WordPress, with it’s easy to maintain platform, strong community focus, and widespread adoption makes it the premier tool to reach an internet audience promoting your non-profit. Spend your time growing your non-profit and less time managing your web presence by utilizing WordPress.
With numerous plugins to extend the functionality of WordPress, your website becomes more than information. We’ll discuss some of the top plugins to use, and how get the most from WordPress.
Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site.
Join St. Louis raconteur and man-about-town Bob Barker as he shows us all the ways WordPress can help you run a small startup (is there any other kind?) – for building an audience, handling receipts, managing customer service on social media and more.
… And watch your organization reap the rewards.
Search algorithms change. Social networks evolve – and sometimes fizzle away.
One thing that isn’t going anywhere is the consumer’s need for relevant, educational, compelling and helpful information. The brands that feed this need – in the most relevant manner – will have the most customers, advocates and will make the most money!
This interactive session – led by Internet Marketing Association Master Storyteller and Executive Council Member Christoph Trappe – shares how you’ll steer your marketing projects toward digital excellence by sharing authentic stories that align consumers with your business goals. And help your organization stay relevant with today’s and tomorrow’s connected consumers.
Come discover new, more effective ways to:
- Define content goals that will drive consumer action
- Get buy-in from the people in your organization who can drive the process forward – or stop it cold
- Shape your message authentically – to ring true with today’s ever-more-jaded customers
- Measure the results that matter most to your organization’s top performance priorities
Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site.
WooCommerce is now the world’s most popular open source eCommerce platform. With over 5 million downloads, WooCommerce powers over 380k websites and over 17% of all eCommerce websites.
Michael Cremean is the Founder and CEO of Quadshot Software has deployed many WordPress eCommerce websites using WooCommerce. Quadshot also developed an open source online ticket sales platform built on WooCommerce called OpenTickets, which is one example of how customizable the platform is.
This presentation will cover:
- WooCommerce Overview
- Installation, Setup and Configuration
- Setting up Products – Physical, Digital Downloads and Virtual
- Products with Variations
- Orders and Reports
- WooCommerce Extensions – how to use them
- Extending WooCommerce
Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s site.
The best WordPress site is an updated WordPress site. Learn about why you should update your site without the headache. I’ll talk about ways to prevent problems when updating and share some best practices on site updates.
Presentation slides can be found on the speaker’s Slideshare.
What’s the first step you take when setting up a new WordPress site?
You should grab a Jetpack!
Jetpack is a suite of tools designed to enhance WordPress with some of the features and power of WordPress.com, all delivered for the price of absolutely free.
This session will discuss the Jetpack plugin for WordPress, what it does, and why Jetpack should be in your default plugin arsenal when configuring new WordPress sites.
Cain & Obenland in the morning! – a morning show-style WordCamp talk with three segments: two that will cover any number of WordPress topics – current WP happenings, theming, design, development, best practices, worst practices, future trends, you name it – and a special guest interview with a big name from the WordPress world.