WCRI 2017 is on WordPress.TV

WordPress TV has recordings of the sessions from our 2017 WordCamp Rhode Island.

Here are the links.  Keep checking back for more videos!

Also, follow us on Twitter @WordCampRI to get details on #WCRI 2018 when they become available.

Friday September 22, 2017

9 a.m.

5 Steps to Personal and Website Security
Adam Warner

Mindfulness: “The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.” Security can seem intimidating and complex for many, but we shouldn’t (can’t) let that stop us from doing everything possible to secure our WordPress sites and ourselves. After all, our websites are often part of our livelihood.
In this session Adam Warner addresses the “big picture” of personal and website security and breaks down the fundamental tasks needed for a strong security plan online. He provides an actionable checklist on what audience members can implement immediately to better secure themselves online in addition to their WordPress websites.
After attending this session, audience members will have a better understanding of personal security online and how it affects website security as a whole, as well as steps they can take to mitigate risk in the future.

Getting Started with WordPress.com
Lydia Rogers

WordPress.COM (as opposed to WordPress.ORG) is for those who want to concentrate on their blog or website and not worry about maintenance and security updates. This workshop is led by Lydia Rogers to get started on your website or blog.

Information from the session can also be found at:
MyHow2Web.WordPress.com

10 a.m.

Maintain Your Theme’s Styles, Future You Will Thank You
Maxwell Morgan

A problem that gets out of hand easily, and is hard to come back from once you’ve gone too far, is CSS bloat. Max shows the importance keeping CSS bloat to a minimum, the benefits of using a CSS preprocessor, and the best-practices to avoid bloat in the future. While all of this may cause small delays in the present, it will help you immensely in the future and inevitably you will thank past-you for keeping things tidy and clear.

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: All (beginner, intermediate, advanced)

Presentation slides:

http://slides.com/maxinacube/wcri-2017

1 p.m.

Keynote – The Big Fail: Breaking Down the 4th Wall of Agency Life
Aaron Ware

In this interactive experience Aaron explores honesty in agency life. Too often in the agency world and society, we have an unwillingness to put ourselves in a state of vulnerability to our clients and our peers.
Adversity is what drives us to be better, to problem solve and to grow in all aspects of our lives. Nothing in life is perfect and even with extreme planning there are still curveballs thrown our way.
Aaron will be sharing his insights, missteps and lessons learned from nearly 20 years of agency experience, including his 10+ years running Linchpin: a WordPress focused digital agency. He will be encouraging interaction with attendees along the way, providing audience members with the ability to anonymously participate in sharing #fails and #wins on Twitter and/or the WordPress RI Website.

Presentation slides:

https://slides.com/aaronware/wcri

2 p.m.

Moving Beyond the Customizer
Ajay Coletta

So you made changes to your WordPress theme using the built-in Customizer, but you would like the ability to make more changes to the look & feel of your theme, well this session is for you.
I will discuss the benefits of creating & modifying Child themes and show you how you can easily inspect and modify the css styles that control the bulk of overall design.
And if you want to dig deeper into theme customization, I will discuss the benefits of starter/foundational themes like Genesis.

Presentation slides:
goo.gl/WY2XbH

Creating a Powerful Personal Brand for Connection, Communication & Success
Laura Willis

Are you ready to take your next step? Do you want to have a competitive edge? Do you want to do more work that you love and have more success while doing it?
Learn how uncovering your personal brand can have a direct impact on getting more of what you want; it’s a combination of art and science.
In this interactive, hands-on workshop with Laura Willis you’ll learn:
What a personal brand is and why it’s important
Why passion is critical and contagious
Who your “target audience” is and the value you bring to them
Identify how you “show up” and the perception you create
Understand the science and power of connection and how it works
Where it fits into all of your communications
When you uncover your authentic personal brand, you get clearer about the vision you have for your life, how you want to live it and achieve it.

Slides
Worksheet Handout

3:00 p.m
Extending and Building Upon the WordPress REST API
Timothy Jacobs

WordPress 4.7 introduced the content endpoints for the REST API. This grants access to built in content like posts, pages and categories. However, the power in WordPress often lies in plugins and custom content.
In this talk Timothy Jacobs explores how you can extend the WordPress REST API to access custom post types, custom taxonomies, metadata and custom fields. He’ll also touch on building completely custom endpoints using the built-in framework introduced in WordPress 4.7.

