Our final six talks (and speakers) are here! Read all about them below.

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A dummies guide to CPTs and ACFs

Jo Minney

No longer just a humble blogging platform, WordPress is now the favourite CMS of choice for a majority of web developers. One reason for this is the fundamental architecture of the platform that uses “post types” to store and deliver stuff – from media attachments to pages, blog posts to testimonials. With Custom Post Types (CPTs) you too can harness the power of WordPress to become a pseudo-developer! Pair that with Custom Fields and all of a sudden you can supercharge your WordPress experience, and best of all you can do it for free without needing to be a developer.

With a fairly bizarre WordPress origin story, Jo originally chose WP because she really, really likes SQL databases and liked the idea of a well-supported, open-source CMS that was built on one. She is now confident in, and even teaches, all of the front end coding languages used in WordPress, but still avoids PHP like the plague!

She is easily recognisable by her bright purple hair and dorky glasses 🙂

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How I Built My WordPress Business with (Almost) Zero Investment 

Rajendra Zore

Now that WordPress is maturing and the ecosystem is thriving, it may seem overwhelming to start a new business. But you can do it.

Many of you may be soloprenuers running a one-person agency. In this talk, I will share how I started an $18 a year service that turned into thousands per month. Hint: I didn’t get venture capital, do crazy marketing, or anything shady.
Let’s talk about digital tools to help your side hustle become a business — including what to do and what not to do. Tools, tricks, laughter, and tears.

Rajendra Zore (Raj for short) started his career in risk assessment and management. Though it may sound intimidating, it was a natural fit for him to start several companies. He is currently the CMO of RunCloud as well as CEO of two of his own companies. One client described Raj as “a self-made man who is achieving in the world on his own terms.” 

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Introduction To Plugin Development

Cameron Jones

Have you ever wanted to build your own plugin? Or maybe you’re just curious as to how plugins work? We’ll take a look at some popular plugins, learn the WordPress hook system, then walk through building your first custom WordPress plugin from scratch. 

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.

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Advanced Custom Blocks – creating customised editing experiences in a Gutenberg world using Advanced Custom Fields

Alex Bishop

This talk covers the new ACF blocks functionality, with a further dive into how this approach can lead to more modularised components. We’re currently experimenting with this at work, and have seen some nice patterns fall out of our efforts so far. Alex will discuss the basics, and then some more ‘advanced’ topics like utilising ACF builder & classes for each block.

Alex James Bishop is a Senior Web Developer at Frame Creative, as well as the organiser of the South Australian WordPress Meetups. A veteran of many WordCamps and hackathons, he’s passionate about introducing developers to modern PHP practices, automation, and testing.

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10 Things Your WordPress Website Can Do…That You May Not Know it Could

Paul Luxford

Have you ever wondered what your website could do for you, other than just being a pretty brochure online? In this talk, discover 10 things that your website could do that you may not have thought was possible.

Paul runs Gold Coast Business Websites, a business dedicated to building successful WordPress websites, hosting, website training and WPGeni which is a website care service.

You can’t do that with WordPress

Samuel Levy

In the past 15 years the technology of the web has evolved, enabling exciting new techniques and tools for web developers. WordPress has evolved with it, but some of the newer and more exciting tools are still out of reach… or are they?

This is a developer focused talk about bringing newer technologies into WordPress development through the use (and abuse) of plugins and themes.

Sam is a backend PHP developer who takes joy in exploring bad ideas with ridiculous code, and emerging with an elegant solution. He has spent almost 15 years in the industry, learning how to push the limits of what can (or should) be done with code.

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