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The local community around 🇺🇸 WordCamp Philadelphia 2020 (120 miles):
Verona, NJ, USA
Pennsylvania, United States
New York, NY, USA
New Jersey, United States
Walden, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
Pennsylvania, United States
Pennsylvania, United States
Pennsylvania, United States
New Jersey, United States
Catasauqua, PA, USA
Doylestown, PA, USA
Ellicott City, MD, USA
Lancaster, PA, USA
Maplewood, NJ, USA
Havertown, PA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Nutley, NJ, USA
Lewes, DE, USA
Waldwick, NJ, USA
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
Abell, MD, USA
Bloomsburg, PA, USA
Ocean City, MD, USA
Wall Township, NJ, USA
Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Moscow, PA, USA
New York, United States
Pennsylvania, United States
Pennsylvania, United States
Swarthmore, PA, USA
Trenton, NJ, USA
Lakewood, NJ, USA
Wyckoff, NJ, USA
Pennsylvania, United States
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
New York, United States
Eatontown, NJ, USA
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💻 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 Philadelphia 2020:
Doylestown, PA, USA
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Pennsylvania, United States
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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Josh Pollock
Q&A – How to Do a Code Review
Code review is an important part of development. Learning how to give productive, kind, and actionable feedback is a key skill for anyone working on teams.
Josh is a PHP and JavaScript developer from the best city in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. He helps build Ninja Forms, Caldera Forms, SendWP and more at Saturday Drive. He is also a WordPress core contributor and the author of a ton of tutorials about web development.
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
David Zimmerman
Marketing Workshop: Get the Most Out of Your Website
A website should be more than a brochure. It should be able to do something that helps grow your business. What should it accomplish? How can you get more visitors to accomplish that goal? These are the questions you need to answer before you begin to spend a dime, or even your time, on marketing. In this workshop, David Zimmerman, a 12-year web marketing veteran, will run through a couple of examples and show you how to determine what your website can do for your business and how that affects your marketing strategy. Using examples from Philadelphia-area non-profit organizations, you will be able to apply the lessons you learn to market your non-profit better through your website.
Non-profit panel participants include:
David Zimmerman has been consulting for companies on SEO strategies and tactics for more than 12 years. He’s helped everyone from publicly-traded companies to mom-and-pop businesses. Five years ago, David started his own SEO company in Charlotte, North Carolina called Reliable Acorn, LLC. Recently he launched CuriousAnts.com to share what he’s learned about SEO best-practices with others.
Andy Stitt
Making State Government Accessible and Responding to COVID-19
Within the Delaware Department of State, the Government Information Center builds and maintains WordPress websites for state agencies and municipalities. WordPress as a CMS makes it easier for non-technical employees to add and edit content, and Delaware citizens benefit by having access to information that impacts their lives. When the pandemic hit, the Government Information Center built a WordPress website for COVID-19 information that the public could use to find the latest data, testing locations, child care, reopening guidelines, and other important information. Everything was built with non-technical users from the health and emergency management departments in mind, as they would be in charge of maintaining content that was constantly changing in an ever-evolving public health crisis. This talk is about how the team of designers and developers came together to quickly build a website that contributes to public health, reaches under-served communities, and helps keep Delawareans safe.
Andy Stitt has been in the “tech for good” space for the last 12 years. Spending most of his time in the non-profit world, he now works in state government as the lead front-end developer for the Government Information Center at the Delaware Department of State. He builds and manages WordPress websites for Delaware state government agencies and municipalities and is the lead developer for the state’s coronavirus information website.
You can learn more about him and his work at https://andystitt.me/.
David Dylan Thomas
Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil
Users’ minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they’re harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when they’re not? In this talk, David Dylan Thomas will use real-world examples to identify some particularly nasty biases that frequently lead users to make bad decisions. He’ll then talk about some content strategy and design choices you can use in apps, designs, and platforms to redirect or eliminate the impact of those biases. Finally, he’ll explore our own biases as designers and some methods to prevent our own blind spots from hurting users.
