Schedule

Thursday, 8 September: Workshops

Just like last year, the first day of WordCamp Cape Town 2016 will be highly practical 60-minute workshops. For these workshops, attendees will all be seated at tables with a chance to use their own laptops to learn about useful tools and gain practical lessons from this year’s instructors.

This time around workshops are separated into three tracks – for Users, Intermediate Developers, and Advanced Developers.

Time	User	Intermediate Developer	Advanced Developer
7:30 am	Registration
9:00 am	Welcome
9:15 am	Selling anything online, with WooCommerce Matty Cohen Favorite session: Selling anything online, with WooCommerce	Extending WordPress: A guide to building your first plugin Favorite session: Extending WordPress: A guide to building your first plugin	Taking WordPress to the App Store Chris Muller Favorite session: Taking WordPress to the App Store
10:15 am	Morning Tea
11:00 am	How to run an efficient WordPress Development Business in 2016 Richard Miles, Leo Gopal Favorite session: How to run an efficient WordPress Development Business in 2016	Building blocks of development: the process of identifying, reporting and fixing bugs Dwain Maralack Favorite session: Building blocks of development: the process of identifying, reporting and fixing bugs	A Basic Introduction to Continuous Integration with WordPress Seagyn Davis Favorite session: A Basic Introduction to Continuous Integration with WordPress
12:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	WordPress Customisation for Dummies (Like Me) Job Thomas Favorite session: WordPress Customisation for Dummies (Like Me)	Development for Designers Daine Mawer Favorite session: Development for Designers	Leveraging the Settings API Konstantin Obenland Favorite session: Leveraging the Settings API
3:00 pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 pm	Integrating OroCRM into WooCommerce James van der Hoven Favorite session: Integrating OroCRM into WooCommerce	The Benefits of using a WordPress Framework like Genesis Bradley Baumann Favorite session: The Benefits of using a WordPress Framework like Genesis	Front-end Performance Danielle Eriksen, Steve Barnett Favorite session: Front-end Performance

Friday, 9 September

The second day of WordCamp Cape Town will be a single track of regular sessions designed to give you the inspiration to build your life and business around WordPress.

Time	Sessions
7:30 am	Registration
9:00 am	Welcome
9:25 am	Democratising Community Hugh Lashbrooke Favorite session: Democratising Community
10:05 am	The WordPress Community, Mental Wellness, and You Leo Gopal Favorite session: The WordPress Community, Mental Wellness, and You
10:45 am	Lightning Talks Jeff Pearce, Jemima Baumann Favorite session: Lightning Talks
11:10 am	Morning Tea
11:45 am	Customising WordPress for the Reader Experience Trisha Cornelius Favorite session: Customising WordPress for the Reader Experience
12:25 pm	‘Click-to-pay-to-learn’ Caitlin Gevers Favorite session: ‘Click-to-pay-to-learn’
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:35 pm	Making WordPress.org Konstantin Obenland Favorite session: Making WordPress.org
3:15 pm	Afternoon Tea
4:00 pm	The Power of Exposure Nathaniel Wagner Favorite session: The Power of Exposure
4:40 pm	Lightning Talks Rob Hope Favorite session: Lightning Talks
5:10 pm	Closing
6:00 pm	After Party