Sessions

WordPress 101

Presented by Kit Valmadrid in Audio Visual Room 2, Auditorium.

Kit will provide us an overview of WordPress and the wonderful possibilities we can create with it.

Creating your First WordPress Site

Presented by Andrew dela Serna in Auditorium.

The talk is all about leveraging WordPress.com’s free blogging platform and tools to create your very first WordPress site.

WordPress Development with Docker

Presented by Ian Christian M. Tumulak in Audio Visual Room 2.

The talk will be about introducing Docker to their development workflow. The topic will be divided into 3 sections:

1. Before Docker, there was… XAAMP/WAMP and Vagrant – XAAMP/WAMP limitations – Vagrant’s limitations.
2. Introducing Docker – The basic idea around containerization – Docker’s answer to XAAMP/WAMP and Vagrant’s limitation.
3. Docker + WordPress setup – Installing Docker – Basic and common commands – Creating your stack with docker cli and docker-compose

10 Ways to Level Up Your Content

Presented by Maria A Jose in Auditorium.

Simple ways that bloggers, content developers, editors, and writers can improve their written content. Tips and best practices for writing, content planning, and promotions.

Plugin Troubleshooting Guide

Presented by Takayuki Miyoshi in Audio Visual Room 2.

I’d like to talk about how you can solve troubles happening around WordPress plugins – including what to do first when you face a problem, what you should post in the support forum, and what you can do to prevent troubles from happening.

Expedite Your WordPress Development Process By Choosing The Right Theme

Presented by Angelic Sanoy in Audio Visual Room 2.

My talk will be more at least in mid level of building a WordPress site with Divi. I’m not sure if this is possible but I would like to highlight a theme we use as a starting point when doing web development. In the middle of the talk, I will also provide at least 5 hacks on how to tweak their divi theme with minimal PHP and CSS knowledge. 

SEO for Beginners

Presented by Rumejan Barbarona in Auditorium.

I’ll talk about what Google does – how it finds your site and the things Google shows on SERP once it decides to rank your website. I’ll also talk about previous Google updates and what each update does to your site so we’ll know what to avoid to rank in searches.

Creating and Empowering Your Online eCommerce Business

Presented by Orhan Fernandes in Auditorium.

A semi-brief and concise power talk on using WooCommerce to breach global markets. An introduction of Woo and its many possibilities and features.

  • A breakdown of what encompasses a WooCommerce site.
  • And helpful information to inspire the digital entrepreneur in all of us.

Now you have your WordPress site, what’s next? Ways to Drive Traffic and Earn from your site

Presented by Rica Janet V Gadi in Auditorium.

What good is a website without traffic or monetization. “Ways to drive traffic to your website and earn from it ” will tackle different ways you can sustain the costs of running a website not to mention potential to earn from it. If you know this first hand or plan for this an conceptualization, it can actually affect how you design or create the UI/UX of your site. Just a general overview of marketing and monetization using wordpress sites.

Multisite Set-up for Affordable and Easy Management of Multiple Domains

Presented by Ronald Jay Rama in Audio Visual Room 2.

Here is the outline/questions I seek to answer: 

1. What is a Multisite (MU)? 
2. Why setting up a Multisite is the most affordable option if you are managing multiple websites/domains? 
3. Why it is convenient and easy to manage multiple websites with Multisite?

Plugin Security: Best Practices for Hardening your WordPress Site

Presented by Lax Mariappan in Audio Visual Room 2, Auditorium.

Plugins help you extend WordPress but they may also become the source of vulnerabilities. Learn how to choose and test a plugin and shield your WordPress site in this session.

The Importance of Giving Back to the WordPress Community

Presented by JC Mae Palmes in Audio Visual Room 2, Auditorium.

The popularity of WordPress did not happen overnight, it took a lot of work and effort and from people who did not expect to get paid. They give back because they can and they truly want to help out, you can too.