Supporting digital citizens
Workshops are currently over-subscribed.
On Friday 18 September 2019, WordCamp Dublin will be hosting workshops with DCU aimed at introducing students at the university to SEO and e-commerce within the WordPress environment. We hope this introduction to the community will encourage them to be part of the local and global WordPress eco-system in the future.
We are also able to offer a limited number of tickets to WordCamp attendees who are new to WordPress. This event will be part of marking Digital Citizenship Week and helping foster skills and highlight opportunities for how using tech can make a difference, from cause websites to blogs sharing hobbies and reducing isolation. WordPress provides a platform for the citizen to engage in the digital world and through this improve understanding, create and strengthen communities, innovate, and work together through the spirit of open source to make a tool available to everyone, even better.
Session 1
Presenter: Rodolfo Melogli
Introduction to WordPress
- Why and what is WordPress
- Hosting: how to install WordPress
- Dashboard overview: pages vs posts, settings
- Themes best practices
- Plugins best practices
- Going live: website launch checklist
- Ongoing maintenance after launch: checklist
Session 2
Presenter: Luminus Alabi
Introduction to e-commerce
- What is WooCommerce
- Installing it and getting set up
- Creating your first product
- Setting up payments with Stripe as an example
- Configuring Taxes and Shipping
- Increasing revenue via Subscriptions
Session 3
Presenters: Abha Thakor and Colm Troy
Be a digital citizen and become a digital champion through WordPress.
Find out more about why you would want to contribute to WordPress and how you can use it to make a positive impact on society. Also more on the latest developments in WordPress.
Session 4
Presenters: Fleur Heesen and Siobhan Cunningham, Yoast Academy
Title: The basics of SEO: how to make sure people find your site
Description: When you search on Google, do you ever skip to the second page of the search results? Not unless you didn’t find what you were looking for on the first page, right?
If you have a website, you will want to get it as high up in the search results as possible. But how do you go about that? Do you need to be a tech whizz? Optimising your website for search engines (and audiences!) is called SEO: search engine optimisation. During this workshop, we will help you work through the different aspects that increase your website’s chance of success.
A lot of factors influence the search results, things you didn’t even think of. Great news: you can do most of it yourself! And while you’re learning, you just might win one of our awesome prizes. 🎉
P.S. You don’t need to have a website to join in!