Video Highlight

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/03/10

Posted on Friday, March 10th, 2017 at 11:23 am by John Parkinson

On March 1st, Bridget Willard of the Marketing Team made a call to action and asked for Meetup Video Testimonials.

“Can you take a few moments to record a video testimonial with one of the attendees at each of your meetups? Nothing fancy, no special cameras, microphones or glaring lights. Just a camera phone and a good, honest story that will inspire others as they search for how to use WordPress for their own projects.”

In just a few days three videos testimonials have been published on WordPress TV.

Meetup Testimonial Costa Rica

This video is interesting in that hearing impaired people who participated in the WordCamp San Jose 2016 and 2017 meetups gave testimonies.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/09/meetup-testimonial-costa-rica/

WordPress Meetup Chandigarh

Two videos came out of this meetup.

Alok Jain and his WordPress Story

http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/05/alok-jain-alok-jain-wordpress-story/

Man Deep’s WordPress Story

http://wordpress.tv/2017/03/05/man-deep-man-deeps-wordpress-story/

Another member of the Marketing Team, Dave Navarro, says that impromptu videos are best.

“I work for a TV and Radio station in the midwest and I can tell you, from experience, that unpolished raw video has more of an impact on most people in social media than polished professional video.”

With all of the devices that are available to record video, don’t be afraid to take a few minutes to shoot testimonials and upload to WordPress TV.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/03/03

Posted on Friday, March 3rd, 2017 at 1:42 pm by John Parkinson

I think everybody would agree that there is some great content on WordPress TV BUT have you ever checked out the How To page?

Two of the most frequent contributors of How To videos are denisco and Jose Fremaint.

Обзор плагина Disable Comments. Отключаем комментарии на всем сайте.

A few days ago denisco submitted this video and talks about disabling comments.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/02/15/denisco-обзор-плагина-disable-comments-отключаем-коммент/

How To Add Additional CSS To Your WordPress Theme

Jose talks about adding CSS to you theme and the benefits of doing so.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/26/jose-fremaint-how-to-add-additional-css-to-your-wordpress-theme/

If you are interested in submitting a How To video, please feel free. Most computers have the ability to record screencast. A decent microphone completes the setup. There are plenty of of open source video editing programs available. Check the WordPress TV Submission Guidelines for details.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/02/24

Posted on Friday, February 24th, 2017 at 10:24 am by John Parkinson

The WordPress TV Team wants to give a shout out to the WordPress Weekly podcast hosts Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch. In their latest episode, they have started to highlight videos that have been published on WordPress TV. You can listen to WordPress Weekly Episode 264 here. Many thanks to Jeff and Marcus, we appreciate all of your hard work!

Child Themes

Even though this is a slow time of the year as far as videos being submitted, there is still a lot of great content that is worth mentioning.

This week we are going to feature two videos that discuss Child Themes. If you have been involved in WordPress for even a short amount of time, you have heard the benefits of using a child theme. You can read an article from the WordPress Codex here.

Nick Adams: Getting Started with Child Themes

At WordCamp Montreal Nick explains what child themes are and why they should be used. He then shows how to create a child theme using both a plugin as well as manually creating a new directory and putting in a custom style.css and functions.php file.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/02/nick-adams-getting-started-with-child-themes-2/

Torsten Landsiedel: The Child-Theme-Dilemma

From WordCamp Milano, Torsten has a presentation talk for people who don’t want to be a beginner any longer and need to be intermediates. Including a plugin solution.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/02/torsten-landsiedel-the-child-theme-dilemma/

Slides for this presentation can be found here.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/02/17

Posted on Friday, February 17th, 2017 at 11:19 am by John Parkinson

There are a lot of great stories out there in WordPress Land! Ever since I was a kid (long, long ago in a land far away), I have had an interest in life stories. If you do a search for “life” on the WordPress TV website, you will find several videos available for viewing.

Jeff Matson: How the WordPress Community Changed My Life

I had the pleasure of sitting in on Jeff’s presentation at WordCamp Kent 2016 and a few months later, interviewed him for WordPress TV. Jeff talks about his accidental fall into the WordPress community, how it has changed both his personal and professional life forever (and has the cool tattoo to prove it).

http://wordpress.tv/2016/06/20/jeff-matson-how-the-wordpress-community-changed-my-life/

Ricky Blacker: How WordPress Changed My Life!

