Author: Jennifer Bourn

The Heft Gyros Food Truck is one of three popular Sacramento food trucks that will be on hand for a delicious lunch at WordCamp Sacramento 2017.

Hefty Gyros is a family owned and operated food truck that serves delicious, authentic Mediterranean cuisine with Turkish, Greek, and Middle-Eastern culinary influences.

Hefty Gyros’ rice plates and falafels are packed with flavor and made to order — and everything is made from scratch. Their goal is serving the very best sustainably raised food possible, with an eye to great taste, great nutrition, and great value.

Here’s a rundown of the Hefty Gyros Truck Menu for WordCamp Sacramento:

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Cameron Rhudy

rhudylaw.com

Cameron is a Sacramento-based attorney providing legal services to creative entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and nonprofits. Always liking a good challenge, Cameron caught the website design and coding bug after a frustrating experience as a newbie WordPress user while building the website for her private law practice. She has been slowly learning how to code ever since, mostly through Skillcrush, and hopes (fingers crossed) to launch her newly designed and developed WordPress site sometime this Fall.

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Matt Vanderpol

mattvanderpol.com | @bookwyrm

Matt is a full stack developer with a primary focus on WordPress including custom theme/plugin development and performance review and improvement. With almost 20 years as a developer in the industry, he has a strong focus on performance and process – always seeking new and better ways to accomplish a task both for the benefit of the designer/developer and for users or visitors.

Matt lives in Nevada City, CA in a home that he and his wife designed and built. He works remotely from that home while enjoying a thriving family life with his wife and their 5 (soon to be 6) kids.

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Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

Amber Hewitt

amberhewitt.com | @amberrhewitt

Amber Hewitt is a graphic designer and front-end web developer at her company, Graphicgoo, where she has created websites for a wide variety of clients for over 15 years. With a strong background in design (graphic design degree from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design), she has developed a passion for good imagery and typography in print and on the web.

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Food is a challenging part of WordCamp.

Everyone has opinions, everyone has different tastes, and everyone gets very vocal when they’re not happy, when the line doesn’t move fast enough, and when there isn’t enough variety, etc. And it’s not just choosing the type of food…

The hardest part about providing food at an event like WordCamp is finding a caterer that can work with us in our budget AND provide good food.

No one associated with WordCamp Sacramento profits from WordCamp Sacramento — not even the organizers. The entire event is planned and managed by volunteers giving their time outside of normal business hours to make the event happen. The entire event is funded by generous sponsors and we’re required to keep ticket prices equal to $20/day. Yes, there is an oversight organization (WordPress Community Support), yes, there are rules we must follow, and no we can’t do anything we want.

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Matt Cromwell

mattcromwell.com | @learnwithmattc

Matt is Head of Support and Community Outreach at GiveWP.com and WordImpress.com. He is the author of several popular free plugins, the Lead Organizer of the Advanced WordPress San Diego Meetup and AWP Facebook group (which boasts over 25K members) and a WordPress Community Consultant for Media Temple. He’s a popular blogger at his personal site, wordimpress.com, givewp.com, and mediatemple.net.

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28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

• 1+ million active installations
• 16+ million downloads
• 400+ extensions to add functionality

Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business — WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.

Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.

Jarrett Gucci

wpfixit.com | @wpgucci

Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2011 his company has serviced over 54,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.

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At SiteGround, we craft web hosting solutions for personal websites, online businesses and enterprise projects that our customers love. Since 2004 we empower webmasters to build better, faster, safer websites without worrying about hosting. We are proud to be officially recommended by WordPress.org and have 97% customer happiness rate.

Part of our mission is to be actively involved in the WordPress community, helping, attending, and speaking at WordCamps around the world. We are excited to be part of WordCamp Sacramento and we can’t wait for all the talks and inspiration we always experience at these events. This unique gathering of amazing professionals and masters of the craft of WordPress always reminds us how far we’ve come as a community!