David Dylan Thomas, author of the book Design for Cognitive Bias from A Book Apart, serves as a content strategy advocate at Think Company and is the creator and host of the Cognitive Bias podcast. He has developed digital strategies for major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. He has presented at TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, Confab, LavaCon, UX Copenhagen, Artifact, the IA Conference, the Design and Content Conference, and the Wharton Web Conference on topics at the intersection of bias, design, and social justice.
Bianca Ross
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
Raven Brooks
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
Lizbeth Guadarrama
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
Kahliel Nichols
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
DJ (Leweldon) Wright
Code Differently: Learning WordPress
Code Differently promotes diversity by providing hands-on training and education to participants in order to give them the skills they need to excel in technology-driven workplaces. Our panelists are high school students who just completed a work-based learning program. They gained WordPress experience working in a real software development environment while sharpening their skills. William Jackson is moderating this panel.
William graduated from South Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in education and earned his master’s degree in teaching from Webster University with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM. William has worked as an internet and technology instructor at NASA, as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education, and as an instructor of Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM at Edward Waters College. William has spoken at many webinars discussing topics including cyberbullying, sexting, and social engagement. He and his fiance are the teachers for WP Jax Kids Meetup for youth, teens, and young adults.
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). People attending this session will learn the basic building blocks of performing a technical audit, including approaches for auditing different aspects of your site including custom code, theme and front-end functionality, back-end configuration and plugins, and accessibility. The session will also cover tools that can be used to run these tests and tips on what to watch for when managing a website over time.
AmyJune Hineline is the open-source community ambassador at Kanopi Studios. She helps people become more comfortable and confident as they contribute to their communities. She co-organizes various open-source camps and conventions throughout North America, empowering individuals to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. As a self-described non-coder, AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than coding.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with the challenges faced by many end-users. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup where they invite folks on every month to talk about all things accessibility – one of the core components of building an inclusive web.
Outside of her mission in the technology community space, she has a deep love for mycology, geocaching, and air-cooled Volkswagens.
Brandon Schmidt
Standing Out on Google with Structured Data
As Google continues to change and adjust the search results page, structured data has become a key way to influence these changes for your listing. Markup like FAQ, Q&A, How To, and other formats can be a great way to draw attention to your website, provide more information to the user, and push your competition further down the page.
Brandon is the director of digital strategy for YDOP, a digital marketing agency in Lancaster, Pa. At YDOP, Brandon focuses on content, SEO, and digital strategies that help businesses increase traffic, build trust, and grow their businesses online.
How to Add Google Analytics to Your WordPress Website with Google Tag Manager
Join Josh Gellock of Expander Digital for a step-by-step walkthrough of how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress website using Google Tag Manager. Learn about the benefits of this setup and how it can help your digital marketing efforts and website performance.
Josh is the SEO and content strategist at Expander Digital, an SEO studio he founded in 2014. He’s been in the SEO space since 2011, and helps businesses manage their SEO through projects, consultations, and campaigns. When he’s not meeting with clients, Josh can be found spending time with his children or on a bike.
Joan Logose
Why You Should Delete Most of the Plugins on Your Website
Improve you website’s speed by eliminating some of your plugins. In this session you will learn how to test your website’s speed with a few free options (Lighthouse and GTMetrix, for example) and then you will learn how to track down the causes of slowdowns and fix issues.
Joan has spent six years working with WordPress websites and doing web support for over 20 organizations from around the world. She also has three years of experience using Woo Commerce for setting up online shops. Joan was a speaker at WordCamp Kampala 2019, and has attended WordCamp Mombasa 2019 and WordCamp Santa Clarita 2020 online. She is also a participant in the Entebbe WordPress Meetup and other Ugandan WordPress community meetups.
Michelle is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and author who has been involved in the technology industry for more than 20 years. Michelle owns MetroNY, LLC, and conducts corporate seminars and training sessions covering digital marketing, social media strategy, and web technologies.
Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and runs AskCyberSecurity.com and PinTalk.net. Connect with Michelle on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram @metronycom, or on Twitter @metrony.
Michelle Held
Why You Should Delete Most of the Plugins on Your Website
Improve you website’s speed by eliminating some of your plugins. In this session you will learn how to test your website’s speed with a few free options (Lighthouse and GTMetrix, for example) and then you will learn how to track down the causes of slowdowns and fix issues.
Joan has spent six years working with WordPress websites and doing web support for over 20 organizations from around the world. She also has three years of experience using Woo Commerce for setting up online shops. Joan was a speaker at WordCamp Kampala 2019, and has attended WordCamp Mombasa 2019 and WordCamp Santa Clarita 2020 online. She is also a participant in the Entebbe WordPress Meetup and other Ugandan WordPress community meetups.
Michelle is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and author who has been involved in the technology industry for more than 20 years. Michelle owns MetroNY, LLC, and conducts corporate seminars and training sessions covering digital marketing, social media strategy, and web technologies.
Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and runs AskCyberSecurity.com and PinTalk.net. Connect with Michelle on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram @metronycom, or on Twitter @metrony.
Build Ecommerce Sites With Confidence (Demystifying Ecommerce)
Building an ecommerce store can be a daunting experience. Suddenly you’re not just working with content anymore. Now it’s taxes and shipping and customers that need to be kept happy. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be scary. The session will highlight a number of steps you can take to remove the uncertainty from building ecommerce websites so that you can move forward with confidence.
Topher DeRosia is the senior developer advocate at BigCommerce, where he works to enhance communication between BigCommerce and developers. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of which has been spent building out WordPress sites. In addition, Topher has extensive knowledge of WooCommerce development, helped make Easy Digital Downloads, and curates HeroPress.com. Fun fact: Topher is responsible for making the official International Space Station Windows95 desktop theme.
He currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife Cate and two daughters, Ema and Sophia. You can find Topher on Twitter (@topher1kenobe) talking about ecommerce, web development, general technology, and culture. He’s also a regular on the Make WordPress and Post Status Slack channels.
Joost de Valk
Growing a Multi-Million Dollar Business with a WordPress plugin
What started out as a hobby and a passion grew into a successful business. Joost de Valk built the WordPress SEO plugin mainly as a hobby. In his work as an SEO consultant, he saw what big companies did in order to improve their SEO. Joost was able to translate much of that in a WordPress-plugin. For years, Joost did not make any money with the plugin. And then the tide changed! Joost founded Yoast. The company grew into one of the biggest companies in the WordPress community. The journey towards such growth was like riding a rollercoaster. In this talk, Joost and Markeke will share the view from the rollercoaster. What were the highs and lows in growing the company? How did they grow their audience? How did they set up branding and marketing? Could they grow the same company outside of the WordPress ecosystem? And why is WordPress so immensely important to the company?
Joost de Valk is the founder of Yoast and currently the chief product officer. Joost has a background as an SEO expert, digital marketer and web developer. In the early days of his career, he worked at several IT companies, ranging from enterprise hosting to online marketing agencies. This allowed him to work with several large brands around the world.
In 2010 he founded Yoast, a company with a mission to allow as many people as possible to build a findable website.
Marieke studied sociology and communication sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and earned her doctorate in social sciences in 2011. Since the beginning of Yoast, she has been involved in the company. Since 2019, she has served as the CEO. Her main focus is on marketing, human resources, and company culture. But she also loves to think of ways to improve Yoast SEO. Her expertise is on SEO copywriting and site structure.
Marieke van de Rakt
Growing a Multi-Million Dollar Business with a WordPress plugin
What started out as a hobby and a passion grew into a successful business. Joost de Valk built the WordPress SEO plugin mainly as a hobby. In his work as an SEO consultant, he saw what big companies did in order to improve their SEO. Joost was able to translate much of that in a WordPress-plugin. For years, Joost did not make any money with the plugin. And then the tide changed! Joost founded Yoast. The company grew into one of the biggest companies in the WordPress community. The journey towards such growth was like riding a rollercoaster. In this talk, Joost and Markeke will share the view from the rollercoaster. What were the highs and lows in growing the company? How did they grow their audience? How did they set up branding and marketing? Could they grow the same company outside of the WordPress ecosystem? And why is WordPress so immensely important to the company?