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Beginner developer with some experience with CPTs (custom post types) and meta boxes

Presentation slides:

https://timothybjacobs.com/wcri/

3:30 p.m.
WordPress into a Single Page Application (SPA)
Tyler Smith, Zack Cote, Jennifer Shaheen

Join the development team of Technology Therapy, along with President Jennifer Shaheen for an advanced workshop where participants will learn how to turn their WordPress site into a fast and user-friendly Single Page Application using modern tooling and principles.
Topics to be discussed:

  • Integrating Vue.js
  • Creating custom endpoints for the WordPress Rest API
  • Live updating content: posts, comments, and notifications

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Advanced

4 p.m.

Woo for You: Customizing WooCommerce
Gary Thayer

WooCommerce now powers over 30% of all online stores, both big and small. While the basic WooCommerce package covers a lot of needs, business use cases often require special attention. This talk with Gary Thayer will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce.
He’ll talk about:

  • Building a streamline customer service experience for your business
  • Keeping template files up to date
  • Useful actions and filters
  • Custom solutions for unique eCommerce situations

Information from the session can also be found at:

Presentation

Saturday September 23, 2017

9 a.m.

So Many Plugins – So Little Time
Reiko Beach

For someone new to WordPress choosing the right plugin can be overwhelming and frustrating. In this session Reiko Beach will go over some simple tips to help make your selection process easier, highlighting popular plugins.

Information from the session can also be found at:  https://www.slideshare.net/reiko659/so-manypluginsri2017

10 a.m.

Developing WordPress Plugins Using the MVC Methodology
Nate Allen

MVC, which stands for Model-View-Controller, is a popular methodology used by modern PHP frameworks to separate the presentation (HTML) from the data and logic of an application. In this talk you’ll learn how to write plugins “the MVC way” while still doing things “the WordPress way.”

Intended Audience Type: Developer
Intended Audience Experience: Advanced

Presentation slides:

Presentation

What’s Your Data Story?
Jennifer Shaheen

Every time a visitor comes to your website or views your social media content, they’re telling you what they think about your business, products you’re selling and content you’re sharing. This information doesn’t show up in the comment section! Valuable insights are waiting for you in your website and social media analytics.
Key Takeaways:

  • Data reveals what products and messaging attracts customer attention.
  • Learn how to discern your visitors unique path to purchase, including any stumbling blocks that may be slowing your sales.
  • Learn how to identify data duplication and other common system configuration errors that compromise the validity of analytic data.

Intended Audience Type: Marketers, Content Managers
Intended Audience Experience: Beginner to Intermediate
Attendees should know the basics of Google analytics and metrics.

Presentation

11 a.m.

WordPress Transients: A Technical Guide to a Powerful API
Ryan Kanner

There’s a simple yet powerful API within WordPress to help developers cache all sorts of data, and in turn speed up load times. Transients are often misunderstood by developers and their powerful abilities can sometimes be misused.
In this session Ryan Kanner will uncover the inner workings of the Transient API, and learn how to properly leverage it’s abilities.

Information from the session can also be found at: http://slides.com/codeprokid/wcri17#/

Don’t Just Design and Build a Death Star, Maintain It Too
Matthew Clancy

So you have your WordPress site up and running and it’s awesome. But what’s next? Don’t let those pesky Rebels destroy your new site.
Come learn about what you can do to keep your WordPress site in good working order after it is completed with Matthew Clancy.

Presentation Slides:

Presentation

1 p.m.

Doubling Your WordPress Site Conversions
Tom Shapiro

After investing so much time, effort, and resources in developing your WordPress website and marketing your brand, it can be frustrating if you are not achieving a high number of conversions on your website. Tom Shapiro will walk you through effective techniques to get more of your site visitors converting. Some of the techniques will focus on behavior-based data gleaned from heat maps, scroll maps, and A/B testing, while others will focus on messaging, neuromarketing, and human psychology, while yet others will focus on color, design, and UX (user experience) elements. Whether you are looking to sell more on your website, increase leads, promote an upcoming event, build your email list, or drive site visitors to another type of conversion event, you’ll walk away from this session with highly specific methods for increasing your website’s conversion rates.

Intended Audience Type: Designer, Marketer
Intended Audience Experience: Intermediate to Advanced

Presentation slides:
Presentation

A More Humanized Web Design Process for the Client
Cara Nelson


Is your initial client discovery meeting generating bad ideas around your client’s organizational want and needs? Not focusing on the end user? Wouldn’t it be great to have more enthusiasm, more positive energy, more expertise, and more magic during your first client meeting?
My approach builds human-centered design and user experience into your design process. You’ll know your client before your first session, understand their industry and know who their customers are. I teach human-centered design as a creative approach to problem solving that unleashes creativity to put people at the center of the design process. Treating your client like a human refuels your web design process with better relationships and you emerge as a team from the beginning.
Presentation Slides:
Presentation

2:30 p.m.

