June 2, 2018 — Every business starts with someone. Most small businesses begin with just one or two people at the start, which inevitably means the founders or owners constantly juggle dozens of different tasks each day. Pippin will share stories and insights from his own experience juggling the many roles and responsibilities a founder carries in a bootstrapped business.

May 31, 2018 — Shrista Pradhan is a Front End Developer who has been working on WordPress for the past 3 years.
The main purpose of her topic is to highlight the scope for all the Front End developers in the WordPress community. WordPress is not only for the developers who code but it also provides a huge platform for Front Enders to boost their career in many different aspects.

May 31, 2018 — In this presentation, I will go over what it takes to not just survive as a WordPress freelancer but hopefully thrive as well. I will provide useful tools, links, and info on how to find work, where to look for inspiration, mental health, and work/life balance as a freelancer.

May 31, 2018 — Join Josh Gellock of Expander Digital for a talk on local SEO. Find out how to reach local searchers, manage your online listings, and use structured data to optimize your business’ search presence.

May 31, 2018 — When Matt Mullenweg announced in December 2017 that Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0 would be ready in just a few short months, we sat up and took notice. Knowing the landscape of our institution – and higher ed’s proclivity for denying change – we started making plans.

From the beginning we were thinking about the full spectrum of WordPress experience: from developers to the one-off content editors. We set to work learning as much as we could about Gutenberg, the user experience, the transition options, and eventually, arrived at our own examination of how Gutenberg could/should/would work at NC State.

May 31, 2018 — So you’ve probably heard about Gutenberg, but how do you
create your own interactive, dynamic Gutenberg blocks? I’ll
lead you through a simple example, and cover some advanced topics
like API calls to 3rd party services, server side rendering,
and using custom React components to help you understand the full
capabilities of Gutenberg – and even how to make some advanced blocks
of your own.

May 31, 2018 — In her keynote session, Aimee plans to deliver a message that will inspire us all to strive toward success and happiness with newfound hope, as well as encourage people from all backgrounds and walks of life to meet any situation as their best self.

May 31, 2018 — This talk will share tips and techniques for capturing your client’s voice and vision in your writing, giving insight into how attendees can great content in website pages and blog posts.

May 31, 2018 — Learn how to boost your SEO to build a bigger community online with these 3 strategies: Keyword Research & Organization, Leveraging Competitor Insights, and Writing Content that Resonates.

May 31, 2018 — In this session, attendees will learn about the basic features of some of the most popular and powerful tools for making a WordPress site into a community hub: Multisite, BuddyPress, Commons-in-a-Box, and bbPress. We’ll also discuss how and whether to offer particular functionalities with one or more of these tools:

* Collecting specific user data (BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields)
* Letting users talk to one another on your site (forums, groups, private messages)
* Allowing users to create their own sub-communities on your community site (sites with Multisite, Groups with BuddyPress)
* Displaying user directories and profiles
* One-way communication with users (dashboard messages, mass emails, enabling email subscriptions to blog posts)