WordCamp Speaking Ideas

Need some helping figuring out what to speak about? Here are some ideas to get you started!

Development

  • Building a multilingual site
  • Making sites secure with SSL certificates
  • Scaling WordPress sites for high traffic
  • Building plugins
  • Optimizing images and site speed
  • WordPress and rest API
  • WP CLI
  • Tools that make you a better wordpress developer
  • Are accelerated mobile pages right for your site?
  • Updating your sites via SFTP
  • Building your own
  • How to better communicate with your non-technical clients
  • First development (vs now) What I learned
  • Writing a plugin/theme
  • Debugging your site

Design

  • Workflows for agencies and freelancers
  • Marketing and content creation
  • Tracking content
  • Managing 50/100/500 sites
  • Legal guidelines for influencer marketing
  • SEO Fundamentals
  • Using data visualizations to understand your site
  • Optimizing website tracking
  • Making the most out of Yoast
  • Inclusive design
  • Designing deaf/handicapped friendly sites
  • Color theory and design fundamentals
  • Designing for humans rather than SEO bots
  • How to create/ implement video for your wordpress blog/site
  • Ideas to freshen up your blog
  • Intro to digital marketing

Everything in between

  • Monetizing your WordPress site
  • WordPress for podcasts and podcasters
  • Building a blog on WordPress
  • Specific plugins and why you love them/ tips and tricks to get the most out (ex: jetpack)
  • Organizing your sites with custom post types
  • Using a specific theme to customize your site (ex: Divi)
  • Contract basics for WordPress professionals
  • Finding Business and getting paid what you are worth
  • Becoming an expert that your clients can depend on
  • Websites and the law
  • Basics of building a Business on WordPress
  • General maintenance of your WordPress site
  • Page builder plugins
  • What to know about WordPress releases
  • Overcoming struggles in the WordPress field
  • Personal experiences with WordPress/ business/ starting from scratch
  • Your worst WordPress nightmare and how you survived
  • Choosing plugins
  • Choosing a theme
  • How not to get overwhelmed with the options
  • How to get support for themes and plugins
  • What to avoid when getting started
  • Making a successful WooComerce site
  • Learning by doing
  • Navigating the WordPress Codex
  • Finding reliable WordPress help on forums