And just like that, WordCamp Vegas 2019 is in the books! What an amazing weekend. Again, we want to thank all of our amazing sponsors, speakers, volunteers, and of course, our attendees!
Below you will find a list of the presentations from this weekend, along with links to the presenter’s slides (if they provided them) and the recording from the sessions. We don’t have slides for everybody, and not all the videos have been uploaded just yet, so we’re posting what we have and we’ll continue to update this post with new materials as they become available.
You can also visit WordPress.TV to see all of the presentations from this year.
Own Your WordPress: How To Optimize By: Amy Kamala Fisk Slides – Post
How To Easily Add Video into Your Content Mix and Reach A Bigger Audience By: Kim D. Snyder Slides – Video
Counterintuitive Lessons From 15 Years of Personal Growth Blogging By: Steve Pavlina Slides
Who Are You? Using Voice and Tone to Support Your Brand’s Message By: Laura Coronado Slides
Building Successful Client Relationships in a Digital Age By: Jodie Riccelli Slides
Building websites using React.js and WordPress API By: Mitko Kockovski Slides
Integration of Constant Contact API into WordPress (WooCommerce). Descriptions below By: Tom Walsh Slides
Make Money with WordPress for Bloggers By: Nile Flores Slides – Video
Manage your WordPress Business Reputation and Online Reviews. How to move past Negative Reviews and add Positive Spin to your Business. By: Maximiliano Lopez Slides – Video
Accidental Business Owner: Now What? By: Mike Demo Slides
Creating Your Web Presence with the End in Mind By: A.D. Cook Slides
How I Grew To 4 Million Website Visitors By: Matt Campbell Slides
WordPress at the Heart of Your Strategy By: David Mayne Slides
Your SEO depends on web accessibility and you didn’t even know it By: Joseph LoPreste Slides – Video
Membership sites with MemberPress – Don’t Leave Out the Marketing! By: Todd Huish Slides – Video
Inclusive Content Strategy By: AmyJune Hineline Slides – Video
Plugin Development in a Block Editor World By: Joshua Copeland Slides
Building a Business Website Using Elementor By: Michael Cremean Video
I Installed a Security Plugin. Now What? By: Scott Miller Slides – Video
How to Outshine Your Competition in Our Exploding WordPress Market By: Beth Livingston Slides
Optimizing your Site With Yoast SEO By: Kenny Eliason Video
What you thought you knew about WordPress security! By: Rob Marlbrough Video
Lucky 7 – Don’T Do Anything Until You Hear This WordPress Presentation By: Joe A Simpson Jr. Video
Backward Compatibility Is Good For WordPress, Not Mental Health. By: Bridget Willard Video
She Said, He Said: Hackers’ Guide To Coding By: Shelby Sapusek, Jim Raffel Video
Let’s keep it real: there wouldn’t be a WordCamp Las Vegas (WCLV) without the generosity of all of our sponsors. We’d like to take a moment to thank them right now.
While you’re soaking up all the knowledge and information available at WCLV, please take a moment to connect with our sponsors and learn more about what they can provide for you, your business, and your WordPress website.
Liquid Web
For over 20 years, Liquid Web has been delivering products, services and support designed specifically for mission-critical sites, stores and applications. Known for our high-performance services and exceptional customer support, we own and manage our own core data centers and provide a diverse range of fully managed hosting offerings, including Managed WordPress, and Managed WooCommerce Hosting. Our recent acquisition of iThemes continues to evolve our service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of our web-reliant, professional customers.
Liquid Web has a dedicated team of WordPress professionals who have been actively involved in the community for years. Beyond contributing code to the WordPress project, they’ve also been speaking at WordCamps, participating in WordPress-related groups and meetups, and creating open-sourced plugins that are used by WordPress users around the globe.
As an industry leader in customer loyalty, we’re known for our secure, reliable, fast, hassle-free hosting, backed by the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™ (24x7x365 by phone, chat or ticket). At Liquid Web, we power content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. Everything we do is about being that partner you can trust.