Joost de Valk is the founder of Yoast and currently the chief product officer. Joost has a background as an SEO expert, digital marketer and web developer. In the early days of his career, he worked at several IT companies, ranging from enterprise hosting to online marketing agencies. This allowed him to work with several large brands around the world.
In 2010 he founded Yoast, a company with a mission to allow as many people as possible to build a findable website.
Marieke studied sociology and communication sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and earned her doctorate in social sciences in 2011. Since the beginning of Yoast, she has been involved in the company. Since 2019, she has served as the CEO. Her main focus is on marketing, human resources, and company culture. But she also loves to think of ways to improve Yoast SEO. Her expertise is on SEO copywriting and site structure.
Lindsay Grow
Betrayed by Design: Recognizing Exclusion to Create Inclusion
Up until what seems like ten minutes ago, the expression “going viral” had an entirely different meaning. Just as quickly, everyday life has been replaced with solidarity and routine change. As we move into an increasingly digital world -which seems an inevitability after this pandemic- our work will become more important than ever.
This talk will examine how product design directly affects people’s lives, and how living in these times of crisis have opened people’s eyes to changes needed in our products.
Recognizing dark patterns and exclusionary design is an important step toward creating the future we need – one that prioritizes inclusion and empathy. How can we generate constructive conflict in our organizations to build the future we need?
Lindsay Grow is an award-winning product and design leader. Currently, she works as lead product designer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she focuses on digital transformation and storytelling. Before that, she was the lead information architect at Comcast, designing the future of entertainment for cross-platform video applications.
Additionally, Lindsay worked as a design consultant in Philadelphia, where she helped to create human-centered enterprise business systems through research. Before creating products, Lindsay had a successful career in documentary film and video production.
David Vogelpohl
Rock your Blocks: Building Great Sites With the Block Editor
It’s been nearly two years since the block editor, Gutenberg, has been released in WordPress Core. What have you been building with the block editor? This session will cover the evolution of the block editor since the launch in Core, what’s coming in the block editor in 2020, and how you can use the block editor to scale your design and development innovation to build better sites faster. If you’ve been staring at the block editor and wondering how it can help your design & development workflows or how you operate your freelance or agency business, don’t miss this session.
David serves on the senior leadership team at WP Engine, where he leads WordPress strategy and the Genesis business unit within WP Engine. David is a digital veteran with more than 20 years of experience leading teams building, growing, and scaling digital businesses. David also owned and operated an advanced WordPress agency serving clients globally including marquee clients like WP Engine, Pioneer Electronics, and Esurance.
Remote Working: How to Make It Work for You
Many WordCamp attendees are remote employees and, thanks to COVID-19, many more have now tried it. Most will tell you how great remote working is and that it works incredibly well for a lot of businesses. But let’s be honest, it’s not for everyone. While several large companies have tried it and failed, in this talk, we’ll reveal what often gets forgotten: what a business needs to do to make it work. Further, how individuals can decide if remote work really is the future of working for them.
By day, David Artiss works as a support engineer and hiring lead on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. His nearly thirty years of experience in IT support roles has given him the chance to cultivate the art of truly taking care of people and writing so anyone can understand.
David has been active in the WordPress community for 12 years, first as a plugin author, then as a speaker and volunteer at various WordCamps, as well as contributing to core, support, documentation, translations, and WordPress.TV.
By night, David has performed in 18 musicals and concerts, so he is no stranger to the stage. He also writes for the straight-talking technology site The Big Tech Question. He lives in Nottingham, England, with his wife, two daughters, and a room full of Legos.
