WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 content ideas

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Content ideas guidance

WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 session ideas for the running order should be posted using the WPUK contact form.

When posting submissions please follow the format shown below – don’t forget to say if you’re willing to lead the session for your idea, or if you’re looking for a speaker(s) to present your idea, and provide tags.

Note the following:

  • precede names with flags to indicate:
    • idea – my idea and looking for speakers
    • speaker – will lead the session (if jointly post all names)
  • sessions are normally 50 minutes long – in rooms 2 and 3, as an option, shorter 25 minutes sessions can take place
  • tag ideas with type and level
  • to lead a session you must have a ticket for the event and, obviously, be present for the relevant session
  • the inclusion of any topic at the event will be confirmed by listing in the running order
  • to avoid breaking links do not edit the previously posted h2 session headings on this page
  • if you want to change the session heading create a new session with a different heading to avoid breaking links
  • always add new ideas at the end

Site doctors: Let the experts help you!

  • does your site feel off-colour? We can help! An active group discussion on how to improve your site including some great tips and tricks for any WordPress user, designer or developer.
  • a call for sites to be submitted will be made nearer the conference – don’t be scared, we are here to give you constructive feedback to improve your site!

Idea: Tony Scott

Panel: Jonny Allbut – theme design/creative, Joe Hoyle, Rachel McCollin – responsive and mobile WordPress development, CSS and UX, Kieran O’Shea

Tags: Beginner, Intermediate, CSS, Themes, Plugins, SEO

Secure from the start

Want to keep your WordPress site safe from hackers? This session is for you. A security orientated talk covering

  • risks and pitfalls
  • WordPress configuration
  • hosting considerations
  • must have plugins
  • additional config options

Speaker: Kieran O’Shea

Tags: developer, intermediate, advanced, plugins, security, hacking

A tour ’round the core

A guided tour by a core contributor around the core code, highlighting things (processes, classes, hooks, etc.) of particular importance for theme and plugin developers.

  • tips on exploring further on your own.
  • maybe a guide to using Trac?

Idea: Steve Taylor

Tags: Intermediate, Advanced, Developers

Happiness Bar

This will be an area were a number of experienced WordPress users will attempt to resolve, on a one-to-one basis, any WordPress questions and problems.

  • effectively genius bar, as previous years.
  • staffed throughout the two days (barring wc-wide session times)
  • designed to be as accessible as possible to the more inexperienced users
  • See SxSW, WCSF, WCMTL, and many others for past examples

Idea: Hanni, Westi

Tags: beginner, intermediate

Turbo-charged theme design

  • learn ways of working efficiently in WordPress theme design
  • discover how to use WordPress core theme functionality to make flexible themes and options
  • tricks to solve common theme design challenges

Speaker: Jonny Allbut

Tags: beginner, intermediate, advanced

ThemeHack

A focused 2 hour (possibly on Saturday AND Sunday) group collaborative session for theme designers and coders.

How far can we modify the latest core theme distributed with WordPress together?

No plugins allowed! Just CSS, theme files and a functions.php!

Idea: Jonny Allbut
Tags: Intermediate, Advanced

WOW plugins

Showcase of really useful and excellent plugins people may have missed or are just unaware of.

Idea: Michael Kimb Jones

Tags: beginner, pro, plugins

Show me how did you do that

A structured BarCamp-style session where people could demonstrate/discuss their solutions and tips/tricks in 10-minute quick-fire blocks.

A suggestion from WordUp Glasgow (thanks @kevinjohng) is to sandwich these events in between the longer talks.

“I suggest that in future these 10 minute sessions come after a 30 minute presentation. Effectively alternating between the two.”

Idea: John Adams

Custom to public

Discussion of various custom functionalities created for custom client sites and why we have extrapolated them into plugins for the greater community to benefit from. Followed by discussion on best practises for ensuring your plugins are useful on a broad range of sites.

Idea: Ryan Hellyer

Speaker: Ryan Hellyer and Arnstein Larsen

Tags: developer, plugins, pro, intermediate, advanced

Getting involved in WordPress

The aim of this panel is to show the range of ways anyone can get involved in the WordPress projects and give back. Each of the panelests is active in the community from BuddyPress/WordPress through to translations, WordCamp/meetup organisers and theme reviews.

The format will be a Q & A with each panelist being given a short amount of time to introduce themselves and what they get involved with. I’ll be asking some questions to each panelest and then open it up to the room.