This video comes to us from WordCamp Sydney 2016. Ricky tells his story of how he became involved with WordPress, the WordPress community and also how attending WordCamp Sydney 2014 changed my life.

He gives examples of how giving back to WordPress can be beneficial in many ways, and also hopefully inspire those just embarking on their WordPress journey to follow their dreams.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/02/04/ricky-blacker-how-wordpress-changed-my-life/

Slides for this presentation can be found HERE.

Visit WordPress TV for more great videos.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/02/10

Posted on Friday, February 10th, 2017 at 6:27 pm by John Parkinson

This week we are featuring two presentations about e-commerce.

According to Wikipedia,”E-commerce is a transaction of buying or selling online. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web for at least one part of the transaction’s life cycle although it may also use other technologies such as e-mail.”

2016 total retail sales across the globe are estimated to have reached $22.049 trillion, up 6.0% from the previous year, according to eMarketer. They estimate that sales will top $27 trillion in 2020.

Since 2010 there have been 179 videos published on WordPress TV that are related to e-commerce.

The videos below come from WordCamps Stockholm and Ann Arbor .

Ulrich Pogson: Building Multilingual e-Commerce Sites

Ulrich recently built wpzoo.ch to sell a few WordPress products. It is available in English and German. He covers the challenges and decisions that were needed to make and how it has worked out for him.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/04/ulrich-pogson-building-multilingual-e-commerce-sites/

Andrew Wikel: Ecommerce Fundamentals

Andrew answers audience questions and provides advice for those interested in getting started with ecommerce.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/14/andrew-wikel-ecommerce-fundamentals/

There are lots of awesome e-commerce videos available on WordPress TV, which can be found HERE.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/02/03

Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2017 at 7:56 pm by John Parkinson

The two videos featured this week will have a different look when you watch them.

The WordPress TV Team has started the process of making videos available on YouTube. The official WordPress TV YouTube Channel can be seen HERE. Currently there are 200 videos available for viewing, with more being uploaded every day. The videos are grouped into Playlists to make them easier to find. The majority of videos are from WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US.

Lesley Molecke: Changing the world, one WordPress at a time – Building a firm serving nonprofits

Lesley is the co-founder of a boutique WordPress agency, Cornershop Creative, which focuses on helping nonprofit and small business customers set and meet their goals online.

Prior to founding Cornershop Creative, Lesley managed enterprise-level CMS rollouts for both the City of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Public Schools (one of the largest districts in the US) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lesley and her co-founders have turned a pipe dream of a business into a reality that employs 10 remote employees, and helps more than 100 nonprofit customers each year.

Maile Ohye: A View From Google – The Latest in Google And Google

Hear Google’s latest stats on searcher and mobile trends, as well as how we’re trying to connect searchers with good content. Maile joined Google in 2005.She works on Google Search as a Developer Programs Tech Lead. A few of her projects include rel=”canonical” (co-author of the IETF RFC), and rel=”next” and rel=”prev” for paginated content.

Prior to Google, Maile was a systems integrator specializing in content management systems for organizations including AT&T and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She earned a B.A. in Cognitive Science with a Computer Science emphasis from the University of California at Berkeley.

WordPress TV has received videos recorded by individuals in the past few weeks. Yea! These were videos from WordCamps, Meetups and How To’s. If you are interested in submitting a video, please read the guidelines HERE.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/01/27

Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2017 at 11:08 am by John Parkinson

This week is a little different in that the videos shown were not recorded at WordCamps. The first two videos were submitted by individuals and the third came from a Meetup.

If you are interested in submitting WordPress related videos to WordPress TV, you can read the submission guidelines here. To upload a video click here. The maximum upload file size is 1GB. You can upload the following video formats:avi – mov/qt – mpeg/mpg- mp4 – ogv – wmv – 3gp/3g2.

Isabelle Garcia: WordCamp Asia Coming Soon?

Isabelle Garcia recorded this video at WordCamp US. She originally asked “What is your WordPress wish list for 2017?”