Jason McClintock
An Introduction to Design Systems
What’s a design system, and why should you use one? In this talk, you will learn the basics of design systems and why they matter. We will walk through real world examples of design systems, discover how to create a design system that fits your needs, and learn simple ways you can use WordPress to begin implementing a design system of your own.
Jason is a designer with experience ranging from non-profit to agency work. He is currently a product designer at DigitalCube, where he works to use design to make lives easier.
Guppy Tank: A WordPress Idea Pitch Panel
The WordPress community is, without a doubt, full of people with creative ideas for plugins, themes, tools for non-profit and for-profit businesses, and more. What many of these creative souls lack is a direction for guidance and mentorship. That’s where Guppy Tank comes in. It’s the kinder, gentler pitch panel. Meg and Michelle have invited members of the WordPress community to pitch their ideas to the judges. They selected three finalists who will appear at WordCamp Philly. They will receive feedback, and potentially win a mentorship with established WordPress companies for advice on designing, marketing, and developing their ideas.
Cheer on finalists Ben Townsend, Nikki Minkinow, and Wolf Bishop at this fun session.
Meg Phillips is a mom, marketer, and web developer. Before having children, Meg worked in apparel product development and was part of the team that launched the Soma Brand for Chico’s FAS. Since becoming a mom, Meg continues to work as a product developer focused on technology and marketing for start-up ideas. Most recently, the Covid-19 crisis inspired Meg to found SchoolListIt — what’s due and when for any school, anywhere. You can find Meg on Making WordPress Slack, Twitter, and Youtube with the handle @MegPhillips91.
Michelle has more than twenty years of experience in higher education and ten years owning a web design and marketing company. She currently serves as the head of customer success for Impress.org (developers of GiveWP.com and WPBusinessReviews.com). She is the podcast barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com. Michelle is the author of (ironically) “A Good Firm Handshake (and other essential business tips),” which is available on Amazon.com. Say hi to Michelle on Twitter at @michelleames and check out her website at worksbymichelle.com.
Meg Phillips
Guppy Tank: A WordPress Idea Pitch Panel
The WordPress community is, without a doubt, full of people with creative ideas for plugins, themes, tools for non-profit and for-profit businesses, and more. What many of these creative souls lack is a direction for guidance and mentorship. That’s where Guppy Tank comes in. It’s the kinder, gentler pitch panel. Meg and Michelle have invited members of the WordPress community to pitch their ideas to the judges. They selected three finalists who will appear at WordCamp Philly. They will receive feedback, and potentially win a mentorship with established WordPress companies for advice on designing, marketing, and developing their ideas.
Cheer on finalists Ben Townsend, Nikki Minkinow, and Wolf Bishop at this fun session.
Meg Phillips is a mom, marketer, and web developer. Before having children, Meg worked in apparel product development and was part of the team that launched the Soma Brand for Chico’s FAS. Since becoming a mom, Meg continues to work as a product developer focused on technology and marketing for start-up ideas. Most recently, the Covid-19 crisis inspired Meg to found SchoolListIt — what’s due and when for any school, anywhere. You can find Meg on Making WordPress Slack, Twitter, and Youtube with the handle @MegPhillips91.
Michelle has more than twenty years of experience in higher education and ten years owning a web design and marketing company. She currently serves as the head of customer success for Impress.org (developers of GiveWP.com and WPBusinessReviews.com). She is the podcast barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com. Michelle is the author of (ironically) “A Good Firm Handshake (and other essential business tips),” which is available on Amazon.com. Say hi to Michelle on Twitter at @michelleames and check out her website at worksbymichelle.com.
Jarrett Gucci
Lightning Round: The Basics
Site Health is a lesser-known addition to WordPress that was added in version 5.2. Many people see it as an annoyance, but this talk will walk you through the beauty of the centralized information it can give you and how you can make it even better by adding the Health Check and Troubleshooting plugin from the WordPress.org repository. Troubleshooting is a great way to rule out plugin conflicts that may be causing problems on your website.