Idea: Tammie Lister
Panel lead : Tammie Lister
Speakers:
Paul Gibbs @pgibbs, Joeke-Remkus deVries @defries, Taryn Wallis Phenomenoodle, Siobhan McKeown / @siobhanpmckeown, Coen Jacobs / Coenjacobs

Tags: community

Designing for communities with BuddyPress

People have needs and communities are full of people – so what does a community need from a design? This presentation is part dabble in psychology, part design and part BuddyPress love all wrapped up in a bit of how to and design ideas.

A community can thrive or die by a bad design, but bad design doesn’t just mean what it looks like. Design matters in all areas of a community. I’ll show how good design can silently help a community.

I’ll look at those doing it right, ways you can do it wrong and what tools BuddyPress gives you out of the box and what cherry on tops you can find with themes and plugins already released. There will also be some design basics covered that anyone can implement to help their community.

I hope to show how diverse design can be with BuddyPress – it’s not just about being a child of BuddyPress default or attack of the clones.

This is aimed at all ranges not just at designers or community owners.

Idea: Tammie Lister

Speaker: Tammie Lister.

Tags: community, buddypress

WordPress for mobile – 2012 update

This talk will give an update on the developments in this area since my talk last year, and build in some of the content and code discussed in last year’s talk. It will cover:

  • mobile first
  • advances in handling images for mobile devices
  • themes and plugins released in the last year which help in this area
  • a recap of some of the key points from last year, in particular on responsive design

Idea: Rachel McCollin

Speaker: Rachel McCollin

Tags: developer, intermediate, themes, plugins

Customizing WordPress Admin for Clients

This talk will go through the main concepts of editing the WP admin area (mainly with custom post types), giving people ideas, tools and snippets to walk away with :

  • why customize?
  • WP core functions for manipulating CPT’s
  • jQuery UI (with examples)
  • LESS CSS (with examples)
  • … and more

Idea: Noel Tock

Speaker: Noel Tock

Tags: developer, interface, intermediate, advanced, admin

BuddyPress 2012

An update on the BuddyPress project; about our current version and what’s going to be in the next version. We see a lot of questions about how or why BuddyPress does things in the way it does, so we’ll be sharing the team’s views on both technical and general aspects of BuddyPress.

Idea: Paul Gibbs

Speaker: Paul Gibbs

Tags: community, intermediate

Lazy smart shortcodes

Shortcodes save you time.

In this presentation I’ll talk about shortcodes and why I use them when I develop websites.

I’ll focus on the shortcodes I know best – the one’s I’ve written for oik-plugins.

The level of detail I’ll go to will depend on the audience. These are the top level “slides”

  • what is a [shortcode]?
  • who/what provides shortcodes?
  • why use shortcodes?
  • benefits
  • where can you use shortcodes?
  • where do I use shortcodes?
  • smart shortcodes
  • lazy shortcodes
  • sample lazy smart shortcode
  • Responsive CSS
  • problem determination trace
  • action trace
  • types of shortcodes
  • the future
  • summary

The presentation is built into a WordPress website so we can interact with the slides and choose the most appropriate path

If you want to play with parameters we can do that.

If you want to delve deeper into the code then we can do that too.

You can preview the presentation at oik plugins – lazy smart shortcodes

Idea: Herb Miller

Speaker: Herb Miller

Tags: intermediate, advanced, css, developer

WordPress for a family history project 1

My family have a fascinating record of my Grandfather’s experiences as a soldier in Ireland and France during the Great War, and this presentation looks at how WordPress has been used to retell the story for a new generation, nearly 100 years later.

This session will review how the site has evolved and will give advice on how you could start to build your own family history archive.

I will look at a the key features of WordPress that help me to tell the story, including core features (pages, posts, categories, users), custom post types for particular types of content and some very useful plugins that turn a blog into a historical record.

I’ll also take a quick tour of other features and plugins of WordPress that help with family history projects.

Speaker: John Adams

Tags: beginner, intermediate, blogger, plugins, personal

WordPress for a family history project 2

A case study of a small volunteer-driven NGO using BuddyPress to help manage it’s activities.

