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/

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
Role Manager

1100-1200

SEO for wordpress

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

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
- SEO PowerPoint presentation
- 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

Plugins covered in presentation:

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.

Notes:

Fresh Post plugin - This has now changed name to 'Flutter' (thanks to Chris Garrett for letting me know!) and add a new layout control to it's powerful feature set.

Cloak plugin - I have now personally taken over development of this plugin from the previous developer (too good for it to drop-off the WordPress dev cycle!). I have tested it upto WordPress 2.6 and it's fine in it's current form. I will announce development news (and new home!) shortly. I will be re-naming this as I intend to roll new functionality into it in the coming months.