Archive for 2020

  • Nile Flores: Avoiding Bloggers Block

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Nile Flores

    March 30, 2020 — If you are a blogger, you’ve probably hit the dreaded wall we call “Bloggers Block.” Perhaps you’ve reached a plateau with your site and cannot seem to write any more. Maybe you are unsure what you can cover on your site, or you worry about spamming. Sometimes we are afraid we might be copying other sites in our niche that may be covering the same topics. Or maybe it’s a challenge of juggling family and personal issues. There’s a solution for all of these! We’ll provide tips to help you overcome Blogger’s Block and get you thinking outside the box. You’ll rediscover that you still have more to say.

  • Robin Block: Get More Clients

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Robin Block

    March 30, 2020 — You’ve got a website that’s SEO’d. Where do you go from there? In this talk, you’ll get top actionable tips for acquiring new clients, from smartly packaging your WordPress services through acquiring and closing leads.

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  • Rhonda Negard: Using Design to Clarify Your Message: Design for Non­Designers

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Rhonda Negard

    March 30, 2020 — Learn design techniques that can help you achieve more conversions/sales! You created a website with impressive functionality, extremely valuable content, and the solutions to the huge issues that keep your clients up at night. Why aren’t more of your visitors staying longer, clicking through your site, and acting on your Calls-­to-­Action? Maybe the design conveys something different, contradictory, or incomplete. Good design facilitates reading, understanding, quick skimming, ease of use, mood, and aspiration. Discover how shapes, colors, contrast, and organization with your message and brand influences users’ perceptions and actions.

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  • Jennifer Taylor: From chaos to complete, how to execute for success!

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Jennifer Taylor

    March 30, 2020 — Have you ever had a To Do list so long or been assigned a project so big you felt paralyzed because you didn’t know where to begin? Whether you’re planning your next website refresh, juggling competing priorities, or it’s your official job title, everyone is a Project Manager. And sometimes managing and executing that long project list can be chaotic and overwhelming. In this session, we’ll discuss common project pitfalls and pro­ tips on how to prevent and overcome roadblocks in a way that positions you for success.

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  • Bruce Chamoff: How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Bruce Chamoff

    March 30, 2020 — Most website owners want to make money with their websites by selling more products, getting more paying customers, and branding their businesses more effectively. The problem is that most websites miss great opportunities to convert visitors into paying customers. This session shows how to make simple, but powerful web design changes to our WordPress websites and blogs to engage our customers, subscribers, and repeat visitors. We also learn how to keep people on our websites longer and lower the bounce rate. I reveal the secrets to leveraging Google Analytics’s bounce rate to improve online sales.

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  • Kelli Wise: It’s time you learned to use the block editor (Workshop)

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Kelli Wise

    March 30, 2020 — You’ve been putting it off. You’ve been relying on the classic editor plugin for a year but time is running out. Get to know the block editor and how to use it. In this workshop, we’ll cover using the block editor, the features and functions available to you and how to find them. Find out how best to add the block editor to your workflow and how to train your clients to use the block editor. This workshop is for people comfortable with logging in and navigating the WordPress dashboard already. So if you are one of the thousands experienced with the classic editor who just haven’t had the time or inclination to figure out how to use the new block editor, you will leave this workshop knowing the ins and outs of creating content using blocks.

  • Annie Anderson: Let’s Build a Course! And Why You Should (Workshop)

    WordCamp Seattle 2019Speaker: Annie Anderson

    March 30, 2020 — Courses are only getting more and more popular as people decide to expand and refine their businesses and how they work. In this workshop, we will lay out all the best tools and processes for building a course using the WordPress platform, including which plugins and themes are best suited for the job. You’ll receive instruction on how to make courses easy for your clients and users, how to take payments, and how to use features like video, asset hosting, and user comments and questions, to set up lessons for maximum benefit and ease.

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  • Stefan Kremer: WordPress Security 101

    WordPress Meetup NairobiSpeaker: Stefan Kremer

    March 29, 2020 — Some general thoughts on how to secure your WordPress installation and demoing some mitigation by the example of iThemes Security. Recording of the online meetup via Zoom

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  • Nathan Ingram: Dealing with Problem Clients – Building Fences Around Friendly Monsters

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: Nathan Ingram

    March 26, 2020 — Spend time talking with a group of web business owners and the conversation will inevitably include someone’s unfortunate experience with a terrible client. Most web pros have a story or two (or eight). While bad clients can’t be completely avoided, there are strategic steps any business owner can take to contain the impact of a bad client.

    In this session, Nathan will explain the how to create a system that preserves workflow and keeps problem clients in check.

    Take aways: (1) four fences that will keep problem clients in check, (2) the friendly monsters you should know and how to contain them, and (3) the payoff of protecting your business by building good fences.

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  • Preguntas y respuestas

    WordPress Meetup SevillaSpeakers: Nilo Vélez, Mariano Pérez, Miguel Ángel Terrón, Pablo Moratinos, Sacra Jáimez, Alejandro Sánchez Marín

    March 23, 2020 — Vivimos tiempos inciertos. Tiempos dónde hay más preguntas que respuestas y las certidumbres son escasas.

    Por eso hemos reunido a un grupo de expertos del mundo WordPress y les hemos pedido que respondan las preguntas que la comunidad tenga sobre sus WordPress: SEO, desarrollo, hosting, rendimiento, cómo se hace una meetup en línea… todo tiene cabida en esta primera meetup online de WordPress de España.