Beyond the Blog: WordPress as a Comprehensive CMS for Media Organizations
Stephen Tiszenkel

Fourteen years after WordPress’ initial release, the platform is widely adopted and well-respected by major media organizations. Yet many industry leaders still view it exclusively as blogging software.
In this talk, Stephen Tiszenkel explores why this idea persists and how to overcome it. He’ll take a comprehensive look at some of the tools you can use to meet all the needs of a progressive, digitally savvy, growth-minded multimedia publisher.

Intended Audience Type: Developers, Content Managers, Executives
Intended Audience Experience: All levels of experience

Presentation slides:

Beyond the Blog (4 MB PDF)

Little Things Make a Big Difference
Michelle Ames

So you can build a technically wonderful website, but does it appeal to your audience? Does it have finesse?
Who is it designed for: the owner, the designer/developer, or the customer/user? Are forms user-friendly?
This talk will show you the things that make a website more complete, user-friendly, and user-appealing. Topics will include favicons, custom 404 pages, form buttons, footers, colors, SSL certificates, and more.

Intended Audience Type: Beginner and Up (it’s marketing-oriented)
Intended Audience Experience: Any Level

Information from the session can also be found at:  Presentation

3:30 p.m.
Marketing Experts Panel with Live Questions & Website Reviews   Laura Willis, Jennifer Shaheen, Michelle Ames, Tom Shapiro

This marketing panel isn’t your ordinary Q&A session. We extended the time of this panel so our panel of expert marketers had the opportunity to share some of their greatest success stories, experiences and strategies. We also took a deep dive into those times when things go wrong, and how to recover from them.
We did a live website analysis on the screen, giving detailed feedback from some of the top WordPress marketers in the area.

A Thank You from Joy Adamonis

A Thank You from Joy Adamonis, WordCamp RI 2017 (#WCRI) Lead Organizer

Stickers from WordCamp RI 2017
Stickers from WordCamp RI 2017

WordCamp RI 2017 is in the books! Even though we didn’t reach last year’s attendance numbers (we missed only by a small margin), we had a higher percentage of actual attendees purchase tickets. This was a goal we had and we crushed it! I guess our attendees know that while we might hail from the smallest state, we are the mightiest and the most fun! I know if we didn’t change dates and have the event fall on a holiday, we would have crushed the attendance goal too! Next year- WE GOT THIS!

 

Speakers at WordCamp RI 2017This year we had the largest amount of speaker applications. That’s because everyone wants to get in on the speaker action in RI, am I right? Pair that with the new blind submission process and it was a task to fill our schedule. From the feedback at the event and the small amount of survey responses thus far, I am pleased to say that the speakers this year really hit it out of the park!

 

Volunteers at registration table at WordCamp RI 2017
Volunteers at registration table at WordCamp RI 2017

Volunteers YOU ROCK! Each and every volunteer showed up willing and ready to work! The volunteers really made the organizers’ jobs look easy. It goes without saying, that without volunteers who are willing to help we cannot successfully run a WordCamp.

 

 

 

T-shirts from WordCamp RI 2017
T-shirts from WordCamp RI 2017

 

 

Shirts, Shirts, Shirts! What can I say about the shirts? T-shirts made their return to the WordCamp RI swag table and attendees were nothing short of thrilled! We listened and gave you what you wanted! We aim to please. I have a feeling t-shirts are the swag of choice in RI and won’t be going away anytime soon.

 

Selfie wall at Welcome Soiree, WordCamp RI 2017
Selfie wall photo booth at Welcome Soiree, WordCamp RI 2017

The Welcome Soiree was a new addition to the lineup this year, as we have always done our networking party on the last day. The party was a success. The food was delicious, the drinks plentiful and the company top notch! The trivia and photo booth were fun too!

All the planning leading up to the event means nothing if we do not have willing individuals who share a passion for WordPress and wish to share that passion with others. This is true for all the attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers. Without you, there would be no need for US. Thank you for keeping the organizing team relevant!

See you next year WordCampers!

Joy
@joyousgirl19

Information from #WCRI 2017 Sessions

Another great year for WordCamp RI!  Presenters shared web links and PDFs with attendees.  Here is the list for your reference.

