Sat 19th July 2008 - Presentations roundup

Could all speakers be kindly requested to add their links to the content notes page of the wiki, and I will update this page accordingly.

Essential plugins

Richard Williams http://www.rkwinternet.com/

SEO for WordPress

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

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/

Plugin Development

Simon Wheatly http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/

Blogging and Journalism

Benjamin Ellis http://redcatco.com/

Managing blog upgrades using Subversion

Sam Bauers http://unlettered.org/

WordPress is not a blog

Also entitled ‘WordPress is a blog… and a whole lot more!’
Jonnya http://wp-cms.com/
NEW - View presentation online

PLUGINS

  • 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.

DISPLAYING CONTENT

  • query_posts - (for use with loop) WordPress codex article
  • get_posts - (outside of loop) WordPress codex article
  • get_post - (outside of loop) WordPress codex article

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. UPDATE: I have developed this plugin further and launched it as WP-CMS Post Control - you can download it here.