Check out the folks who attended WordCamp Birmingham UK 2015:
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Belinda Mustoe
Mind your Language! A practical guide to implementing ‘proper’ language encoding on multilingual WordPress websites
Doug Lawrence will explain the benefits of language encoding for multilingual WordPress sites, including the setting of locale and hreflang on both multisite and single installations. He will also discuss international targeting settings within search engine web master tools.
Belinda Mustoe will show live examples of locale and hreflang implementation on both a branding and an e-commerce website and explain the deployment choices made.
Jessica Rose
Easy Lazy SEO
You’ve been creating WordPress sites for some time now, but need something that offers just a bit more of an edge? This talk will focus on introductory level SEO theory and techniques to help your sites rank better without costing you impossible amounts of time and money.
We’ll be looking at how search engines rank sites, the data sources that can help you make good SEO choices and WordPress-only SEO shortcuts that can make things even easier.
While this talk is aimed at entry level SEO techniques, we’ll have time for questions built into the talk. Bring your most challenging SEO questions to share.
Jonathan Bishop
Crowdfunding WordPress plugins – The case of QPress
I have been conducting research into crowd-funding of WordPress plugins, which has resulted in many publications. This talk would present a case study of the crowd-funding of QPress, an almost complete WordPress plugin. The study has looked at various geographical factors in the advertising of crowd-funded projects, finding that advertising should be fixed to locations where clicks on adverts are not done to raise funds for the websites they are displayed on. It finds clearly that crowd funded projects need to be agile – built in several stages – and involve contingent working – where people only work on it when funds exist.
Ted Ryan
WordPress for Small and Not For Profit Enterprises
Most small and NFP enterprises and charities want an inexpensive website they can manage themselves and the WordPress platform seems the most popular choice right now; this talk by Pauline and Ted from RnR Organisation is about their experiences of using WordPress including at social media surgeries.
Pauline Roche
WordPress for Small and Not For Profit Enterprises
Most small and NFP enterprises and charities want an inexpensive website they can manage themselves and the WordPress platform seems the most popular choice right now; this talk by Pauline and Ted from RnR Organisation is about their experiences of using WordPress including at social media surgeries.
Nathan Roberts
Workshop (2 hrs): Custom fields workshop
A look at the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon and how to integrate it into your WordPress theme to add new functionality and options.
This workshop assumes you are comfortable with WordPress theme development, PHP and possibly some jQuery as well.
PLEASE NOTE: Ideally you will have a fresh local install of WordPress and the ACF plugin (which will not be covered in this session), but come along with a pal that has (or a pen and paper!)
Karl Craig West
Workshop (2 hrs): How to market and sell more WordPress websites
WordPress has much to offer to clients but sadly many web designers struggle to sell enough websites to build a sustainable business.
In this fast-paced workshop you’ll learn how to make sure your marketing and sales messages really hit the mark.
You’ll learn things like:
After this session you should have enough knowledge to put together a solid sales and marketing plan that will enable you to successfully grow your client base and your business.
Nivi Morales
WordPress in Local Government
We have been using WordPress as content management system Warwickshire County Council for the last two years.
In this talk I will share challenges faced and lessons we have learn in this process beginning with the outcomes of a design review we carried out last year.
The talk will touch on points such as:
Petra Foster
Be a Brand not a Commodity
Do you want to to stand out and profit in your WordPress business? The days of blending in with other web designers is over. Having a well executed branding strategy will allow you to cut through the noise and establish yourself as the go to expert in your niche. Petra will show you how to find your ‘sweet spot,’create demand for your business, and speak the language that your ideal audience craves.
Brian Duffy
Training Clients on how to use WordPress
A lot of WP developers struggle with training their clients on how to use WordPress. Not just how to use it, but how to grow their business with it.
There’s nothing worse than seeing a beautiful site die on the vine due to a lack of fresh content or poor site management.
