 So my topic today, like I said, is turning our passion into income with wordpress. Many of us here are teachers, some are doctors, others are coders. So some of us have our passions in our professions. Some of us have our passions outside our professions. And then you find that the world is a funny place these days. We are trying to make ends meet in everything that we do. We are complaining salaries are not enough, especially those in my profession. The teachers, they are saying so and so should increase our salaries. And whatever, maybe the government or headmaster should increase our salaries. But what have we done with our passion? So today I want to show you that with wordpress you can increase or you can boost your income. Not necessarily in what you've been doing, but adding to what you've already been doing. I'm a teacher, on top of being a teacher, I'm the appropriate of Eason Ethernet Cafes. The director of Eason School of Computing. I'm happy to serve as the coordinator for the Central Region for the ICT Teacher Association of Uganda. I attended my first word camp in November last year. And a few months down the road I'm here to share my experience. I started, my first blog was with the website for the teachers association which is ICTteachersg.net. That's why I started writing articles on what I do and my experiences in the field of teaching and computer repair and my other businesses. Then I got this, maybe I should also start a blog, an independent blog. An independent blog, different from what I've been blogging in the ICTteachers website. So I started SmallBeansTipsUJ.com. So when I started doing this, I found that maybe I can also earn something if I did something for another person. I was lucky enough to get a client who came and told me he needed a website. Since I had some basics in WordPress, I created for him a website that is freehardscg.org. After doing that and when the guy was happy, yet I was also seeing that the website was kind of lacking for him he was happy. I said, so I can start my own. So right now I'm working on a project not yet completed. www.EasonSchool.com. That's my current project. This is the reason why many of us record. Some will deny, but we want to survive. We want to make money. We want to make ends meet. And many, many other reasons. And the need to supplement our incomes, like I said, keeps on rising. So let's use our passion in conjunction with what we are doing, such that maybe we can add another dime inside our pockets. Oprah Winfrey says, If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion, honor your calling, and everybody including you has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you. That's Oprah Winfrey for those who know her. What's your passion? Is it fashion? Is it tech? Is it religion? Travel adventure? Is it teaching? I don't know. Today, WordPress gives you that option. And that's why we are here. For the two days we've been here. We were fortunate some of us last time took us, we spent three days doing things like this in WordPress. What options does WordPress give you? WordPress will help you create websites for clients. With WordPress, you can create your own e-commerce site. With WordPress, you can blog on your own blog, like my small business tips. Or you can use other people's blogs like I do on the ICT teachers website. And many others, I try it out. On your blog also, you can advertise. All these things are being done in the comfort of your office. Maybe you are a banker, you are a doctor, you are a teacher. You don't have to leave your office. You don't have to complain about main bill of salary. You don't have to complain a lot about the inflation. Everyone is feeling the pinch. But you have something inside you that's good for you. That's your passion. Let's try to use WordPress. Now, some of them spoke yesterday. Some of them are just attending. Using WordPress, they have created e-commerce sites. Mahad was here yesterday. His website is abys.com. When I asked on the WordPress community, they gave me even other suggestions. They told me who.com uses WordPress. I was told genfarmacy.com also uses WordPress. I was also told UG gadgets and a lot of others. There are just too many. What are blogs? Go take Uganda was here with us yesterday. Take Georgia is using WordPress. I was with iNachito.wordpress.com. I was with her at the World Camp Camp in 2018. That is in November. Charlotte was with us at the World Camp in Campala. In 2018. That's where I also picked inspiration and said maybe I can start smallbinstrips.com. By the way, don't follow it too much. Think that it has... I'm learning just like you are. And then, another way you can add something to your pocket. If you had a blog or a website using WordPress, the teachers here have a website. ICTteachersUG.net. If you can open the ICTteachers website. That's it. Luckily it's here. Scroll down a bit. When you scroll down, this is the ICTteachers website. And on this website, I wrote an article. This is not my website, it's not my blog. This was simply my article. But this website is getting some money. If you go down, let's go down a bit. Scroll, scroll, scroll. You will see an advert. As more people click on this advert, the website is getting money. And you're still seated in your office. Maybe you are the DOS, the deputy, or an ordinary teacher. Let's go back to our presentation. First up. Like I said, I created my first website in just a month of attending the World Camp in Kampara in November. In December, I already had a client, and here I was. Then, technically, for me, I love preparing computers. I made this master in watching a fine one just to feel it. And then, one day, I wrote an article about end computing still on the Itau website. I was just sharing my experience. I was surprised that I got over 3,000 clicks. This 3,000 clicks didn't give me any money from the clicks, but the calls that came from teachers, both within Uganda and outside. At least they added something to my income. I was doing something out of passion. I was doing it because I had experienced it. I didn't know that indirectly. Some of you are here. You bought some end computing gadgets from me. You wouldn't have known me if I hadn't written this article. I think so. But then, everyone asks, people have ways of getting their money. Why would I choose WordPress? Now, personally, when I look at this graph, in 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. Maybe it wasn't serious. 