I recently reviewed 30 websites in 30 days and it was a journey of discovery. I saw the good, the bad, the ugly and a site with over 100 plugins. In my presentation, I’m going to tell you the 10 main problems that I saw in all these websites. 10 issues to avoid. 10 fixes to fix. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/30-wordpress-website-audits-in-30-days-the-lessons-i-learned/

I’ll take you through 5 core things that I wish I knew when I start to develop on WordPress with examples and demos.

The idea of starting and managing a website can be truly terrifying for many business owners and writers, me included.

No longer just a humble blogging platform, WordPress is now the favourite CMS of choice for a majority of web developers.

A brief dive into the component library built into WordPress / Gutenberg. I’ll use a little demo plugin to demonstrate how useful these components are, and how you can use them to build the perfect authoring interface for your custom content, and more. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/custom-interactivity-with-gutenberg-components/

At the end of 2018, we launched a custom eLearning platform that is built on the WordPress backend and experienced through our ReactJS frontend. In this talk, I would like to discuss why we chose the hybrid approach and how it’s a viable option for designers/developers looking to modernise their WordPress sites incrementally. I will share the technical challenges we faced throughout the project, including how we overcame them, and what we intend to do next with our web app. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/building-a-hybrid-javascript-app-for-wordpress-how-why-we-embedded-our-spa-without-going-completely-headless/

Before Elementor was installed on my sites I was wary of doing very much in the backend of my website. As someone who loves to action things quickly (think MVP), not being able to iterate without handing it over to my web guy was super frustrating. When Elementor entered my life I felt significantly more confident to develop new pages, update content and get creative. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/how-elementor-changed-my-life-for-the-better/

My presentation is for beginners of WooCommerce – the importance of setting up stock management in their WooCommerce Shops & the different ways to do this and will include setting up stock quantity control for individual products and variations of their products such as sizes, shapes, colours etc. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/one-of-the-hidden-gems-of-woocommerce-stock-management/

Marthie will discuss with the audience the top reasons why it is so important to perform maintenance on your website. Whether you do it yourself and you pay someone to do it for you. This is one of the most neglected areas of a website, and just like a car, it requires regular maintenance otherwise it will break down and get viruses etc and cause your business to halt. Prevention has always been better than cure. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/why-is-website-maintenance-so-important/

If you already know JavaScript, but don’t have much React experience, you’ll learn what you need get started. You’ll then be able to develop your own blocks and extend Gutenberg. You’ll see the most important parts of ES6 and JSX to know. Also, you’ll learn the basics of how React works, see a basic build setup, and learn about ES6 modules. https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/a-quickstart-guide-to-react-development/