(Subject to actual success in making it happen)

(suitable for a 30 minute slot)

Speaker: John Adams and Ian Rankin (the architect, not the author)

Tags: buddypress, community

When the conference takes place the cookie law will have been on the books for two months. The presentation I gave at WordUp Edinburgh in February, in advance of the law going into effect, can easily be updated to reflect how things (will) have changed with the law in actual force and what lies ahead for it.

Idea: Heather Burns

Speaker: Heather Burns

Tags: law, legal, compliance, plugins, intermediate

WordPress SEO challenge

Novice to practitioner in three months

  • starting position and objectives
  • search engine wars or “why did I move from Yahoo to Google”
  • how does Google stay on top?
  • the 3 Keys to ranking on the SERP (search engine results page)
  • tools of the trade – Analytics, SEO Toolbar, Webmaster Tools etc
  • some WordPress techniques and plugins
  • keyword research
  • where to put keywords
  • lets do some work
  • improving some WordPress Posts
  • link building
  • useful resources
  • conclusions – good content, thoughtful referencing, push a little and as ever work hard; or “ask not what Google can do for you”

Idea: Jim Convey

Speaker: Jim Convey

Tags: seo, developer, beginner, intermediate, plugins, measurement, marketing, project management

Writing awesome docs for your code

This talk is aimed at developers, business-people, theme designers, and anyone who has a WordPress product or business. I’ll look at how you can write useful documentation for your users that will help them to properly use your product. The talk will go roughly as follows:

  • why good documentation is important for your business
  • how different people approach learning
  • the different types of documentation that you could produce
  • tips and techniques for writing good docs
  • plugins to help you produce documentation.

Idea: Siobhan McKeown

Speaker: Siobhan McKeown

Tags: intermediate, advanced, developer, documentation

Emperor’s new clothes (or how I learned to ask “is the cool thing the right thing”)

Platform and technology agnostic where possible, by drawing on strong examples from WordPress, this presentation aims to show how we’ve moved from asking: Are we doing the right thing, or the newest/coolest thing? Designed to kick-start conversations rather than consensus, I choose 10 slides from a deck of about 50, tailored to the conference and audience. Already given to great reception at DrupalCamp, WPScotland, PHP2012, WhiskyWeb, DigitalBarn, 3F, ScrumAllianceAtlanta and J&Beyond.

Idea: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Speaker: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Tags: intermediate, advanced, developer

Hacking WordPress to not fail for a high volume website

How PWB turned a failing website punching above it’s weight into one of the most commented on blogs in Europe: 2k non-spam comments and 75k hits per day. (30 or 50 mins)

Idea: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Speaker: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Tags: intermediate, advanced, developer

What is Agile really, and how can we use it?

A Certified Scrum Practicioner, Product Owner & Scrum Master, Kevinjohn founded Pure Web Brilliant on the premise that using a pragmatic Agile approach could deliver real change to organisations.

  • what is Agile?
  • how does it work in theory and in practice?
  • how can we adapt it to work for us?
  • making the mental leap.
  • I’d like to follow this up with a 1 hour practical workshop (and Q&A) in the genius bar.

Idea: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Speaker: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Tags: intermediate, advanced, developer

Let’s chat about “WordPress has left the building”

WordPress has left the building caused some contraversy in January this year. As fans of WordPress we’d love the chance to answer many of the questions raised at the time. So many valid conversations became lost is all the noise; and so many myths are still spoken about as facts. (30 mins)

Idea: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Speaker: Kevinjohn Gallagher

Tags: intermediate, advanced, developer

Grid

Any blank sessions at the beginning of the WordCamp will be filled using a BarCamp style grid.

Idea: Tony Scott

Tags: meta

Open discussion

Open discussion on the weekend, the next event and related issues.

Speaker: Tony Scott

Speaker: Tony Scott

Tags: meta

WordPress UK local groups

WordPress UK local groups.

Those involved in local groups are invited, along with those interested in setting up new groups.

This will allow different organizers from all around the country to share ideas on how they got started, how they lead and plan their local sessions and what can be learned by others experiences.

This session will also interest those who wish in set up their own local WordPress meetups.

Idea: Michael Kimb Jones Chair: Tony Scott

Tags: wordcampuk, local

How I made WonderThemes (AKA building a theme marketplace with WordPress)

WonderThemes was launched last year and sponsored the WordCampUK event in Portsmouth (anyone still got a t-shirt?).

