Theme LOL – a hilarious (ahem) look at the state of the premium theme marketplace.
Cleaner Themes
Persil may say “Dirt is Good”, but when it comes to WordPress themes you want to make sure they’re as clean as possible, especially when you’re building a global network of websites for one of the world’s leading washing detergent brands. This case study will take a close look inside the theme and front end code powering the Persil.co.uk website and it’s international counterparts.
Using WordPress Multisite, some select plugins, parent and child theming, as well as custom plugins, Sass, and Compass we were able to tackle problems such as: internationalisation, complex page content, and lots of Ajax interactivity. All the while making sure the sites would be easily updatable and extensible by the local content teams, good for SEO, and easily customised for each market.
Use WordPress to Find Clients
Rob Cubbon discusses how he uses WordPress to find clients.
Handling User Generated Content in WordPress
Getting lots of content into a site can increase the scope of the site, user engagement, and maybe ad revenue too. So why not get your visitors to add content for you? This brief talk shows how you can do that without giving everyone a login to the admin area.
WordPress Security
The recent HeartBleed vulnerability has brought web security into the mainstream news recently. This talk will cover some aspects of web security from a WordPress perspective and talk about some things you can do to make your sites more secure.
Let’s move it!
Migrating WordPress sites, from server to server, or from domain to domain, is a remarkably fraught experience. There are a few ways to do this painlessly. In this talk I give a rundown on the ways to move WordPress websites around, where it all goes horribly wrong, and how to make sure you don’t lose anything in the process.
The Business of WordPress
My business uses WordPress a lot to help meet client’s website needs. This talk is not techy but, instead, will touch on the business side of building & selling WordPress websites. Aside from discussing lessons learnt along the way, Joel will also drift off into his (probably wrong) predictions about the future of WordPress and web publishing.
Joel’s company makes websites & he’s been in the game for a long old time. He was wrestling with IE3 (yes 3!) and table based layouts whilst many of the current generation of coders were still on the potty. Whilst this means he is old & decrepit, it does also mean that he has lots of experience which he’s more than willing to share.
Joel has been in permanent roles (American Express, British Airways), has contracted, has freelanced at agencies & has now been working for himself, and now managing a team, for over 13 years.
Tips and tricks for using WordPress as an application platform
Dan Westall (http://www.dan-westall.co.uk/) will share tips and tricks for using WordPress for application prototyping, covering recommended plugins and some tricks that he’s found along the way.
Google Publisher Plugin
Michael Smith will be discussing the Google Publish WordPress Plugin.
