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Hotel Recommendations for Your Stay in Cincinnati

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Should you be traveling to Cincinnati from out of town for the WordCamp in November, you may be starting to consider accommodations for the weekend of your visit. We have an entire section of the website dedicated to location information, including a list of recommended hotels detailing convenient and/or unique hotels around the venue and in Cincinnati.

Of note, we have arranged special room pricing with Hampton Inn located just off the university’s campus. To receive the discounted rate, you will need to book your reservation using the link below:

Click here to book your room and get the discounted rate through the Hampton Inn website

Many of the other recommended hotels on the list are similarly located close to campus. Both the Hampton Inn and Fairfield Inn & Suites are a short 10 minute walk from the hotel to the venue location at the Tangeman University Center. If you choose to stay at a hotel further away from campus, there is convenient parking located adjacent the venue.

Session Preview: Check Out These Topics You’ll Find at WordCamp

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Our planning team is hard at work finalizing the details of the speaker roster and schedule for this year’s WordCamp Cincinnati. Today we’re happy to share a preview of the sessions you can expect to see during the weekend of November 11th and 12th. We’ll have more to share about the full schedule very soon, so be sure to subscribe for updates to receive the latest blog posts by email.

Listed below is a sampling of the sessions scheduled for WordCamp Cincinnati. If you see something that catches your interest, be sure to register today and secure your ticket for this year’s event.

Sessions

The Importance of Building Your Brand Before Building Your Website presented by Patrick McGilvray

There are a ton of tutorials out there about how to build a beautiful and functional WordPress website. A question I hear a lot but don’t see addressed very often is “what do I put on my website?” The answer to that question starts with building your brand. In this talk, you’ll learn how to create website content that stands out from your competition, connects with your intended audience, and turns browsers into buyers.

Improving the Developer Experience in WordPress presented by Bobby Bryant

This talk will discuss a new way of looking at WordPress development. WordPress has always stated that its primary focus is on the End User Experience. Which means that a lot of new features and fixes which are purely developer related are not given as much focus. To be honest, I think this is a great thing. It is one of the biggest reasons for the success of WordPress to date. [Read more…]

How to Do Marketing Automation Right presented by Kevin Gold

Are you wondering about, considering, or using a marketing automation and CRM platform? These platforms including Marketo, Hubspot, Act-On and others, offer significant capabilities for businesses. When implemented strategically, businesses can gain visibility into the effectiveness of their marketing and sales activities, more effectively connect-the-dots across their buyer’s journey and ultimately generate more revenue. [Read more…]

Create a WordPress Back-end for your App presented by Mark Celsor

You normally think of using WordPress to build websites but you can also use it to easily create APIs to feed content into other applications. In this presentation we will walk through a simple Single Page Application built using the React JavaScript library, then show how to configure WordPress to rapidly build data feeds for the application using WordPress REST API.

Crafting an Online User Experience that Works. presented by Kate E Mock

There is more that goes into a website than just what the eye can see. Thoughtful research, strategy and planning stand behind a solid user experience that turns passive site visitors into engaged customers. When designing for a WordPress site, having knowledge of the WordPress platform and how it functions is important in delivering a great user experience for both users and site managers. [Read more…]

Code Review – Four Eyes are Better than Two presented by Andy Melichar

In this talk we’ll review strategies and tools for doing code reviews with your peers. They don’t have to take long and they can save you from launching code that will ruin your day!

