🇰🇪 WordCamp Mombasa 2019

Due to the availability of free and premium themes, it becomes difficult for people to choose the right theme for the creation of their websites/blogs. The need for education on the right themes for each type of website/blog is highly required as the number of websites built with the WordPress CMS is increasing with each passing day.

User Experience is a primary area of consideration when building WordPress websites and plugins. Understanding how to build and design products that are user-centric, free from usability issues and accessible for your target audience will improve the success or metrics of your products.

User Experience is a vast field and understanding the right UX Design process is necessary to achieve the best results when working on digital products/solutions.

I expect that at the end of this workshop participants will understand how to conduct user research, develop personas, conduct concept/Idea testing, build wireframes, prototypes, and test with representative users.

I am proposing a practical workshop so participants can carry out activities themselves by building a demo digital product in class.

I am optimistic that after this session, participants will understand the role of user experience and apply the knowledge gained to build better websites/digital products.

We’ve all heard, used and are here because of this awesome platform known as WordPress.

In this session, I will show you how to make a living with WordPress, how you can make money with WordPress using practical examples.

I would be discussing the role of e-commerce in our current digital world and how it can help businesses scale up and do business online.

This will be a demo on how to integrate Ipay with Mpesa on your Woocommerce website and receive payments from customers with no extra hustle.

The talk and demo will focus on how to deploy WordPress on Amazon Web Services. The talk is not very technical and will include what AWS is and the benefits of deploying on the cloud service.

As bloggers, having the proper way of dealing with writing articles or creating content is important. Many bloggers rush on just doing their works without knowing that with no proper project management skills, they will end up failing.

It’s not about money but value proposition that can be seen through your writing and arrangement of content in blog or website. The money will come if we learn and practice proper project management skills that will enable us to arrange what needs to be written and how should it be written and convey the intended meaning to the reader.

Beyond building an attractive and appealing WordPress website. There is a business case to be developed and a business model to be cracked. Scaling up the business will deep dive into the A-to-Z of building an all-round successful business powered by WordPress. See you then!

In this topic, I will share the best tips for keeping your WordPress website secure from Hackers, Spammers and site Hijackers.

What are podcasts? Why exactly are podcasts growing in popularity? What advantages do podcasts have over video and other mediums? How can one use WordPress to host podcasts and what are some of the plugins would one require? What equipments will you need to set up your podcast? and how do you get an audience for your podcast? Above are some of the questions I will be answering.

Should you start a blog? Ever thought about how much you can accomplish with a blog? You probably have had this idea for some time now. But what’s keeping you from getting started? In this session, I’ll be sharing reasons you should start your own blog

How to Plan your design on mockup to using frameworks in theming your WordPress website.

You might be a WordPress guru. But how are you building a profitable company? How are you using the CMS to earn money? In this topic, I will background on how I built my company using WordPress. We will go over growing your company. The part that WordPress plays.

Since founded in 2003, WordPress has touched millions of lives and businesses. Young and old people have learned skills that have connected them to jobs and opportunities they never thought they could have.

Businesses have been created, innovations of plugins and apps have also been birthed. Telling our WordPress stories will inspire the next generation of developers, programmers, bloggers, web managers etc to take up skills they never thought they could venture in.

A great example is that of 12-year-old Nigerian Programmer, Obaloluwa Odelana, who told his story here in this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2EtY6HkWoQ) at the WordCamp in Lagos, Nigeria and inspired kids his age to embrace technology.

The impact of his interview contributed to the increased participation of children at the 2019 WordCamp in Lagos. This proposed storytelling session seeks to evoke and help participants who have ever used WordPress or making a living through the platform to share their stories in their own words and ways so that others can draw strength from them and take up required skills of interest

How I built my business (Careerpoint Solutions) using WordPress. This will be both, a technical and inspirational talk.

I will be sharing how WordPress enabled me to have an online presence, generate traffic and monetize. I will also share the best online business model that generates money in Kenya. The presentation will include the plugins, and how I use them, in different categories: Traffic and Social (Shareholic, IFTTT, Panda Facebook comments) SEO (Yoast) Visitors retention (popular post, ad inserter, testimonials), Lead Magnet( Ninja forms, contact form), Emails and Newsletters (Arigato Autoresponder and Newsletter) Online courses.

Check out our website www.careerpoint-solutions.com / www.careerpoint.co.ke Our courses www.careerpoint-solutions.com/courses

In this session, I will be showing the audience how to scale and use WordPress for schools. From normal school blogs to a full-blown educational website for the school. I will also be giving tips to starting a school SaaS with WordPress.

The components that need to accompany any Innovation to be successful like courage, daring spirit, planning and the right strategy.