I really enjoy educating others about the things I enjoy – I guess that is why I was a teacher for 12 years!
Here is a collection of the talks I have given at various conferences and meet-up groups over the years.
If you would like me to speak at your event, you find our more information on my speaker page.
Being a WordPress developer and owner of a WordPress development agency, most of the speaking events I have done have been entirely WordPress related. However tonight I presented a talk about how to write a website specification at Digital People in Peterborough.
How do we move towards a block-based admin UI in a pre-Gutenberg WordPress?
With the rise of page builders and ‘block-based’ layouts, and the imminent arrival of Gutenberg – WordPress’ new block-based editor – we needed a solution for transitioning towards this new way of editing content while sticking with the mature and stable technology stack that we know and love.
We, therefore, set out to find another solution and this led to the development of the HD ACF Blocks plugin that we use on most sites today.
This talk introduces the plugin, how we built it, how it works, and how it provides value to our clients and our business.
WordPress allows users to manage their content through the WordPress admin screens. This means users can add, edit and delete content and media and manage their sites without the need to ask developers for every change.
WordPress is a content management system, but all too often it can end up becoming a content mismanagement system when editing and managing the site is just too difficult.
How do you get a plugin onto the WordPress.org repository? What steps do you need to take? Are there any specific requirements?
These are just some of the questions this talk, aimed at anyone who wants to push a plugin to the WordPress.org repository will answer. We will go through the steps you need to take in order to prepare your plugin, some best practices in the plugin code and how to submit it to .org.
We have all used FTP as developers to move files from editing them locally to our production server. Developers know the problems this can cause and why alternatives are needed. In this talk I will introduce my WordPress development process and how you can move on from FTP to a more robust development and deployment system.
After freelancing for just over a year now and having left a well paid job this talk outlines lessons I have learned from taking the plunge to being a freelancer and some tips and tricks I have learned along the way. This talk will benefit anyone looking to become a freelancer or any current freelancers that are looking for some tips and tricks on getting by.