2008 content notes
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Useful links related to each of the talks
Contents
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/
- Akismet
- alternative: Defensio
- alternative: Typad Antispam
- All in One SEO Pack
- BackUpWordPress
- alternative: WP-DBAdmin is another alterative
- cforms
- alternative Dagon Design Form Mailer
- MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
- Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
- Bad Behavior
- Akismet
1100-1200
Talking about the big issues with SEO:
- Google can't be spammed easily anymore
- Useful content is vital (don't do marketing'eze)
- Get friendly with a professional writer, if you are not up to doing it yourself
- Coach clients to understand SEO is a long play game(6 months)
- And give some references to useful plugins and SEO reference sites
References to my SEO presentation and to one of the sites I look after professionally: betting.betfair.com
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/
- Bob Jones http://www.thedailynovel.com/
- David Page http://www.expressandstar.com/
1630-1730
1730-1800
- WordPress is not a blog
- Jonnya http://wp-cms.com/
- Cloak - Hide unwanted write post/page items
- Fresh Post - Create custom write panels and hide default ones!
- Audit trail - Some functions now obsolete due to 2.6 roll-back functionality.
- Role Manager - Complete control overs user privileges.
- wp-dbmanager - Database backup tool.
- CForms - Great form building tool.
- Simple Tags - Very powerful tag management tool.
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
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/
