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The local community around 🇺🇸 WordCamp Asheville 2020 (120 miles):
Rock Hill, SC, USA
Columbia, SC, USA
Greenville, SC, USA
Buford, GA, USA
Charlotte, NC, USA
Charlotte, NC, USA
Charlotte, NC, USA
North Carolina, United States
Snellville, GA, USA
➡️ Do you know of any other WordPress folks in this area? Please encourage them to add themselves!
💻 This camp is online and fully remote, so there are technically no Pressers nearby. Check the "Attendees" tab to see who'll be joining you!
Check out the folks who attended 🇺🇸 WordCamp Asheville 2020:
Snellville, GA, USA
You can mark yourself as going to this camp in your account settings!
Boomer Sassmann
PreCamp
PreCamp: Beginner’s Day — Friday, September 11
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
PreCamp is a hands-on session for those new to WordPress. Unlike WordCamp (Sat), which focuses on presentations by various speakers and “Ask the Expert” sessions, PreCamp (Fri) is a do-it-yourself day.
Are you new to WordPress (or know someone who is) and want some hands-on support in setting up your website? PreCamp is designed to take you from a blank slate to a fully functioning website before you walk out the door. We provide almost everything* you need to get started.
If you’re a beginner who is wondering if this is the right place for you – the answer is YES! We have an amazing team of experienced WordPress users, designers and developers that have donated their time to make this an incredible learning experience for you that will definitely bring results. You’ll be guided through the steps needed to get your first website up and running. And we have enough facilitators to step in and provide some individual support if you get confused along the way.
* You will need a computer with any images and content you will want on your website, and a willingness to learn through hands-on experience (a great sense of humor and willingness to laugh while you learn is appreciated – but not required.)
Details
Day of PreCamp:
We’ll take you through:
Recordings from the 2020 PreCamp Event:
Cassandra Hendrix
Ask the Experts: Pagebuilders
3:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern // Salon
Do you use, or are you thinking about using, Elementor, Divi, or Beaver Builder? If so you probably have some questions! Luckily we’ve gathered the pros to get your questions answered — Michael Cremean, Cassandra Hendrix, and Jocelyn Mozak.
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Jocelyn Mozak
Clone Yourself through Automation
Ever catch yourself repeating the same task over and over again? If you can document the steps you can automate it! From high-level concepts like the development of systems and processes to detailed examples of how to harness the power of forms and Zapier to save hours of tedious work. You will leave this talk will inspire you to look at every task in your business and ask … can this be automated?
Jocelyn has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home. In addition to running her Agency, Jocelyn is a mentor & business coach to other Creative Professionals helping them to build businesses that support the life they desire.
Twitter: @jocelynmozak
Ask the Experts: Pagebuilders
3:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern // Salon
Do you use, or are you thinking about using, Elementor, Divi, or Beaver Builder? If so you probably have some questions! Luckily we’ve gathered the pros to get your questions answered — Michael Cremean, Cassandra Hendrix, and Jocelyn Mozak.
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Sarah Benoit
Diversity in Tech Panel
As one of the most affordable and accessible platforms for people interested in Technology, WordCamps are a real-life showcase of the growing diversity in the field. However, there is still more work to be done.
Why are diverse voices and experiences critical to the health of our communities and businesses? What challenges do underrepresented groups face? How can we ensure lasting change in our WordPress and home communities? Aida Correa, Aisha Adams, and Joe Simpson, along with moderator Sarah Benoit, will have an open discussion about tough topics and times with optimism in mind.
Leah Shapiro
Ask the Expert: SEO
Rich Owings, owner of Local Is Where Its At, and Leah Shapiro, SEO Manager at Seer Interactive, are ready to field all your SEO questions! Beginner, technical, local, international, broad or nitty gritty — bring any question and be ready to get nerdy! Not sure where to start? Here are some examples:
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Feel free to email your questions ahead of time to Rich at [email protected].
As SEO Manager at Seer Interactive in San Diego, Leah builds actionable content strategies that support client goals and serve audience needs. Although she was an early adopter of Ask Jeeves, Leah started her career in print, with stints in book publishing and journalism. As chief editor for an award-winning arts and culture magazine in Asheville, North Carolina, Leah wrote stories about entrepreneurs and organizations, while managing a team of freelance writers and interns, and dabbling in photography. After five years in print, she turned to digital marketing in 2016 as a content creator at a Certified B Corp agency with clients primarily in tourism, impact, and health. It wasn’t long before the agency’s SEO division piqued her curiosity, and she was hooked. Her knowledge in SEO strategy, technical SEO, and content development helps Leah focus on the details and keep in mind the larger context.
