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Mention SEO and WordPress in the same sentence and most people automatically think of Plugins. There are certainly plenty of very handy SEO Plugins for WordPress, but there is so much more than plugins that can be with WordPress to … Continue reading SEO for WordPress Workshop →

Whether you’re new to WordPress or a seasoned blogger, you may at times feel overwhelmed when choosing from the 15,000 free plugins. Never fear, Will McNelis is here to help. Will has plenty of experience in selecting the essential plugins when … Continue reading Will McNelis – 10 Essential Plugins for your WordPress Site →

Dan is a member of WordPress royalty. His company, Instinct Entertainment, has been building WordPress Plugins & providing custom WordPress development since, well, since the dawn of the ‘Press. Instinct’s flagship plugin, the hugely popular WP e-Commerce plugin, even has a download count double the … Continue reading How to Facilitate and Build an Open Source Community →

Troy’s presentation will cover the systems you can put in place to make sure you quote correctly and deliver WordPress sites efficiently. He’ll cover the plugins you should use and processes you can put in place to streamline the whole … Continue reading Running a Small Business as a WordPress Developer →

WordCamps bring together folks of all skill levels, from core-developers to first-time bloggers. That’s why we’ve signed Andrew Davis up to run a session especially for new-comers to WordPress. During his session, Andrew will show how easy it can be … Continue reading How To Build Your First Website Using WordPress. →

Every community group, sporting team or even small business, not for profit group or individual, needs their own web presence. This talk focuses on free or very low cost tools that your group can use to to get online and … Continue reading Building a web presence for your Community with WordPress.com and other free tools. →

Are you working 9 to 5 as a designer or developer? Are you lying when you say “9 to 5” or “working”? A lot of what we do as designers or developers is work that doesn’t require us to sit … Continue reading Freelance FTW (Strategies For Success, Pitfalls To Avoid) →

Timothy Ferguson is one of the maintainers of the Gold Coast Library WordPress site gcbooks.wordpress.com. The Gold Coast Library setup their online book club as their staff training platform for Web 2.0 and are using WordPress as part of their new Online … Continue reading Running an Online Bookclub with WordPress →

Kate was diagnosed with a rare younger onset dementia when she was 49. At WordCamp Gold Coast, Kate will share her personal story of living with dementia and how she uses it as motivation to live a fuller life. Since … Continue reading Using WordPress To Capture Memories →

John O’Nolan who is joining us all the way from the United Kingdom. John is an interactive designer who works with companies all over the world, from Microsoft to Virgin Atlantic Airways. John is a WordPress Core UI group contributor, … Continue reading Designing Emotion – Becoming a Puppet-Master of User Experience →