As always, you can watch some of the seminars on WordPress TV.  In a few weeks, the sessions from 2017 should be joining the recordings from past years at https://wordpress.tv/?s=rhode+island.

Friday September 22, 2017

9 a.m.
Getting Started with WordPress.com

MyHow2Web.WordPress.com

10 a.m.

Maintain Your Theme’s Styles, Future You Will Thank You
Maxwell Morgan

http://slides.com/maxinacube/wcri-2017

10:30 a.m.

Rise Above the Noise
Susan Finn

Rise-Above-The-Noise-917-SusanFinn-compressed (2 MB PDF)

11 a.m.

Coding Standards: What They Are and Why You Should Follow Them
Jonathan Desrosiers

Slideshow and other resources

1 p.m.

Keynote – The Big Fail: Breaking Down the 4th Wall of Agency Life
Aaron Ware

https://slides.com/aaronware/wcri

2 p.m.

Moving Beyond the Customizer
Ajay Coletta

goo.gl/WY2XbH

Creating a Powerful Personal Brand for Connection, Communication & Success
Laura Willis

Slides
Worksheet Handout

3 p.m.

Extending and Building Upon the WordPress REST API
Timothy Jacobs

https://timothybjacobs.com/wcri/

4 p.m.

Woo for You: Customizing WooCommerce
Gary Thayer

Presentation

Saturday September 23, 2017

9 a.m.

So Many Plugins – So Little Time
Reiko Beach

https://www.slideshare.net/reiko659/so-manypluginsri2017

Increase Engagement & Conversion with These 6 Innovative Personalized Experiences
Jesse Friedman

Presentation (download 40MB)

10 a.m.

Developing WordPress Plugins Using the MVC Methodology
Nate Allen

Presentation

What’s Your Data Story?
Jennifer Shaheen

Presentation

11 a.m.

WordPress Transients: A Technical Guide to a Powerful API
Ryan Kanner

http://slides.com/codeprokid/wcri17#/

Don’t Just Design and Build a Death Star, Maintain It Too
Matthew Clancy

Presentation

1 p.m.

A More Humanized Web Design Process for the Client
Cara Nelson

Presentation

Doubling Your WordPress Site Conversions
Tom Shapiro

Presentation

2:30 p.m.

Beyond the Blog: WordPress as a Comprehensive CMS for Media Organizations
Stephen Tiszenkel

Beyond the Blog (4 MB PDF)

Little Things Make a Big Difference
Michelle Ames

Presentation

Turn WordPress into a Single Page Application

WordPress WordCamp RI    Here’s a talk at WordCamp RI for advanced developers wanting to add something new to their skill set.  The development team from Technology Therapy will be hold a workshop on turning your WordPress website into a single page application.

The topics to be discussed:

  • Integrating Vue.js
  • Creating custom endpoints for the WordPress Rest API
  • Live updating content: posts, comments, and notifications

Check out our complete schedule.

Seminars, workshops, one-on-one help, networking- it’s all at WordCamp RI on September 22 and 23 at the East Greenwich campus of New England Tech.

We look forward to seeing you!

Advice From the Experts

WordCamp RI September 22 and 23, 2017      You’re getting ready for WordCamp RI.  How can you get the most out of your two days?  Here’s a round-up of advice from WordCamp experts.

Joy Adamonis, Lead Organizer
Follow Joy on Twitter: @Joyousgirl19

To truly benefit from WordCamp, each WordCamper must bring these 3 things (IMO).

  1. Empty notebook
  2. A pen/pencil to jot down all the important stuff you learn in said notebook
  3. An open mind and willingness to learn and ask questions

Of course, a laptop & business cards are a plus as well! But if you have those three things covered, you will be fine!

 

Catherine Cilcius, Training and Events Coordinator for the Center for Technology and Industry
Follow New England Tech on Twitter: @NEInstituteTech

My advice to attendees is to go to the workshops that interest them and use this incredible opportunity to meet other users, share their experience, have a great lunch, learn and have fun! Personally, I don’t know of any other event that we (NEIT) host that is more enjoyable!

 

Jesse Friedman, Speaker and Sponsor Wrangler
Follow Jesse on Twitter: @professor

Don’t try to do it all, set some goals before you come and focus on reaching those. There are a lot of opportunities to network, learn, get hired, but if you try to do everything you might miss out on just enjoying the conference.

WordCamp Rhode Island helps people reach their online goals through education, and advisement, and it’s amazing to be a part of that.

