Post-WordCamp Wrap-up

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Can you believe it’s been a little over a week since the fabulous WordCamp Pittsburgh?

Our team had a great time planning the event and we hope you had a great experience.

Some updates and additional info for you….

PHOTOS!

Thanks to our fabulous Volunteer Photographers, Miranda Knee and Marta Greca, we have some great photos from throughout the day. You can check them out at:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Fz2Wuld4YSSrPPoe2

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4UBCcnXxcCcTC5AI3

SLIDES!

We’re still collecting slides from some of the speakers, but the ones we have collected are available on the session page. (Look for the Slides link under each session description.)

MEETUP!

If you’re not a member of our WordPress meetup group, join now! https://www.meetup.com/preview/Pittsburgh-WordPress-Developers-Designers. Our next meetups will be in early October, so check it out soon.

SPONSORS!

Another heart-felt thank you to our sponsors – BoldGrid, WooCommerce, JetPack, Bluehost, Pair Networks, A2 Hosting, GoDaddy Pro, Pantheon, Libsyn, SiteLock, WPML, DreamHost, SiteGround, GiveWP, and Sticker Giant. WordCamp Pittsburgh would not be possible without you.

VOLUNTEERS!

To all of the volunteers that helped to make the day run smoothly – thank you for your time, your skill, your patience, and mostly for being you! You were all amazing!

Thank you all – attendees, volunteers, sponsors – for making WordCamp Pittsburgh 2017 a very special event!

Sponsor Spotlight – A2 Hosting

We have one more sponsor that we’d like to introduce you to before WordCamp Pittsburgh. We wouldn’t be able to hold the event without the generous support of our Sponsors, and we want to make sure you know about them.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Ohio River Sponsors, A2 Hosting.

A2 Hosting

Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in Linux-based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering robust servers and hosting accounts at an affordable cost. We back up our hosting with 24/7 support available by phone, ticket, or live chat.

A2 is active in the WordPress community – we dedicate a percentage of our development time to WordPress as part of the Five for the Future initiative, and we are active in many WordCamps.

Website: https://www.a2hosting.com/
Twitter: @a2hosting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/a2webhosting/

Sponsor Spotlight – GiveWP

Tomorrow is the big day- the second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors, and we want to make sure you know about them.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Allegheny River Sponsors, GiveWP.

GIveWP - Democratizing Generosity

 

GiveWP is the most flexible, robust, and easy to use WordPress plugin for accepting donations directly on your website. Upon activation, GiveWP provides you with powerful fundraising features for your Cause. Are you a talented developer or designer? We’re currently hiring. Please visit https://givewp.com/careers/ website for more information.

Simple and Pain Free Giving
Keep donors on your website without them bouncing to a third-party website or platform. The donation plugin works great, directly in WordPress.

Recurring Donations
Accepting recurring donations has never been easier or more powerful. This Give Add-on allows you to create even more powerful donation forms with support for daily, weekly, monthly, and annual subscriptions. You can also customize the number of times you would like to run the subscription, for example, “Give $20 a Month for a Year”, or give the donor the choice whether or not make their donation recurring or one-time

Zero Commission Charges
Concentrate on your Cause, and not the cost. We earn our income by selling Add-ons and not from donor giving; period.

Easy to Customize and Enhance
GiveWP is built by WordImpress. Our plugins are intuitive, actively supported, and well documented. Find out more about us >>

Website: https://givewp.com/
Twitter: @GiveWP
Facebook: WPGive

Sponsor Spotlight – SiteGround

We’re counting down to our second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Allegheny River Sponsors, SiteGround.

 

 

SiteGround, with over 13 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 5 data centers on 3 continents, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress auto-installer for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still, they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Pittsburgh, they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

 

 

Sponsor Spotlight – DreamHost

We’re counting down to our second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Allegheny River Sponsors, DreamHost. DreamHost is also a WordCamp Global Sponsor, so their sponsorship helps WordCamps around the world.

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere! Learn more at www.DreamHost.com

Sponsor Spotlight – WPML.org

We’re counting down to our second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Allegheny River Sponsors, WPML.org. WPML.org is also a WordCamp Global Sponsor, so their sponsorship helps WordCamps around the world.

WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.

WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

We are looking for talent. If you are a smart programmer you are welcome to contact us here: http://wpml.org/home/were-hiring/.

Sponsor Spotlight – SiteLock

We’re counting down to our second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Allegheny River Sponsors, SiteLock. SiteLock is also a WordCamp Global Sponsor, so their sponsorship helps WordCamps around the world.

Currently protecting more than one million WordPress sites, SiteLock delivers a patented 360-degree website security solution to find, fix and prevent malware and other threats from affecting websites and their visitors. Services include malware scanning and vulnerability detection, automatic malware removal, an advanced web application firewall (WAF), PCI compliance and website acceleration powered by a global CDN. SiteLock provides live, expert phone support, available 24/7/365.

Website: wpdistrict.sitelock.com
Twitter: @SiteLock
Facebook: SiteLock

 

 

It’s (a)live – the WordCamp Pittsburgh Schedue that is!

The schedule for WordCamp Pittsburgh 2017 is now live. If you’ve been on the fence about attending, check out the awesome sessions and speakers we have lined up on the schedule page.

Then, head over to the tickets page to get your ticket. For only $20, you can get access to 18 great sessions, a t-shirt, lunch, and coffee, coffee, coffee. And the change to meet and connect with some WordPress enthusiasts.