The SiteGrounders on the spot, Stan & Ivan, who are among our WordPress veterans, will be at our booth, happy to chat about any projects and ideas you may have. They have also prepared a fun WordPress themed game and some really cool giveaways!

Catherine “Cat” Scholz

catswebweave.com | @catswebweave

Cat has been a WordPress coach, front-end developer, and consultant since 2007. She works with authors, entrepreneurs, arts organizations, non-profits, “mad” scientists, musicians, artists, small businesses, companies, healers and hobbyists. Her passion is working with clients to create the look and functionality that they want while teaching them how to update their own content.

She teaches hands-on classes through Sierra College Community Education and also offers e-courses for those wanting to learn WordPress from the comfort of home. In addition to her WordPress wizardry, she is also a singer-songwriter and enjoys being a mother of 2, hiking, dancing, roller skating and cooking.

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Tanner Moushey

iwitnessdesign.com | @tannermoushey

Tanner is a web developer and entrepreneur located in the small town of Granite Falls, Wa. He’s passionate about using technology to promote community. When he’s not tracking down new leads or coding, he loves playing music and spending time with his wife and 4 (soon to be 5) kids.

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When people who are already savvy with WordPress, successfully freelancing, selling websites or themes, and want to know where they should go or what they should do to improve their skills, the first thing I recommend they do is get involved with the community. There is no faster way to solidify your knowledge than to teach it to someone else. Plus, WordPress meetups and of course, WordCamps, are great laces to gain exposure to new practices and ideas.

I also point them to CaboPress by Chris Lema, the Advanced WordPress Facebook Group, and the 10up Engineering Best Practices.

We asked our speakers to name one WordPress-related advanced tool or resource they recommend to those looking to up their game.

Here are the tools and resources our speakers recommend:

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Jake Goldman

10up.com | @jakemgold

Jake is the owner and President of 10up, a full service agency that makes a better web with finely crafted websites and tools for content creators. Whether you’re a political junky glued to FiveThirtyEight, a car enthusiast reading MotorTrend, a Windows user who keeps up with Microsoft’s newsroom, an Apple fan reading 9to5mac daily, a tech entrepreneur keeping up with TechCrunch or VentureBeat, or even if you just use WordPress itself, you’ve experienced a small sample of 10up’s work, built atop WordPress. Jake grew 10up from a 1 man show (himself!) to over 100 employees with dozens of brand name clients in under 5 years.

Jake started focusing on web content management platforms like WordPress in 2006, releasing free plug-ins, diverting new projects to the platform, contributing code to the open source project, and engaging the community. He has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine, taught WordPress development at Boston University, and has spoken at conferences, universities, and programs around the country. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010, founded the WordPress meetup in Providence, and rebooted the Sacramento meet up in a format that continues on to this day. He is a core contributor to WordPress, and maintains some of the highest rated plug-ins on the official repository, with over 500,000 active installations.

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Jen Miller

needsomeonetoblog.com | @JenBlogs4U

Jen Miller believes in the value and power of the written word in sharing truth and story, in life and in business.

Combining her journalism background with a passion for marketing, Jen built needsomeonetoblog.com, a blogging service focused on delivering highly-targeted, local search engine optimized blogging and page content, primarily for real estate clients.

As the business grew, Jen discovered areas that could further develop authority, garner trust, and build engagement for her clients online. Her agency NeedSomeoneTo, LLC combines these services to share engaging messages of community and industry knowledge with clients and followers.

Jen hosts a weekly podcast, Be Seen Blogging, where she delivers website content tips in under ten minutes and enjoys speaking on content strategy and community development.

Dedicated to the WordPress community, Jen serves on the WordPress Marketing Team and founded WomenWhoWP.org, a nonprofit and Meetup dedicated to encouraging women in their WordPress journey.

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We asked our speakers to name one WordPress-related beginner tool or resource they recommend to those looking to up their game.

When asked where to go to learn about WordPress, I always send beginners to the same four places: WP101 from Shawn Hesketh, the iThemes Training community, WordPress.tv, and WPBeginner.

Here are the tools and resources our speakers recommend:

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