In this session I want to talk about the process of building WonderThemes – From inception to reality and the road to frustration. It will be an honest and straightforward breakdown of the work involved in creating an online (digital) marketplace using WordPress as the base platform and how it was done in my spare time with a meagre budget working alone.

Includes the initial idea, R&D, cost breakdowns, development issues and how I sometimes felt like I was punching myself in the face.

The session will be an hour and topics will consist of:

  • the idea
    • how the idea evolved from single theme site to marketplace after R&D and the run-up to my talk at WCUK 2010 (How WordPress themes changed the World)
    • naming and domain-ing (September 3rd 2009)
    • looking for partners and collaborators
    • the Wonderflux (previously ‘Flux’) framework idea and connecting with @jonnyauk
    • going it alone and dancing like nobody is watching
    • GPL, frameworks, and fairness, some things never change
    • support, support, support. Fixing the problem of theme support
  • the build process
    • bootstrapping? Don’t make me laugh (making the best of what you have or can get your hands on)
    • using WordPress as the base, the whys and hows and the wait for the MultiSite merge (WP v3)
    • Why MultiSite is the most exciting part of WordPress but also the most frustrating
    • WPMUDev plugins + some hacking + some more hacking = major headaches
    • bbPress 2.0 is awesome, or is it? (sort of)
    • I hate eCommerce (how does it work?!)
    • the money/split/percentage conundrum (um, thanks PayPal!)
  • how it works
    • a look around the site and admin panels
    • live demo of how to become a vendor and upload a product
    • live demo of buying a product and the process of downloading
    • details of the PayPal money split system (um, thanks again PayPal!)
  • what it cost in time and money
    • breakdown of development costs (freelancers) hosting, extra design work testing costs (PayPal)
    • promotion costs (t-shirts?! FFS!)
    • breakdown of time spent from inception of idea to now and how time spent dipped AFTER launch (when the most work should really go in)
    • number of ‘real’ (test sales excluded) sales since launch 12 months ago
    • how much money has come in (stop chuckling at the back)
  • the reality of building a marketplace (or any other webapp)
    • if you build it, they won’t come
    • done is better than perfect and other bullshit quotes that you should take with a pinch of salt
    • managing a project is not the same as running a business
    • being first doesn’t matter but taking on the establishment is more than just having a better idea
  • how some problems do not need fixing
    • holy s**t everyone already went gpl
    • frameworks are great, but they aren’t for everyone
    • support, support, support. how smart theme developers like @ormanclark did it right
    • realising that your competitors are not evil (aw ThemeForrest, gimme a hug)
    • how my vision of a simple, lean marketplace isn’t everyone’s cup of tea
    • what would i do differently
  • the future
    • derp/herp and a q&a

Idea: Michael Kimb Jones

Speaker: Michael Kimb Jones

Tags: themes, marketplace, multisite, business, headaches, development, design

Get Better at Business

If Swiss Toni got out of the motor trade and into the WordPress business, what would he have to say about it? First of all, he’d say that it’s very much like making love to a beautiful woman. But ultimately, he’s a businessman working in a difficult trade. So he has skills that we’d all do well to take on board.

Topics I’m going to cover:

  • pricing
  • getting new clients
  • developing a process and sticking with it
  • who your competitors really are
  • why Swiss Toni is so easy to remember

This year there won’t be Skittles, but there’ll be something better…

Idea: David Coveney of interconnect/it
Speakers: David Coveney

Tags: business, finance, marketing, fun, money

Do I need an app?

How to tell whether a project needs an app, or if a mobile site be enough (potential to link into http://wiki.wpuk.org/2012_content_ideas#WordPress_for_mobile_-_2012_update Rachel McCollin’s talk here)

– What does a good app need?

– Which platforms should you target?

– How do I market it?

– Starting an app from a WordPress site (and maybe bbPress and BuddyPress too…)

Idea: Rikki Tooley

Speakers: Potentially Rikki Tooley depending on university work

Tags: beginner, developer, mobile, apps, business (maybe), marketing

Developers are people too

Just an idea for a talk so far…

– Essentially, would be an extension of this blog post

– Feedback welcome, I am aware this idea isn’t especially fleshed out yet…

Idea: Rikki Tooley

Speakers: ?

Tags: developer, community

Another idea…

– A group discussion/ presentation on exciting new things since the last WordCamp, and what to look out for in the next year (would be good as a recurring talk, so next year we could evaluate our predictions).