Meet the Speakers Part 3

JADON NAAS

I am currently a product developer for InMotion Hosting. I specialize in researching and developing new hosting products and improvements to existing hosting products with an emphasis on providing a better experience for self-hosted WordPress websites. I also develop internal applications using WordPress as an application programming framework for pure PHP applications and for single-page JavaScript applications using WordPress as a customized API and authentication provider. In my spare time, I study programming and software development. I also do Taekwondo with my wonderful wife, and I am a student in the Computer Science program at a local university. I really like to learn new things, and I greatly enjoy creating software and scripts.

Jadon will be presenting a talk on JavaScript! What is it good for? Actually, quite a number of things if you’re a WordPress developer.

RENE MOROZOWICH

I’m Rene, a Pittsburgh-based Freelance Web Developer who specializes in building and customizing awesome WordPress sites. In former lives, I’ve been a Business Intelligence Developer, a SQL Developer, a programmer and an instructor. I love learning something new (taking classes especially), reading non-fiction, setting goals and tracking my progress, organizing and planning, personal finance and spending time with my favorite people.

Rene will be presenting a talk on Your New BFFs: the WordPress core tables + the MySQL database.

WILLIAM D JACKSON

William Jackson graduated from South Carolina State University earning a Bachelor’s in Education degree, he furthered his education earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Webster University with a focus on Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM.

William’s career involves past teaching with NASA as an Internet and Technology instructor, technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education and current Professor with Edward Waters College teaching Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM.

He has been involved in the field of education over 25 years in elementary and higher education. Teaching STEM and STEAM curriculum in higher education at Edward Waters College to prepare students for the diversity of education and business.

William is not only an educator, he is a Social Media Consultant, presenter on Bullying and Cyberbullying, Internet Safety and his passion Blogging and Writing that allows him to embrace being a thought leader and Social Media Visionary, a national and international blogger that is published in the United States, Canada and on the continent of Africa.

William will be presenting a talk on How To Use Your Blog to be a Community Activist.

JOHN CENTOFANTI

John’s background spans nearly everything creative for business, including content writing, branding, graphic design, and more.

He serves as a marketing consultant and content developer for B2B, Technology and Retail clients throughout the US. His background ranges from Marketing to Store Operations Management, HR, as well as Customer and Employee Relations. The retail chains he’s served range from smaller, multi-site chains to publicly-traded, national retail chains with 100+ locations.

In 2006, John founded Creative Stream Marketing (www.creativestreammarketing.com), serving national retailers, tech companies, and B2B companies across the US. John has worked with numerous startups, early stage, and established companies both strategically and in providing tactical marketing services, developing brands and increasing response to their businesses.

John will be presenting a talk on Brand Positioning: Growing Your Business by Finding Your Niche.

BEN MEREDITH

Ben is the developer of the most popular WordPress plugin for Click To Tweet boxes, the Senior Support Technician at WordImpress, a husband, a dad (both foster and biological), and a musician.

A lifelong North Carolinian (with a 4-year break in Middle Tennessee just after college), Ben is also one of the organizers for WordCamp Raleigh, having led the team in 2017.

When not coding or solving code puzzles to support users, you’ll find him with a guitar in hand or perhaps playing a round of disc golf. He’d lobby for it being called just “golf” and making that other game “ball golf” or perhaps “expensive ball golf.”

He was the first full-time remote hire for WordImpress, and works mainly supporting the popular Give plugin.

Ben will be presenting a talk on How To Hire and Keep Remote Workers Who Rock.

ADAM W. WARNER

Adam W. Warner discovered WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since. To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.

He is a true WordPress Evangelist in spirit and personality, and that also happens to be his job title with SiteLock.com.

Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.

Adam will be presenting a keynote talk on WordPress as a Catalyst for Any Passion: My Story, Your Story.

JOE HOWARD

Joe is the Head Buff at WP Buffs, where he tries to live life to the fullest while making sure all the WordPress websites his team works with are secure, fast and taken care of. He lives in beautiful Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC and loves astronomy, Scrabble and a good cup of bulletproof Earl Grey! Joe just got back from Burning Man a few days ago, so his sense of community is very strong right now. Perfect timing for his talk here at WordCamp Pittsburgh: How to Build a Strong Network in the WordPress Community.

Joe will be presenting a talk on How to Build a Strong Network in the WordPress Community.

Sponsor Spotlight – Libsyn

We’re counting down to our second WordCamp Pittsburgh, and are so excited! WordCamp Pittsburgh wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our Sponsors.

Today, we’d like to introduce you to one of our Monongahela River Sponsors, Libsyn. Libsyn is a local Pittsburgh company, and we love when local companies get involved in the WordPress community.

Libsyn was on the forefront of the podcast trend when it was founded in 2004, launching the first Podcast Service Provider (Host), offering storage, bandwidth and RSS creation tools. Today, Libsyn is a worldwide leader of podcast hosting, distribution and monetization. Hosting over 28,000 podcast shows, Libsyn delivered 3.3 billion podcast requests to audiences worldwide in 2015. The Libsyn brand has built a reputation for reliable service, world-class podcast statistics and exceptional customer service. This has allowed Libsyn to grow into one of the market leaders in the industry.

Website: www.libsyn.com/
Twitter: @libsyn
Facebook: libsyn – liberated syndication