Category: Workshops

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LiquidWeb To Offer Free WordPress Sites To E-Commerce Workshop

In case you haven’t heard, WordCamp Miami is presenting it’s first e-commerce workshop on March 16th. In this workshop you will learn:

  • How To Setup Your First WooCommerce Store
  • Basic Ways Of Adding Products
  • How To Setup A Subscription
  • How Design Plays A Part In Your Store and Sales
  • Alternative E-Commerce Solutions
  • …and more!

In addition to that, a very special provision has been made from our sponsor Liquid Web. Liquid Web will be providing WordPress sites for the first 100 attendees, with pre-installed plugins and tools so you are ready to follow along with the workshop and talks. From the moment you walk in, you’ll be able to get going and start learning.

Hosting for the WordPress websites will be available for two months after the conference, giving attendees the chance to play and test drive many plugins and tools.

Who Is Liquid Web?

Liquid Web, a managed web hosting company, offers a wide array of hosting solutions, including VPS, cloud, dedicated, and shared hosting plans. WordPress users will find our fully managed hosting solutions, built on powerful and flexible servers, ideal for hosting WordPress sites of all sizes. In addition, all of our fully-managed solutions come backed by our industry-leading, 24/7/365, on-site Heroic Support®.

Grab Your Ticket

There is a limited amount of seats for this workshop, so if you’re interested grab your $15 workshop ticket today!

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WordPress Beginner’s Workshop – March 16th

Beginner’s Workshop  has SOLD OUT

There is a waiting list for those who would still like to attend.

If you are new to WordPress, then you want to make sure you attend our beginner’s workshop. And as our beginner workshops are quite popular, we wanted to share with you some information before tickets go on sale.

Our workshop is happening on March 16th at FIU (same as our weekend venue). Our workshops worked out last year very well and sold out rather quickly. We limit our workshops to about 100 attendees, so make sure you grab your ticket (follow us on Slack or on Twitter for ticket announcements).

Registration will start at 8am, and a full day’s schedule is planned (9am to 4:30pm). Lunch will be provided, so just bring yourself (a laptop or tablet is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, or something to take notes with) and get ready for a full day of getting up to speed with WordPress. After this workshop you’ll be ready for WordCamp Miami weekend (March 17th and March 18th).

Schedule

Here’s what we cover in our beginner workshop (note that this schedule might be adjusted, and if so we’ll alert all ticket holders).

1. Decisions / Education (Selecting a domain, what hosting provider might be the best for you, comparing WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org, etc.)

2. Installation and Setup (Guiding through how to install WordPress and giving a tour of the general WordPress admin)

3. Getting Started with WordPress (Showcasing every day things that you do in WordPress such as creating and editing posts, pages, categories, tags, etc. Also we go into items like comment moderation)

4. WordPress Themes (Discussion about trusted sources of getting WordPress themes, best practices, widgets, menus, header images, background images, and more)

5. Trouble Shooting (Knowledge share on common WordPress problems, troubleshooting, customizing, importing/exporting, and more)

6. Plugins (Best practices for plugins, “must-have” plugins, and how to use WordPress beyond a blogging platform)

Our beginner workshops usually sellout, so if you want to learn more about using WordPress or want to review the basic concepts before the WordCamp Miami weekend, then check back soon to get your ticket.

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E-Commerce Workshop Coming To WCMIA!

What: E-Commerce Workshop
When: March 16th 2018
Where: FIU Campus in Miami
For: Those That Want To Learn How To Build A Store With WordPress

E-Commerce Workshop  has SOLD OUT

There is a waiting list for those who would still like to attend.

We are proud to announce another brand new workshop for our 10th anniversary event. In addition to our new developer workshop on Friday March 16th we are opening up our first e-commerce workshop.

Get Your Own E-Commerce WordPress Site!

New Update: Bring your laptop to this workshop! Because when you walk in you will be provided your own WordPress site! Follow along with the instructors… and after the workshop you can apply what you learned to the site for the next month. The WordPress site will have pre-installed plugins and access to various tools mentioned by the workshop speakers .