 

Daniella Norwood, Volunteer Wrangler
Follow Daniella Norwood on Twitter: @ellajdesigns

First, check out the final online schedule a few days before WordCamp RI. Decide what seminars you want to attend. Make a note of any sessions you’re unsure about and then on the days of WordCamp RI ask a volunteer or organizer to help you narrow down your choices.
Pace yourself. You know yourself best. Maybe you want to attend every session and maybe you would rather schedule some quiet time when you can take your laptop off to a corner and experiment with something you’ve just learned.
Do you have a question that you wish you could ask someone? Go to the Happiness Bar! You’ll get one-on-one help from a WordCamp RI volunteer. If your question has them stumped, they’ll help you seek out someone else who may have an answer. Sometimes a five-minute conversation at the Happiness Bar can ease hours of stress or aggravation.
Finally, network. Everyone at WordCamp RI has some connection to WordPress. You’ll bump into them in the seminars, see them at lunch, meet them at the reception, and chat with them in the vendor display area. A person you meet might have an answer to a question, a job lead for you, the ability to match a client with a developer, or provide a resource for any other aspect of our everyday lives. You never know who you are rubbing shoulders with until you stop and say “hi.”

 

Mary Beth Amaral, Lead Designer at Linchpin, WordCamp RI Organizer, WordPress RI Co-Organizer
Follow Mary Beth on Twitter: @maryelizabeth55

Take a look at the schedule before hand to plan out your day. You may find time between sessions or during breaks to take advantage of networking with other attendees or get some one on one help from the Happiness Bar. If you find yourself in a session that you’re not interested in, or isn’t what you anticipated, don’t be afraid to move on to a different talk, chat with sponsors, or peruse the swag area instead. Keep in mind that the Welcome Soiree is also a great opportunity for networking.

What supplies would you suggest an attendee bring?

Business cards! You’ll meet so many new people – having some business cards or contact information on hand will help build connections beyond WordCamp.

Something to jot down notes on is always good to have too. As someone who is on the computer all day just about every day, I’m a little old school in that I still like to take handwritten notes. Come Monday morning when I’m back in the office, I’ll take a look through all the valuable resources and information I gathered from WCRI and start implemeting these new processes or tools into my own workflow.

 

Kaitlyn Pescatello, Client Coordinator at Linchpin and one of the organizers of WordCamp RI

Don’t just go home after WordCamp – there’s an after-party  on Friday night – GO! Also…bring plenty of business cards or company STICKERS! They make a great ice breaker! It’s easy to meet new people if you have some cool stickers to lure them in with.
I love the social aspect of WordCamp and I have met some amazing people at these events.
There are so many parts to WordCamp RI.
An attendee can make the best use of their time by simply bringing their laptop and attending. WordCamp provides a friendly opportunity to get questions answered and make new WordPress friends. I’ve taken away something from every session I’ve attended, even if some parts are reinforcement of the principles that I already know. It’s always good to be reminded of best practices.

 

Advice from the top: WordCamp Central 

WordPress has information about what to expect from WordCamp, no matter where in the world it is held.

Thank You New England Tech

WordCamp RI 2017In just a few days, this Friday and Saturday, we’ll hold WordCampRI at the East Greenwich campus of New England Tech for the third year.  This year is an exceptionally exciting year for NEIT.  They are expanding and improving campus life.  A first-ever for NEIT, a dorm has been built and even more spaces for learning and relaxing have been added to the campus.  You can watch a video overview.

New England Tech has great audio visual technology and working with their food service has always made providing lunch each day easy.  We appreciate the working relationship we have with NEIT!

We look forward to seeing you at WordCamp RI and if you are so inclined, take a look around the campus.

Moving Beyond the Customizer

WordCamp RI tickets are available    So you made changes to your WordPress theme using the built-in Customizer, but you would like the ability to make more changes to the look and feel of your theme? Well this session is for you.
Ajay Coletta will discuss the benefits of creating and modifying child themes plus show you how you can easily inspect and modify the CSS (cascading style sheets) styles that control the bulk of overall design.
For those who want to dig deeper into theme customization, he will discuss the benefits of starter/foundational themes like Genesis.

WordCamp RI is two days of sessions, one-on-one help, and networking on September 22 and 23.  WordCamp RI will have talks and workshops related to WordPress websites and blogs for everyone from the beginner to the advanced user.

Check out the camp schedule.

See you at WordCamp RI!