A few interesting conversations arose around the growth of the Asian WordPress community. Some of the main representatives of this community were present at WCUS and they shared with us their hopes for a “WordCamp Asia.” Probably not in 2017, but hopefully in 2018, as they all explain in this video.

https://wordpress.tv/2017/01/26/isabelle-garcia-wordcamp-asia-coming-soon/

denisco: Управление оформлением виджетов WordPress с помощью плагина Widget CSS Classes

denisco submitted this Russian language video and talks about design management WordPress widget with the plugin Widget CSS Classes.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/13/denisco-управление-оформлением-виджетов-wordpress/

Nikola Randjelovic: WordPress Starter Survival Kit for Developers

This video was recorded at the WordPress Nis Meetup in Nis, Serbia. Nikola talks about creating themes and plugins and the tools you might need.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/14/nikola-randjelovic-wordpress-starter-survival-kit-for-developers/

As you can see, a lot of great content is being created by individuals. If you have an interest in recording a video, plug in a microphone and give it a try. As Corey Miller said at WordCamp Dayton 2014, “Just Click Publish.”

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/01/20

Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2017 at 11:22 am by John Parkinson

Even though January is a slow time of the year as far as WordCamps and videos being submitted, there is still plenty of presentations to choose from that can be highlighted. As of today, 1,529 videos have been published from 2016.

Angie Meeker: WordPress 101 – What IS WordPress Anyway?

Angie Meeker gave 5 WP 101 sessions throughout the day at WordCamp Cincinnati 2016.

WordPress 101 is a full-day workshop designed for those who are just getting started with WordPress, or who may not even have a WordPress website yet.

https://wordpress.tv/2017/01/07/angie-meeker-wordpress-101-what-is-wordpress-anyway/

Petar Atanasovski: The Art of Proactive Support

Support is more important today more than ever before. People expect an answer NOW! At WordCamp Belgrade 2016, Peter discusses how vital support is to an agency and how you can be prepared to give it.

We will talk about growing your WordPress customer base by proactively improving the experience of your customers. I will introduce best practices for providing Proactive Customer Support for a WordPress startup and the impact it has on your WordPress business.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/28/petar-atanasovski-the-art-of-proactive-support/

Slides for this presentation can be found HERE.

For more videos, go to WordPress TV.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/01/13

Posted on Friday, January 13th, 2017 at 10:25 pm by John Parkinson

In the past year WordPress Meetup Groups have grown to 374 groups in 58 countries (this is up from 38 countries in 2015).

If you are interested in starting a WordPress Meetup in your area, you can find guidelines HERE on the Community page.

The videos featured today are from WordCamps held in 2016 – Denpasar and Europe. Both videos discuss how to organize and experience continued growth in a Meetup group.

Mayo Moriyama: Organizing a Meetup in Your City

Attending and organizing local Meetups is a great and enjoyable way to learn a lot of things!

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/05/mayo-moriyama-organizing-a-meetup-in-your-city/

Dee Teal: Keys to Growing and Developing your WordPress Meetup

Once you’ve started a WordPress Meetup the early rush of having people show up and participate is great, but once you’ve started, how do you keep building momentum?

http://wordpress.tv/2016/07/03/dee-teal-keys-growing-developing-wordpress-meetup/

For more WordCamp videos, go to WordPress TV.

WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/01/06

Posted on Friday, January 6th, 2017 at 3:24 pm by John Parkinson

With the announcement from WordCamp Central about the Incubator Program in February of 2016 and then three locations being chosen for the program, I thought featuring videos from WordCamp Harare and WordCamp Denpasar would highlight the progress that these Communities have made.

Sizo Sinyolo: When Time Says No, WordPress Says Yes

Talk about pressure! Sizo was tasked with creating an E-commerce WordPress site and didn’t know anything about WordPress!

“I had never used WordPress until pressure mounted on me as an internship student , the company wanted the website up and running within a week.”

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/03/sizo-sinyolo-when-time-says-no-wordpress-says-yes/

Presentation Slides can be seen HERE.

Wibowo Sulistio: Leveling up through Pro Bono dev work

“Pro bono work is fun and rewarding. It is also a great way to level up your WordPress prowess and reputation, either as a freelance developer or as part of a digital agency. When you give back to society, you receive back as much, if not more.”

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/05/wibowo-sulistio-leveling-up-though-pro-bono-dev-work/

For more great videos, visit WordPress TV.