With a background in education, it’s no wonder why Kim White has a passion for building community, teaching people, and managing websites. Her extensive career in web design working with graphic artists has impacted many in a positive way.
Kim loves the WordPress community and is a long-time organizer for the Lehigh Valley Meetups and WordCamps. She has also spoken about how to find good hosting, getting started with WordPress, and how to choose and manage images on your site.
When she’s not helping people solve support issues for Paid Memberships Pro, you can find Kim spending time with her children and her husband of 30-plus years, finding the best brews, and sharing photos of their cats on Instagram. Say hi to Kim at @MrsCRW and check out her blog at pixelpaper.net.
Don’t bury your head in the sand when it comes to protecting your website from bad stuff ever happening to you. Keeping your website safe and sound is a shared responsibility. In this presentation, Bud Kraus will share with you a common sense approach of practical you can can take to make your site more secure.
For more than 12 years, Bud Kraus has been teaching WordPress and developing sites for small businesses and organizations. He is the creator of two online courses where over 1000 people have learned WordPress the world over at no cost. His site projects include a wide variety of re-design work. He is very active in the WordPress communities in New York City and northern New Jersey.
Having a solid backup strategy can save your life in times of an extreme website crisis. No one wants to lose any of the hard work they have put into their site and why should you ever have to if you are backing things up.
Jarrett Gucci, also known in the WordPress support world as Quicksilver, has the superhuman ability to troubleshoot WordPress issues at great speeds. He is a mutant that was born in the darkest depths of open source with superhuman support powers. He is the product of a genetic experimentation with the goal of solving WordPress issues as fast as possible. Jarrett Gucci, Quicksilver is most commonly known as the owner and founder of WP Fix It where he and his superhero team have serviced over 232,000 WordPress issues since 2009.
Lightning Round: The Basics
Site Health is a lesser-known addition to WordPress that was added in version 5.2. Many people see it as an annoyance, but this talk will walk you through the beauty of the centralized information it can give you and how you can make it even better by adding the Health Check and Troubleshooting plugin from the WordPress.org repository. Troubleshooting is a great way to rule out plugin conflicts that may be causing problems on your website.
With a background in education, it’s no wonder why Kim White has a passion for building community, teaching people, and managing websites. Her extensive career in web design working with graphic artists has impacted many in a positive way.
Kim loves the WordPress community and is a long-time organizer for the Lehigh Valley Meetups and WordCamps. She has also spoken about how to find good hosting, getting started with WordPress, and how to choose and manage images on your site.
When she’s not helping people solve support issues for Paid Memberships Pro, you can find Kim spending time with her children and her husband of 30-plus years, finding the best brews, and sharing photos of their cats on Instagram. Say hi to Kim at @MrsCRW and check out her blog at pixelpaper.net.
Don’t bury your head in the sand when it comes to protecting your website from bad stuff ever happening to you. Keeping your website safe and sound is a shared responsibility. In this presentation, Bud Kraus will share with you a common sense approach of practical you can can take to make your site more secure.
For more than 12 years, Bud Kraus has been teaching WordPress and developing sites for small businesses and organizations. He is the creator of two online courses where over 1000 people have learned WordPress the world over at no cost. His site projects include a wide variety of re-design work. He is very active in the WordPress communities in New York City and northern New Jersey.
Having a solid backup strategy can save your life in times of an extreme website crisis. No one wants to lose any of the hard work they have put into their site and why should you ever have to if you are backing things up.
Jarrett Gucci, also known in the WordPress support world as Quicksilver, has the superhuman ability to troubleshoot WordPress issues at great speeds. He is a mutant that was born in the darkest depths of open source with superhuman support powers. He is the product of a genetic experimentation with the goal of solving WordPress issues as fast as possible. Jarrett Gucci, Quicksilver is most commonly known as the owner and founder of WP Fix It where he and his superhero team have serviced over 232,000 WordPress issues since 2009.
