{"id":1265,"date":"2016-04-30T01:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.chicago.wordcamp.org\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:29:43","slug":"woocommerce-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2016\/woocommerce-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"WooCommerce Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Elward\u00a0is a speaker at WordCamp Chicago talking about\u00a0WooCommerce Basics<\/a>. Get to know him below!<\/p>\n

Bio<\/h2>\n

Patrick Elward of Chicago Web Management specializes in E-Commerce and has worked with Allstate, CDW, 3Com and dozens of small businesses to manage their web sites. A Certified Internet Webmaster, Patrick is able to translate the technical into easy to understand terms for the non-tech savvy. He attended WooConference 2016 in Austin, Texas and also conducts workshops for ‘Ecommerce for small business’ at SCORE Chicago since 2012<\/p>\n

WordCamp Chicago Mini-Interview<\/h2>\n

1. I started Chicago Web Management in 2006 and have worked with numerous E-commerce CMS, both custom and standards like Open Cart, Zen Cart and Magento. I started working with WordPress in 2011 and since then have moved 90% of my client base over to it.<\/p>\n

2. Teaching others about technology comes naturally for me and I’m excited to share my knowledge about WooCommerce for beginning\/intermediate WordPress users.<\/p>\n

3. In the past ten years, I’ve discovered two major problems with E-commerce website development. First, E-commerce frameworks are not very flexible and second, custom frameworks are too costly to maintain; however, extending WordPress with WooCommerce gives me the solution to the these two issues. As it matures, I find WordPress with WooCommerce able to handle just about anything my clients can throw at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Elward\u00a0is a speaker at WordCamp Chicago talking about\u00a0WooCommerce Basics. Get to know him below! Bio Patrick Elward of Chicago Web Management specializes in E-Commerce and has worked with Allstate, CDW, 3Com and dozens of small businesses to manage their web sites. A Certified Internet Webmaster, Patrick is able to translate the technical into easy … Continue reading WooCommerce Basics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6966815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72ZMx-kp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1479,"url":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2016\/recap-patrick-elwards-woocommerce-basics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1265,"position":0},"title":"Recap: Patrick Elward’s WooCommerce Basics","author":"Emily Barney","date":"May 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Missed Patrick Elward\u2019s talk \u201cWooCommerce Basics\u201d? 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