WordCamp St. Louis

Danielle’s presentation: 101 Ways To Promote Your WordPress Baby in the Real World

How many years have you used WordPress? 2

I look forward to speaking because: if my students can do this, everyone can!

Favorite WordPress Project: BPP401k.com

In the future, I see WordPress being used for Everything. I have my students using it for their blog project.

WordPress has changed the way I Manage content.

Best real-life camping story: We tried to cook Boy Scout corn on the cob and wound up with with charcoal.

See Danielle & other great WordPressers at WordCamp STL 2012

Peter’s presentation: WP + eCommerce

How many years have you used WordPress? 6

I look forward to speaking because: I’m passionate about helping purpose-driven businesses make more money.

Favorite WordPress Project: The one I’m working on…. (thanks for sharing Peter, ha!)

In the future, I see WordPress being used for App development

WordPress has changed the way I…make pasta. (sorry, kept drawing a blank on this one).

Best real-life camping story: I was in the CO mountains peaking a 14,000 footer and decided to lug along several cans of Campbells soup during the 5 day expedition, much to my fellow hikers disliking… Let’s just say that by day 4 I was the only one not eating stale bagels 🙂

See Peter & other great WordPressers at WordCamp STL 2012

Learn more about Peter on his site
Follow Peter on Twitter – @peterking
Friend Peter on Facebook

Ron’s presentation: Wordpress UX Design Solutions

How many years have you used WordPress? 3

I look forward to speaking because: I’m passionate about UX and Wordpress is one of those great tools that can make our (the business, designers, developers and users) lives easier. I believe if we build a website (or anything) it needs to meet the needs of the potential users and the business strategy needs.  I look forward to sharing how to accomplish just that from a UX perspective.

Favorite WordPress Project: I really have enjoyed all of them. My favorite part of any project is helping my clients understand how to present user facing and administration parts of their WordPress website.  Again, its all about merging the business needs and user needs.

In the future, I see WordPress being used for enterprise solutions. I would like for corporations to adopt more open source solutions like WordPress.

WordPress has changed the way I think about building websites. I can build a website with anything, but WordPress gets it started faster.

Best real-life camping story: I was on my way back from Colorado and decided to set up camp in south Kansas.  In the middle of the night, I woke up to what sounded like a pack of coyotes. I wasn’t interested in introducing any new meat into the circle of life, so I slept the rest of the night in my car.

See Ron & other great WordPressers at WordCamp STL 2012

Follow Ron on twitter @RonStrawbridge

Eric’s presentation: How to Use Multisite

How many years have you used WordPress? 4

I look forward to speaking because: not many people are familiar with WordPress Multisite and it’s uses.

Favorite WordPress Project: setting up WordPress as a CMS for Maryville University. I learned a lot along the way about WordPress and using hooks & filters in WordPress.

In the future, I see WordPress being used for powering an entire company’s online presence: website, CRM, project management, etc

WordPress has changed the way I look at my development projects. The first question I ask is, “Can it be done with WordPress?”

Best real-life camping story: Hiking for 10 days through the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico with some of my fellow Scouters at Philmont. We hiked somewhere in the neighborhood of 90-100 miles. We got to climb up Mt. Baldy and the Tooth of Time. I can also remember going through a section of the trail that had been burned from a forest fire.

See Eric & other great WordPressers at WordCamp STL 2012

Learn more about Eric on his site
Follow Eric on twitter @ericjuden

Randy’s presentation: Hooks & Filters

How many years have you used WordPress? 4.5

I look forward to speaking because: hooks & filters make it possible to manipulate WordPress Core, Themes & Plugins. Once you grasp the concepts (of hooks and filters) you really can make WordPress do anything!

Favorite WordPress Project: My core theme. I’ve been working on it since 2008 and it’s finally starting to become a fairly decent framework. Though I will admit it has a long way to go!

In the future, I see WordPress being used for a code library, a CMS, & yet it will always be able to hold just a simple website.

WordPress has changed the way I interact with clients. Now I can hand off the site & don’t have to worry about mundane updates that in the past only a developer could do.

Best real-life camping story: My friends and I almost started a forest fire. In the dry heat of Northern California it was not a good thing. It took us almost 24hrs of hiking water from the lake to keep the secondary fires out while the main died down! Lesson learned :p

See Randy & other great WordPressers at WordCamp STL 2012

Learn more about Randy on his site
Follow Randy on twitter @vc27
Friend Randy

Casara’s presentation:  Design Envy – The Possibilities of WordPress

How many years have you used WordPress?  3

I look forward to speaking because: I hope to inspire people and show them how a WordPress site can actually look nothing like WordPress

Favorite WordPress Project: I’m currently working on a site for the American Board for Optometry. I’m excited about it because we’re developing it as a gateway for optometrists that has lots of extra functionality added in.

In the future, I see WordPress being used for every website that needs content management

WordPress has changed the way I approach a web development pitch

Best real-life camping story: When I was 12, we had a huge mud fight while hiking and then went back to camp as mud monsters!

See Casara & other great WordPressers at WordCamp  STL 2012

Learn more about Casara’s company Marketicity
Follow Casara on twitter @CasaraHeat

We are happy to present the official 2012 WordCamp schedule!

Our local community of amazing WordPressers has assembled over 21 (soon to be 25) topics and speakers that were voted on as the BEST for our 2nd annual WordCamp.

We have 4 tracks:

1. Content: you get out what you put in – a collection of topics that will help you use WordPress as the best vehicle for [insert your new online idea here]
2. Design: mmm, make it look goooood – create a better user experience & learn how to make people say “Wow! That’s a WordPress site?”
3. Development: get under the hood & get dirty – a great collection of speakers who know their way around the codex!
4. Campfire: e’erbody gather ’round! – great topics that everyone should learn about. Feel free to bring marshmallows, but unfortunately safety regulations won’t let us have a real fire 🙁

There are officially only 38 days left to purchase tickets!

Stay tuned for more info & further tweaks & additions to the schedule. If there is something you don’t see that you would like to learn, please comment below or email us at wordcamp@wpstl.org

It’s here! Yes we finally have the new date for WordCamp St. Louis 2012. Special thanks to Eric Juden and Maryville University for securing space for us on their campus.

Be sure to get your tickets! We have a full line up of speakers and topics that we will be announcing this week. Tickets will go fast.

OK, WordPressers,

The time has come to make a bittersweet announcement. Due to unforseen circumstances (let’s call it popular demand), the date of WordCamp 2012 is being moved!

Originally planned for July 28th, we are pushing the date back to later in September (formal announcement to be made on Monday)

What this means for you:

• more time to work on your costume (not really…. but you could)
• more time to convince your family and friends to go WordCamping with you
• one free Saturday this month!
• ultimately an awesomer time
  • More Sessions
  • Better Swag
  • Cooler Weather

We’re sorry if this upsets any plans. Stay tuned to this station for updates and details.

We have had a ton of new developments for this years WordCamp… including WordPress Swag showing up at the office!

In the past couple days we’ve had 6 new speakers register on some awesome topics including:

• Custom Post Types
• How to modify your theme for mobile
• WordPress: Blog to Engineering Platform
• WordPress for Business
• Plugins
• Social Media
• SEO
• Many more!

Details and Speaker announcements to come!

Tickets are only $20 for:

• a full day of workshops, demonstrations, presentations & forums
• lunch
• an awesome T-shirt!
• a day of meeting other WordPress users/designers/developers (who know a ton!)