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress. Sell anything online with the flexibility and freedom of the world’s most popular CMS.
Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise-level eCommerce business WooCommerce gets you set up and selling fast, scaling securely as you grow.
Your content is forever yours and customizable down to the button color. Plus you’re joining a supportive, global community of developers and store owners.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com.
JetPack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites:Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com. Focus on the substance of your site, not the software.
Jetpack security tools automatically shield your site from spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time syncing and backup means never worrying about data loss. Traffic-building tools like easy social sharing help you attract readers and search engines, and pages delivered from a high-speed, global content delivery network mean those readers never bounce because of a slow-loading site.
Jetpack’s Affiliate program gives you 20% every time you sell Jetpack to a customer or client — with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit!
Whether you’re one person with a website or an agency with a dozen clients, Jetpack helps you grow. Make your site work for you at Jetpack.com
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
NS8
NS8 provides behavioral analytics, real-time user scoring and global monitoring to protect against fraud and give businesses better insight into real customers. Our solutions empower merchants to quickly minimize risk, better automate fraud management and approve more uncertain orders with confidence.
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms is an easy tool to create advanced forms for your WordPress powered website.
Running on millions of sites across the globe, Gravity Forms if the top choice for companies such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft. and American Red Cross.
Featuring thousands of official and 3rd-party add-ons, advanced features such as conditional logic, and an incredibly easy-to-use interface, Gravity Forms is the perfect solution WordPress sites of all sizes.
Revelry
Revelry is a digital innovation lab that transforms processes to keep businesses reaching their full potential. We use technology to bring your ideas to market quickly and make a real impact on your immediate company goals.
At Revelry Labs we work with a range of clientele, from small businesses and startups to large, publicly-traded companies.
We are more than mobile and web development – We deliver true business development.
GreenGeeks
Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, automatic install/renewal of Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates, SSD RAID-10, storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.
Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.
GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.
GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.
When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.
9seeds
At 9seeds, WordCamps are in our DNA. It was at the first WordCamp Las Vegas in January 2009 that the founders of 9seeds met and became fast friends. 8 months later they decided to join forces and start 9seeds, a agency focused exclusively on custom WordPress development. We’re still going strong 10 years later!
A decade later we all remain developers at heart throughly enjoy building custom themes and plugins, as well as just bending existing code to fit the specific needs of our clients. Along the way we’ve also developed some themes and plugins we offer for sale, be sure to check out our catalog of WordPress themes and plugins!
We don’t stop with WordCamps, we contribute to core, organize and speak at local WordPress meetups, giving back to the brilliant community in as many ways as we can. When you see our team at WordCamp or Meetup, please do swing by and say hello. We’d love to make a new friend!
DreamHost
Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.
LifterLMS
LifterLMS helps online course creators convert their expertise and life experiences into income by creating impactful online courses. If you are an expert, teacher, coach, trainer or just interested in building an online business based on what you know, check out the engaging learning platform and coaching programs you can create with this powerful WordPress LMS.
Maintainn
Founded in 2012, Maintainn provides professional WordPress maintenance, hosting, small business web design, custom development and support services, including 24/7 security monitoring, daily offsite backups, weekly updates to WordPress core, themes, and plugins,and a dedicated WordPress support desk.
The team at Maintainn is composed of active members in the WordPress community, who have multiple plugins listed in the WordPress repository, have contributed to WordPress core, and organize/speak at many WordCamp conferences worldwide.
Mark Institute
“be excellent to each other”
Well, WTF?
A podcast with Kri & John.
Eleanor Prior
Whatness Websites & Words
Whatness Websites & Words specializes in executive level WordPress website design and development along with building custom content strategies for small businesses. Co-owners Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek strive to provide unique digital and print solutions for their clients. While Shelby uses her creative journalism and graphic design background to produce engaging and customized websites, Jim focuses on the measurable results of the work they do with their customers. Together, they build websites to generate more leads and bring in new business.