Idea: Rikki Tooley

Speakers: No single presenter – ideally five – ten people (chosen beforehand) would mention their favourite trend from the last year, and what they’re excited about for the next.

Tags: predictions, year in review

Starting out with WordPress Workshop

WordPress from the very beginning. If enough people are interested, I will run this as an extended session/workshop in a side room for a couple of hours. Where people can bring their laptops and get hands-on practice. I’d like to limit the places for the workshop. Otherwise, I can do a 50-minute presentation.

Idea: Mike Little

Speakers: Mike Little

Staying safe in your search for free WordPress themes

Everyone loves a freebie, and one of the things that we all love about WordPress is that not only is the core software free, but there are lots of lovely free themes and plugins that go along with it. Although WordPress users are encouraged to search the theme repository for new themes, there’s always that temptation to input “free WordPress themes” into Google and see what lovely designs appear. This talk will be an update and expansion of a blog post I wrote last year. It is aimed specifically at beginners and intermediate WordPress users who are always on the hunt for free WordPress themes.

What I’ll cover:

  • searching Google for themes – looking at how easy it is to pick up spam and malware
  • checking out what some of the encrypted code does
  • using plugins to analyse what’s contained in a theme’s template files
  • safe places to find themes

This talk may include a live demo (if I’m feeling brave enough!)

Idea: Siobhan McKeown

Speakers: Siobhan McKeown

Tags: beginners, themes, security

State of WordPress eCommerce in 2012

RO1 WordPress has fast become a major player in the field of eCommerce over the past few years. Nobody even tried to use WordPress for a professional shop two or three years ago, today there are plenty of successful + feature-packed plugins available. What are the differences and how do they compare to dedicated eCommerce software like Magento? This talk covers that and much more, bringing you the State of WordPress eCommerce in 2012.

What I’ll cover:

Past

  • WordPress was not suitable for e-Commerce due to lack of quality plugins and (im)maturity of the platform
  • but credit is due to the pioneers

Present

  • plugins – with 3.0 we saw eCommerce plugins rise in number and credibility. I’ll compare current WP eCommerce plugin options plus a quick look at alternative platforms
  • theme + plugin integration – set up professional shops on a budget
  • security – a concern for anyone running an online store
  • extensions – taylor your store to match your needs

Future

  • what we’re doing at WooThemes with WooCommerce
  • Magento, the current No. 1 eCommerce platform now recommend their hosted product to vendors turning over <$1m – where do the (majority of) users, who don’t want a hosted solution go? Are we witnessing a paradigm shift?

Idea: WooThemes

Speakers: Coen Jacobs

Tags: eCommerce, intermediate, plugins

WordPress and Web Accessibility: Why It’s Important

  • approx 10 million people in the uk are officially viewed as disabled
  • the disabled represent a market worth £80bn per year
  • 83% of disabled people will not return to a business that does not meet their accessibility needs

Three stats chosen from many which underline why accessibility is important for your WordPress sites – and the ones you build for your clients. Turnover is always important for a business, especially at the moment – so how can you make sure that you’re not shutting out potential customers? Let me help demystify accessibility and show you some simple but important things you can do on your sites to make them more accessible.

What I’ll cover:

  • what does web accessibility mean?
  • why it’s important
  • types of disability and how they use the web – with examples
  • wordpress and accessibility – themes, plugins, content for a public website
  • simple things we can all do – with examples
  • WordPress admin screens and accessibility – a lost cause?
  • resources

Presentation will be slide based but with demonstrations of real examples and screen readers etc.

Speaker: Graham Armfield

Tags: users, developers, themes, plugins, accessibility, admin area, content

So you want a WordPress, huh?

  • many talks/ presentations presume basic – advanced knowledge of wordpress
  • many companies are still not using WordPress
  • many people presume it’s difficult/ expensive to get online with WordPress

The famous 5 minute install broken down into a 2 minute install for those that need the cheapest, most easiest way to get online with WordPress.
Aimed at 100% total WordPress newbies looking to get online quickly and easily.

What I’ll cover:

  • installing WordPress the CPanel way
  • installing my first theme
  • installing my first plugin

Presentation will be quick, in plain English and straight to the point.
Attendees would be best to have a computer handy although not required.

Speaker: Lee Rickler

Tags: beginners, installation, themes, plugins

You don’t know query? Now you do!

