Charles Coxhead

Charles Coxhead is from the team WP Dev Shed – they offer a range of themes which are just good, responsive designs with lots of customization features built in. We like to think we design pure WordPress themes. For Free.

They also offer professional customisation services, including hosting, theme development and how to build a website using WordPress training.

Visit WP Dev Shed http://wpdevshed.com/

Who is speaking at #WCAKL2017?

Gavin Botica

Gavin is the owner of WP NET, NZ’s first dedicated WordPress host. I’ve been working with WordPress since 2005.

Prior to launching WP NET Gavin worked as a freelance developer for 13 years in Australia and NZ. He’s built countless WordPress sites, including WooCommerce, business sites, portfolios and more.

Gavin has also done a lot of integration, security and performance enhancement and hack-repair work.

Faster WooCommerce means less abandonment… get in on this!

Kristen Symonds

Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë. She is also a Christian and plays flute and guitar.

WordPress Origin Story

I started on Blogger for a university assignment in which I had to keep a journal. I decided to keep blogging and in the process learned HTML and CSS. When I decided I needed more control and flexibility than Blogger could provide I moved to WordPress and have been hooked ever since.

Dee Teal

Dee is an expatriate Kiwi who has been using WordPress as a blogger since 2008, as a web developer since 2009 and transitioned recently to being a project manager for large scale WordPress projects with Human Made.

Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, organises WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at them where she gets the opportunity both in her home ground of Australia and New Zealand, around the world.

Dee drives an English classic car, owns a Burmese cat, and drinks black coffee.

Mock Dee for leaving the homeland for the West Island – get your Ticket!

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