WordPress is for all ages – get excited for Kids Camp!

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This year the second day of WordCamp is our community day. One of the sessions we’re proud to bring is our Kids Camp. WordCamp attendees are encouraged to bring the young people in their lives to learn about WordPress and publishing on the web. We’ll spend the morning covering the basics of WordPress, free and open source software, copyright, and what it means to be public on the web.

We’ll end the morning with lunch  and our community day keynote!

It will be a relaxed affair. Come as you are, but be sure to bring a laptop! For more information check out the Kids Camp session on the schedule and get your tickets today! (Note, only one adult ticket is needed if you’re bringing multiple kids. Sweet!)

WordCamp St. Louis Speakers Announced: Round 1

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We’re happy to announce our 1st round of speakers for WordCamp St. Louis.

Please welcome our first 10! We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can follow them.

If you’d like to learn more about each of our speakers, you can find them on our WordCamp St. Louis Speakers page.

Please stay tune to further speaker announcements. We’ve got a lot of news to roll out, including our Keynote speakers!

Also, don’t miss out on WordCamp St. Louis. Get your ticket today!

 

WordCamp St. Louis #ThrowBackThursday

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WordCamp St. Louis 2016 is the 5th year that our local WordPress community has organized. It’s a small milestone, so we’re celebrating. This year we decided to have a “Throw back Thursday” blog series, or most commonly seen on social media as #ThrowBackThursday. This is a series that will be every Thursday where you, the WordPress community can submit past photos of WordCamp St. Louis experiences.

You can submit a link to your picture(s) through our contact form and we’ll see about adding some to future posts. Have fun and yes, we even would like to see those zany pictures with your friends that you took during the event.

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Speaker Submissions Extended- Due April 1st

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You read that title right! We realized, since we set our deadline the day after Easter, and after some emails from people we’ve reached out to, that they were either on a short vacation, or out of town. We decided to extend the speaker submission deadline to April 1, 2016, at 11:59PM U.S. Central Standard Time.

You can submit your speaker proposal at:

https://2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org/2016/03/08/do-you-speak-wordpress-come-speak-at-wordcamp-st-louis/

We’ve received quite a few talks. However, for those of you who need some guidance on some topics we’d love to see, here’s some ideas:

  • How bloggers can make money with WordPress: This could be a case study on what has worked for you.
  • Client management and WordPress: WordPress tools and advice on managing clientele.
  • Local SEO: What you can do to have your site ranked favorably on the search engines, more specifically, your local community
  • Google Analytics and WordPress: Understand Google Analytics, and some tips for using GA that will help you.
  • Better theme or plugin development
  • Learning JavaScript more deeply
  • e-Commerce for WordPress (or even WooCommerce)
  • Securing your WordPress website (beginner and advanced)
  • Accessibility

These are but a few of many topics. The St. Louis WordPress community is quite diverse and we have a wide range of interests. If the our topic that you want to submit is different, please consider sending your proposal in. Once we have closed the submissions on April 1st, we will take a week to review.

We really appreciate everyone who has already submitted their speaker proposals.

As a last note, if you are having trouble realizing your topic, don’t worry. If your submission is accepted, you will be able to tweak your talk title and refine your talk’s description.We look forward to seeing what you’d like to share with the St. Louis WordPress community. Again, the final deadline is April 1, 2016, at 11:59PM U.S. Central Standard Time.

If you don’t plan to speak, but are in town May 14 and 15, 2016, don’t forget to buy your WordCamp St. Louis ticket.

P.S. – The date will not change, so we won’t play an April Fool joke on you. We promise!

Tickets are now Available for WordCamp St. Louis 2016!

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Tickets are now available for WordCamp St. Louis 2016.

WordCamp St. Louis 2016 will be held May 14-15 at Washington University. Tickets are $30 and cover both days. The first day will be filled with two tracks (Developer/User). The second day is our Community Day where we’ll give folks an opportunity to learn about how they can give back to the St. Louis and WordPress community. Tickets include a spiffy t-shirt, lunch, and attendance to the after party.

We have some great speakers submissions this year. Attractive, eloquent, funny, knowledgeable, and smart folks from across the St. Louis community will be joined by WordPressers from various corners of the globe to bring you the best WordCamp in St. Louis.

The goals of any WordCamp – but you know, ours especially – is to bring together great people and foster a community where everyone is free to learn and share. Any WordPresser – blogger, designer, developer, small business owner, writer – is welcome. We know you’ll have a great time.

Get your tickets while they last. We had over 300 attendees last year and sold out a week in advance. This year we anticipate the same!

If you can’t make it, but still want to support WordCamp in St. Louis, there are still sponsorship opportunities available!

(Speakers, Sponsors, and Volunteers – look for communication from the organizers on your tickets in the near future.)

 

 

Call for Sponsors

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The St. Louis WordPress community has a wonderful community that reaches all user, designer, and developer levels. With WordPress powering over 25% of the websites on the Internet today, you probably know a lot of businesses that use WordPress.

WordCamp St. Louis is an event that allows all walks of business owners and WordPress users to connect. If you’re local-based, this is even better as a lot of people love buying locally if a service is available to them.

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Do you speak WordPress? Come speak at WordCamp St. Louis!

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Submission deadline: April 1, 2016

Do you work with WordPress?

Are you a developer, designer, blogger, journalist, activist?
Do you run your business on WordPress?
Are you in or from the St. Louis metro? Are you part of Cardinal Nation?
Has WordPress changed your life? (That can happen.)

Whatever your story, we’d like to hear it.

Whatever your tips, tricks or techniques, we’d like to learn them. And why you prefer them to other techniques, methods or whatever. Why do you think something is a best practice? Why should it be?

In return, you’ll get the undying gratitude of the STL WordPress community; your talk on WordPress.tv (maybe); some awesome culinary concoctions at the Speakers’ dinner and all the smooth Kaldi’s coffee you can drink on site.

Are you in?

Just fill out the form below by April 1. We’ll be back to you within two weeks!

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times – once for each topic.

Please note:

Your talk should educate or enlighten the community, or both, way more than it promotes your products or company.

It should also embody the values of WordPress.

That means:

We are inclusive and welcoming, and positive. Recommend one solution over another? Perfectly fine. Just frame your recommendations as, “I’ve found that with X I could do this faster, make it prettier, whatever … Y had/has these limitations … (not Y was bad or wrong.)

And we do have a code of conduct. In short: Be kind.

We are all about the GPL. We probably all use tools that aren’t GPL. (Photoshop, for instance.) When we speak at WordCamps, the themes and plugins we recommend from the stage need to explicitly embrace the GPL. Questions? Ask!

SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED…if you submitted a proposal, look for an email from the speaker selection committee next week.

Welcome to WordCamp St. Louis 2016

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We’re happy to announce that WordCamp St. Louis is officially on the calendar!

WordCamp St. Louis will be May 14th and 15th at Washington University.

Subscribe using the form in the sidebar to stay up to date on the most recent news. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the details over the coming months, including speaker submissions, ticket sales and more!