Business

Tailoring WordPress to suit your client needs

WordPress is designed to make website administration simple. This talk covers how StudioA2 deliver projects that allow flexibility on the front end while not compromising usability on the back end. A well designed site that functions correctly for visitors can be a nightmare for your clients if the administration is not user friendly. We’ve built dozens of WordPress sites, each with its own unique design, layout and content structure. We deliver a bespoke admin interface … Continue reading

Getting started with WordPress web apps

This talk will give you an introduction to using WordPress to build web apps. It will include: the difference between a web app and a responsive site using themes to create a web app from the same database as your main site WordPress plugins which help with web apps by Rachel McCollin

How not to give appalling user support

More and more developers are using WordPress to build and sell online products (web apps, SaaS, etc.), and providing excellent user support is a skill certainly not to be taken for granted.

Introduction to WooCommerce

In this presentation I’ll show you how easy it is to set up an online store with WooCommerce. I’ll be building a store from scratch ‘live’ in only 20 mins. I’ll show you how to set up your shop, add products (simple, virtual, grouped, affiliate and variable), add product galleries, add sections to your shop, set up checkout, how to take payment and more. We’ve been running WooCommerce on pootlepress.com (http://pootlepress.com/) for the past year … Continue reading

A Question of Deliverables

Before responsive design, there was “standard” design. Keeping the client in the loop with standard design was easy, you showed them a visual and then created a pixel perfect website based on that visual. But as more internet enabled devices came on the market, responsive design became more common and the practice of pixel perfect designs became increasing difficult to maintain, keeping the client in the loop using “the old ways” became impractical. So how … Continue reading

Those who don’t jump will never fly

Changing what you don’t like in the WordPress core, a plugin or a framework is not an easy task. Many developers don’t have a clue about what is important for accessibility. But telling developers they’re doing accessibility wrong or just posting: “this is all wrong, fix it” doesn’t always get accessibility on the agenda, or get a positive response. But if WordPress doesn’t give you what you want, don’t just grumble or be intimidated by … Continue reading

Developing and selling WordPress plugins

Dan will talk about the journey from finding a problem to solve, building a solution and submitting to the WordPress repo, and then finding a way to monetise it.

WordPress By Subscription

The recurring business model that saved my business (and my sanity). A profitable ‘micro’ 13-year-old web development business was close to failure…2 years on, I share with you how I turned this around, with WordPress at the ‘Core’ of my new recurring business model. The mess I was in, the lessons learned, the happy ending and my love of WordPress and its Community will all be revealed.

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