Sessions

We will continue to add Sessions as we announce our speakers. Be sure to check back to see what all we have to offer! Click here to see the Schedule.

  • Keynote – The Gift of WordPress

    Presented by Jocelyn Mozak

    WordPress has come a long way from its humble beginning.

    My own journey with WordPress began over 10 years ago. Seated at a park, reading the iThemes php code while my 2 boys played. Little did I know where my WordPress adventure would take me.

    Maybe your experience with WordPress was similar.

    You sat down at your computer one day with a dream, a vision and you installed this software called WordPress that everyone kept talking to you about. And off you went.

    That is the gift of WordPress.

    WordPress enters our life and we never look back.

    Whether you be a blogger, freelancer, or small business owner you will discover opportunities connect and grow within the WordPress community on a global and local level and how to get the most out of your WordCamp experience

    March 28, 2020 at 9:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • The Partnership Kitchen

    Presented by Robert Jacobi

    Partner with a Purpose. Ingredients make a meal, partnerships create a solution. Partnering with the right service providers will take you out of the world of Time and Materials and into Value Selling. Learn how to scale with partnerships that augment and complement your business. Ask the right questions. Differentiate between affiliates and partners. Focus on your core skills and markets to grow.

    March 28, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Understanding web page performance with WordPress

    Presented by Pat Ramsey

    How fast a page takes to load is more important than ever but often is not something you’re thinking about when creating a new WordPress site. This presentation is designed to take you, a freelance developer or DIY site owner, through the process of measuring page performance. We’ll get into testing pages with different easily available tools – what does one mean versus another, how to read the results and make sense of them, and more. We’ll look at what the next steps are once you have a set of data. Where do you start making improvements? The goal is to improve things and once you have the data in-hand, you can start making informed decisions for you and/or your clients.

    March 28, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Using the BigCommerce WordPress Plugin for your e-commerce store

    Presented by Tim McReynolds

    Sometimes BigCommerce is forgotten about in the E-Commerce websites of WordPress.
    How to set up a store in BigCommerce and then run it from your WordPress site.
    Some of the advantages of running your store this way and also some of the drawbacks that might come into play.

    March 28, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Users

  • SEO for WooCommerce in 2020

    Presented by Stevica Golosin

    SEO rules are changing frequently. Mobile-First Indexing changed the website production process. Technical SEO has a big role in SEO, today. How to make a good website structure for WooCommerce website? What is the Silo Structure and how to make one? How to adopt a single product page design to the mobile view? On-Page SEO is the first and the most important step. The most important part of this step is content. How to write a good content for WooCommerce pages? How to organize content on single product page? Is single product page a Landing Page?

    March 28, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Users

  • Succeeding with Segments: Narrow Your Customer Focus

    Presented by Susan Price

    When trying to attract prospects to your business, isn’t a wider net better?

    No! It may seem counterintuitive, but narrowing your focus to a few very specific key segments will make your marketing much more effective and improve the user experience and opportunities for success for both you and your customers.

    Susan will provide specific examples of prospect targeting in action, then lead participants through three hands-on activities to identify and create content to appeal to their very sweetest marketing targets.

    March 28, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • WP Inception – Exponential Publishing with the REST API

    Presented by Alexander Zuniga

    How can you use the WP Rest API to syndicate content to a potentially unlimited number of locations using technologies native to WordPress?
    We’ll cover the basics of JSON, review code examples, and point how you can optimize using the Rest API at scale.

    March 28, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Accessibility and WordPress

    Presented by Susannah Waite

    Accessibility has become an important piece of web development, and it is up to all of us as developers, marketers, bloggers to make sure that our sites are accessible to potential users. In October the Supreme Court declined to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Robles v. Domino’s. What does that mean for us? How can we promote more accessible sites while developing in WordPress?

    March 28, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Automating WordPress

    Presented by Christina Hawkins

    Have you ever thought that you seem to be repeating the same workflows over and over? Maybe you thought you need to hire a new virtual assistant to help manage some of the little but time-consuming tasks you have to do manage your business. In this presentation, I go over the many ways you can configure WordPress to do some of these tasks for you. We’ll discuss using tools like Zapier, Gravity Forms, AirTable to help you manage your processes so you can work on your business and not in it.

    March 28, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Power & Scale-Up WordPress Products with Atomic Design

    Presented by David Ryan

    Whether you build Themes, Plugins or Headless WordPress, whether you use PHP, JavaScript or something else, your products can be more flexible, resilient and organized using an Atomic Design approach. Codebases organized using Atomic Design are easy to navigate when you come back nine months later or hire new developers. Suddenly change requests will come with less sting and the iterative next version without scrapping everything will look less daunting. In this session we’ll talk about splitting Atomic components, best practices and common issues and mistakes.

