Speaking session
Pick the right CMS for your job in the Agency track
About Alan’s session
Have you ever need to justify to a client or your boss about your CMS choice? Over the past 6 years, Alan has tackled content management system projects for small and large companies and have worked with many of the popular CMS platforms out there. In this talk, Alan will share his insights on the various projects and how to defend your choices in front of your client.
What do you want people to learn from your presentation?
This talk is to really get people thinking about how to best position a CMS solution in front of your boss or client. It’s never pretty to be blindsided by a question about its capabilities or how another CMS platform stack up against it. All developers can benefit from knowing what other solutions are out there, and how WordPress stack up against it (or be able to talk about its differences).
Why did you decide to speak?
Being able to share my experiences and learn from the audience is very rewarding. Ever since I spoke at WordCamp Ottawa, I am just hooked and hope to contribute more to the WordPress community.
What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?
I love WordPress for its simplicity and elegance. It never pretends to be the swiss army knife, but the creative development community have built so many plugins that can fill the need of most use cases easily.
What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?
Being a DevOps guy at heart, my favourite plugin remains to be W3TC. When configured correctly it really helps me scale a WordPress site nicely.
What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?
Having been with the WordPress community in Ontario in the past year, I find this community to be very friendly and helpful. I have an amazing time in WordCamp Ottawa and hope to have a better time in my home city’s WordCamp!