Our after party will be at FERMÆNTRA which is a 7 minute walk from the main WordCamp Denver venue.

Non-alcoholic options are available! FERMÆNTRA offers beer, kombucha, organic juices and organic sodas.

The address is: 1715 E. Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80210

The party starts at 7pm and ends at 9pm.

A hands-on 3-hour workshop on how to positively impact the organic search results via SEO. We’ll start with the basics – the anatomy of a search engine results page and keyword research. Then, we’ll dive into a process that can be utilized on any WordPress website to prime it for SEO success via page titles and meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, search engine verification, schema markup, and more. Bring a website that you’d like to optimize for this hands-on workshop.

Lead by Lindsey Halsey

If you’ve ever wanted to build your own theme for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up. This tutorial assumes HTML and CSS knowledge, though there is no level of PHP requirement. We’ll go through all of the core files needed for a theme; some supplemental features that can be added; and how themes should be structured for clients, public free release, and sales sites. We’ll also cover some tools that can help with your theme development.

Lead by David Wolfpaw

In this workshop, users of all levels can expect to learn different ways to create content strategies for their WordPress sites and blogs. I will be covering content generation, creating content with Gutenberg, editorial calendars, and creating branded content.

Lead by Angelica Yarde

Update: Angelica Yarde was not able to be at the workshop, so Maddy Osman taught content writing and marketing and Zack Katz presented on creating content with Gutenberg.

Many web designers and developers complete a website, hand over login information, and… that’s it. Back to the hustle of finding new clients. But the client they just finished working with is left high and dry with a million questions about what to do next.

Then, instead of telling all their friends about what a great web designer they worked with, they’re frustrated, and complain about how they don’t know how to use this new website they paid thousands of dollars for. Uh-oh.

Instead of completing a project and giving clients the boot, it’s important to offboard them in a way that helps them use their new website, answers their questions, and helps them sing your praises so you get new clients rolling in. If you offboard your clients correctly, you can even keep them coming back, again and again for additional services, reducing your need to hustle up new clients altogether.

In my workshop I explain how to offboard clients easily, giving them more control of their website, and helping you spend less time in after-project support.

Lead by Erin Flynn

It’s time to make the robots do all the things we can make them do. Machines can do just about anything as long as you give them the properly formed instructions. Fortunately for us WordPress allows us to give these instructions in an easy to learn and very robust manner called The WP-CLI. It is the fastest way to install, active and update any theme, plugin or just about anything else in your WordPress site.
In this presentation I will demonstrate a simple install script that will have a fully functioning, customized WP website in about the same time than it normally takes download the WordPress.zip file. We will also look for how third party tools and hosts are leveraging the WP-CLI to make your life as a developer even easier.

Walk away with:
-A new appreciation for the command line.
-The desire to script ‘all the things’ to save time.
-Knowledge of serious time saving tools
-Ideas about how to automate your processes to be more productive and profitable

Lead by Dwayne McDaniel

In this workshop, we will go over the basics of turning your one-person operation into a business with a full staff. We’ll talk about some critical changes that need to happen when growing a business, and help you get started on the path to finding resources to help you succeed.

Topics include business incorporation, hiring employees, finding office space, and revisiting your goals.

Come prepared for challenges you have faced and goals you have for the future. We will brainstorm as a group to help solve your issues. Participants will leave with valuable insight into their own business, and excitement to bring their business goals to life!

Lead by Jessi Gurr