{"id":1684,"date":"2018-07-25T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2018-07-24T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:24:08","slug":"new-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/new-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Evan Mullins is unable to come to the conference.\u00a0 Sometimes life gets in the way even for WordCamps!\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to catch-up with Evan another time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to announce new speaker Chris Bryant!\u00a0 Thanks for helping us out Chris.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Bryant<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/chris-bryant\/chris-bryant-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chris-bryant\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1.jpg\" class=\"speaker alignleft wp-image-1682 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.sydney.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/07\/chris-bryant-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Bryant is Director at OPMC Group. He founded OPMC in 2003 while at University in the cold and windy capital of New Zealand, Wellington. The business is now a 15 year old multi brand web services organisation, including OPMC and Web 105 Creative.<\/p>\n<p>The OPMC brand focuses on the four areas of ecommerce, web hosting, plugin development and web security.<\/p>\n<p>Chris lives in Sydney with his wife and 10 month old baby.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Presenting: WordPress Plugin Development for Developers and Business Owners<\/h2>\n<h3>How to deliver and receive success and excellence<\/h3>\n<p>This talk will focus on the success and failures from building a 6 figure plugin sales business.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever made a plugin, and asked yourself what on earth you were thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Or did you buy a plugin and it had no end of problems, but the developers weren\u2019t supportive?<\/p>\n<p>Some plugins are great, work seamlessly with your website, and deliver on what they promised.<\/p>\n<p>Some are really, really bad. Just awful. Refund me now! Your website stops working, there are constant problems, the plugin developer is useless.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Bryant has had some major plugin failures, and some great successes over the past 10 years, in his web development firm.<\/p>\n<p>In this non technical talk, Chris will share his successes and failures with making plugins over the past decade. Topics to cover include:<\/p>\n<p>For Business Owners<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why your website company might be the worst people to make your plugin.<\/li>\n<li>What makes a good WordPress plugin?<\/li>\n<li>Setting expectations &#8211; What do you get for your money when you buy that $15 plugin?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the plugin you bought not work as expected?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it so expensive to have one system talk to another and what can I do about it?<\/li>\n<li>The role of quality, accuracy and price in choosing a plugin developer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Web Developers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happened when we were overloaded with support requests.<\/li>\n<li>How the smallest Git almost crushed us.<\/li>\n<li>The time we were told our plugin was about to be removed.<\/li>\n<li>How to build a successful business with WordPress plugins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Case Studies<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll also cover a broad range of case studies which will provide valuable insights to both business owners and developers, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rarer one &#8211; $10,000 plugin<\/li>\n<li>The everyday gem &#8211; $500 plugin<\/li>\n<li>The big win &#8211; increasing plugin value with incremental improvement<\/li>\n<li>The complex one &#8211; Enterprise financial integration &amp; risk management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately Evan Mullins is unable to come to the conference.\u00a0 Sometimes life gets in the way even for WordCamps!\u00a0 We&#8217;ll try to catch-up with Evan another time. 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