The WordCamp Cincinnati organizing committee would like to wish you and your families a safe and enjoyable Labor Day weekend. We hope you find time to rest, enjoy some sports or local fireworks, spend time with your families, or simply relax and enjoy the long weekend.

On our end, things are really starting to ramp up. With our speaker submissions having closed this past week and our inaugural WordCamp a little more than a month away, we’re working harder than ever to ensure a successful event for our local WordPress community. To keep up with the latest, we encourage you to subscribe for updates using the form in the sidebar.

Speaker Announcements

In the weeks leading up to the event in October, we will be introducing a handful of speakers at a time right here on this blog. All those who had submitted a talk proposal should expect to receive a response this week confirming whether your talk has been accepted. We are excited to announce our next batch of speakers:

Tamia Stinson, “Think Like an Art Director: 5 Steps to Creating Imagery That Attracts Readers”. Tamia Stinson is a Stylist, Creative Director, and the culprit behind fashion and lifestyle blog TheStyleSample.com. With 5+ years of experience in print and digital publishing and a background in marketing and project management, she helps creatives build successful brands online.

Julie Campbell-Holmes, “Measuring the success of your WordPress sites”. Julie Campbell-Holmes is the director of marketing and communication for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She has been a WordPress user for over a decade and is passionate about helping businesses achieve their goals through measurement and strategy. She also teaches media and web analytics. One of her favorite hobbies is building Lego creations with her husband and her daughter.

Bruce Chamoff, “Making Plugin Development Easy”. Bruce Chamoff has been a web developer for 20 years and developer of WordPress plugins and themes for 9 years. As the CEO of Hot Web Ideas and the lead developer on the Web Designer Mall, Bruce has converted all of his clients’ websites to WordPress and educates them on how to become proficient at using it. He has developed over 100 custom WP plugins and over 50 themes for Fortune 500 companies and has three successful Udemy courses on WordPress development. In Bruce’s spare time, he performs with his band, records original music and spends time with his lovely daughter.

Steve Loar, “Power-Up Your UI with WP-API and React.js”. Steve Loar has more than 20 years of web and software development experience. He has worked with companies such as A.T. & T., General Electric, Duke Energy, Anthem, and Fidelity Investments. He is currently a freelance-consultant working in WordPress, Ruby on Rails, and React.js. When not working, Steve can be found riding horses; competing in events like barrel racing and poles.

Kevin Gold, “Content marketing for lead generation”. An INC 5000 for seven consecutive years and a Fast 55 company , iNET Interactive, achieved 10x growth ending in a successful exit through a strategic acquisition by Penton Media. During the course of these seven years, Mr. Gold was responsible for $6.5 million in marketing-generated revenue and developed marketing systems, processes, structures and a high performance team across marketing, product, editorial and online communities that helped achieve this rapid growth. After the acquisition, Mr. Gold remained at Penton as VP of Product Marketing and business leader of an industry brand. He left Penton to form Next Leap Strategy with the purpose of helping companies, as he did with iNET Interactive, build marketing systems and teams to achieve growth. Prior to Penton and iNET Interactive, Kevin operated a digital marketing consultancy from 2003 to 2008 focused on pay-per-click marketing, website conversion optimization, landing page development and email marketing. An author of many thought leader articles and referenced within many business publications, Kevin also served in marketing strategy, product marketing, business development, customer success and product management roles. He has an MBA from Xavier University and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Honors Scholar from Thomas More College.

Trevan Hetzel, “A Session on Regression (testing)”. Trevan Hetzel is a front-end developer with a background in design and adaptive layouts. He lives in Glenwood, Iowa with his wife, Katie, and two young boys, Ryder and Reid. Outside of his job at Flywheel as a front-end engineer, Trevan spends his nights and weekend designing, developing and selling client websites and tinkering with the latest technologies. When he’s not goofing off with his son or tackling home projects with his wife, Trevan gets his mind out of the code editor by firing up his dirt bike and hitting the motocross track.

Thanks To Our Sponsors

The success of WordCamp events worldwide would not be possible if not for the sponsors who generously donate their time and resources. Today we thank BoldGrid and Jetpack for their support of the WordPress community.

BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate. Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more. BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.

Register to Attend

Tickets for WordCamp Cincinnati are still available and can be purchased right here on this site. We look forward to bringing together our local WordPress community, and hope to see you there!