    March 28, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Managing Your Mental Health in a Pandemic Conversation Plus Q&A

    Presented by Cory Miller and Sherry Walling, PhD

    Join PostStatus.com partner Cory Miller as he talks with psychologist Dr. Sherry Walling of ZenFounder.com to talk about handling times of fear and uncertainty that we find ourselves in today.

    March 28, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • 7 Steps to Sustainability – Improving your business model for freelancers and small businesses

    Presented by Kori Ashton

    Are you working hard trying to grow your agency / freelance business but things just aren’t gaining momentum? Let’s look at seven steps to sustainability that I’ve learned in my time as the co-founder and CEO of a WordPress shop. We grew from our couches to a full crew to acquisition in just five short years. I’ll share these key concepts with you in hopes of helping you drive sales, improve process, and increase your margins. If you’re a project away from dusting off your resume to get a “real job” – attend this workshop to see if you can make impactful changes and to your entrepreneurial dream alive!

    March 28, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Keeping Colors from Killing Your Site

    Presented by Christopher Schmitt

    Color creates a massive impact on how we tell users about our brands and products. Selecting the colors that reflect that is tough, but also making sure they are working is also essential.

    After reviewing the foundations of color theory, how colors can harmonize, color schemes that reflect themes or ideas, Christopher explores the problems with working on digital color.

    By examining how sites popular brands use color, we will discuss how colors fail their intended goals as well as for people with low or problematic vision. We will review rules and guidelines that help ensure our colors are visible and provide the proper intent to our customers.

    In this session, we will:

    – Understand how popular sites are using color effectively from the splashy homepages to the working utilities such as body copy, navigation links, and more.
    – Understand how color changes and adapts for users in different situations – in the browser and outside of the browser.
    – Learn what the guidelines are for defining colors for people with disabilities.

    March 28, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Users

  • Using the command line: bash & wp-cli

    Presented by Marc Gratch

    An intro course to navigating the command line using bash and wp-cli. From simple to complicated, with examples! Learning how navigate via cli, how to improve efficiency by completing common (often time consuming tasks) via the command line and some useful code examples to understand how to write bash scripts. Nerdy goodness 🙂

     

    March 28, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Panel Discussion: Adjusting Your Business in the Time of a Pandemic

    Bring your questions to this moderated panel with our speakers to discuss how businesses are adapting to the new world in which we find ourselves.

    Please note this session will take place on Zoom.

    March 28, 2020 at 4:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • WPGameshow: San Antonio Edition

    Presented by David Bisset

    After a day of education and networking with the virtual WordCamp Antonio, it’s time to relax and participate (or watch) some entertainment and well deserved distraction. That’s where the WPGameshow comes in! Your host David Bisset (sorry, he is the only person we had available) will take you through two exciting game experiences – and you can play and participate.

    Trivia: We will be using Kahoot for WordPress and random trivia. How well do you know the WordPress community, plugins, it’s history, etc? Time to find out! Correct and speedy answers earn you more points to win some exciting rounds!

    QuipLash: A gut-busting battle of wits and wittiness! Just use your phone or tablet (no controllers needed) to answer simple prompts like these:

    Something you’d be surprised to see a donkey do
A double rainbow doesn’t have gold at the end of it. Instead, it has ______.
A better name for France

    …but we are preparing WordPress themed prompts. Only the funniest, wittiest, and clever answers will be voted highest… audience also participates!

    March 28, 2020 at 5:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Keynote: The 3 things all web professionals need to know about privacy

    Presented by Donata Kalnenaite

    Clients trust web professionals to guide them to a website that generates leads. An unfortunate side effect of lead generation is the collection of personal information. For example, a website that has a contact form that collects a name and an email address collects personal information. Laws require most websites that collect PI to have a Privacy Policy. Clients often look to web professionals to answer the questions “do I really need a Privacy Policy, and why?” The fact is that most web professionals should have some knowledge of why privacy is important, what websites need a Privacy Policy and should be the ones speaking to their clients about the topic. In this talk, I will answer all of the above questions and empower web professionals to be true advocates for privacy and protection for their clients.

    March 29, 2020 at 9:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • WordPress 101: A Beginner’s Full-Immersion Session

    Presented by David Ryan

    We’ll be doing a deep-dive into WordPress, whether you’ve never used WordPress or never quite felt confident in your skills, this 6 hour session (including breaks and lunch time) will cover the basics, provide a full-guided tour through each part of the WordPress Admin, time for questions, tons of helpful tips, best practices to set you on the track to success with WordPress. All attendees will be leaving with tons of helpful resources to continue their learning and hopefully more knowledge and confidence.

    This was originally slated as a slightly-more hands-on workshop, but will be adapting to more of a Presentation with Interactivity, including some lecture-style presentations with ample time for questions as we go.

    March 29, 2020 at 9:00 am GMT+0000 in Presentation

  • Continuous Integration And How To Work with Big Teams

    Presented by Jason Acuna

    Is important not only sharing the code, but as everything evolve we should share our environments in an easy way, finding container, and establishing rules to deploy our code and try to reduce the amount of errors we might introduce on every project, specially if that project is of a considerable size.
    we start from our local by:
    1. sharing local enviroment with docker.
    2. work with composer so we only have custom code on our repository.
    3. Bitbucket as repository holder.
    4. Bitbucket pipelines to work as continues integration.
    5. implement basic unit testing during CI.
    5. deploy to any hosting provider.

    March 29, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Monetizing Your WordPress Blog the Smart Way

    Presented by Anne Schmidt

    Most bloggers start out with the lofty goal of monetizing their blog and living the life of a digital nomad. Easier said than done!

    This talk would give an overview of key things to think about when monetizing your website or blog. Throughout the years, I’ve noticed an overall confusion about how to best monetize your site. There is a lot of info out there, much of which is old and contradictory.

    My goal is to clarify website monetization, discuss strategies and help people better understand the key drivers of success.

    1) Monetization strategies. Affiliate links, ads, sponsored content, digital products, physical products.
    2) Traffic. You can’t make money on your blog without traffic. A high-level overview of strategies to increase traffic, including SEO, paid ads and good ‘ol networking.
    3) Optimized UI. Once you get users on your site, you want to drive your users to take actions that bring in revenue. A discussion of the best ways to place content on your site to increase the chance that users will do what you want them to do.
    4) Returning visitors. Some people need to see things multiple times before purchasing. How to keep visitors interested in your site, including an email list and social media.
    5) Common monetization pitfalls. Including not regularly creating fresh content, slow-loading sites, site crashes without a backup plan, etc.

    March 29, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Users

  • The Power of Recurring Revenue

    Presented by Nathan Ingram

    Are you one more bad month away from walking away from your WordPress business? The anxiety of unpredictable income can make you miserable. In this talk, Nathan will explain how to stabilize your business with a growing stream of recurring income.

    Key Takeaways:
    1. Why recurring income is crucial
    2. How to package, price and sell a WordPress management plan
    3. Easy to use worksheets to help you create new services for recurring income
    4. The difference recurring income can make

    March 29, 2020 at 10:00 am GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Battle of the Builders

    Presented by Cousett Hoover

    Gutenberg has been out for over a year and the turf is very active for all the builders for WordPress. Once upon a time, it was just the plugin add-on Visual Composer now there are multiple flavors of Elementor and several builders to choose from including the one built into WordPress core.
    In this session, we will explore several of the builders including Gutenberg, Divi, Elementor, Cornerstone, Beaver Builder and Brizzy and more. We will explore how a builder can help your site and how it can also possibly hurt the site in terms of speed, and functionality. What the best builder for you might be and how to get the best resources for the builder you choose.

    March 29, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Users

  • Git’s Not Rocket Science

    Presented by William Earnhardt

    Version control is a critical component of any software developer’s toolkit. But for those who have never used it, it may appear daunting. Don’t let it fool you, anyone can learn it!

    Focusing on Git, we’ll cover the basic commands everyone should learn, some commonly used workflows, how you can integrate it into your WordPress projects, and even dive into a few more advanced tips to help you level up your skills.

    March 29, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Developer

  • The Essentials for Productive Virtual Meetings

    Presented by Chris Milton

    Working remotely as freelancers or as part of a distributed team has gone from trending to essential.  This way of working requires more people to be live streaming, using video conferencing and creating video tutorials.  Join me as I walk through my personal desk setup that was created to be more efficient in meetings without taking up a lot of space.  The one-stand desk setup that works great for YouTube videos, video conferencing and recording tutorials.

    Outline:

    • free tools to help record/coordinate meetings and make videos without tech skills
    • how I built my desk setup with shopping list
    • what I’ve learned after using this setup for 3 months now and the impact it’s had on our business.
    March 29, 2020 at 11:00 am GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Hook into WordPress hooks!

    Presented by Marco Berrocal

    Have you ever read or heard the phrase “”Don’t modify WordPress Core files? Many, right? If you are getting better and better in being a WordPress developer you will eventually come across hooks.

    This talk will try to explain what hooks are, why do you need them and most importantly how to create your own hooks so that you have an even better control as to what would you like to do in order to become an even better WordPress developer.

    March 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • How Effective Project Management Can Help WordPress Professionals Improve Their Bottom Line

    Presented by Sandi Batik

    Mastering basic project management skills can make the difference between successfully managing your WordPress business or your clients running you ragged.

