Gary Thayer is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and as Lead Organizer for WordCamp Portland, ME.

What’s been your best experience with WordPress?

Getting to build some really cool stores and applications for businesses with a diverse set of needs. WordPress is super flexible, while always offering a familiar framework for users.

Tell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.

We’ll be looking at next steps after creating your WooCommerce store, and how to customize it for unique business needs.

What’s your favourite thing about WordCamps, or if your first one… what are you looking forward to?

Meeting WordPress users with difference experiences and backgrounds.

Let’s get philosophical… what are you most proud of?

Successfully transitioning from a degree in Theatre, to a career as a developer.

Session Details

This talk will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce. We’ll talk about:

Keeping template files up to date;
Useful actions and filters;
Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations;