelancing will be able to check off whether they’re making the most of their time and resources, beginners will learn how to set themselves up for success.

Dee’s talk will cover the following:

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Japh Thomson

Knowing what tools and processes to use when starting out is difficult for a newcomer to WordPress-based development. Japh will share his preferred setup after years of building on WordPress. The basis for his development workflow is a project called Chassis. He’ll cover the general workflow, and an intro to Chassis.

Japh has been building websites since the late 1990s, and specialising in WordPress since ~2008. As a senior developer he’s helped a number of web agencies switch to WordPress as their CMS of choice. He worked as the WordPress Evangelist for WordPress at Envato from ~2011, and now works at Human Made, a WordPress.com VIP partner agency.

Japh is also interested in a variety of things, including fermentation and the intersection between beverages and botany. He also has a passion for seeing WordPress taken into the countries, languages, and cultures where it isn’t already dominant.

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