Last week, we shared with you a preview of the sessions you can expect to see at this year’s WordCamp. Today, our planning team is excited to unveil the complete set of general sessions and the full schedule for the weekend of November 11th and 12th. We are proud to be able to offer a broad range of WordPress material, brought to you by local and national speakers with an equally diverse breadth of expertise.

Regardless of your experience or interests, we are certain that you’ll come away from the weekend with new skills, new ideas, and new personal and professional connections. Register today to reserve your spot at this year’s event.

In addition to the already-compelling set of sessions we posted one week ago, listed below are even more of the captivating topics you’ll find when attending WordCamp.

Sessions

Search Engine Optimization Today presented by Teresa Nichols

Conquering the Search Engines can be a long and treturous journey. Once you reach the prize something unanticipated happens that takes you backwards. Google changes as trends change so knowing what is trending can help. Today we will discuss the changes that are effecting Search Engine activity and resources that will help you reach the prize!

Creating Content with Purpose presented by Ashleigh Freda

So, you started writing but now what? Maybe a few weeks into your blog you find yourself with ‘writers’ block’ I have some brainstorming ideas and ways to work content ideas to produce stories for your blog rather than ‘one off’ blogs. In creating content you will line up your passion with daily life and give your readers the insight to your world.
We will identify the call to action of your stories to connect with your audience and build your following.

Let’s Convert a Static Bootstrap Website Into a Dynamic WordPress Theme presented by Bruce Chamoff

Learn to convert a static Twitter Bootstrap website containing only HTML, CSS, and Javascript into a fully functional WordPress theme. We will take the static HTML and CSS from any Bootstrap website and exchange it for code that will interact with WordPress. When finished, our new WordPress theme will contain everything from headers, footers, home page, inner pages, menus, customizer, custom fields, and a custom post type for logos.

Four Hour Website presented by Maureen Carruthers

Sometimes you need a website built from scratch to your specific specifications. There are tons of people at WordCamp who can help you with that. Other times, you really just need to go from “I need a website” to “I have a website” in one afternoon. This talk is about how to do that. Perfect for small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals in non-technical fields who want to create a corner of the internet to call their own without spending a lot of time or money on the project.

Get Local and why Schema Mark-Up is IMPORTANT! presented by Nathan Driver

I’ll go into what local search engine optimization is, touching on Google My Business and the importance of reviews. From there I’ll into detail on what Schema is and show users ways to add it to their site.

How to turn your WP love into a certified side hustle presented by Rachel Folz

In this talk, I will share the strategies, tactics, plugins and free tools that any WordPress user needs to turn their love of the platform into a freelance stream or income, or possibly a career. I will discuss my favorite composers, layouts, ways to attack projects and potential hiccups to look out for.

Culture and Clickthroughs: How to Build Your Brand (and Grow Your Business) Online presented by Dave Townsend

Your WordPress site is the digital “front door” for your brand. Every image, word or click has the power to tell your story and build brand loyalty. The best brands let their culture shine through online, making their websites a true representation of who they are. This hands-on session will give participants an opportunity to optimize their WordPress site –both visually and verbally- to truly reflect what’s unique about their brands while creating personal, meaningful connections with everyone who visits your site.

WordPress Security 101 presented by Michael Cremean

WordPress is the most popular CMS, which is awesome. That means it is also the most targeted. This talk will cover how easy it is to secure your WordPress website. Covering some best practices for server, firewall, password and WordPress security plugins, following these simple steps can give you peace of mind and avoid having a really, really bad day.

Integrating WordPress and YouTube For Better SEO presented by Chris Berkley

Content creators and publishers who use both WordPress and YouTube have a TON of opportunity to make the two work together to improve their organic search visibility. I’ll discuss how to optimize YouTube videos and WordPress pages and make them work together in order to maximize SEO traffic and video views.

Planning, Implementing and Managing a WordPress Multisite presented by John Ferman

I will discuss the three phase process employed in creating edsawareness.com, a WordPress multisite for a non-profit 501(c)(3) supporting those on disability with the genetic disorder “Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome”.

Avoid these 6 website project pitfalls and reap rewards presented by Suzanne Parkey

Keep your website project on track whether it’s a new website or a redesign. You’ll get pointers to help you avoid pitfalls from the initial discussion with your team through the design, development and launch. These strategic tips will help any organization bypass common problems that keep website projects from being completed on time and on budget.

Gutenberg: A New Era of WordPress Content Authoring presented by Andrew Duthie

During the State of the Word address at last year’s WordCamp US, Matt Mullenweg — co-founder of WordPress — announced that the WordPress editing experience would be a top focus for the software in 2017. The product of this focus is Gutenberg, a still-beta editor replacement that you can download as a plugin today. But how exactly will Gutenberg affect you? Andrew will talk about the motivations and goals for a new post editor, as well as the impact it will have on developers and publishers alike. Andrew is a top-contributing developer working on the Gutenberg plugin, and will share his insight into the project.

Five Tips to Clarity in Your Written Content: “It’s More Than Just Words” presented by Colleen Wietmarschen

In this presentation, Colleen shares her five tips to clear messaging; you have at most 15 seconds for people to engage and stay on your site. Your written content is more than words on paper. Crisp, clear, grammatically precise writing establishes your professional image and positions you as the expert in your field. Attendees walk away with five pointers on how to make their message CLEAR. They will learn how a CLEAR message can increase their revenue by keeping visitors on their site.

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…]

September 15th is the speaker submission deadline and it is fast approaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences with WordPress users from all around the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond!

We are excited to bring together enthusiasts from around the community to celebrate all things WordPress. We appreciate the varied talents and perspectives that developers, content creators, designers, etc. bring to the WordPress community. Following the great success of our 2016 event, we’re looking to build a program packed with amazing presentations which reflect the talent, creativity, and enthusiasm of our local WordPress community, and we want you to be a part of it!

Whether you have a great presentation for WordPress newcomers, something geared towards seasoned developers, or anything in between, we would love to have you be a part of this year’s WordCamp Cincinnati.

Submit your proposal now!

We look forward to your submission!