Personalize Your Blog’s Communications Using Cerkl presented by Marcelina Robledo

Everyone knows time is money, especially while building a blogging business. Staying on top of communicating with your audience, social media, content creation, and creating a newsletter, is way too daunting and often will shut down a blog before it even really begins. [Read more…]

Website Design and Migrations: How to Move It AND Not Lose It presented by Carolyn Dickerson

A redesign can be a huge success – or a total flop! A website redesign can be exciting for those involved. But it can also be intimidating, because it is so hard to predict how users, search engines, and other digital marketing programs such as Google Adwords will react to the new design. [Read more…]

Writing WP-CLI Commands that Work! presented by Steve Grunwell

WP-CLI is a great tool when you don’t need a fancy UI, need to write scripts to perform regular maintenance, or to provide deeper functionality to your awesome plugin. Like WordPress, it’s free, open source, and far more powerful than some people give it credit for. [Read more…]

How to Stay Ahead of Your Business Blog Forever presented by Randy Clark

What’s next after you’ve created a business blog? How to Stay Ahead of Your Business Blog Forever guides you step by step through planning your blog, creating an editorial calendar, using WordPress to improve your writing as well as SEO. And how to keep your blog supplied with fresh content week after week. Unlike most presentations, attendees create an action plan they can take back to the office and implement to improve their blog, because you can’t talk stuff done. [Read more…]

Background Processing of Large API Data Sets presented by Mark Walker

Working with large data sets from APIs is hard, so asynchronous PHP is a must. Here’s one way to do that.

Story Marketing – Craft Your Personal Story presented by Brenda Pottinger

Story marketing is a powerful way to connect with audiences. What will you use to craft your story? How will community over competition mean great content? Who are you writing for and why does that matter? [Read more…]

Let’s Encrypt with AutoSSL for WordPress presented by Stefan Densmore

Want a lifetime of FREE SSL from an internationally recognized certificate authority? Of course you do. Here’s how. [Read more…]

Never been to WordCamp before?

WordCamp Cincinnati is a WordPress training and networking meetup, sort of like a WordPress University: Weekend Edition (without the grades and all-nighters), where local WordPressers of all stripes came together to share what they know and to learn from each other. Sound interesting?

Register to Attend

Thank You to Our Sponsors: WooCommerce, SiteLock, Pressbuilt

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The success of WordCamp events worldwide would not be possible if not for the sponsors who generously donate their time and resources. If you or your company are interested in learning more about sponsoring, we invite you to Become a Sponsor.

Today we thank WooCommerce, SiteLock, and Pressbuilt for their support of the WordPress community!

WooCommerce37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution. 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. Learn more at WooCommerce.com .

SiteLockCurrently protecting more than one million WordPress sites, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include automatic malware scanning and removal, an advanced web application firewall, static application security testing, PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock offers phone, email and chat support, 24/7/365. With SiteLock, you can focus on what’s most important—your business, your passion, your word. Learn more today.

PressbuiltAt Pressbuilt, we design, build and maintain websites that perform. As your trusted partner, we’ll provide valuable insights and guide you along the path from great idea to quantifiable success. We draw on deep software development experience to design, build and deploy websites using industry-accepted best practices and modern technical patterns. We value long term relationships. As our client, you can be assured that we’ll work closely with you through every stage in the life of your projects. Learn more at pressbuilt.com .

Happiness Bar – No ID Required

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Happiness Bar

Instead of bartenders pouring spirits, at WordCamp Cincinnati we will have dedicated experts dispensing problem-solving advice. “Happiness Bars,” a feature at many WordCamps, provide a format for Camp attendees to get one-on-one advice for troubleshooting website issues. WordPress power users, with deep and broad WordPress expertise, voluntarily offer assistance to help solve particular WordPress issues.

Register today and come to the Happiness Bar at WordCamp Cincinnati – you will find the knowledge gained is positively intoxicating.

Thank You to Our Sponsors: GoDaddy, DreamHost, WPML

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The success of WordCamp events worldwide would not be possible if not for the sponsors who generously donate their time and resources. If you or your company are interested in learning more about sponsoring, we invite you to Become a Sponsor.

Today we thank GoDaddy, DreamHost, and WPML for their support of the WordPress community!

