• If You Built it Right, And They Will Come - Presentation by Devin Walker 2018

    Solutions that solve real world problems start with an idea; but not just any idea, a good one. How you build and iterate upon that idea is what ultimately determines its success or failure. WordPress is an excellent platform for entrepreneurs. It powers more than 30% of the internet, is flexible for beginners to developers, and has a bright future. Thus, it serves as an excellent springboard to launch new, exciting, and profitable solutions. Whether it be in themes, plugins, SaaS, or services, there’s plenty of room for innovation and disruption. Learn how you can take advantage of WordPress’s popularity and flexibility to enter the market faster, with less investment, and more opportunity. The session examines our unique industry and how you can build a successful business creating solutions for WordPress. We will review real world success stories, how to take advantage of your strengths and weaknesses, and the basics of launching a successful product or service in the WordPress space.

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  • Using Third Party Code to Create Unique and Meaningful Solutions

    Open source third party code can help you at every corner of the development process. In fact, many of the popular plugins and themes you use today leverage popular open source libraries for functionality, reporting, presentation, and more. Learn about how you can use third party code to speed up development, reduce budgets, and meet deadlines faster. This presentation will be light on code, but geared towards beginning to intermediate developers who understand the underlying principles of writing code for WordPress.

  • Forking it Right

    What is a fork? Well, essentially taking a copy of someone else’s code and developing on it yourself. A lot of popular plugins you use today began as forks, such as WooCommerce and many others. So, when is forking right and when is it wrong? Learn about what a fork is and how you can use third party code to create unique and meaningful solutions.Let’s discover the history and debate around forking in the WordPress, the community, and beyond. This presentation will be light on code and geared towards WordPress users who understand the underlying principles of WordPress and General Public License (GPL).

  • Built it Right, And They Will Come - Presentation by Devin Walker

    Solutions that solve real world problems start with an idea; but not just any idea, a good one. How you build and iterate upon that idea is what ultimately determines its success or failure. WordPress is an excellent platform for entrepreneurs. It powers more than 30% of the internet, is flexible for beginners to developers, and has a bright future. Thus, it serves as an excellent springboard to launch new, exciting, and profitable solutions. Whether it be in themes, plugins, SaaS, or services, there’s plenty of room for innovation and disruption. Learn how you can take advantage of WordPress’s popularity and flexibility to enter the market faster, with less investment, and more opportunity. The session examines our unique industry and how you can build a successful business creating solutions for WordPress. We will review real world success stories, how to take advantage of your strengths and weaknesses, and the basics of launching a successful product or service in the WordPress space.

  • WP Rollback - WordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-Palooza

    Our presentation on WP Rollback: https://github.com/WordImpress/WP-Rollback A solution for easily switching between any plugin or theme version found on WordPress.org.