    Sandi Batik will share project management tips to help you deliver WordPress projects with a greater likelihood of giving your clients what they wanted, when they wanted it, at a profit. Good project management skills set the scope, schedule, and budget accurately and ensure the efficient and best use of business resources while managing the expectations of the various project’s stakeholders. Attendees will be given links to Project Management Checklists, some suggested tools, and other helpful resources.

    March 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Learn to Build Your Site with the New Block Editor: A Preview of Current Block Plugins

    Presented by AJ Morris

    In the last 18 months, we’ve seen rapid developments with Gutenberg and with the introduction of the block editor into WordPress core, there is no time like now to be looking at how to use the new block editor with your sites. This session is set to cover a brief understanding of the history of the editor in WordPress, but more importantly to look ahead and see how the block editor paired with the right tools can provide site builders the ability to build a site without the need for writing any code. Together we’ll be covering specific free and paid plugins that provide additional blocks or enhance your experience with the block editor, to create a truly no-code experience with WordPress. By the end of this session, you’ll want to start taking advantage of the new block editor and these plugins to update your existing sites and create new ones.

    March 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm GMT+0000 in Users

  • Winning the battle of design & function by focusing on user experience

    Presented by Chris Milton

    A beautifully designed website can also be tremendously functional for SEO, capturing leads and being a major asset for creating new business. Gone are the days of having to choose whether a site was “pretty” or it was “optimized for google” and signalled a high-growth business. In this talk, I would like to show how our team has evolved over the years to find balance by focusing on user expereince and how the trend of winning websites continues to be like a great expereince IRL… Practical application that I believe can help everyone build better sites (design and content).

    March 29, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT+0000 in Users

  • WP SVG: Working with SVGs in WordPress

    Presented by Russell Heimlich

    Scalable Vector Graphics are an ideal format for our multiscreen world with a dizzying array of resolutions. How can we work with SVGs in WordPress? What are the workflows and pitfalls of getting SVGs online? This talk will give you all the how and why of working with SVGs in WordPress.

    March 29, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer

  • Your Customers Are All Content Creators

    Presented by David Ramirez

    Modern marketing requires authenticity. Your customers, and you, are content creators. Engage with customers and (legally) acquire the rights to content to drive engagement. User Generated Content drive action more effectively than brand generated content. It is time to leverage your community to grow your site.

    March 29, 2020 at 2:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Can I Use A Template? An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Contracts

    Presented by Rian Kinney, Esq.

    Tired of Contracts talks that start with “I’m not an attorney, but… I’ve learned from trial and error, learn from my mistakes, I’ve learned from attorneys over the years…” Never fear, Rian Kinney, is here! Rian, founder of Kinney Firm and eCommLegal, IS a U.S. corporate attorney, Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Open Source Software Committee, holding the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPM & CIPP/E designations will asked the most frequently asked question she gets from the WordPress community: Can I use a Template? Not all contracts are created equal. There are business and contract basics you should know in order to know: what to look for in a template, what certain clauses mean, why you need them, how you are and are not able to tweak them, when negotiating, and why.

    March 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Marketing

  • Floating to the Top: How a Crisis Communications Plan and Content Strategy Literally Rescued us from the Flood

    Presented by Laura Byrne-Cristiano

    Maybe you’ve seen videos like this, where cars float downstream in what’s normally a quiet, little creek and thought, “Thank God that’s not us.” Only on August 11, 2018 it was us. Imagine being a community volunteer organization that finds itself under 4 feet of water after an unprecedented flash flood. We lost 80 years of supplies in 30 minutes almost 90% of what we owned. Our crisis plan coupled with content and social media strategy learned from WordCamps saved us. Our coordinated efforts achieved massive media coverage, an army of volunteers, and more money raised in three days than we dreamed possible. This presentation will cover the following that any business owner/volunteer organization can follow: Crisis communications plan Content strategy for your pages Content strategy for your posts Incorporating the social media that is right for you Interaction with the media Valuing your volunteers Relationships with competitors

    March 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Users

  • Themes of the Future — The New Frontier of Gutenberg Block-Based Themes and Theme Development

    Presented by Eileen Violini

    In the WordPress post Gutenberg world there are fundamental shifts in both user and development workflows, and moving forward that means how we develop themes for will also change. Let’s look at the current status of theme development, how you can get started taking advantage of the core editor right and how we can begin building themes for the future. Specifically, we’ll cover: • How to modify existing themes to take full advantage of the new editor and blocks. • Adding Theme Supports and Block templates to existing themes • What’s the difference between Block Enabled and Block Based Themes • Upcoming enhancements for Full Site Editing and Global Styles and how this will affect theme development.

    March 29, 2020 at 3:00 pm GMT+0000 in Developer