GoDaddy ProGoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients. You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions. And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit. Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

DreamHostSince 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere! Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

WPMLWPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites. WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world. More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

Get Recognized: Put a Face to Your Name with Gravatar

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What’s an avatar and who is Gravatar? According to the Gravatar website, “An “avatar” is an image that represents you online – a little picture that appears next your name when you interact with websites.”

WordCamp Cincinnati uses Gravatar to produce WordCamp Cincinnati name badges. These badges are multipurposed:

  • They show other conference attendees that you are part of the conference
  • Friends, old and new, can quickly steal a peek at your name (lest, in the excitement of the conference, your name slipped from top of mind…)
  • People who are interested in getting to know you, and who discovered you online prior to WordCamp Cincinnati, will be a tad more brave at approaching you at the conference because they already recognize who you are

WordCamp Cincinnati name badges are printed with the Gravatar profile picture associated with the email address of your ticket registration. If you haven’t already, now is a good time to make sure that yours is configured or up-to-date.

Getting started with Gravatar is easy; you’ll need to have a WordPress.com account and then authorize that account to connect to Gravatar. On the Gravatar home page, click on the Sign In button at the top-right of your browser window.

If you don’t already have a WordPress.com account, register for one using the same email address that you provided when registering for WordCamp Cincinnati. If you do have a WordPress.com account and used a different email address when registering to attend, you can Add a New Email Address after signing in to Gravatar.

Once you’ve made sure your email address is associated with your Gravatar profile, follow the link to Add a New Image. You can upload an image from your computer, or using a URL from another website. If necessary, you can then crop the image to only the portion of what you uploaded.

Finally, after finishing the process for uploading a new image, return to the My Gravatars screen, where you can associate the image with your email address. Select the email address, then under “Pick an image”, select the image you’ve uploaded in the previous steps.

And that’s it! When you arrive at WordCamp Cincinnati, we’ll have your name badge ready at the registration sign-in with your new Gravatar front-and-center. Friends, new, old, and those you haven’t met yet will be glad to see you in person so they can connect the digital you with the flesh and bones you. Register now so you and your Gravatar can be recognized by friends at all of the WordCamp Cincinnati festivities.

Name Badges

Help Connect Our Community — Become a Sponsor!

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Become a Sponsor

The success of WordCamp events would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Becoming a sponsor allows you a unique opportunity to reach and engage with the local WordPress community. WordCamp attendees are as diverse as they are passionate. Sponsoring WordCamp Cincinnati will enable you to connect with website developers, agency owners, SEO experts, online commerce proprietors, and other WordPress aficionados.

WordCamp Cincinnati will offer a wide variety of workshops, presented by speakers who are leading WordPress developers, marketers, writers, bloggers, social media specialists and business professionals from the greater Cincinnati area and around the country. Help us to connect the WordPress community and get visibility for your company at the same time.

Interested in learning more? Visit our Sponsorship Opportunities page for information about available sponsorship levels, and to connect with us today.

Welcome to WordCamp Cincinnati

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WordCamp Cincinnati returns! Continuing the tradition begun last year, WordCamp Cincinnati will provide two jam packed days of fun, knowledge, and networking. Join us on November 11-12, 2017 at The University of Cincinnati – Tangeman University Center. The cost is only $40 for the two-day event and includes lunch both days and a WordCamp Cincinnati t-shirt! Get your tickets here.

What is WordCamp?

WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. Attendees include aficionados, practitioners, website developers, agency owners, SEO experts, online commerce proprietors, and, hopefully, YOU!

Throughout WordCamp, attendees share experiences and insights about how they use WordPress to share ideas and execute business objectives.

What’s the Word on WordPress?

WordPress is a free, open source platform that enables quick and easy website, blog, or app development. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine.

WordCamp Cincinnati will be held November 11-12, 2017 at the University of Cincinnati, in the Tangeman University Center.

Subscribe using the form below the homepage header to stay up to date on the most recent news. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the details over the coming months, including speaker submissions, ticket sales and more!