February 8, 2018 — Have product. Must sell. WordPress + WooCommerce make it easy enough to create your online shop in a matter of minutes. Facebook + promoted posts make it easy enough to market directly to your target audience and get them to your website. But how do you quickly gain their confidence and trust and get them to actually make the purchase?

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February 8, 2018 — Discussion about Gutenberg

February 8, 2018 — Antonio Villegas, cofundador de Nelio Content, habla de cómo mantener un blog y otorga las pautas necesarias para hacer del mismo un blog exitoso, pese a los problemas y dificultades que siempre suelen surgir.

February 8, 2018 — I will be sharing my WordPress story and journey. How WordPress can be a source of happiness to ones life when one wakes up every morning. How one can make a living with WordPress if one is ready to put in the work. How one can fit into the WP community and be inspired to do more. Most importantly, how to fall in Love with WordPress, how I did and how you can too.

February 7, 2018 — Explore actionable items to kick start your WordPress side hustle, allowing you to pursue creative passion projects, expand your skill set, build your freelance or live out entrepreneurial dreams. This talk covers a thorough list of dos and don’ts, resources, project management tips and how to successfully build and maintain strong client relationships so you’ll be ready for your next step. Peppered with personal, relatable stories of how Katie lived and breathed the process from going in-house, freelance as a side gig to full time and now running a successful boutique agency.

February 7, 2018 — A talk on 4 ways using WordPress enabled and empowered a community to find each other online, meet offline, share knowledge, raise awareness and win a Sussex Digital Award!

February 6, 2018 — This is the first of FOUR interviews we are doing in February 2018. This series is focused on the upcoming new block-based editor coming to WordPress 5.0, named Gutenberg. In this first interview, we chat with Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast.com about how he and his team are preparing his pluins for Gutenberg. There is a 25 minutes interview, followed by an AMA section from our AWP members.

February 6, 2018 — Qué es un tema de WordPress? ¿Dónde conseguir uno? ¿Cómo modificarlo? ¿Qué es el personalizador? ¿Qué es un tema hijo? ¿Cómo utilizar Underscores? ¿Y crear un tema desde cero? ¿Qué es Gutenberg? Todas estas preguntas y alguna más en esta charla sobre temas para todos los niveles.

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February 3, 2018 — Mindfulness – “The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.” Security can seem intimidating and complex for many, but we shouldn’t (can’t) let that stop us from doing everything we can to secure our WordPress sites and ourselves. After all, our websites are often part of our livelihood. In this session Adam addresses the “big picture” of personal and website security and breaks down the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan online. He provides an actionable checklist on what audience members can implement immediately to better secure themselves online in addition to their WordPress websites. After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of personal security online and how it affects website security as a whole, as well as steps they can take to mitigate risk in the future.

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February 3, 2018 — WooCommerce 101
In this fundamentals course, we will be going over how to set up and configure WooCommerce.

Topics covered will be:

Why WooCommerce?
How to Install
A walk through the settings
Set up your store and add products
And how to run your store.