WordPresspreneur

In this discussion, I plan to inspire entrepreneurs to use their talents within WordPress to make a healthy income and to price and sell these talents above standard industry rates.

Simplifying Complex Page Designs

This session aims to help you approach long or complicated page designs and highlights some different tools to implement them on WordPress. We’ll discuss ways to break a design down into its visual and logical pieces and try to anticipate how the page might change over the lifespan of the website. Lastly we’ll discuss tools like Page Builders and Custom Field plugins that may help you accomplish a tricky site design.

Keeping Youth Safe In The Changing World Of Technology

In the ever-changing world of technology, it’s a growing concern among teens on how to keep safe from the dangers in cyberspace. Elisha and Elyssa teach practical ways that can keep kids and teens safe while giving them freedom to be tech savvy and do what they love online.

Teens will learn:
How to keep safe online yet still have fun
How to protect themselves against cyber bullying
How to be good online citizens

Accidental Business Owner: Now What?

It’s wonderful many people earn a living using WordPress: launching sites, building plugins, and designing themes. But sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of running a business we thought was just a fun hobby. How do you change your hobby to a hustle?
A successful hobby is the path to a successful business. So, how do you take your WordPress side hustle to a full-time gig? In this talk, we’ll discuss how to recognize your hobby isn’t just a hobby, how to build in steps and processes to help it scale, and how to know that the timing is right to launch.

Understanding Website Health, the BIG Picture

Folks like to talk about maintenance and tools and themes for their website but don’t often have a really great understanding of how all of these components work together. Building a great site is not a random collection of metrics and code you find online. It should be built from the bottom up with scalability and sustainability in mind. I will introduce a Website Health Pyramid that ties together all of the seemingly independent strings many follow. Website owners and website managers can gain an overview of how to approach their website health long term. This pyramid can be great for leveling up your own game as well as a useful foundation to explain development or maintenance concepts to clients.