2010 content ideas

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).
• 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

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 WordCam 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