Quadshot
Quadshot Digital (‘Quadshot’) is a web consultancy based in Las Vegas, NV with experts in WordPress, WooCommerce and other open-source technologies. Since 2009, Quadshot has delivered high-availability solutions, serving over 1 Billion page views a month across a growing client base. Technology Consulting Services include providing companies with expertise Specification, Responsive Design, Architecture, Web Security, Code Management and Deployment, Maintenance and Support.
Quadshot also is strong supporter of the WordPress and WooCommerce communities, with CEO Michael Cremean supporting WordPress Meetups, founding and co-organizing the Las Vegas WooCommerce Meetup, and speaking at WordCamps and Business Conferences.
Site Smart Marketing is nothing like your average internet marketing and website design company. We get just as excited about blowing up small businesses as we do about marketing a large enterprise. Our Las Vegas based company was founded in 2010 by Kira Krostag and partners as a small team of three. It now employs over 20 team members.
Our team is comprised of online marketing consultants, Google Ads experts, SEO geeks, content writers, graphic designers, website designers, and coders. We build WordPress websites to maximize SEO strategies, not just to build them.
We’re a little silly, a little different, a little unique. If you want to deal with real humans, that’s our vibe. Education is a major part of the process. Our clients only thought they needed a web designer, but they ended up with a business consultant and friend for life.
Next weekend’s WordCamp Las Vegas (WCLV) belongs to the people who plan for it today. Have you checked out the published schedule and planned which talks you’re attending and when? Visit our Schedule page and get to planning.
Don’t forget about the after-party happening on Saturday the 7th after the last session of the day. Just head up to the 5th Floor of The Plaza and go to The Pool at the Plaza. Bring your WCLV badge to receive free entry. The area will be well-shaded, but dress for warm weather anyway. You can even bring your swimwear.
We’re really looking forward to seeing you at WordCamp Las Vegas. Let’s learn, share, and connect. See you then!
The excitement builds as we draw closer and closer to WordCamp Las Vegas (WCLV). Comments like, “Yay!” and, “Can’t wait to see everyone,” are being made on social media as attendees, speakers, and sponsors express how eager they are to connect in person. We are, too. Without further ado, WCLV is proud to finish off our speaker announcements with this final round, which includes our very own lead organizer. A few tickets are still available. We’ll see you soon!
John Hawkins
John Hawkins has been building things on the internet for over two decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully immersed in it ever since.
John was the organizer of the first WordCamp conference in Las Vegas in 2009 and has been involved with organizing it (almost) every year since. John has a passion for teaching others to use WordPress. He founded and organizes the monthly Las Vegas WordPress meetup where he’s a frequent presenter and has traveled the country speaking at WordPress conferences from coast-to-coast.
During sun-soaked days, Joe works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their lead developer and CSS specialist both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history. Over ten years later, he manages a WordPress blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites and growing.
Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted on all things WordPress, leveraging his creative past, teaching tech, and truly giving back by sharing his story of re-igniting your dreams. He actively contributes the WordPress Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps.
In April, he was Lead Organizer for his brainchild, WordCamp Santa Clarita, was the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco in over five years.
Michael Cremean is the Founder and CEO of Quadshot. Michael has led teams of over 70 people and managed complex technology product launches over the last 20 years. He has led efforts launching products in many markets, including wireless, mobile, robotics, online learning, gaming and streaming media.
He has six patents, plays a few musical instruments and consumes a lot of coffee. He lives in Las Vegas with a couple dogs named Sally and Maggie, who are the official corporate mascots of Quadshot. Mike also sits on the board of a couple nonprofit organizations and believes in helping people.
Our schedule is set and we have more speakers to introduce. Get familiar with these experts and professionals, all of whom have impressive backgrounds and a wealth of information to share with WordCamp attendees. We still have tickets left, although not a lot. Get yours now!
Steve Pavlina
Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers in the world, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to StevePavlina.com. He’s the author of Personal Development for Smart People, the founder of Conscious Growth Club, and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He has written more than 1300 articles, and they’re all uncopyrighted, so his work has been re-published and translated extensively. Before working in this field, he was a computer game developer for 10 years.