2012, it went on increasing. We didn't mind. Some of us were still in school. No, I wasn't in school in 2011. But maybe we were skeptical. Then it kept on increasing. And then in 2018, WordPress is powering over 30% of websites. Now, should we say these people are there by mistake? Yes, go on. One thing I like about WordPress, there is a lot of support. The WordPress community. They have meetups, regular meetups. I think it's monthly. The WordPress community has a WhatsApp group here in Uganda. Even in other countries, I belong to these groups. I've not yet attended the meetup. But at least I'm in the groups. You ask a question and someone gives you advice free of charge. There is a website I visit a lot, www.beginner.com. Any question, one day I was talking to Roger. Roger has told me, you go to WB Beginner. You're going to ask a new question. Whatever you're going to ask, someone asks some years ago or maybe months. Then YouTube is there for us. Still people upload videos about their experience and how they are solving anything within WordPress. And then with WordPress, we still have WordPress. These are the reasons why we may prefer WordPress. We are here at a heavily subsidized cost. And when I'm earning, I don't know whether I give WordPress anything. But like you hear, that's one of the reasons I prefer WordPress. And I know they are still organizing more and more. Another reason why I prefer WordPress. That is of use. The installation takes, sometimes I wait five minutes. But when I was doing it with my colleagues yesterday, we spent less than, I think, around a minute or two. And we had installed WordPress. Then WordPress has a lot of things. You're not going to think about something that doesn't exist. Are you starting a website for a hospital, a school, a nursery school, your own blog, a newspaper, a sports page, anything. WordPress has them. Those who don't mind, sorry. At the end of this, you'll ask for a video. I have a video for you on my laptop. Where the guy explained how to create a website is one and a half hours. But in the past 30 minutes of the video, you'll just throw away the video and start making your site. And you'll be comfortable. Let's go ahead. Now, what do you need to create a WordPress site? One thing is, of course, you need a domain. Like www.isonschool.com. You'll need that. Then you'll get a host. Like my host currently is center for web presence. Then you'll install WordPress and then make your first site. You can do this in a day. Let's go ahead and show you. Where will you get domains? Even here among us, someone will get you the domains. Media Minutes is one of them. You can get domains from them and posting. I'm talking about these people because these are part of the WordPress community. I was with this lady some time back. We had a meet-up. Then we have center for web presence.com. The contact is there. When I asked on the community, they told us about Virtutech Solutions, Pena Tech, Uganda, MyIT Solutions, LAS Systems, Jubilee Web Hosts, HUB, and the guys are here with you. You don't have to go gambling. You're here. You're going to deal with the person who already knows you. Can you go ahead, Daniel? But then, that's not all. If you're not comfortable trusting Rogers, trusting Steven, we have bigger ones here. These guys are even our sponsors. Goddadi and Bluehost. They are some of our sponsors. Although these are the only ones, you can go and get even more. Let's go on. Okay. Now, that is the beauty of using WordPress. Now, when that comes to the end, at least I've given you a brief of why I prefer WordPress and how far I've been with WordPress, not even a year. Now, what I want in the remaining minutes, can we? Can we go through the process of creating a website? So here we have what I'm begging is, you might not go through. You just write the steps. You can open a browser. Okay, so here we are. We are going to create our first website in the few minutes that we have. We are going to open. It's open for me, schoolacademy.tk. We have a free domain here for practice. I was given that domain by the center for web presence. Rogers can take you through the process. When you get a domain, now our school, my school maybe is schoolacademy.tk. First, this is what my website looks like on getting that domain. So at the end of the schoolacademy.tk, I'll add a slash, slash wp-admin. I suggest because of time, you just write the steps. You can follow them. And I can also send you the links on your emails. Then we created an account where we are going to put our details. No, it's ugly. Sorry. And then the password. Let's dismiss that. Dismiss that too. This is what happens when you enter WordPress and we are going to create our website. Now, what are we going to do? Expand. Now for me I'm confused. Expand. Something else. I'm going to choose a theme. So you will come to things inside your WordPress dashboard. You will go to things. And then from there, mainly you must have something in the background. What do you need? How do you want your theme to look like? By default, WordPress has some things. But there is a theme I prefer. Go up, add new. We are going to look for a theme called OceanWP. And then what you do is install it and then activate it. Now that we have installed and activated our theme, what we do? You click on the plus. At the end, let us type our website again. What does it look like with a new theme? It's just a slight change. And this is what our website looks like. But this is not what we like. We are going to install a page builder called Elementor. So we shall go back to our WordPress. Then come to install plugins. Where is add new? Yes? Install plugins. Come and help me. Now here, we have Elementor. Just a bit. Install Elementor and is it activated? Is it activated? Okay, our website. What are we going to do? Let's go back, let's go to pages. Click on pages. Then let's go to add new page. Add new? Yes. Add new page. Let us think about the pages that schools need. One of them is home. Then after we shall finish the rest. Click add new. Put home. I wish we did it with a capital H. Why is it bringing shape? Use the name. I want to create more pages. Home and then create just one other page. Let's create maybe a news page. News. And then save. And that's all. And then lastly for now, because of time we shall create a menu. Help us create a menu. You go to appearance and then create a menu. Then we shall scroll down. We have our pages. We have our pages. We don't have a page yet. We are not saved. Hello? Yeah. When you say the schedule it means that they are on the page. There is a part for where it is big. So here on your computer is the head of the server. So we think that you can just shape it. Okay. All in all this process now because of time, in the interest of time this whole process will take me around 20 minutes to create a school a school website, a basic school website. Then the issues to do with putting the content that is up to you. Are you taking a year? Why in one day? That is up to you. Now what I suggest is that maybe after this session we shall, we will go on that. And I will send you these other steps on your WhatsApp numbers or email accounts. Why do you put that content there? Because of time members we are out of time so I don't know whether it's around. Yes. Yes sir. Yes please. Yes. Thank you sir. At least I have taken you to one place. I have given you the first steps. The next steps I created them for 10 years old. I believe we can follow those steps. I wish to give the next type the next person in line time to give us something.