July 28, 2018 — How to Choose the top 10 Plugins you will need based on your website purpose. With over 50,000 plugins on the WordPress repository, it can be a daunting task finding the right ones for your website. Many websites are built generically, without any thought to real design, which limits their effectiveness. This talk will examine the purposes of websites (the top 4 categories) and explain what types of plugins are needed, and how to go about finding and evaluating the ones you will need.
With multiple plugins available in each area, how does one choose the right ones? This talk will benefit new users and business owners alike, and is focused on those who are relatively new to the WordPress community.

@WordCampJax @JohnRehg

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July 27, 2018 — How do you deal with queries from people who clearly know nothing about your website, yet email you incessantly with offers to write for you? I will explore why you may want to consider having guest posts on your blog, identifying guest authors (good ones), the kinds of spammy material you’re likely to encounter, and share my own experiences from managing guest posts and authors from running my website of over 15 years.

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July 27, 2018 — Have you seen tutorials online with out of date information on how to start building a headless WordPress app using Angular JS (Angular 1.x)? This talk will cover how to connect to the WordPress REST API using Angular JS. We’ll cover the WordPress setup using Advanced Custom Fields and Custom Post Types, as well as setting up the Angular routes to connect to the REST API to get and display the data.

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July 27, 2018 — The pace of modern front-end development doesn’t let up. New standards, APIs, techniques, and best practices are being introduced on a monthly basis.

This presentation will walk a front-end developer through vital new standards that we will be seeing more frequently.

This includes

– Deep dive into CSS Grid
– CSS Custom Properties (aka CSS Variables)
– Positioning
– CSS Filters and Blend Modes
– And more

The topics will be presented to focus on the basic terminology, usage, concepts, and techniques of these new standards

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July 27, 2018 — A beginners guide to the dark arts. Topics include: determining what keywords have the most volume and best intent, optimizing your content, positioning your content for Quick Answers (position zero), what the heck is this schema & structured data, how to stroke people’s ego for backlinks and much, much more.SEO presentation

July 27, 2018 — We will discuss topics such as:

Limiting your legal liability with Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Opting in for greater enforceability. Designating an Agent for DMCA protections.

Trademark/Copyright – notice, protections afforded, filing fees, strategy

Can you charge additional fees for clients that pay by credit card. How much can you charge for a late fee.

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July 25, 2018 — This session is intended to explain and show how to create a mobile app for a WordPress based site using React Native.

We recently built a mobile app for iOS and Android for Red Bull Global Rallycross.
Their website is powered by WordPress and the idea was to create a mobile app to access the same content.
This talk will take this app as an example and highlight some of the things we learned while building it.

This session will be 90% live coding.

First, I’m going to cover the basics of React Native:
– How it works
– React 101 (components, jsx, lifecycle)
– Layout system
– Styling views

Then I’m going to create a React Native app from scratch with a WordPress backend:
– Creating a project
– Adding basic navigation
– Building the news feed screen
– Adding the news details screen
– Adding a simple parallax animation

After this session I’m confident people will realize how easy it is to create native mobile apps with React Native.

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July 25, 2018 — What could be the benefit of being part of the WordPress Community if you don’t even use WordPress? How far can you get if you decide to step out of your comfort-zone and overcome your fears?

My husband dragged me kicking and screaming to my first WordCamp. I did not even know what WordPress was up to that point and I was scared of meeting the “nerdy” part of my husband’s life probably due to not being able to get involved.

The story I want to share is about how things evolved afterward, as I visited several WordCamps as a passionate volunteer to the point of getting a true WordPress Community-Junkie. It is about how I became a WordCamp organizer, speaker and emcee in almost no time. It is about how I found new enjoyable professional challenges.

It is the story about how I have been changing my life completely in only one year, because I dared to step out of my comfort-zone.

July 25, 2018 — If your marketing isn’t working, it might be because you haven’t properly branded your business. This session will cover how to develop your own brand, how to position it in the marketplace and attract the right clients. We’ll also cover ways to develop messaging for your business.

This session will be a condensed version of the work we do with all new clients to prepare their business for effective marketing. This will be easy to understand and practical.

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July 25, 2018 — When podcasting became a thing over a decade ago, there weren’t many options for distribution. In order to share our podcasts, we needed to develop a home for them – somewhere where people could find us online that was easier to work with than simple listing sites like TalkShoe or iTunes. That’s why we took advantage of resources we were familiar with – specifically WordPress. We have individual websites for our in-house podcasts – as well as a network page which is home to our growing catalog of Pittsburgh podcasts. I’ll show you how we’ve been able to do that and how you can do it, too.

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