Talk Ideas

If you’re not sure what you should talk about at WordCamp Niagara, we can help you out! Here are some suggested topics to inspire ideas.

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Content

  • How Gutenberg will change content creation
  • Best plugins for bloggers
  • Blogging for content marketing
  • Content Strategy and Marketing – principles and practices
  • Difference between pages and posts, and how to use them
  • Guest blogging on WordPress – the how and why
  • Is content still king?
  • What to do after you write a blog post
  • Efficiently managing a site with multiple authors
  • Finding your niche/audience

Social Media

  • Need for strategy
  • How to use specific platforms with WordPress

Site Management

  • How to manage multiple sites

Design

  • Best practices and trends
  • Site migration
  • How to turn a site into a mobile app
  • How to Create a WordPress child theme
  • How to customize a theme
  • After the Install: What comes next?

SEO and Analytics

  • Adding Google Analytics to WordPress
  • Integrating Google Search with your site
  • Best practices for SEO
  • What’s changed and what’s stayed the same for SEO in 2018
  • What to know about Google RankBrain and implications

E-commerce

  • Why you should choose WordPress for e-commerce
  • Solutions
  • Planning your e-store

Development

  • Gutenberg
  • Uses for API
  • Site speed
  • Yoast for SEO
  • Using GIT for WP
  • Membership sites
  • Demos
  • Plugin development
  • Scripts and tools to save time
  • Theme building
  • Best page builders
  • Optimizing performance
  • Security/back ups
  • Security basics
  • Advanced security
  • What to do after you’ve been hacked
  • Must-dos for site maintenance
  • How to choose a host
  • How to safely share user access

Community

  • Community building
  • Diversity
  • Failure/success stories
  • How you can contribute to the WordPress community

Other

  • Accessibility
  • Podcasting 101
  • WordPress 5.0
  • How to pitch WordPress/Why WordPress for ____