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Post session ideas for WordCamp UK 2010 below.

• Each session is nominally 45 minutes long within a 1 hour period.
• If it's a new proposed session add it below along with your name.
• Precede names with flags to indicate:
  • Idea - My idea and looking for speakers.
  • Speaker - Will lead the session (if jointly post all names).
• The deadline for additions is 29 January 2009.
• To lead a session you must have a ticket for WordCamp UK 2010 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.
• Always add new ideas at the end.

WordHack

Teams build useful and WordPressy plugins etc and demonstrate the results to all attendees. Idea: Tony Scott Session leader: Jeff Van Campen

If you're interested in taking part in this year's WordHack add your project idea.

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.

Creative/CSS: Jonny Allbut (Jonnya)

SEO/Traffic building: (Nick Garner)

WordPress Structure/Security: TBC

PHP Coding/Plugins: TBC

Managing multiple WP instances

What are the challenges of managing multiple instances of WordPress on behalf of your clients/others? What strategies and tools do people use to manage these challenges? Follows on from the 2009 WordHack UnifiedDashboard session. Discussion forum rather than presentation. Speaker/discussion leader: John Adams.

WordPress theme frameworks and template tricks

This will be a session aimed at anyone interested WordPress template design - find out how to create your own unique, flexible design to set your site apart from the crowd! An introduction to theme file structure and logic, followed by a look at a theme framework and how to modify. I'll also cover some nice tips and tricks for more advanced theme developers. Speaker: Jonny Allbut (Jonnya)

Introduction to WordPress

Beginners start here - the basics compressed into 45 minutes! Idea: Tony Scott

Quickfire show and tell

An opportunity for all attendees to briefly introduce themselves. Also have board so attendees can post written details of name, URI, role (developer, blogger, etc) and tags for their interests. (I'll remember this time to hand over to Simon D if he wants to lead this session!) Idea: Tony Scott

Great Plugins (WOW Plugins?)

Showcase of really useful and excellent plugins people may have missed or are just unaware of. For example the much talked about RoleScoper plugin which was highlighted during my NHS presentation and the new Inline-Comment tool being developed by Mike Little. Idea: Michael Kimb Jones

Introduction to BuddyPress

Introduction and overview of BuddyPress; what it is, why would I want to use it, examples of big sites using it, recommended plugins/themes. Speaker: Paul Gibbs (DJPaul)

Developing & Theming with BuddyPress

Overview of the BuddyPress theme architecture. How to adapt non-BuddyPress themes to work with BuddyPress. Overview of creating BuddyPress plugins and the BuddyPress API. In-depth example of extending the Groups(?) component. Speaker: Paul Gibbs (DJPaul)

Grid

Any blank sessions at the beginning of WordCamp UK will be filled using a BarCamp grid Idea: Tony Scott

Performance

WordPress performance. PHP, SQL and server fine-tuning. Idea/Probable speaker: Denis de Bernardy

Open discussion

Open discussion on the weekend and next year's WordCamp UK. Speaker: Tony Scott

Testing Strategies for WordPress

Discussion/ideas sharing on what WordPress testing strategies work for you. How do you test a theme/plugin/site? How do you regression test whenever a new version is released? Do you use any automated test tools? Idea: John Adams

BackPress

What is it, Where has it come from, Where is it used, What can you use it for. Speaker: Peter Westwood

"Canonical Plugins" - getting involved

What are they and how can you get involved. Speaker: Peter Westwood

10 min minis

5 x 10 minutes mini sessions - an invitation for attendeees to give a short session about anything WordPress related. Add your proposed session here. Speaker: Tony Scott

"Your Real Life Blogroll" - Getting your local community involved in Wordpress events, meetups and user groups. Speaker: Thomas Russell on behalf of MWUG.

WordPress - How Far Can You Go

A case study on how far you can scale WordPress, based on a site with over 10,000 registered users that sustained several million hits in a short period of time. Speaker Benjamin Ellis

Building for Accessibility and getting ready for HTML 5

Making your site make sense - Building better sites with WordPress for those with Disabilities - and getting ready for HTML 5. Speaker Benjamin Ellis

Get traffic from SEO & social media

Use the best wordpress plugins to get you more traffic through SEO and social media. For end users and developers, get useful reference case studies to help you understand how to roll out a practical cost effective plan to get the best traffic to your wordpress site.

How WordPress themes changed the world

Over the past 3 years the WordPress theme landscape has changed dramatically. What started as a few key community members pumping out cool and interesting theme designs has turned into big business with huge turnovers and a truly worldwide scope.

This presentation/discussion will serve as a history lesson showing how the theme market has grown and how elements such as free themes, theme clubs, GPL and theme frameworks steered its evolution.

There will also be a look to the future of the theme market and WordPress theme technology with an open discussion to help engage the audience and gather different perspectives from the UK community.

Further dialogue has yet to be decided but a panel of theme buffs, developers and users will be on hand to ensure that all bases are covered.

• My (rarely updated) Blog
• Twitter
• My Design Business - base6 Design

WordPress and more in Big Media (David Coveney)

My idea here is to lead a small panel, with a good length Q&A session, of people involved in what is likely to be one of the UK's largest WordPress projects of the year. The challenges they face both from a technical and a content point of view. On the panel will be myself, a developer and a journalist. Maybe more.

Speaker: David Coveney

WordPress in the Enterprise II (David Coveney)

This is a follow-on to last year's well received WordPress in the Enterprise talk. This time I would quite like to involve others who are involved in similar projects including, perhaps, one or two of our clients who could give their own insight into the problems and benefits that come with using WordPress within an Enterprise environment.

Speaker: David Coveney

Beyond Blogging

Taking your WordPress blog further; tips & tricks, music, events, social networking, exciting new plugins and more. Speaker: Kieran O'Shea

Adopting WordPress for a group of Malta-related websites

Following on from attending WordCamp 2009 in Cardiff, a bunch of longstanding Malta-related websites are being moved to WordPress. These include MaltaMedia.com AboutMalta.com MaltaFootball.com and Malta InsideOut. There are two or three others about to switch over in the coming months too. The proposed presentation for WordCamp 2010 in Manchester will be an opportunity to share what we've learned in balancing the needs of the team working on these sites since 1998 and the many new possibilities offered for disseminating the content through WordPress. In essence the presentation will outline the experiences of a web veteran who is a WP newbie.

Speaker: Toni Sant (ToniSant.com will be switched to WP in the next couple of weeks too!)