Dave Navarro is the Digital Media Director for WIBW Radio in Topeka, Kansas and KGNC Radio in Amarillo, Texas where he builds WordPress web sites for the radio industry. He has specialized in mobile web development using PHP and CSS to build plugins and child-themes for WordPress. He is engaged to the love of his life, with whom he shares custody of their dog, Zoey.

Hometown: Topeka, Kan.

Contact: navarraojr.com | @dnavarrojr

Session: Improving the Mobile Experience

Responsive themes are great and they shift the data on your pages around to fit smaller devices, but they don’t optimize your pages for mobile devices. And Google now ranks mobile separately from desktop. So a high SEO rating on desktop does not mean a high rating on mobile.

I’ll show you some great plugins and tricks to optimize your site for mobile and even present data differently on a desktop vs mobile site.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Tyler Golberg is a commodity trader by day and web design enthusiast by night. He started programming websites in 2005 working on bigger projects, like HomeSpot HQ. In 2011 he started using WordPress and discovered a love of using the platform to help small businesses and organizations find a home on the web.

Hometown: Alexandria, Minn.

Contact: cybersprout.net | @cybersproutnet

Session: Search Engine Optimization for WordPress

We will cover:

• difference between onpage and offpage SEO
• general WP settings for SEO
• helpful plugins
• picking a keyword
• headers, alt tags, internal linking, meta tags
• categories vs tags

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Hi, I’m a full-stack developer and open tech evangelist. I’m a developer at the design company Grain & Mortar, and I’m Director of New Media at AIGA Nebraska, an organization focused on connecting designers.

I’m passionate about educating people on the direction tech has been, and is going, through good design.

Wearables, The Internet of Things, location-based services, mobile, and serendipitous social discovery: Those are my focuses among others, and tend to be grouped into the term “context.”

Hometown: Omaha, Neb.

Contact: williamriley.me | @bill_riley

Session: WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress is a great framework, but other frameworks have great ideas inside of them. In this talk, we’ll take a comparative look at the tools and philosophies in WordPress, and compare these to other PHP, Ruby, and .NET frameworks and how we can take advantage of those inside of WordPress right now.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Dan Beil has been working with WordPress since 2009 and loves focusing on clean and performant code.  At Alley Interactive, he spends his time making enterprise level themes and plugins for large media clients.  His free time is mostly taken up with his two Siberian Huskies, video games, and the “joy” of home ownership.

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.

Contact: alleyinteractive.com | @add_action_dan

Session: Theme Building (The Right Way)

So you know how to write a theme, but do you know how to organize one? Let’s look at some techniques you can use to keep your code separated into logical groups, make it more reusable, and help you sleep better at night. This will not only help you to better maintain your projects, but it will also help with collaboration and the general speed of your work. Whether you are just starting to write themes and plugins, or have been doing it for years, these practices will add to your development chops.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

I am a designer and a developer. I spend my time creating new and exciting things with WordPress and am a Core Contributor. Since I was 8 years old I have been obsessed with design and programming. I worked in advertising from the age of 15 to 22 and since then I have shifted my focus to the world wide web and am working at WP Engine to make WordPress more awesome!

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Contact: antpb.com | @antpb

Session: Helping Core

This talk will highlight the many different ways to give back to Core WordPress. At a high level I will go over the core trac ticketing system and how to talk within tickets. I will even be diving into Vagrant and show how to set up a development environment and create a patch. This talk will take some of the ambiguity out of contributing to Core and focus mainly on teaching how to do the little things that lead to bigger impacts.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!