How to alter the main WordPress query the correct way. No more query_posts() pwease!

A repeat of my talk at WordPress London May 2012 but with some added examples and real world usages of what you have just learnt.

What I’ll cover:

  • how WordPress queries it’s database and returns posts
  • how query_posts() works and why it’s bad!
  • what alternatives are there to query_posts()
  • how to alter the main WordPress query using pre_get_posts action
  • show some real world usages of pre_get_posts in action

Presentation will last 50 mins split into two parts. First part being a slideshow on WordPress queries and the second part going through some real world examples and code.

The presentation is aimed at anyone that writes or copy/pastes code for WordPress. If you are scared of code then this presentation is not for you.

Speaker: Scott Cariss

Tags: intermediate, advanced, query, queries, themes, plugins

WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 official recording briefing

A compulsory session for volunteers taking part in the official video recording of event sessions. The session will consist of a production briefing, introductory camera and sound operational training along with health and safety considerations.

Idea: Tony Scott

Speaker: Tony Scott

Tags: meta, video, wordcamp

Creating a Magazine website with Views

WordPress is no longer a simple blogging platform. There are over 70M websites out there based on the platform in a variety of ways – blog to CRMs, business platforms to eCommerce solutions.

Types and Views are two plugins allowing you to extend the core smoothly, adding new features, custom post types and different ways to list your data. No coding is required to build a Magazine or Classifields site demo, create a featured Slider or Testimonials section with a complete control over the amount and type of data with flexible filters.

How to build a Magazine website?

People tend to build magazine websites by browsing Magazine template directories and end up with cutting up to a completely different theme. You can use Views for a rendering engine in your existing template – styling your category pages, utilizing featured and premium articles or defining post relationships between types. There is a number of hooks available as well as APIs for further extension, defining extra post types in addition to radio/checkbox/image/repeatable fields and many more.

Join this session and decrease the time for building a site from months to weeks by exploring the technical kit in Views.

Idea: OnTheGoSystems

Speakers: Mario Peshev

Tags: magazine, views, kit, slider, testimonials

Custom Theme Development

Do you build a lot of WordPress sites where the theme is unique to that site? Do you use a “starting point” theme, branching it off for each project? Do you have a parent theme that’s the same for each project, containing all your “frequently used” code, and create a new child theme for each new site? Or do you put your cross-project code into a plugin? Maybe you use a framework? What about catering for mobile devices?

The idea for this session is to have a few people presenting the pros and cons of each of these approaches according to their experiences, but most importantly for everyone present to share experiences of using different methodologies for effectively developing custom themes.

NOTE: This session is not intended to cover themes intended for public release (except insofar as we discuss “framework” parent themes!).

Speakers: Jonny Allbut, Steve Taylor, Rachel McCollin

Tags: intermediate, advanced, themes, development, frameworks

From Clients to Products ‘Changing Ain’t Easy’

Many of us started officially working with WordPress by picking up design or development work on a client basis and growing that into a regular income. But as much as working with clients can be fun as well as rewarding, do you find yourself wishing you could either switch to an income from creating your own products, or have a mix of the two?

This session will look at what you need to consider if you want to make a living from creating products (Whether themes, code, or anything else), how to get started, and what successful examples you can learn from, including those who have switched entirely to products, and those who continue to mix the two.

What do you need to get started?
How do you work out what products to launch?
How to license?
Where to sell?
What measures should you pay attention to?
How do you change your mindset and deal with customers rather than clients?

Speakers: Dan Thornton,

Tags: beginner, intermediate, advanced, business, marketing

Building successful client sites with the BuddyPress API

Looking at the features of successful sites built using BuddyPress. Concentrating on building sites for clients, understanding site function, the use of the BuddyPress API to provide a backbone for member profiles and user generated content, and combining it with core WordPress development techniques to deliver advanced functional components.

Will look at our own (21 Inspired) developments including Enterprise Nation, Worship Ministry, StuConnect, and the Karma Foundation Member Lounge, and some 3rd party sites such as Plazaa and Tasty Kitchen.

Idea: 21 Inspired

Speakers: Roger Coathup

Tags: advanced, intermediate, development, buddypress, client sites

Putting words into WordPress

A quick guide to writing content for the web.

Speaker: Lydia Bates

Understanding Branding

A quick guide to digital branding.

Speaker: Robert O’Rourke

Last updated 14 March 2014