Sessions

This talk will help designers, developers, and owners approach their software project, such as a WordPress website, from the perspective of “product” and context of use of “users”, with a 7-pronged cyclical strategy that accommodates every aspect of user experience design. By the end of this workshop, the audience will come at a website with content suitable for defined users informing their choice of design, that is “theme”, rather than bend a “theme to their will”. They may thus be capable of architecting usable, useful, and satisfying software (websites, mobile apps, etc) with WordPress.

We will be looking at the legal documents that every website should have, their importance and value to your website.

The Digital Workforce is the future of business. The constraints in our landscape have shaped the environment to be a perfect fit for a huge technology impact, for immense profit and growth, so why should the work sector not benefit from tech?

I would be sharing my experience on working as a Freelancer WordPress Expert @ Codeable.io for over 2 years and how it has changed my life. I hope to inspire others to work hard and smart and pursue their life goals.

The workshop will enhance participants’ performance as leaders and deal makers who achieve results through creative problem solving and collaboration. At the end participants would be able to:

• Understand the challenges to a successful negotiation
• Approach problems or issues with a win-win mindset

Sales funnel are the in-thing right now but it is so expensive for a Nigerian to pay $97 for clickfunnels every month. So i set about learning how to do the same thing using WordPress and i discovered i can use simple tools like Elementor, Instabuilder or Thrive Architect (the one I love) to build a sales funnel. I will be sharing with you the design and implementation process of using a sales funnel to sell online on your WordPress website. In this workshop, I will be explaining the art and science behind sales funnels while giving you the tools you need to build and convert your sales funnel.

WordPress powers about 30% of the web which anyone can take advantage off to build a successful business upon. This talk is intended to be an eye-opener for developers (plugin & theme), entrepreneurs (business owners, agencies etc) and every WordPress users about the business side of WordPress.

I will be sharing my experience on how learning even a little bit of code can make WordPress even easier to use as well create more unique designs and also overcome road blocks while making you productive. This talk sheds more light on why WordPress is available to all. There are a lot of people out there writing series of code to make WordPress as simple as it is and easy to use. Hence, learning to code just to make WordPress even better isn’t a bad idea at all.

Being a developer of an open source software in a third world country is a marathon. Too much competition around the world and not enough resources in your own country to fight fairly. In this talk i’ll cover: -Internet issues and how we overcome them -Power issues and how we overcome them -Manpower issues and how we overcome them -Code thieves issues and how we had to let this one go -Quality assurance issues and how we’re still struggling to fix this

I will walk you through the step-by-step guide on how we ranked a website in a few months using Google’s best practices and improving the user experience.

Inbound Marketing is the new best practice in positioning both website and social media platforms to create and convert leads. My talk will be to introduce participants to the concept of inbound marketing and share how to make use of the 4 principles of Inbound Methodology: Attract, Convert, Close and Delight when designing a website and for their business or clients.

Cloud Computing is one of those aspects of computing that seems shrouded in mystery.

Most Web Developers desire to control every aspect of their hosting environments but get scared at the prospect of learning Cloud Computing.

This session will teach absolute beginners how to signup for an AWS account, purchase a domain name, configure a WordPress cloud image and manage a WordPress website running on Amazon Web Services.

Having worked with advertising and niche Digital agencies across Africa and beyond, I have noticed there’s not as many WordPress developers promoting the exhaustiveness of the platform to agencies for their clients, in Nigeria especially. This talk describes my experience convincing my boss on using WordPress for a large organisation and teaches Marketing strategies to WordPress developers/Users for growing their businesses.

This workshop will focus on how WordPress owners can secure their websites/blog so as to prevent or reduce hacking attempts. The audience will be introduced to tools and best practices to undertake to harden their sites.

Whether you’re a current WooCommerce user, or a WordPress user interested in adding eCommerce to your site, I’ll show you different ways to increase your bottom line: – Add WooCommerce to your WordPress site – Add features and functionality to an existing WooCommerce site, such as Subscriptions, Memberships, Bookings, Product Add-Ons – Choose the right payment gateway – Reassure shoppers – SSL / security I’ll spend the bulk of our time showing you how to do these with a live demonstration so come armed with your imagination and lots of questions!

I launched my personal blog (labifrancis.com) last year and it has opened me up to a lot of opportunities. In this talk, you’ll know the benefits of having your own personal website and how you should maximise it.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about connecting various devices through the Internet. IoT is making huge advancements in almost every industry with connected devices ranging from light bulbs to espresso makers and indoor heating to livestock. Its implications in WordPress is possible with various implementations surfacing. This topic will focus on Phenomenal Implementations of the IoT in WordPress.

For Business owners who use WordPress:

1. This session will discuss in detail how podcasts can be setup to serve as Lead Conversion System.

2. Participants will be walked through the technical side of setting up a podcast in a WordPress site.

3. Participants will be practically able to start their Podcast on the spot and share them on social media immediately so as to create momentum

4. Practical sessions on how to integrate Podcasting into content creation and have it serve as customer service speed-up

5. Further information can be provided.