AUGUST 12-13, 2017
If you were at WordCamp earlier this month, you may have noticed a cork board we set up on the ground floor. We invited attendees to share and connect by posting ads. Many of you shared your professional profiles, job openings, and collaboration opportunities. Click on the photos to zoom in and see the ads. Thank you for participating!
Thanks to Jer Clarke for snapping these photos.
Brian gave a workshop earlier this week titled “WooCommerce: A beginner’s guide to sell anything, anywhere. Beautifully!“.
Let me throw in a couple. The Visual Editor in the Text Widget and the WordPress Events widget in the admin Dashboard. Super helpful!
I thought it would be fun and I just wanted to give back!
I will be giving a beginners workshop on setting up an eCommerce site with WooCommerce.
I want them to be able to say “WooCommerce? Yeah, I understand it!”.
Lately I’ve been listening to the podcast The WordPress Chick with Kim Doyle.
Although there are great plugins for this, incorporating, into core, a simple way to create multilingual sites would be awesome!
We’re so excited to meet you fine folks!
The Hover team is gearing up to join everyone at WordCamp Montreal 2017 and we can’t be more excited! We are pumped to be surrounded by such a large community of creative and passionate people. But most importantly, we are looking forward to hearing your personal stories behind your WordPress creations!
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We can’t wait to hear your stories!
The Hover Team
Sasha will be giving a talk titled “Practical accessibility for inclusive web“.
I’m thrilled to see more robust and versatile widgets come to core that offer ways for clients without in-house devs to bring flexibility to their sidebars and widget area.
Well, first of all, I love to share what I know with the WordPress community but I also love to talk about topics that I feel passionate about. Accessibility and inclusion are extremely important topics, especially in the nonprofit tech world where I do most of my work but more and more in the tech word in general. When a colleague of mine told me how scary the Section 508 requirements looked to him I knew I had to show folks that these legal accessibility requirements aren’t actually that scary at all, in practice.
I will regale my audience with an overview of accessibility laws to make them feel less scary. Then I’ll cover the most common accessibility standards for designers and developers along with practical examples (I’ll touch on the more complex stuff and include plenty of links for further investigation). And finally, I’ll go over tools you can start using today to test and improve the accessibility of your projects.
You can start making your content more accessible to all of your website visitors with small steps that make a big difference.
I had the pleasure of meeting some brilliant folks at WordCamp Europe this year: Heather Burns is absolutely a “must follow” for digital policy news, Morten Rand-Hendriksen covers a wealth of topics from accessibility to CSS grid. Then there are the usual suspects: Paul Underwood and Tom McFarlin.
I’m excited to see how Gutenberg will evolve over the next year or two. Would love to see it turn into a robust tool both for users and devs.
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Part of our mission is to be actively involved in the WordPress community, helping, attending, and speaking at WordCamps around the world. We are excited to be part of WordCamp Montreal and we can’t wait for all the talks and inspiration we always experience at these events. This unique gathering of amazing professionals and masters of the craft of WordPress always reminds us how far we’ve come as a community!
The SiteGrounders on the spot, Anton and Martin, who are among our WordPress veterans, will be at our booth, happy to chat about any projects and ideas you may have. They have also prepared a fun WordPress themed game and some really cool giveaways!
Miriam will be giving a talk titled “Plugins and You: Finding that perfect plugin “.
Hard to say. I found the Codex to be a bit cleaner somehow, so that’s a plus!
I wanted to broaden my experience, and speak at WordCamps outside my home base.
It’s going to be my personal guide to selecting the right plugin for your use case.
I want them to hear about a different perspective, and perhaps gain some tips and tricks to the selection process.
That’s a hard one. There’s no one in particular that comes straight to my mind, and I follow a variety of people. Everyone brings a different perspective to the game.
Not sure!
Brian will be giving a talk titled “How WordPress Will Change Your Life“. He’s also hosting a panel titled “WordPress Business Advice”
This one is a little self-serving because of my involvement but I love the progress of http://www.wpphonesupport.com, a WordPress service that offers SEO-based security, website updates, site speed optimization, backups and so on.
I’m speaking at WordCamp Montreal to give back to the community which has been so great to me personally and professionally.
TALK #1: The first WordCamp that I attended was in Montreal, in 2009. Since then, I have gone on to live what I call The WordPress Lifestyle (#wplife). I encourage everyone reading this to come to the talk and discover for yourself to what extent WordPress has had a positive influence on your life.
TALK #2: I put together a great business advice panel for anyone who is using WordPress to make money (business owners, web designers, plugin creators, etc.). I’ll be hosting this year.
TALK #1: There is much more to WordPress than blogging and making money. The community is unbelievable and I encourage people to get involved.
TALK #2: Get advice on how to make the most of WordPress and profitability.
The team behind The WP Crowd
I’d like to be able to save menu settings (e.g., to have a revision history).
Have you seen our list of workshops leading up to WordCamp?
From August 5-10, we have lots of hands-on workshops to help you communicate, create, and sell better with WordPress.
Here’s a list of our upcoming workshops.
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Important!
A separate registration and workshop ticket required, not included with WordCamp ticket.
Workshop details may change, so always look at the WordCamp site for the latest info.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at montreal@wordcamp.org.
Hope to see you there!
Kathryn will be giving a workshop titled “Getting Comfortable With Child Themes“. She’ll also be on a panel titled “Contributing to WordPress”
Definitely the new image widget introduced with WP 4.8, which lets you choose an image from the Media Library instead of having to enter an image file path manually. The old image widget was confusing and difficult for people to use, so I was thrilled to see this improvement.
I can’t imagine not speaking at my hometown WordCamp!
My child theming session is a hands-on workshop for anyone who wants to learn how to create your first child theme. I’ll walk you through the process step-by-step, to get you more comfortable with child themes and help you better understand their potential.
Child theming is not hard, you can do it!
This year I’m nominating three of my wonderful colleagues at Automattic who inspire me in different ways: Cate Huston, Ashleigh Axios, and Anne McCarthy.
I’ll answer this question a bit obliquely. I’m excited about the potential of Gutenberg to change the WordPress landscape and hope developers give it a chance and pitch in to make it the best it can be.
Meagan will be hosting a panel titled “Contributing to WordPress“.
The newest change on our wp-admin Dashboard’s Events and News widget that shows nearby WordCamps and WordPress meetups! Now it’s even easier for WordPressers to meet and learn from one another.
I don’t speak at every WordCamp every year, but when I do, it’s WordCamp Montreal!
Thanks for having me back as a speaker for the 5th consecutive year <3
This year we’re going to have a fun and interactive panel chat about contributing to WordPress. What does this term mean to the range of panelists, the ways and avenues in which we’ve contributed to the WordPress Project, and how you can find your special niche for helping make WordPress the world’s best open source CMS!
Excitement and confidence about WordPress’ future!
Too many to list! Nowadays I get a lot of inspiration from podcasts like The WP Crowd and WPWatercooler.
My dream world would be spending a few development cycles improving various aspects of Camptix, the WordCamp-management integration plugin for WordPress, while others are focusing on Gutenberg UI/UX developments and advanced REST API & WP-CLI integration 🙂
WordCamp Montréal 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!