Lightning Round: The Basics
Site Health is a lesser-known addition to WordPress that was added in version 5.2. Many people see it as an annoyance, but this talk will walk you through the beauty of the centralized information it can give you and how you can make it even better by adding the Health Check and Troubleshooting plugin from the WordPress.org repository. Troubleshooting is a great way to rule out plugin conflicts that may be causing problems on your website.
With a background in education, it’s no wonder why Kim White has a passion for building community, teaching people, and managing websites. Her extensive career in web design working with graphic artists has impacted many in a positive way.
Kim loves the WordPress community and is a long-time organizer for the Lehigh Valley Meetups and WordCamps. She has also spoken about how to find good hosting, getting started with WordPress, and how to choose and manage images on your site.
When she’s not helping people solve support issues for Paid Memberships Pro, you can find Kim spending time with her children and her husband of 30-plus years, finding the best brews, and sharing photos of their cats on Instagram. Say hi to Kim at @MrsCRW and check out her blog at pixelpaper.net.
Don’t bury your head in the sand when it comes to protecting your website from bad stuff ever happening to you. Keeping your website safe and sound is a shared responsibility. In this presentation, Bud Kraus will share with you a common sense approach of practical you can can take to make your site more secure.
For more than 12 years, Bud Kraus has been teaching WordPress and developing sites for small businesses and organizations. He is the creator of two online courses where over 1000 people have learned WordPress the world over at no cost. His site projects include a wide variety of re-design work. He is very active in the WordPress communities in New York City and northern New Jersey.
Having a solid backup strategy can save your life in times of an extreme website crisis. No one wants to lose any of the hard work they have put into their site and why should you ever have to if you are backing things up.
Jarrett Gucci, also known in the WordPress support world as Quicksilver, has the superhuman ability to troubleshoot WordPress issues at great speeds. He is a mutant that was born in the darkest depths of open source with superhuman support powers. He is the product of a genetic experimentation with the goal of solving WordPress issues as fast as possible. Jarrett Gucci, Quicksilver is most commonly known as the owner and founder of WP Fix It where he and his superhero team have serviced over 232,000 WordPress issues since 2009.
Kerch McConlogue
Lightning Round: Developer Topics
Creating a consistent look across an organization can be hard when applications are written in multiple frameworks. This talk will cover how you can utilize web components in your WordPress application. By using web components you can standardize the look across properties in your organization.
Scott Wittrock is a product manager at Banno, a digital banking platform providing banking apps to local banks and credit unions. He is also a developer and entrepreneur launching many apps over his career. Most recently, he has been working launching a meal planning business to help nutritionists connect more with their clients. He’s been in Philadelphia for the last two years. When he’s not working, you’ll find him hiking or playing pickleball.
Some people call them design systems or pattern libraries. Either way they seem to be the province of designers and something that is just handed to developers. But what if you work more or less alone, having the job of both builder and designer, making decisions about design for clients all on your own, or your designer doesn’t supply enough information to easily test. A pattern library can stream-line your process by showing you and your clients a site-wide system of recurring or common design options: colors, fonts, buttons, testimonials, call outs, etc. Without including distracting content or navigation structure, it makes for easier approval of design elements.
Kerch McConlogue is a retired ADHD coach and frontend developer. She has been writing code by hand for 20 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get them past their fears of breaking the internet. A one-person shop building sites mainly for small to midsized businesses, she handles a lot of the design work.
WordPress has been a key part of the development of today’s web, but with the rise of the JAMstack, where does WordPress fit in? This talk will cover about how WordPress compares to the headless options available today and how WordPress is still one of the more powerful solutions available for a great CMS experience.
Colby Fayock is a lead front end engineer and UX designer at Element 84 in Alexandria, Virginia. He’s passionate about tackling challenges that can help save people’s lives and make the world a better place. Some of the projects Colby and his team have worked on include NASA and commercial satellite mapping interfaces, video streaming on multiple platforms, and helping first responders with disaster response solutions.
Scott Wittrock
Lightning Round: Developer Topics
Creating a consistent look across an organization can be hard when applications are written in multiple frameworks. This talk will cover how you can utilize web components in your WordPress application. By using web components you can standardize the look across properties in your organization.
