Not sure what to expect from WordCamp? Soapbox Cincinnati just published an article spotlighting WordCamp Cincinnati, including testimonials by attendees of last year’s event and a review of what you’ll discover by attending.
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http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/101017-wordcamp-2017.aspx
What do Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Bruce Willis, Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling, Jenna Malone, Che “Rhymefest” Smith and WordCamp Cincinnati 2017 attendees have in common? They are all making Cincinnati a destination to pursue their passions and further their professional goals.
That’s right, Cincinnati, Ohio continues as a hub for movie production. With 2017 marking the 30 year anniversary of Film Cincinnati, many of Hollywood’s finest actors, producers, and directors come to Cincinnati to create award-winning movies.
Some of the movies being filmed in Cincinnati during 2017 include: The Old Man and The Gun, Reprisal, Inconceivable, and the public. So register now for WordCamp Cincinnati 2017 – in addition to rubbing elbows with other WordPress enthusiasts, you could cross paths with some Hollywood icons.
Post submitted by Marce Epstein of OhioGhostWriter
On the set of “Carol”, a film shot in Cincinnati. Copyright The Weinstein Company.
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.
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.
Never been to WordCamp before?
WordCamp Cincinnati brings together the diverse Cincinnati WordPress community of businesses large and small, solopreneurs, nonprofits, bloggers, developers, agencies, freelancers, hobbyists, new learners and pros— all in one place.
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.
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.
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?
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Today we thank WooCommerce, SiteLock, and Pressbuilt for their support of the WordPress community!
37% 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 .
Currently 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.
At 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 .
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.
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.
We look forward to your submission!
Last year, I went to WordCamp Cincinnati 2016. It was my first WordCamp, and the first one in Cincinnati.
I had no idea what to expect, but hoped I might learn a thing or two. Would it be worth it, even for an introvert/non-coder/freelance writer like me?
It was… and then some!
Here’s why…
Last year’s WordCamp Cincinnati was 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.
Lunch & Laughs: Intrepid WordCamp women grab a bite and swap stories at lunch in Tangeman Center. (Lunch both days is included in the ticket price.)
At WordCamp Cincinnati 2016, there was a long list of sessions offered— from technical to practical, and for every experience level from beginner to power user to developer— on a broad range of topics, from content marketing, podcasting, SEO and membership sites to site maintenance, security, advanced custom fields and multi-site development (and that’s just scratching the surface).
You can check out last year’s full list of presentations here. (This year’s event is still in the planning phase, more on that in a moment…)
The speakers were an impressive lineup of subject matter experts who volunteered their time and shared their smarts. Most presenters were local to the Cincinnati area, including some from the university. And all of them (at least from the sessions I attended) stayed and answered individual questions afterward— I got a lot of great info by hanging around after and chatting one-on-one.
Academic Advice: UC faculty members Julie Campbell-Holmes, Michael Holmes, Autumn Miller and Lora Arduser talk about how higher education and nonprofits can use WordPress to reach their audiences at WordCamp Cincinnati 2016.
The bench of talent was wide, and everyone’s willingness to share resources and their own connections made it deep as well. I’d be willing to bet you could find a resource (or at least someone else to ask) for just about anything you might need.
It’s a small WordPress world, or so it seems…
Do you know a thing or two that might help others in Cincinnati get the most out of WordPress?
Want to show what you know and build authority with an audience hungry for helpful information? The Call for Speakers for WordCamp Cincinnati 2017 is now open!
At WordCamp, you can learn what you want and skip what you don’t. But if you attend some sessions outside of your primary areas of expertise, you’ll probably still learn some useful things. (I did.)
I’m not a developer; I’m primarily a conversion copywriter and marketer (though I have made websites for clients). And sure, I went to some sessions in the Marketing track– I’m always looking to learn the latest and greatest, and in marketing, there’s always something new to know.
But I also attended a couple of Developer track sessions on website security and plugin development, and even a non-coder like me got something out of them.
… Like how to change the configuration of a security plugin to fix an error that had been bugging me for months.
… And a trick for using Inspect Element to find CSS info.
… And a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes when I install a plugin that helped me fix a problem from outside the WordPress dashboard when I couldn’t log in.
I may never be a developer (or maybe I will someday— with WordPress, anything’s possible). But these little insights into what’s inside the “black box” of a WordPress site help me better understand how it works, so I can solve more problems and fix more errors myself.
A little information can be empowering. And there’s tons of it available for the asking at WordCamp.
Submitted by Julie Ladd of Copyshark.net
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Today we thank GoDaddy, DreamHost, and WPML for their support of the WordPress community!
GoDaddy 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.
Since 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
WPML 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