WordCamp Harare 2017

I’ll show you how to blow away your clients with strategies and tips to help them have a successful presence on the internet – these are all the tips and tricks I’ve learnt along the way taking WooCommerce to the most used eCommerce platform in the world.

WordPress presents an opportunity for many people to earn a living and hopefully enjoy their dreams. Sadly, there are many others who struggle to convert the opportunities before them into real value for their lives and business. So much has been put into work that creates portfolio only to get disappointed by the fact portfolio alone is not enough to help you negotiate for better value.

My goal is to get the community to value their work so as to charge more for their services to the clients. This will make us have local success stories and create a vibrant industry for ourselves. I will share the strategies and ideas to make this happen.

After all is said and done and you have website up and running……. it runs smoothly, loads quickly, SEO is tweaked…… and then what comes after?

If Code is Poetry…. A website is a conversation.
**Tips and hacks to managing your WordPress powered blog or Website Content and growing and maintaining site visitors**
-As I have learned from my personal blogging journey

As much as the world is evolving, one thing is still lagging behind which is the number of women advancing in the technological world. Since the last WordCamp Harare i then realized that gender affects your clientele and women’s approach to finding clients and venturing into the freelance business should be designed a bit different from usual. On this talk I offer the skills that i realized can make freelance women standout and be able to compete with the rest in such an evolving economy. The talk also highlights my experiences in the year trying to get into the industry. However as the talk concludes it will give a general overview of how one can rise into the industry and compete in website making using WordPress.

WordPress is a ubiquitos content packaging and distribution platform that seamlessly integrates with cogs in content display on both desktop and mobile platforms. Its current versions comes with built in responsiveness and displays propoerly on almost all digital connected devices. The world of content consumption is changing with statistics showing that the number of users consuming digital content through mobile devices is growing compared to desktop and laptops. Well, that brings an opportunity which WordPress is filling up, that is developing for mobile. That alone is not enough, but now putting more power in the hands of the selective user means creating mobile applications. Quite a number of solutions have been placed forward but WordPress brings in the best opportunity and I therefore propose to discuss and demonstrate available solutions to use in converting your WordPress website to a mobile application available on all common platforms.

Container management is a very new technology that is going to change the way in which servers run applications and as such most companies and IT professionals have already started using containers to run their applications on their servers. WordPress happens to be one of the most used applications and this talk will give you a heads up on how to use WordPress with containers on your own VPS or physical server. Docker happens to be the best container management software out there and as such it will be our software of choice.

The topic will focus on
– Visual Assets & Appeal
– Excerpts
– Omitting ‘Happy talk’
– Making relevant content ‘More Prominent’
– Call To Action (CTA)s

Ever wondered just how many WordPress plugins you should use? Or how you ought to choose one from a hundred?