Twitter: @ovaryexcited
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-shapiro-b290884b/
Rich Owings is a local SEO specialist, focusing on improving local business’s visibility on Google Maps, improving their organic rankings, their online reviews and their mobile presence. He has been involved in Internet marketing since 2005 when he started a technology blog that he took full-time in 2007, and sold in early 2014. That site fueled his interest in and knowledge of SEO and location-based services, and he now focuses on sharing his knowledge with local businesses.
https://localiswhereitsat.com/
Twitter: @richowings
Rich Owings
Ask the Expert: SEO
Rich Owings, owner of Local Is Where Its At, and Leah Shapiro, SEO Manager at Seer Interactive, are ready to field all your SEO questions! Beginner, technical, local, international, broad or nitty gritty — bring any question and be ready to get nerdy! Not sure where to start? Here are some examples:
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Feel free to email your questions ahead of time to Rich at [email protected].
As SEO Manager at Seer Interactive in San Diego, Leah builds actionable content strategies that support client goals and serve audience needs. Although she was an early adopter of Ask Jeeves, Leah started her career in print, with stints in book publishing and journalism. As chief editor for an award-winning arts and culture magazine in Asheville, North Carolina, Leah wrote stories about entrepreneurs and organizations, while managing a team of freelance writers and interns, and dabbling in photography. After five years in print, she turned to digital marketing in 2016 as a content creator at a Certified B Corp agency with clients primarily in tourism, impact, and health. It wasn’t long before the agency’s SEO division piqued her curiosity, and she was hooked. Her knowledge in SEO strategy, technical SEO, and content development helps Leah focus on the details and keep in mind the larger context.
Twitter: @ovaryexcited
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-shapiro-b290884b/
Rich Owings is a local SEO specialist, focusing on improving local business’s visibility on Google Maps, improving their organic rankings, their online reviews and their mobile presence. He has been involved in Internet marketing since 2005 when he started a technology blog that he took full-time in 2007, and sold in early 2014. That site fueled his interest in and knowledge of SEO and location-based services, and he now focuses on sharing his knowledge with local businesses.
https://localiswhereitsat.com/
Twitter: @richowings
Ask the Expert: Business
Nathan Ingram is a WordPress business coach who will be fielding business-related questions from the audience. Not sure where to start? Here are some examples:
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Aisha Adams
Ask the Expert: Social Media
Aisha Adams is an influencer and business coach ready to answer all your social media questions. Not sure where to start? Here are some examples:
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Diversity in Tech Panel
As one of the most affordable and accessible platforms for people interested in Technology, WordCamps are a real-life showcase of the growing diversity in the field. However, there is still more work to be done.
Why are diverse voices and experiences critical to the health of our communities and businesses? What challenges do underrepresented groups face? How can we ensure lasting change in our WordPress and home communities? Aida Correa, Aisha Adams, and Joe Simpson, along with moderator Sarah Benoit, will have an open discussion about tough topics and times with optimism in mind.
Aida Correa
Diversity in Tech Panel
As one of the most affordable and accessible platforms for people interested in Technology, WordCamps are a real-life showcase of the growing diversity in the field. However, there is still more work to be done.
Why are diverse voices and experiences critical to the health of our communities and businesses? What challenges do underrepresented groups face? How can we ensure lasting change in our WordPress and home communities? Aida Correa, Aisha Adams, and Joe Simpson, along with moderator Sarah Benoit, will have an open discussion about tough topics and times with optimism in mind.
Russell Fair
A Tale of Two Gutenberg Migrations
The Gutenberg era is an exciting time for WordPress. But upgrading older sites (presumably those that use custom field managers) can be a daunting task. This presentation details two different migrations, each with very different approaches to migrating “legacy content” to Gutenberg.
K Adam White
Cypress Testing and WordPress
Cypress is a JavaScript-based automated end-to-end testing framework. Essentially, it can act like a user on your website by visiting pages, filling out forms, and clicking buttons.
Join in as we learn the basics of how to use Cypress and some of the nuances of testing WordPress plugins, themes, or websites.
Why and how you should add structured data to your WordPress website
Join Josh Gellock of Expander Digital for a talk on why and how you should add structured data to your WordPress website. We’ll cover how structured data works, different ways to add it to your WordPress website, testing tools, and why it’s important for SEO.
Level Up Your Coding: The Whys and Hows of Local Development
Many developers know to NEVER do changes directly on a live website, lest we break it.
What if though, you don’t have access to a staging or development environment? Or even if you do, what happens if you are in a situation where you do not have reliable internet access! Local development environments to the rescue!
We’ll touch on why it’s so important, and discuss the plethora of options available. Please note all examples will be shown from a Mac OS, but environments for Linux and Windows will be discussed.
Checking under the hood: Auditing your website for a smooth ride
We often talk about websites the way we talk about cars. Are you driving a flashy sports car or a stable hatchback? And is yours a lemon, no matter how pretty the paint job? And if you just got one used, what’s going on under the hood? There’s a way to address these questions about your website, and it’s called a technical audit.
The vast majority of site owners live in fear of the day their site “breaks down.” Performing a site audit can ensure you understand the current state of your site, from the back end code level to the front end performance. It can also help you see potential problems when it comes time to add features (like that sweet audio system).
Emanuel Costa
What should good WordPress developers know and learn?
In this online talk Manny Costa will bring questions and answers about WordPress development. Such as:
Aviva Campbell
⚡Brand Identity Witchcraft
Leverage the sorcery and science of data-informed creativity to bewitch your audience and enhance your web presence.
