Thank you, Jetpack, for being a gold-level sponsor of this year’s WordCamp Louisville.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.

Tickets are still available for WordCamp Louisville 2016:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/

What’s better than lunch at WordCamp? The speakers that come right after! Afternoon sessions have great information for everyone who uses WordPress. Tickets are still available.

Dustin Hartzler

Dustin is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, providing support for the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. He is also the host of the weekly WordPress podcast at Your Website Engineer. When not spending time with WordPress, he can be found traveling around the world, biking and reading.

“Customize Your Site the Right Way” will cover the wrong ways to customize a site, the right ways and even how to create a plugin to house custom changes

YourWebsiteEngineer.com
Twitter: @DustinHartzler

Katie Wilkerson

Katie has spent six years working in digital advertising and publishing. Previously a marketing manager at The Atlantic, Katie is currently an audience and revenue strategist at 10up, building monetization strategy for companies like 9to5Mac, Boston Magazine, Maine Today Media, Cleveland Clinic, and AwesomenessTV.

In “Make Ads Great Again,” we’ll develop a better appreciation for how important a correct ad integration is for the success of your WordPress site and how we can actually make them contribute to your site aesthetic.

Katie is on twitter @kmwilkerson

Chris Rogers

One of our most popular requests for topics at the monthly meetup is discussion about how to add eCommerce and Membership areas to a site. Chris will discuss just that in “How to Add an Online Store and/or Membership Site”

Chris is a co-organizer of WordCamp Las Vegas and a regular speaker at the Vegas WP Meetup Group.

Follow Chris on twitter @CHRactor

Adam W. Warner

Adam discovered WordPress in 2005 when looking for an easier way to update his existing HTML websites. He’s learned a lot through the years, including what NOT to do.

In “WordPress Security for Beginners: Simple Steps to Build Your Master Plan,” he’ll dispel some myths, explain the “big picture” of website security and give actionable tips you can start applying to your own websites to create your “Security Master Plan”.

adamwwarner.com (notice the two “w”s)
@wpmodder

After getting registered and enjoying some coffee, you can start your morning at WordCamp Louisville 2016 with these great speakers. Tickets are still available.

Joe Ponzio

Founder of New Nine Media and managing director at Makespace! Web, Joe has been working in WordPress since 2008. He is also the author of Font Awesome 4 Menus, a free plugin with more than 165,000 downloads.

In Joe’s talk, “Understanding the (Lack Of) Limitations of WordPress,” you’ll learn when WordPress is the right solution for your website (hint: it usually is.)

Mitch Canter

Mitch Canter is a digital strategist and WordPress developer from Franklin, TN. He’s excited to bring you “WordPress Development with Vagrant, VVV, and VV”

The day I discovered Vagrant was the day that I changed the way I worked. I went from fighting with server setups and local development boxes to seamlessly creating sites that fit in with my own workflow. But Vagrant by itself, while good, won’t get you there alone.

That’s where VVV – a WordPress development environment – comes in. VVV comes pre-equipped with all of the tools, bells, and whistles needed to streamline your development environment.

• http://www.mitchcanter.com
• @thatmitchcanter
• http://www.youtube.com/c/mitchcanter
• https://www.facebook.com/thatmitchcanter

Bobby Bryant

Bobby has been involved in the WordPress space as a Developer for over 2 years. Prior to getting involved with WordPress Bobby spent 13+ years in the United States Marines as Ground Electronics Technician. He currently works for 10up and is also the developer behind the YouTube channel Develop With WP.

In “WordPress Information Architecture” Bobby will be covering these and more:

• Creating Custom Post Types
• Creating Custom Taxonomies
• Using Metadata for CPT’s and taxonomies
• How best to make relationships between these two data types
• How to build performant queries

The next ten people to register for WordCamp Louisville 2016 can do so for only $10!

Jim Ullum, a member of the WordPress Louisville community, has provided $100 to support bringing more people to the upcoming event on November 12th. He’s learned a great deal from the WordPress Louisville monthly meetups and wanted to give back.

To get this great discount, be one of the next ten folks to purchase a ticket at https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/ . It’s first-come, first-served!

Select the “Flash Sale – Half Off General Admission” ticket and check out like normal. You’ll get all the benefits of regular general admission for only $10: sessions all day, lunch onsite, and a t-shirt.

It’s been in your calendar: WordCamp Louisville, November 12th, 2016. But you can now plan your day around the WordCamp schedule of events.

Check out the agenda:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/schedule/

We’ll have a full day of speakers with topics ranging from your first plugin to perfecting your development environment. From adding advertisements or eCommerce on your site to using WordPress as a platform for any project. If that’s not enough, we’ll also be having lunch on-site, a beginner’s workshop, and space to network or hack.

Tickets are available:

https://2016.louisville.wordcamp.org/tickets/