{"id":772,"date":"2018-04-24T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/?p=772"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:26:07","slug":"need-a-good-topic-so-you-can-apply-to-speak-at-wordcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/need-a-good-topic-so-you-can-apply-to-speak-at-wordcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Need A Good Topic So You Can Apply to Speak at WordCamp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/04\/topics-blog-image-550px-300px.jpg\" alt=\"Topics for WordCamp 2018 Sacramento\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/04\/topics-blog-image-550px-300px.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/04\/topics-blog-image-550px-300px-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/04\/topics-blog-image-550px-300px-500x273.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Sacramento is happening September 15-16, 2018 at the Sacramento Convention Center and we\u2019re expecting the largest attendance yet.<\/p>\n<p>The event details are coming together, and I am so excited about this year\u2019s event! So many awesome things are in the works, like a WordPress contribution day and two days of Beginner Tracks, actually teaching attendees how to use WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/03\/30\/call-for-speakers\/\"><strong>Call for Speakers<\/strong><\/a> opened last week and I have already heard from several members of our community that they are interested in applying to speak, but aren\u2019t sure what topic would be best. Well, don\u2019t fret! We have some ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Topics WordCamp Sacramento Is Interested In<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Sacramento will be offering a carefully-planned two-day beginner track as well as two mixed tracks of sessions across Saturday and Sunday. For our mixed tracks, we are open to all topics focused around WordPress, we\u2019re specifically looking for talks on (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web design\/UX\/UI<\/li>\n<li>E-commerce<\/li>\n<li>Membership sites<\/li>\n<li>Online courses<\/li>\n<li>Learning management systems<\/li>\n<li>Typography<\/li>\n<li>Gutenberg<\/li>\n<li>Blogging<\/li>\n<li>GDPR<\/li>\n<li>Traffic Generation and SEO<\/li>\n<li>WP REST API<\/li>\n<li>Email marketing and list building with WordPress<\/li>\n<li>WordPress security<\/li>\n<li>WordPress performance<\/li>\n<li>Plugins and tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: If submitting a talk on plugins and tools, please understand that we\u2019re looking for talks that give the audience exposure to multiple options, so they can choose what is best for them. For example: Pick a focus like \u201cform plugins\u201d and compare\/contrast\/cover multiple options like Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, WP Forms, Contact Form 7, etc. If covering premium\/paid plugins, remember to add at least one free option as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Sacramento is happening September 15-16, 2018 at the Sacramento Convention Center and we\u2019re expecting the largest attendance yet. The event details are coming together, and I am so excited about this year\u2019s event! So many awesome things are in the works, like a WordPress contribution day and two days of Beginner Tracks, actually teaching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/need-a-good-topic-so-you-can-apply-to-speak-at-wordcamp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Need A Good Topic So You Can Apply to Speak at WordCamp?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16002216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9umQf-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16002216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}