Schedule

Time E-Commerce Workshop (CBC 155)
8:30 am
Registration
9:00 am
Opening Remarks & Logging In Chris Lema
11:15 am
Workshop Lunch
12:15 pm
Learning WooCommerce (Continued) Chris Lema
Favorite session: Learning WooCommerce (Continued)
1:45 pm
WooCommerce Subscriptions Georgina Lewis
Favorite session: WooCommerce Subscriptions
2:15 pm
Enhance Your WooCommerce Store With Plugins and Other Things Sze Liu
Favorite session: Enhance Your WooCommerce Store With Plugins and Other Things
2:45 pm
E-Commerce Essentials: Payments, Shipping, and Taxes Beka Rice
Favorite session: E-Commerce Essentials: Payments, Shipping, and Taxes
3:15 pm
Designed To Sell: Huge Impact Of Small Decisions Michelle Schulp
Favorite session: Designed To Sell: Huge Impact Of Small Decisions
3:45 pm
Simple E-Commerce With Form Plugins Naomi C. Bush
Favorite session: Simple E-Commerce With Form Plugins
4:15 pm
E-Commerce Panel Cody Landefeld, Zach Stepek, Mark Ratcliff, Bradley Cummins
Favorite session: E-Commerce Panel
4:55 pm
What Talks To Watch During WordPress Weekend / Closing Remarks

What Will I Learn?

The first half of the workshop will be a guided tour of the basics of running an e-commerce store.

In the afternoon, you’ll be presented with additional information such as:

  • Additional Features of WooCommerce
  • How Design Makes A Big Impact On Sales
  • Other Popular E-Commerce Solutions w/ WordPress

This WordCamp Miami workshop not only will have experienced developers and leaders of the WordPress e-commerce community present, but will provide you with curated lists of resources so that you can hit the ground running during and after the conference. You’ll also be able to meet some sponsors and companies at the workshop that specialize in the e-commerce space.

Beyond Friday

The learning of e-commerce will go beyond the Friday workshop. A number of talks on Saturday and Sunday will cover concepts such as how to manage larger e-commerce stores, using the right tools, and more.

Check our schedule in January to see related talks that you will want to attend if you are interested in using WordPress as your e-commerce platform.

Who is Speaking?

Speakers are being finalized and will be announced at the start of 2018. Schedule should be released at approximately the same time. Check back on our website soon.

When Are Tickets On Sale? How Much Will They Be?

The entire single day workshop is $15! The workshop is limited to 100 attendees – so if you’re planning on attending grab your ticket as soon as possible.

Anything Else I Should Know?

This page will be updated soon with a schedule (along with other details).

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Developer Workshop Announcement: Future of WordPress

What: Developer Workshop: Future of WordPress
When: March 16th 2018
Where: FIU Campus in Miami
For: Any Level of Developer, Especially Those That Work With WordPress

Developer Workshop  has SOLD OUT

There is a waiting list for those who would still like to attend.

Every year, WordCamp Miami has a Friday workshop focused on developers. In the past, workshops have been focused alot on BuddyPress (and we’ve called these BuddyCamps). But this year we decided to provide a new experience for developers – a workshop that prepares developers for the future of WordPress.

Why Focusing Now On “The Future of WordPress”?

There are many things coming in 2018 that effects the future of WordPress in various ways – including how WordPress works behind the scenes AND a major change to the WordPress editor and how the average user uses WordPress (Gutenberg). It’s important that developers are made aware, and prepare – especially if they have clients that use WordPress or they use WordPress to build their own themes and plugins for clients.

What’s “Gutenberg”?

Although other subjects will be covered in the workshop, Gutenberg is a primary focus.

Gutenberg is a new publishing experience for WordPress that changes alot of how users will interact and add content into WordPress. It is perhaps the largest change to the WordPress experience in WordPress’s history. If you develop with WordPress, it is important that you learn about Gutenberg in 2018, especially if you build themes or plugins for WordPress.

You can initially learn more about Gutenberg here. You can also see a video of a live demo here:

At WordCamp US 2017, Matt Mullenweg announced that in April 2018 Gutenberg is scheduled to be released. So we decided at WordCamp Miami that our event in March is a perfect time to instruct both developers AND users about this upcoming change.

Who is Speaking?

Speakers lined for this “future of WordPress” workshop include Zac Gordon (teacher of The JavaScript for WordPress Master Course), Josh Pollock (of Caldera Forms), and Brian Richards (of WPSessions) with additional speakers to be announced.

What’s The Schedule?

We are planning on releasing the schedule for this workshop in January 2018. Check back on the website soon.

When Are Tickets On Sale?

Tickets for this workshop will be available with our other workshops soon. You can follow us on Twitter or join our Slack channel for the latest updates when our tickets go on sale.

Learn JavaScript Deeply

WordCamp Miami has a dedicated track to learning JavaScript whether you know WordPress or not. Our developer workshop on Friday will tie into the JavaScript track on Sunday, March 18th. To get a full experience, you should plan on attending both days.

WordCamp Miami 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!