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Every year WordCamp RI holds a learning conference devoted to all things WordPress.  The tickets include two days of sessions, one-on-one help at the Happiness Bar (aka the Help Desk), lunch and a reception.  How can we keep the ticket prices so low?  Because of the underwriting by our sponsors!  However, these sponsors are not just great supporters of learning at WordCamp RI, they also provide year-round advice through their blogs.  So here are the sponsors and their blogs.  Check them out!  You may find that crucial piece of information you’ve been searching for.

Boldgrid (www.boldgrid.com) promotes WordCamps in North America.  Check out their news section.

WooCommerce (https://woocommerce.com/blog/)  An example of one of their blog posts: “Four ways to make managing your store’s updates easier.”

Jetpack (https://jetpack.com/blog/) Has an informative blog post “Three Ways to Keep Visitors on Your Site Longer.”

Bluehost (https://www.bluehost.com/blog/) offers some good advice in the post “Back to Blogging Basics.”

Linchpin (https://linchpin.agency/blog/) shares lessons they’ve learned as well as advice from other companies on their blog.

GoDaddy (https://www.godaddy.com/garage/) has tips geared to business websites.  One such is “The top 10 industries that would benefit from a smartphone second number app.”

Sitelock (https://blog.sitelock.com/) One of their great posts explains why you are never too small to be hacked.

WPML (https://wpml.org/blog/) (as in WordPress Multi-Lingual) makes an interesting case that many websites should consider a multi-lingual presence, even if they think they are a local business.

Axion Media Lab (https://axionmedialab.com/) are digital story tellers.  They bring video to the web.

DreamHost (https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/) shares success stories.  One blog post of note is “The Website Owner’s Guide to Email Marketing.”

Pantheon (https://pantheon.io/blog) has great advice, for example the blog post “WordPress Security 101: 4 Steps to Take Today.”

The WordPress blog of Herb Chambers Honda of Seekonk (http://www.wehearthonda.com/), “We Heart Honda,” really got things going two winters ago with their blog post about whether to leave windshield wipers up during a snow storm.

Plesk (https://www.plesk.com/help-center/) not only offers their own advice, they also host a community forum where Plesk users can gather to share more information.

Emagine (http://www.emagine.com/blog/)  offers practical marketing advice on their blog such as “Creating Killer Content Without a Huge Marketing Team.”

Moo (https://blog.moo.com/) check out their blog for three-to-five minute reads with inspiration and practical tips, such as “Some Ace ideas for your next event.”

Sticker Giant (https://www.stickergiant.com/blog/) shares various fun stories for using stickers, including how they can help your school, business, and community group.

So even after WordCamp RI is over,  you can still visit the information resources on the blogs of these sponsors.

Thank you sponsors of WordCamp RI!

 

An Interactive Keynote Address

WordPress WordCamp RI    The WordCamp RI Keynote address this year will be given by Aaron Ware, President of Linchpin Agency.  “The Big Fail: Breaking Down the 4th Wall of Agency Life” will be an interactive session.

Aaron will be sharing his “insights, missteps and lessons learned from nearly 20 years of agency experience” and will be encouraging interaction with attendees. Audience members will be able to anonymously participate in sharing #fails and #wins on Twitter.

WordCamp RI will be held Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 23 at the East Greenwich campus of New England Tech.  There is a full two-day schedule of seminars and workshops related to all things WordPress.

 

Get From Here to There in WordPress

WordCamp RI September 22 and 23, 2017    Are you comfortable with your WordPress skills , but a little scared about moving to the next level? Go ahead, push yourself! You have a few options available to help you along:

WordCamp Rhode Island will be held at the East Greenwich campus of New England Tech on September 22 and 23, 2017. You can attend two days of learning sessions, check in with the Help Desk (known as the Happiness Bar) for one-on-one help, and network with other WordPress users throughout the conference. Tickets give you access to an unlimited number of sessions, the Happiness Bar, lunch each day, and the Friday night reception.

The WordPress RI Meetup meets once a month in the greater Providence area and once a month in southern Rhode Island. There are frequent guest speakers and always the chance to brainstorm answers to questions among other WordPress users.

In addition to all that, there is information on the WordPress website. For example, WordPress users help each other. You can stay in touch on the support forums. If you have an idea for something you’d like on your website, there is a good chance other WordPress users have tested out options and have great advice.

In addition, WordPress itself posts helpful information.  Here are just some of the topics about which you can get information:

Every day there is information available to help you. We hope to see you at one of those sources of information: WordCamp Rhode Island on September 22 and 23, 2017!