🇰🇪 WordCamp Nairobi 2018

How to get started with WordPress. A technical session taking a beginner through the stages of getting started with WordPress. Installation, hosting and a brief intro on what is WordPress

Integrating mobile payments for online stores in Kenya (and Africa, generally), is a hustle. I’d like to share my 5-year journey in making the ecosystem better for myself and others; as well as the successes we have managed to pull off, despite the various challenges.

How to build a WordPress themes business

The ups and downs of running a design and development agency and how to stay afloat in this very competitive ecosystem. I’ll give examples of what we’ve been through and how we got through it.

WordPress is possibly the most popular website software on the planet, and yet that popularity attracts an unfortunate number of nefarious hackers and spammers.

This presentation is geared towards all levels of WordPress user, from hobbyist to developer. I’ll demystify common types of security vulnerabilities, and how to mitigate them.

During this session, you’ll learn what it takes to build a 6-figure affiliate/niche website from the ground up.

1. Discover the hottest markets that you NEED to focus on if you want to make the most money possible with your blogs! Don’t fall victim to the “obvious niche” routine, and instead, carve out a fortune in smaller, PROVEN markets chalk full of hungry buyers!

2. Learn the secrets to creating outstanding, well-structured blogs – like the pros!

Find out how you can TRIPLE your blogs net worth by generating a flood of unlimited targeted traffic without ever having to pay a dime in advertising! (These are seriously simple, yet ridiculously powerful tactics used by the blogging gurus).

3. Find out how you can multiply your blogs net worth by generating a flood of unlimited targeted traffic

If you follow the killer tactics that will be featured within this session, it will be so easy, and so fast for you to get into affiliate marketing and create a consistent stream of income from your WordPress blog(s).

Once you have created your WordPress website and installed your chosen theme, the next stage is to begin to create the content that you want on your site. Whilst you may have an overall idea of the content you wish to publish, there are a few important elements that many website owners overlook.

In this session, we shall try to identify some of the mistakes that we do when creating/publishing Text, image & Video content for our websites and also learn how to crack the code of creating the type of content that resonates with the intended user.

Most of WordPress Websites use pre-designed themes that will always need customization to fit to ones preferences. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme. One major reason for that is that you won’t loose any of your customizations when you’ll update the parent theme! Child themes allow one to focus only on added functionalities without having to reinvent the wheel. This topic will cover how to create a child theme and editing template parts inside a child theme.

Drawing lessons learnt from some of the large scale WP projects, I have delivered in my freelance career, It is important freelancers and web design agencies adopt techniques on how to effectively plan out projects, time-management and clearly set budgets that will be both cost effective to their clients and at same time profitable to the developer

WordPress is a robust CMS in terms of content creating. It is especial the leading blogging framework. But can you make money through WordPress? Or can you use your WordPress company website to spur your businesse. In this topic, I will show you how powerful wordpress is and how you can use it to spur your blogging business and company blog.

How to make use of the WordPress CMS to make good niche websites such as Amazon Niche Sites, monetizing local blogs with Jumia and Kilimall, blogs monetized by Google Adsense e.t.c.

With the current rise in eCommerce platforms, I shall be discussing why you need to build your eCommerce Website with WooCommerce, as opposed to other platforms. (Updated Version of My WCMombasa 2018 talk)

I would like to talk about recent serious security incidents had with WordPress installations and Start with the general points that anybody who is going to use or currently using WordPress needs to put their attention compared with driving a vehicle. Then I will suggest few plugins and services that I use and will request the audience to engage and let their suggestions too.I have mastered Art of hardening WordPress installation more than 30+ in Sri Lanka and other clients abroad.