Steve is probably best known for doing unusual personal growth experiments and sharing what he learns for the benefit of others. Some previous experiments include doing polyphasic sleep for five and a half months, eating 100% raw foods for six months, water fasting for 40 days with daily video updates, and going to Disneyland for 30 days in a row.
Darcey Hall is the founder and CEO of GoalDen Solutions, a digital marketing agency with a “whole Den of Solutions to help Nonprofits reach their Goals!” For over 20 years, Darcey’s worked in the marketing teams of international and local businesses alike. She has a passion for helping others and has consistently been marketing for nonprofits she’s involved with.
In 2004, Darcey built her first Yahoo GeoCities website for her local Kiwanis Club and advanced her HTML skills sprucing on MySpace pages, lol. After moving to Las Vegas and starting her own agency, she became a regular at WordPress Meetups in 2017, attended WordCamp Phoenix, and has spoken at WooCommerce and Digital Marketing Meetups.
Todd got bitten by the WordPress bug after attending the inaugural Las Vegas WordCamp all the way back in 2009. After attending 6 more camps that year, he decided that programming for WordPress sites, full time, was the lifestyle he’d always wanted. After spending over 20 years in Las Vegas, he recently left for the damper climes of the Pacific Northwest and spends his time cursing the sunny days and learning how to deal with nature.
Todd is most comfortable staring at a terminal, making plugins and APIs do unnatural things, and trying to ignore the front end as much as possible. No one is more shocked than he is to find out how much marketing knowledge he collected after two decades of programming with PHP.
Maximiliano Lopez, known as Max, has been in making money online since Frontpage 98. He realized he could leverage FAQs and would only have to answer them once and refer clients to the site.
He later became a Powerseller on eBay selling parts online, an online salvage yard. This gave him his passion in eCommerce and online business. During this time he completed a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swinburne University.
Fast forward 20 so years and Max became the founder of Lobo Digital Solutions, an Online Reputation Management Firm working with Gurus in the Real Estate industry and Politicians.
The day draws near and we have more speakers to announce and brag about. We are delighted to have such a smart group of experts participate in WordCamp Las Vegas (WCLV) , generously donating their time and sharing their expertise. We know you’ll benefit greatly from their talks. Tickets are still available. Get yours now. See the full WCLV schedule here.
David Ryan
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supporting the WordPress community.
In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and universities, scaling high-traffic WordPress sites by blending his skills in information design, journalism and web development.
Dave lives in Phoenix, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
Sheridan Scott is the Director of Customer Lifecycle Management for Bluehost web hosting, where she develops and maintains communications and marketing strategies for the Bluehost customer base. Spanning a career of over 15 years in publishing, communications, and marketing, she works and lives by the motto “Content is King,” and wields her red pen in the name of grammatical correctness.
Sheridan’s hobbies include arguing the importance of the Oxford comma to anyone who will listen, attending local poetry slams, and proofreading billboards while riding in cars.
Mitko Kockovski aims for perfection and is eager to expand his knowledge and skill base, so he always looks forward to new challenges. His love for WordPress and the need to stay up to date has driven him to attend WordPress Conferences all over Europe. He’s also benefited from his connection to the small but growing WordPress community in Macedonia. He likes to give back to the WordPress community by adding plugins and helping with core updates. Last year, he founded webpigment.com where they specialize in Woocommerce themes and plugins.
With a love for all things marketing and communications, Laura Coronado is a communications specialist at WebDevStudios where she manages the blogs, website content, and social media profiles for the WordPress design and development agency and its family of brands. She also runs her own women’s lifestyle blog at LollieShopping.com and freelances as a travel writer covering Las Vegas. She’s writing a book and launching a podcast about divorce, dating, and how there are no nice guys.
Scott is a computer consultant with over 25 years experience and owner of Geeks On The Go. From single computers to military networks and from Excel macros to Web applications for casinos, Scott has worked on them all.