Adam Silverstein
Web Vitals and WordPress
Web Vitals (https://web.dev/vitals/) is an initiative by Google to provide a great user experience on the web with measurable quality signals. Site owners should not have to be performance gurus in order to understand the quality of experience they are delivering to their users. The Web Vitals initiative aims to simplify the landscape, and help sites focus on the metrics that matter most.
Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that apply to all web pages and each of the Core Web Vitals represents a part of user experience that is measurable in the field. Site owners should pay attention, because an upcoming Search ranking change incorporates these page experience metrics (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-experience.html).
This talk explores how WordPress developers and website owners can check, monitor and improve web vitals.
Wesley Lewis
⚡Images: Usage, sizing, and compression
Want your site to be blazing fast? Pick the right image for the right place! If your site is sluggish you probably have improperly formatted, sized, and compressed images. Optimizing your images is one of the easiest and most effective ways you can speed up your site, give your users a better user experience, and help your SEO. I’ve got the quick tips to help you get started.
Making Your Contact Forms Land in an Inbox
Websites with a contact form, order forms or e-commerce solutions, it is important that the customer receives a response. It has become more difficult to make this happen every time. I’ll walk you through setting up DNS correctly dealing with SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the like. I’ll also touch on 3rd party mail services.
Justin Ferrell
Make it Fast and Make it Last
Can you really say you’re building websites if you’ve never gotten a call about a website feeling slow? For years, performance on the web has been one of those things that many have tried to quantify. Like reproducing a tricky bug, nailing down how and why things on the web feel slow is usually harder than actually speeding them up. In this talk, we’ll run through examples from real WordPress sites and dig into how we can speed up our websites and make sure they stay that way.
Kate Runy
SEO + Content Marketing = Success
SEO and content marketing share the same goal: getting your quality content seen! Learn how these two approaches can work together so more people see the products you and your team work hard to produce. This session will show you that you don’t need to speak a computer language to get your content findable on the world wide web. Just use the formula!
Halleh Abedi
Cliff Seal
The Evolving Role of the WordPress Administrator
With each subsequent release, the WordPress community seems more and more willing to accept breaking changes—though not necessarily related to code.
Dramatic shifts in user flows are shipping with new versions of WordPress and are turned on by default, forcing users to opt out if they want their existing experience back. Clearly, the experience of new users—or users building new sites—is the priority for WordPress core. But, enterprise software companies live and die by the way they shift user experiences because disruption and wasted time are the enemy. This role of software administrator has become a necessity for large organizations using WordPress every day.
In this session, we’ll discuss the evolving role of a WordPress administrator and the opportunity to better serve your organization through thoughtful change management.
Cover Your Assets: WordPress Accessibility Images, Videos, and More
Whether you are a beginner or not, most WordCampers know what an image ALT tag is or have seen closed captions on our television shows or YouTube videos. But the majority of you reading this STILL skip these critical first steps in making your client or personal WordPress sites accessible and perform markedly better.
In this interactive WordCamp online presentation, we’ll also cover the basics:
Diversity in Tech Panel
As one of the most affordable and accessible platforms for people interested in Technology, WordCamps are a real-life showcase of the growing diversity in the field. However, there is still more work to be done.
Why are diverse voices and experiences critical to the health of our communities and businesses? What challenges do underrepresented groups face? How can we ensure lasting change in our WordPress and home communities? Aida Correa, Aisha Adams, and Joe Simpson, along with moderator Sarah Benoit, will have an open discussion about tough topics and times with optimism in mind.
Michael Cremean
Ask the Experts: Pagebuilders
3:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern // Salon
Do you use, or are you thinking about using, Elementor, Divi, or Beaver Builder? If so you probably have some questions! Luckily we’ve gathered the pros to get your questions answered — Michael Cremean, Cassandra Hendrix, and Jocelyn Mozak.
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Steven Ayers
Ask the Expert: Security
Steven Ayers is a full stack developer with a special focus on security, and he’ll be available to field your security-related questions! Not sure where to start? Here are some examples:
This is an open discussion room where you can get guidance from experienced professionals. Bring your own questions, or learn from the discussions prompted by others.
Checking under the hood: Auditing your website for a smooth ride
We often talk about websites the way we talk about cars. Are you driving a flashy sports car or a stable hatchback? And is yours a lemon, no matter how pretty the paint job? And if you just got one used, what’s going on under the hood? There’s a way to address these questions about your website, and it’s called a technical audit.
The vast majority of site owners live in fear of the day their site “breaks down.” Performing a site audit can ensure you understand the current state of your site, from the back end code level to the front end performance. It can also help you see potential problems when it comes time to add features (like that sweet audio system).
These are the people that make this event happen. They work tirelessly for weeks and months to plan, coordinate, and execute the best event possible. If you get a chance to thank them, please do!
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Steve Ayers (+ add me)
Russell Fair (+ add me)
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Janine Paris (+ add me)
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Boomer Sassmann (+ add me)
John Dorner (+ add me)
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