Scott Wittrock is a product manager at Banno, a digital banking platform providing banking apps to local banks and credit unions. He is also a developer and entrepreneur launching many apps over his career. Most recently, he has been working launching a meal planning business to help nutritionists connect more with their clients. He’s been in Philadelphia for the last two years. When he’s not working, you’ll find him hiking or playing pickleball.
Some people call them design systems or pattern libraries. Either way they seem to be the province of designers and something that is just handed to developers. But what if you work more or less alone, having the job of both builder and designer, making decisions about design for clients all on your own, or your designer doesn’t supply enough information to easily test. A pattern library can stream-line your process by showing you and your clients a site-wide system of recurring or common design options: colors, fonts, buttons, testimonials, call outs, etc. Without including distracting content or navigation structure, it makes for easier approval of design elements.
Kerch McConlogue is a retired ADHD coach and frontend developer. She has been writing code by hand for 20 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get them past their fears of breaking the internet. A one-person shop building sites mainly for small to midsized businesses, she handles a lot of the design work.
WordPress has been a key part of the development of today’s web, but with the rise of the JAMstack, where does WordPress fit in? This talk will cover about how WordPress compares to the headless options available today and how WordPress is still one of the more powerful solutions available for a great CMS experience.
Colby Fayock is a lead front end engineer and UX designer at Element 84 in Alexandria, Virginia. He’s passionate about tackling challenges that can help save people’s lives and make the world a better place. Some of the projects Colby and his team have worked on include NASA and commercial satellite mapping interfaces, video streaming on multiple platforms, and helping first responders with disaster response solutions.
Colby Fayock
Lightning Round: Developer Topics
Creating a consistent look across an organization can be hard when applications are written in multiple frameworks. This talk will cover how you can utilize web components in your WordPress application. By using web components you can standardize the look across properties in your organization.
Scott Wittrock is a product manager at Banno, a digital banking platform providing banking apps to local banks and credit unions. He is also a developer and entrepreneur launching many apps over his career. Most recently, he has been working launching a meal planning business to help nutritionists connect more with their clients. He’s been in Philadelphia for the last two years. When he’s not working, you’ll find him hiking or playing pickleball.
Some people call them design systems or pattern libraries. Either way they seem to be the province of designers and something that is just handed to developers. But what if you work more or less alone, having the job of both builder and designer, making decisions about design for clients all on your own, or your designer doesn’t supply enough information to easily test. A pattern library can stream-line your process by showing you and your clients a site-wide system of recurring or common design options: colors, fonts, buttons, testimonials, call outs, etc. Without including distracting content or navigation structure, it makes for easier approval of design elements.
Kerch McConlogue is a retired ADHD coach and frontend developer. She has been writing code by hand for 20 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get them past their fears of breaking the internet. A one-person shop building sites mainly for small to midsized businesses, she handles a lot of the design work.
WordPress has been a key part of the development of today’s web, but with the rise of the JAMstack, where does WordPress fit in? This talk will cover about how WordPress compares to the headless options available today and how WordPress is still one of the more powerful solutions available for a great CMS experience.
Colby Fayock is a lead front end engineer and UX designer at Element 84 in Alexandria, Virginia. He’s passionate about tackling challenges that can help save people’s lives and make the world a better place. Some of the projects Colby and his team have worked on include NASA and commercial satellite mapping interfaces, video streaming on multiple platforms, and helping first responders with disaster response solutions.
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In 2020 we will host the 9th WordCamp Philly. We have been in many locations over the years, from Temple University to the University of the Arts, to the University of the Sciences, to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. This year, you can join us from the comfort of your living room.
WordCamp Philly will feature more than just traditional talks and slides. We are anticipating an online celebratory event with panel discussions, how-to learning opportunities, presentations, a virtual assistance Happiness Bar, interactive sponsor rooms, networking opportunities, job boards, and more.
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