Do you fear pressing that “Update All” button in your WordPress dashboard, knowing that either everything will be fine or your entire site could break? Dustin Meza of WP Engine has some strategies to help combat this anxiety and allow you to update with ease.
Dustin’s high energy presentation will teach you the importance of keeping WordPress upgraded, a simple 5 step test plan to ensure your site is ready to upgrade, and how to test your sites on beta and release candidates to provide feedback to the community (it’s the open source way!).
Don’t miss his talk on Saturday, July 9 at 10:40 AM in the Nebula.
Dustin Meza is the Director of Customer Experience Operations at WP Engine. He has been in the hosting industry for 7 years and has been with WP Engine for 3 years. At WP Engine, Dustin oversees many aspects of the WordPress platform including WordPress upgrades for over 100,000 WordPress installs. Outside of WordPress, Dustin loves being outdoors in Nashville with his wife Megan, and black lab, Maddy. He enjoys all kinds of sports, both watching and playing, and has been known to play some video games when time allows.