How WordPress Let Me Quit the Rat Race
A WordCamp Toronto 2013 talk on how building a WordPress consulting career let the speaker step out of conventional employment — the 2013 update of the same Make-a-Living thesis first delivered at WordCamps Detroit and Toronto in 2011, brought to a different audience two years on.
Where and when
- Event: WordCamp Toronto 2013
- Date: October 5–6, 2013 (event dates; exact session day not confirmed)
- Venue: Humber College, Lakeshore Campus
- City: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Slides
The 46-slide deck is on SlideShare: “WordCamp Toronto 2013” (posted October 8, 2013, two days after the event).
What the slides covered
Recovered from the deck description:
- Using WordPress as the platform of choice for building paid websites
- Hosting and management stack recommendations of the era — WP Engine, Bluehost, ManageWP
- Specific opportunities: updating outdated WordPress sites for security, building blogs to grow audience, selling products and services through WordPress, providing WordPress support services
- The role of community: asking for help, contributing back through code, documentation, and forum support
Watch or read
This session was not recorded for WordPress.tv. The slide deck above is the canonical archive of what was covered.
Related talks in the Make-a-Living arc
- WordCamp Detroit 2011 — original delivery (recorded)
- WordCamp Toronto 2011 — sister delivery same month (recorded)
- WordCamp Ottawa 2013 — same year, same thesis, different angle
- WordCamp Buffalo 2023 — twelve-year revisit
Related work
- Working with the speaker: WordPress services · Get in touch
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