WordPress Meetup

The WordPress Melbourne meet up returns for another month. Our WordPress meetup covers everything from choosing Themes & Plugins and setting up your site, through to theme and plugin development and everything related to Core.

We currently run one meetup per month. We try to alternate between end-user/beginner talks one month and development/technical talks the following month. As it all depends on availability of presenters though, please make sure you keep an eye out on the topics for the particular month once we update the meetup page with all the details.

We're always looking for new speakers, so contact the organisers in the meetup.com sidebar if you have an idea for a talk. We usually start the night with a light meal before the talks.

You can find links to past presentation slides (when available), over on our WP Melbourne website - http://wpmelb.org

RSVP's for this meetup will open 7 days before the meetup starts

Location:

The WP Melbourne meetup is held at:

Launchpad 3 (Tram Stop Stage)
132 Cremorne St
Richmond

Launchpad 3 is a short 7 minute walk from Richmond Station. You can view the route on Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/81ZRMi36jPD2

Our meetups wouldn’t be possible without our amazing sponsors

WP Engine - https://wpengine.com
Conetix - https://www.conetix.com.au
Plesk - https://www.plesk.com

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Agenda:

6:30 Arrive, mingle, chit chat, pizza scoffing

7:00 News, views and quick updates

7:10 Talk followed by general discussion

8:15 Pack up and head for the pub

8:30 Drink stuff

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== Setting up WooCommerce & Amazon S3 (AWS) for Digital Products ==
If you're selling, or even giving away, digital products on your WooCommerce store (e.g. Audio/Video files, eBooks, PDF's etc...), it's a great idea to offload those resources onto a third party, like Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service), which is part of AWS (Amazon Web Services). Offloading your products to a service like S3 means that your hosting disk space and bandwidth wont be impacted when customers purchase and download your products. If your products are attracting a large number of downloads, this can be a huge saving in terms of hosting costs. Anthony is going to run through the steps to setting up your Amazon S3 service and WooCommerce products so that everything works smoothly and securely.

This presentation is suitable for anyone with a WooCommerce site and digital products. Logging into AWS for the first time can be very intimidating, but with these easy to follow steps, you'll have everything setup and configured in no time at all!

Anthony Hortin, from Maddison Designs (https://maddisondesigns.com), is a Designer & Developer who builds WordPress websites for a living. He's one of the co-organisers for the monthly WordPress Melbourne meetups. As well as a contributor to the official WordPress theme and Plugin Directories, he's also the author of the extremely popular Easy WP Guide (http://easywpguide.com) WordPress manual.