2008 content notes

Useful links related to each of the talks

Saturday 19 July 2008

0930-0950

Registration/coffee

0950-1000

Introduction

Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100

Essential plugins

Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

• http://akismet.com
  • alternative: http://defensio.com/
  • alternative: http://antispam.typepad.com/
• All in One SEO Pack (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/
  • alternative: http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-dbmanager.html
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cforms/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-ping-optimizer/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/role-manager

1100-1200

SEO for wordpress

Nick Garner http://wiki.wordcampuk.tonyscott.org.uk/User:Nickg

1200-1300

WordPress Question Time

Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

Gurbir Singh http://astrotalkuk.org/

Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/

Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

Mike Little http://zed1.com/

Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/

1300-1430

Lunch

1430-1530

Plugin Development

Simon Wheatly http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

1530-1630

Blogging and journalism

Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/

A N Other TBA

1630-1730

Managing blog upgrades using Subversion

Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1730-1800

WordPress is not a blog

Jonnya http://wp-cms.com/

2000-2300

Saturday WordCamp UK social

The Old Royal, Church St, Birmingham.

Sunday 20 July 2008

0950-1000

Introduction

Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/

1000-1100

Walking with WordPress

Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

1100-1200

Large companies

Simon Dickson http://puffbox.com/

1200-1300

bbPress/WordPress integration and the future of bbPress

Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

1300-1430

Lunch

1430-1530

Code surgery session

Submit your questions to the surgeons: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/code-surgery-questions/

Your Code Surgeons are:

Simon Wheatley http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/hello

Mike Little http://zed1.com/

1530-1630

Living from your blog

Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/

1630-1730

Getting involved with WordPress

Peter Westwood http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/

1730-1800

The Humphrey Awards 2008

Ian Covey http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/

Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk/