WooCommerce REST API Integration

Andrew Duncan

Andrew, a WooCommerce plugin developer is joining us to talk about how to seamlessly integrate their online presence and their offline business applications to reduce data entry and streamline your business processes for online orders.

WooCommerce is one of the most popular eCommerce platform on the web, and has become the de-facto eCommerce option for WordPress. In this session Andrew will demonstrate how you can use the WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs to sync WooCommerce Orders to your internal CRM, sync Products and Images from your CRM of choice into WooCommerce, and receive instant notifications of new WooCommerce orders.

Andrew Duncan is the CEO/Owner of Databuzz, a FileMaker Business Alliance partner based in Sydney, Australia. He has been developing FileMaker solutions since 1992 and has been working with APIs for over 15 years.

Andrew speaks regularly at the Sydney FileMaker Developers group which he convenes, with a particular focus on FileMaker integration.

Zero to Website: From planning to launch in 9 steps

Emma Patterson

Emma, a graphic designer turned web designer will be covering the 9 steps she takes to create beautiful WordPress websites, and quickly! After years both designing and building websites with WordPress she’s refined the process over and over, making it as tight and smooth as possible for both herself and clients – and she’ll be sharing it with all of us!

Emma’s a graphic designer turned web designer on a mission to teach others how to build beautiful & professional websites with WordPress. She’s been freelancing since 2011, and working with WordPress since 2012. Although she specialises in building beautiful branding and websites for change-makers, She’s also a project manager, coordinating the services of copywriters, web developers and SEO geeks to build strong online brands for clients. Outside of work, she is obsessed with sausage dogs, nature, wine, and Mexican food.

Do what you do best and outsource the rest

Gal Baras

Gal, an online marketing consultant for small businesses from Brisbane, will talk about how a lot of people think that WordPress is so easy to use that anyone can do it, and while true, only up to a point. Most people can get a site going, but it won’t be nearly as good as a site created professionally, with a solid technical foundation (caching, backups, etc), a smooth user experience, tight security, search engine optimisation and more.

Gal is a Brisbane-based online marketing consultant working with small/local businesses and several business websites. Every Website he builds are based on WordPress and he provides “the full suite” for them: domain, hosting, web development, SEO, conversion optimisation, moral support, maintenance, backups and more.

Before venturing into the world of WordPress & business, he was in corporate IT for years working on large systems for very large organisations, which has given him a large-scale methodical perspective on website setup and operations. Having been “just a number” all those years, he’s used his experience to provide smaller clients with the personal touch and care thats appreciated by all.

A Crazy Lady’s Beginner’s Guide to WooCommerce

Toni Livesey

Toni, a self-confessed “Crazy Lady” is joining us to give us her take on a Beginners guide to WooCommerce, she’ll be covering many of the questions new-comers to WooCommerce will be asking such as How do I start?, How do I get paid?, What shipping options exist? and many many more.

Based in Harvey Bay, Toni started with her first website over 20 years ago in 1996 with nothing more than Notepad and a couple of HTML tutorials. Much more recently she’s written a training manual for a training course in WooCommerce delivered to indigenous startups by the QLD government.

She’s worked with clients in all types of business; including online stores ranging from large fishing tackle sites that sell tens of thousands globally to small local businesses selling disposable nappies.
Never saying no to a challenge and always solving the problem, has lead to the fond nickname ‘Crazy Lady’ from her family – in her spare time she’s a wife, mother and step-mother to 10, and grandmother to more kids than she can count on all her fingers and toes.

Your First Twelve Plugins

Scott Huntley

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.

Kenneth Scott Huntley (please call him Scott) is an Instruction Designer for the Student Management Services Program Project at TAFE NSW. Scott also runs a number of WordPress workshops a few weekends every year at the local community college in Parramatta.