Just like we did last year, we cannot leave out the importance of keeping mentally and physically fit.

The presenter(s) will be our in-house community physiotherapist, Opeyemi Bakre.

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According to internet live stats, there are roughly 3.5 billion searches per day on Google and all Website owners want their website to show whenever certain skills, service or product is searched for online. Participants will learn from our experienced panelists how to go about optimising their websites to improve website ranking on search engines.

Panelists will highlight how to use blogging tools associated with WordPress to grow their website traffic, increase site accessibility, and site speed to boost SEO.

This session will be moderated by Abimbola Ojo

Both teams will apply the knowledge earned from the earlier session to build a WordPress blog with full content.

The panelists will look at the Power of WordPress in comparison with Web Development Frameworks. Strength, Limitations and Opportunities.

They will also talk about how to find the perfect theme for your projects, the problems users face and the solutions to these problems.

Security will not be left out as this is a most important aspect of WordPress. They will share WordPress security checklists every user should know about and how to ensure your site is safe from hackers.

The idea that people from every corner of the globe can come together to exchange ideas and build products that profoundly affect our lives is as crazy as it is exciting. Our Panelists are employees working for remote companies, and have been doing this for over a year, they will share with us how to master remote working for effective productivity and how to live your best life while working remotely.

Our Panelists are equally not new to contributing to WordPress, they will share with us why contributing to WordPress would help grow your network and aid you in improving your skills faster than you anticipated.

A lot of people are not aware that not only coders can contribute to WordPress. There are many ways to get involved with WordPress. If you want to get involved in WordPress and learn how to contribute, make sure you sign up for contributor day.

This panel will be moderated by Mary Job

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This is a one hour panel session featuring professionals who run WordPress based businesses either as a freelancer, agency professional or business owner.

They will share their wealth of experience with attendees on how they were able to find their niche, break into the market, and turn profit within the WordPress ecosystem. Participants will learn why credibility is key, and why a website is the #1 tool for building credibility with people who don’t know you.

There will be two concurrent tracks here:

One for those who want to go into writing and blogging: They will all build a blog from scratch with WordPress, upload content and publish.

The second will be for those interested in software development: They will learn about the languages of WordPress development and what they can do with it.

Both teams will learn and practicalize installing WordPress offline and how to find a suitable theme for a project, and upload their site online.

The Lagos WordPress community is having its’ second WordCamp conference today, May 11th 2019.

The theme for this years’ gathering is uplifting local communities and individuals so you will be seeing a lot of new and inspiring spaces in our community.

The keynote speech will be delivered by Matt Adesanya, the Chief Technological Officer of The Workforce Group.

More information will be added here before the week is over.

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User Experience is a vast field and understanding the right UX Design process is necessary to achieve the best results when working on digital products/solutions (mobile/web).

This workshop is aimed at teaching participants the UX design process from idea to development.

I expect that at the end of this workshop participants will understand how to conduct user research, develop personas, conduct concept/Idea testing, build wireframes, prototypes and test with representative users.

I am proposing a practical workshop so participants can carry out activities themselves by building a demo digital product in class.

I am optimistic that after this session, participants will become better UX designers and apply the knowledge gained to build better products.

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This session will be run by two speakers, Omodara Adediran and Temitope Adelanwa.

The role of marketing in business growth has been underrated in the technology space.Our workshop will enlighten attendees on the different angles of marketing and how it connects to business growth, with a focus on understanding the consumer.

This is a practical workshop on understanding the connection between the product and its user. It takes the audience through the relevance of marketing and true understanding of a customer when developing a product .

The learning outcomes of the session are as follows:

1. How to identify and profile your potential target audience.
2. How to launch your product into the market.
3. The importance of marketing.
4. Marketing Tips to grow your startup.
5. Your start-up marketing tool kit
6. Using technology as a tool for marketing.
7. Simple tools to drive growth for your start-up.

This talk will focus on helping aspiring writers, beginners and everyone who would like to connect with others through targeted content or stories.

