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Getting involved with WordPress

Development, themes, plugins, codex, testing

WordPress is not a blog

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

Open Source

WordPress and the Open Source movement, future of Wordpress and Open Source, Open Source software counterparts, proprietary vs GPL themes and plugins

Walking with WordPress

WordPress & mobile technology, adapting to a mobile audience, microblogging, mobile phone integration, live video

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

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!)