He is a regular contributor to the greynoi.se podcast and has a GSEC certification from SANS Institute.
Just weeks away, WordCamp Las Vegas is coming together! We’ve finalized our schedule of talks and events and our speakers. So, let’s keep our announcements going with Round 4—an impressive group of marketers, developers, and business owners. Tickets are still available. Get yours now!
Bridget Willard
Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant who brings her teaching and accounting background together to help small businesses. She began her marketing career in construction, then worked in franchise development, nonprofits, and tech. She is especially known for her brand building for Riggins Construction, GiveWP, and the Make WordPress Marketing Team.
Bridget co-hosts WPblab with Jason Tucker — a podcast and live YouTube show on the WPwatercooler network. Besides speaking at WordCamps near and far, Bridget was an organizer for Los Angeles for a few years and Orange County since 2017.
When she’s not writing about marketing or social media, she is spending time with her friends, changing her hair style, learning languages on Duolingo, or walking by the ocean. Say hi to her on Twitter and check out her site at bridgetwillard.com.
Joshua Copeland has been building software for over a decade. Using the skills he has developed over the years with the help of great mentors; he can build systems from A-Z. His main focus has been PHP over the last seven years and continues to use the language everyday via great frameworks like WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, and more. DevOps and other architectural topics are also of importance to his craft. He is very active with the community at large and has been hosting the PHP Vegas Meetup for over four years. Over the last year, he has been building RemoteDevForce.com (a remote software development shop) and is blessed to work with very talented programmers. When he isn’t coding, he is spending time with his beautiful wife and 2 adorable kids. Come say hello if you catch him around!
Desiree is a passionate writer and storyteller who advocates for diverse and multiracial audiences. She currently works as a WordPress Content Specialist for Bluehost and enjoys helping users learn more about WordPress through blogs, webinars, and media content. She considers herself a walking IMDB and loves to talk about anything pop culture and movie related.
Tom has been a Certified Constant Contact Solution Provider since 2015. A marketing expert with 40 years of experience, he has helped small businesses and nonprofits achieve meaningful marketing results through Inbound Marketing practices centered around WordPress websites. In-depth knowledge of email marketing with Constant Contact offerings and an integration with WooCommerce helps to grow client’s businesses.
Former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host, Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Before coming to BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years building a strong client base in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight and has spoken on various open source topics including WordPress and Joomla! (where he was a board member) in addition to marketing related talks which include A/B testing content. Be sure to say hi to Mike on Twitter.
We’re off to a great start! Last week, we announced Round 2 of our speakers, and now it’s time to announce Round 3. This latest round of speakers includes experts in both technology and business—all of whom have a wealth of information and knowledge to share.
Be sure to also check out Round 1 of our speakers. Tickets to WordCamp Las Vegas 2019 are still available. Get yours now. Take some time to get to know our latest round of speakers.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel has been working in tech and open-source since 2005. Once he dipped a toe into the world of free and open-source software, he knew he never wanted to work outside of it again. Over his years of sales and marketing roles, including Developer Advocate at a Pantheon, he developed a passion for optimizing business processes and project workflows. He has since founded Process Digital Consulting to focus on helping people design internal procedures to improve productivity. A a speaker, Dwayne has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.
Beth built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and soon began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long history as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager, Beth left the corporate world to become a full-time WordPress Coach and Designer and now also enjoys providing real-life project management skills training for other WordPress solution providers via WP Roadmaps and Coaching.
Beth is the author of “The Complete Project Management Roadmap for WordPress” framework and training program, administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group, and serves as an organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group where she has hosted several “happiness bar” type events for those needing help.
Beth enjoys teaching and has presented talks at various WordCamps across the country, the Triad WordPress Meetup, and has taught project management classes at Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center in Greensboro NC.
In her spare time, what there is of it, Beth also enjoys singing in her church choir, visiting live music venues and occasionally acting and singing in local theater productions.