It is also for those who:
– are convinced that endless opportunities exist in writing for personal or business purposes.
– want to build an audience around their passion or business
– love and want to learn writing, so that you can get paid to give value with what you really love.
– are open to researching and to learning something new about purposeful storytelling
– desire to get better everyday through comments and critique (feedback) from your readers and clients
– want to intersect writing and their area of specialty so that they carve a niche for themselves in their career or business path.

The talk/class will cover the necessary basics from how to develop a writing habit, through harnessing the skills necessary for effective writing/storytelling to creating the most purposeful, powerful and persuasive narratives.

How is it possible that some WordPress developers make sales and others are struggling?

At the end of this class, you will discover value added services or products that you can sell to clients, reduce stress and increase sales.

You will also learn how to position yourself to have an unfair advantage over the competition.

Errors, right? We know how they can be crazy.

In this workshop, PRECIOUS OMONZEJELE and ADEJOKE HAASTRUP will be showing how to handle common WordPress errors.

We would start by showing you common errors that you can encounter when working with WP.

And we also get to ask questions from the audience about errors they have encountered and they will share with us how they tackled it.

According to the Robert Kiyosaki, they are four levels of earning; employed, self-employed, business owner and investor.

Most WordPress freelancers and enthusiastic are in the self-employed part of the earning quadrant. This is good but cast a limitation on how well such person can go.

My session will center around helping WordPress freelancers and enthusiastic build business systems and processes around their skills as WordPress designers and developers.

It will be a full business development and strategy session where I will share with them on how I was able to build a business around my core competence of website design and inbound marketing.

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WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. You can update plugins, configure multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.

In this workshop, I will be taking attendees from being a novice in WP-CLI to the point where they can perform operations by themselves with WP-CLI

Trying to achieve optimal User Experience with a great User Interface has always been one of the biggest struggles for website designers. Basically, you are trying to design a website that does not just look great. It should also be easy to use, easy to navigate, and makes users feel comfortable using it and converts them into paying customers.

In short, you are struggling to create the “perfect” website, and since when has that been easy? This is where wire-framing comes in, wherein you and your team plot the initial design and flow of your website. Wire-framing a website before actually building it is extremely important, as it can save you and your team tons of time and avoid any potential and irreversible flaws.

This talk will introduce participants to how APIs work, WordPress API and how to use Postman to interact with WordPress API.

Even if you’re new to Tech, a basic understanding of APIs will give you an idea of how this technology impacts development and the future it holds.

“We are living in an API first world” – Abhinav (CEO, Postman) “I can imagine a future wp-admin that’s 100% JavaScript talking to APIs” Matt Mullenweg (Co-founder, WordPress)

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Did you know that a client looking for a custom WordPress site usually pays between $3,000 and $15,000 dollars to a remote freelancer, according to ManageWP.com?

WordPress is a beast that powers 29% of the Internet, and there are over 74.6 million websites that depend on it. Self-hosted WordPress websites account for 20% of that and over 50,000 WordPress websites are launched daily. That means there’s a monstrous market and a lot of work that needs to be done.

In this talk, We’ll discuss the stats that point to an abundance of remote freelance work in the WordPress market, how (and where) to start as a beginner, practical tips about dealing with clients, and where to find a good leads or clients for your next project.

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You’ve probably heard that you need to be creating quality content if you want to be relevant, known, liked and trusted, and that’s what this session will help you do.

Content creation is probably one of the most important elements in a business today and its importance continues to increase.

Unlike social media content, content this session will cover creating original content that attracts leads, designing a signature system that’s unique to you as a business, and developing thought leadership that makes you stand out in the sea of sameness.

And more importantly, creating transformational content that engages your audience at a very deep level, leads them on a journey, and helps them get the results they seek.

What makes WordPress beautiful is the power to add functionalities using what is called plugins. Plugins are used to extend WordPress, and this is what enables users to set up an eCommerce store, sell digital goods, create a membership website, et cetera.

WordPress is and can only be limited by your imagination. In this session, I will be teaching and guiding you on how to develop your first WordPress plugin.

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