WordCamp Vancouver Blog

Below you will find links to the slides from the WordCamp Vancouver 2019 sessions. If any sessions are missing a link we are simply waiting for the speaker to share the slides with us.

Once the videos are edited and uploaded we will create a new post with links to those as well.

Alexanndre Levan
The Layman’s Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Website

Ann Beaudet
How to Blog About Anything and Get a Million Views – It’s Never Too Late To Start A WordPress Blog
(No speaker slides, see the video once it is uploaded!)

Anne Emberline
Design Principles for Web Developers: How to Make Your Websites Look Good

Bruce Chamoff
How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

Chris David Miles
Understanding Your Customer Using Personas and Empathy Maps

Christina Varro
Freelance Hacks!

David Ryan
Everything I Wish I Knew Before Using WordPress as a Headless CMS

Dwayne McDaniel
Let’s Learn Git. No More Excuses.

Ernest Smuga
Using Hooks in the Real World

Jay Holtslander
WordPress Security

Jeremy Felt
Migrating, Converting, and Managing Blocks in PHP

Josh Loewen
SEO for WordPress: It Ain’t Yoast

Kelli Wise
Keeping Your Content Accessible

Mari Kane
Digital Wheelchair Ramps: Tools for making your website ADA Compliant (Demo)

Michaël Perrin
WordPress, the Automated Way

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Blok Bilding Basiks 4 Basik Blok Bilding

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Nicolas Demers
Introduction to WP-CLI

Richard Gilbert
Having Fun (But Not Too Much Fun) with Viewport Units

Rose Cass
Tempted by the Dark Side

Sara Mansouri
How We Can Make Our Website More Fun and Engaging by Learning from Game Design Techniques

Scott Saunders
Beyond the Block: Creating Blocks with ACF & Integrating Page Builders with Gutenberg

We hope you are looking forward to WordCamp Vancouver tomorrow as much as we are! Here is some basic information to help you plan for tomorrow:

Code of Conduct

We want everyone who participates in WordCamp Vancouver to have a safe, enjoyable experience. Our Code of Conduct extends to all attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and organizers, so please be sure to read it over before arriving.

Need help?

Volunteers and organizers will all have distinct name badges so if you have any questions or concerns during the event please do not hesitate to talk to them. There will always be an organizer or volunteer at registration throughout the event too.

Location

WordCamp Vancouver 2019 will take place at UBC Robson Square (800 Robson Street). Go through the doors next to the ice rink and follow the signs down the stairs. If coming by elevator go to the Classroom level. Directions, information on parking and transit, and a map of the location can be found on this UBC Robson Square page.

Schedule

The schedule is on the website and will be on posters at the event. Registration begins at 8am with the first sessions beginning at 9am. Still trying to decide what sessions to attend, check out some of our sample itineraries.

Catering

Coffee, tea and water will be provided throughout the event. Fruit and sweet bread slices will be available during registration. Lunch will be served at 12pm. Some dips will be provided in the afternoon as well.

After Party

The After Party will be at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar (601 W Cordova Street) in the upstairs loft starting at 5:30pm. Appetizers will be served and we’ll have drink tickets as well.

Wifi

You can connect to the ‘ubcvisitor’ network on the day of the event.

See you tomorrow!

A huge thank you to our Gold Sponsors! We are very appreciative of the wonderful support and generosity we have received to be able to put on WordCamp Vancouver this year.

Learn more about all of our sponsors.

A big thank you to our Silver Sponsors! Without the generous help of our sponsors we simply wouldn’t be able to put on this event.

Learn more about all of our sponsors.

Thank you to our Bronze Sponsors! If not for the support of our generous sponsors, WordCamp simply wouldn’t be the same.

Learn more about all of our sponsors.

Thank you to our Micro Sponsors! The generous support of our sponsors is what helps us to put on this event.

Learn more about all of our sponsors.

To help you plan what sessions to attend this year we’ve created five categories and placed each session into at least one category. The Categories are:

• Development
• Development (Advanced)
• Design
• Business
• Blogging / Site Owning

We will have the following poster up at registration and in front of each room to help you decide what topics would be beneficial to you. You can also scroll past it to see some suggested itineraries for each category.

