2008 content ideas
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Contents
- 1 Business blogs using WordPress
- 2 Getting involved with WordPress
- 3 WordPress is not a blog
- 4 Writing for blogs
- 5 Blogging and journalism
- 6 WordPress wishlist
- 7 Living from your blog
- 8 Blog design
- 9 Open Source
- 10 Choosing web hosting
- 11 Walking with WordPress
- 12 WordPress in education
- 13 Wordpress MU
- 14 Spam
- 15 Theme and plugin security
- 16 Bifurcation
- 17 Scaling WordPress
- 18 Large companies
- 19 Hiring a WordPress professional
- 20 Plugins
- 21 Code Surgery Session
- 22 bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress
- 23 Developing a plugin on site
- 24 SEO for wordpress
- 25 CSS and HTML for WordPress Beginners
Business blogs using WordPress
How blogging for your business can be a very effective marketing tool
- Small business owners to use a blog to boost their business, I started a Wordpress blog for my travel business in October 2006 (http://www.europealacarte.co.uk/blog)
Getting involved with WordPress
Development, themes, plugins, codex, testing
- Getting Involved with WordPress - Discussion on how to get involved with development/documentation/testing etc. - Peter Westwood
WordPress is not a blog
Alternative uses - podcasting, vlogging, galleries, CMS
Writing for blogs
Content, style, attracting and connecting with readers
Blogging and journalism
Differences, similarities, citizen journalism, bloggers learning from journalism and vice versa
WordPress wishlist
Future features, changes
Living from your blog
Advertising, professional blogging, offering WP support and services, platform for job
Blog design
Usability, web standards, microformats, SEO, themes
- Possible Speaker: Michael Martin - I write solely about blog design on my blog (Click the name to visit), and I would talk about things like what makes a design good, how to create a design from scratch, and common pitfalls for blog designs.
Open Source
WordPress and the Open Source movement, future of Wordpress and Open Source, Open Source software counterparts, proprietary vs GPL themes and plugins
Choosing web hosting
UK based or cheap US hosting, Fantastico, 'unlimited' bandwidth caps, best hosting deals.
Walking with WordPress
WordPress & mobile technology, adapting to a mobile audience, microblogging, mobile phone integration, live video
- Possible speaker: Richard Williams - I'm doing the Wainwright inspired Coast-to-Coast Walk (192 miles in 12 days) mid-June this year with two friends. We'll be using mobile technology and WordPress to keep family, friends and colleagues up to date with our progress.
WordPress in education
Blogging SE and HE, Wordpress as a VLE or or platform for informal learning, Worpress and outreach
Wordpress MU
Blog networks, development, as a community building platform, future
- Brenda Burrell - currently teaching a network of artists WP/blogging as an aid to collaboration, scaling and resource development.
Spam
Defeating spam, spam prevention, new spam cultures, spam tasting
Theme and plugin security
Why it matters where you get your themes & plugins from, and what you can do about it if you're not code savvy.
Bifurcation
What sort of bifurcation is going to take place between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org and how it could impact businesses who use WordPress as a platform.
Scaling WordPress
Ways to deal with high traffic websites, how to scale a WordPress implementation.
Large companies
How developers should deal with approaches from large companies who are taking an interest in WP, having previously mostly dealt with SMEs and similar.
Hiring a WordPress professional
How to hire a WordPress professional, what to avoid, and what to look for.
Plugins
Dealing with pluginitus (the syndrome of attaching every damn plugin available to a WP site!)
Code Surgery Session
A WP Code Surgery session might be good. It should feature people with experience and informed opinion on how to write good PHP/XML/XHTML/CSS _and_ knowledge of the WP API. The aim should be to do what the forum/codex does, but face to face, for all those problems that don't get sorted because (often) the user doesn't know how to ask the question until they know the answer.
bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress
- I hope to talk about or demonstrate bbPress/WordPress integration, and talk a little about it's future directions etc. Sambauers 16:04, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Developing a plugin on site
I quite fancy a 'build a plugin' breakout group - something that could be going on alongside the sessions, drop-in and out. Come up with ideas, see if we can see it through over the weekend.
I'm not a crash hot coder, but I think it could be good, and really help with understanding the WP codex.
Jon Bounds
SEO for wordpress
I've built a 350k unique user a month wordpress blog and it gets about 70% of its traffic from search engines. I'm also successful with affiliate marketing and so I'd like to share my knowledge with you on this, giving some practical advice on how to get ranked and make money through your wordpress blog. Nick Garner
CSS and HTML for WordPress Beginners
If we want to appeal to those just starting out, we need at least one session that can address the very basics of CSS and HTML for those who want to branch out from a stock theme and make some of their own changes. This session would not assume any prior programming knowledge. Holly