Joe LoPreste is co-owner of a WP development company StPeteDesign based out of Tamp Bay, Florida. and he is the father of two amazing girls that bring balance to his life. He brings more than 12 years of business and technology experience to the team.
He is very passionate about inclusive design for WordPress and considers himself a web accessibility advocate. He travels around the US giving presentations to WordPress developers, designers, and agencies about web accessibility and how easy it is to be and stay compliant. He stubbornly believes that he can make a difference. One website at a time! He is very active in the WordPress community and loves helping grow it. He co-organizes the WP Tampa Meetup group and is very active in the WordPress St. Pete meetup group. He regularly offers his time and knowledge of web accessibility for free to nonprofits and to anybody who asks.
Kim D. Snyder is a business growth expert. She spent 20+ years as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies in business growth, strategy, and transformation.
She is the founder of Online Marketing In A Box and Kim D Snyder, where both organizations work with business executives, leaders and owners to create more opportunities and profits faster.
She enjoys spending time with her husband Rob, friends and family in Las Vegas and San Diego. You can catch Kim enjoying a glass of red wine or taking a walk or finding the latest gadget. She is currently working on a book.
Rob Marlbrough is Chief Developer at Press Wizards, a WordPress design and development agency. He is a past sponsor and speaker at multiple WordCamp San Diego events, and has just recently moved to Las Vegas. He also owns WPSiteDr.com, a leading WordPress maintenance/security provider, and 5 Star Plugins, a leading WordPress plugin development company. He is the creator and Lead Admin of the WordPress Hosting group on Facebook (member size: 12,500+), and a past admin on the Advanced WordPress Group on Facebook (member size: 32,300+).
After announcing Round 1 of the speakers for WordCamp Las Vegas 2019, we are ecstatic to announce Round 2! If you haven’t already purchased your WordCamp Las Vegas ticket, getting to know our second round of speakers will convince you to do so now.
Amy Kamala Fiske
As a WordPress Technician, Amy has been dedicated to facilitating the success of WordPress users around the globe for the past five years. In support of open source, she acts as a WordPress.org hosting contributor; assisting with #hosting-community team organization. Amy was born and raised in Venice Beach, California and is a mother of two. With an MFA from UCLA, you can also catch her artwork in galleries and festivals in Southern California and beyond.
David Mayne is the Digital Strategist and COO for PIMedia LLC (pimedia.me), a Las Vegas digital marketing agency. He has extensive experience as a WordPress designer and he is certified in multiple marketing technologies. His career began in corporate computing and business application development. Today, he leads his team in website design and strategy for business marketing and is a “Digital Marketing Turn Around” specialist. He takes under or non-performing digital campaigns and re-engineers them into marketing machines for businesses and brands.
Shelby spent 17 years in the newspaper industry as a graphic designer for print. Then 10 years ago, she started her own WordPress website development business. She creates executive level website designs along with custom content strategies for small businesses. Along the way, she’s picked up some techniques to circumvent design and navigation issues while still providing unique customized solutions for clients.
Jim started his first WordPress blog in the middle of 2005. He quickly learned his way around the backend to create the look and feel he desired. Later he used his Linux and programming past to hack code together in an effort to get even closer to his vision of a perfect website. In 2010 Jim began partnering with Shelby and quickly learned that Comic Sans was not a good choice for, well anything! Working together from that point on, Jim has managed the backend technology of as many as 20 websites while Shelby takes care of the front-end design, typography, and most importantly proofreading. Jim also has a few other businesses he’s involved with and in all those businesses one of his key focuses is driving sales which he prefers to call business development.
Matt Campbell has been in Internet marketing since 2003. For the past 5-1/2 years, he works at Horizon Web Marketing building and maintaining WordPress websites, managing PPC programs, link building, and implementing SEO.
In his spare time, Matt continues his passion for music and weddings by creating and managing a WordPress website, My Wedding Songs. The website has grown to more than 4 million annual visitors and is ranked as the 16th best wedding blog in the world by Feedspot.
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