A reminder but these are just suggestions you are free to attend any session you’d like at WordCamp Vancouver and we encourage you to try attending topics you’re unfamiliar with to learn something new!

Development

9:00AM
Beyond the Block: Creating Blocks with ACF & Integrating Page Builders with Gutenberg

10:00AM
Let’s Learn Git. No More Excuses OR Digital Wheelchair Ramps: Tools for making your website ADA Compliant (Demo)

11:00AM
The Layman’s Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Website

1:00PM
Having Fun (But Not Too Much Fun) with Viewport Units

2:00PM
Introduction to WP-CLI OR Design Principles for Web Developers: How to Make Your Websites Look Good

3:15PM
How We Can Make Our Website More Fun and Engaging by Learning from Game Design Techniques OR Using Hooks in the Real World

4:15PM
Tempted by the Dark Side OR WordPress Security

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Development (Advanced)

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Blok Bilding Basiks 4 Basik Blok Bilding

11:00AM
Migrating, Converting, and Managing Blocks in PHP

1:00PM
Everything I Wish I Knew Before Using WordPress as a Headless CMS

2:00PM
Business, Development, Design, Blogging/Site Owning sessions or networking!

3:15PM
WordPress, the Automated Way

4:15PM
Development, Design, Blogging/Site Owning sessions or networking!

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Design

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Digital Wheelchair Ramps: Tools for making your website ADA Compliant (Demo)

11:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

1:00PM
Having Fun (But Not Too Much Fun) with Viewport Units OR How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

2:00PM
Design Principles for Web Developers: How to Make Your Websites Look Good

3:15PM
How We Can Make Our Website More Fun and Engaging by Learning from Game Design Techniques

4:15PM
Tempted by the Dark Side

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Business

9:00AM
Understanding Your Customer Using Personas and Empathy Maps OR Freelance Hacks!

10:00AM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

11:00AM
Blogging/Site Owning, Development sessions or networking!

1:00PM
How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

2:00PM
SEO for WordPress: It Ain’t Yoast

3:15PM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:15PM
Blogging/Site Owning, Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Blogging / Site Owning

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

11:00AM
Keeping Your Content Accessible OR The Layman’s Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Website

1:00PM
Design, Development, Business sessions or networking!

2:00PM
SEO for WordPress: It Ain’t Yoast

3:15PM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:15PM
How to Blog About Anything and Get a Million Views – It’s Never Too Late To Start A WordPress Blog

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Tickets for WordCamp Vancouver on September 28, 2019 are now on sale! Visit the Tickets page to get your tickets now.

Tickets are only $25 (CAD) and include coffee, lunch, a WordCamp Vancouver 2019 tote bag, an invitation to the after party and of course a full day of networking and sessions on all things WordPress.

Still not convinced?! Have a look at our amazing Speakers and the Sessions they’ll be presenting. Or better yet, take a look at the Schedule and plan out the WordCamp Vancouver 2019 sessions you want to attend.

We look forward to seeing you at WordCamp Vancouver 2019!

Thank you to everyone who has offered to volunteer. We are full for volunteers now!

WordCamp Vancouver is seeking a wide variety of topics and a diversity of speakers to fill three tracks for 2019. Want to share your WordPress know-how or experiences with the community at WordCamp Vancouver this year? We’d love to hear from you!

Selected speakers will get a free ticket to WordCamp Vancouver 2019 and an invitation to the speaker’s dinner the Friday evening before WordCamp Vancouver.

Speaker submissions are open until Monday, July 8, 2019 at 4pm.

Speaker submissions are extended until Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 10am.

Once the speaker application deadline passes the WordCamp Vancouver organizing team will review the submissions and all applicants will be notified within two weeks. We will request presentation slides for review prior to WordCamp Vancouver and ask you to sign an A/V release form to record and submit your session to WordPress.tv.

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic. 

Applications are now closed for speakers. Thank you to everyone who applied!