Here’s a few topics we are interested in to help guide your future speaker submission. You do not have to be limited to this concepts… you’re limited only by your imagination! You an also check out past WordCamp talks on WordPress.tv for even more inspiration. Wondering how to best submit your talk? We Are All Awesome has a how-to on writing a compelling proposal. A worth-while read.
WordPress How-to
- The basics: hidden features on the Dashboard, posts vs pages and other goodies
- Movement in design: parallax, CSS transitions and Video.
- What’s new in responsive Images with source set.
- Good use of plugins, how to deal with too many plugins, troubleshoot plugin errors.
- Podcasting
- User experience, user interfacing and other tips and tricks from a design perspective
- How to use Google tools for your site.
- Local SEO for your site. Creating content the matters
- How to make money from your site. Adsense and affiliates.
- Imagery for your site. How to grab post images for social sharing (FB & Pin).
- Media Library: best practices to upload, how it’s organized, how this affects load times, scaling for mobile, pasting in code vs links (ie: YouTube and other social links like Tweets and Instagram posts)
- WordPress Customizer. Development without code.
- Ecommerce
- Maintain your site. How to manage updates. Advantages of WP managed hosting.
- Website speed. CDN.
- How to get help/support for your WP site
- Flexbox and your website
Development
- Security WordPress
- Scaling WordPress
- REST API WordPress
- WordPress and Internet of Things,
- Important things to know when developing plugins and themes
- Extending WordPress core features
- Using WordPress as a platform for more than websites
- Working with teams (version control, techniques for productive communication and remote working, how to manage a technical team)
- React / Angular and WordPress
Community
- A retrospect on how your company or organization’s site came to be in its current iteration
- Mental health care for freelancers and remote workers
- How you maintain an open dialogue with your site visitors
- The importance of accessibility
- Failures and successes learned on a recent project you worked on
- How WordPress improved the way your organization or companies operates
- How to succeed as a freelancer offering WordPress services (contracts, tools, subscriptions, etc)