Furthermore, some developers are unknowingly hurting their own by businesses by keeping clients in the dark with regards installing plugins and site maintenance etc.
As a freelance WP designer as well as a college lecturer who specializes in teaching WordPress to end-users I would love share my experience in empowering wp end-users to quickly learn how to get the most form their websites and why this can be very beneficial to wp developers and the wp community as a whole.
Jason King
Automate & Integrate WP with Other Applications
Need to connect WordPress and plugins to other applications to share data with them? How can you automate tasks so that WordPress communicates with other tools?
I will demonstrate how a local advice website used the Gravity Forms plugin to enable the public to ask them questions, then used Zapier to automatically turn those enquiries into support tickets in Freshdesk, the third party helpdesk application used by their advisers.
Then we will discuss other ways that Zapier and similar tools can be used to send data to and from WordPress.
Kimb Jones
WOW Plugins 2015
A rundown of great plugins and an open discussion with the audience to dig out any plugins that people are using and love.
Doug Lawrence
Mind your Language! A practical guide to implementing ‘proper’ language encoding on multilingual WordPress websites
Doug Lawrence will explain the benefits of language encoding for multilingual WordPress sites, including the setting of locale and hreflang on both multisite and single installations. He will also discuss international targeting settings within search engine web master tools.
Belinda Mustoe will show live examples of locale and hreflang implementation on both a branding and an e-commerce website and explain the deployment choices made.
Mike Killen
Workshop (2 hrs): How to build better businesses for your customers
If your customer’s business and website is profitable, your business is profitable.
This workshop (which we’ve delivered to The Princes Trust, BiP and to our customers), lets you map out with your customer, how they can have a profitable, focused and in demand business model. Both for and behind their website.
We (WordPress builders/designers/businesses) are often seen as internet and website gurus. We’re also asked to fix printers and do social media. However wouldn’t it be awesome if we had a series of tools that let us build better and more profitable businesses for our customers.
Mike wants to give you a step by step process and template for you to be able to sit down and consult with your customer. You could charge for this separately. You could use it as part of your discovery process.
We’ve seen WP businesses take this consultation model and use it to qualify leads. We’ve also seen people use it as part of their sales process.
What you’ll get is a gameplan for your customers to build a profitable website. A blueprint for how you can consult, charge for consultation and build in this process into your design/sales process.
Josh Hillier
Making WordPress realtime
Exploring the idea of using Real-time data within WordPress, using technologies as node.js and socket.io and showing ways to tie the services together using the WP HTTP and AJAX APIs.
Jonny Allbut
Workshop (2 hrs): Theme builders workshop
Building upon my short presentation on Saturday on more advanced theme building techniques, we will take a couple of steps back in the process and go through theme development from the beginning, looking at techniques I use all the time to build efficient, easy to manage bespoke WordPress themes for clients. Stop hacking and start creating easy to update, smarter child themes and learn about ‘the WordPress way’ of doing things.
This workshop will appeal to beginner and intermediate users, those that are taking their first steps into theme development. The focus will be on creation of child themes – either from WordPress core themes like Twenty Fourteen, or other theme or framework. During the workshop you will have time to experiment with some of these techniques with guidance and help available from myself and one or two additional expert theme coders that will be on-hand in the breakout work sessions.
Please bring your laptop with a fresh local install of WordPress along to the session if possible (or make a new WordCamp buddy and sit with them!) It’s not essential – a notepad and pen will also do for those that don’t have this – but HIGHLY recommended.
By the end of the workshop, I’ll be aiming for all attendees to have a good understanding of:
These will provide you with the foundations of how to develop smarter, easier to update themes. Expect to walk away with plenty to R&D to follow-up in the future! Depending on time, there may be an opportunity for a short Q&A session on your own theme building issues – and maybe time to share a few other gems on WordPress theme development too!
Theme Building Tricks of the Trade
I’ve been building WordPress themes since 2005 and have developed a-lot of useful little tricks along the way. I’ll be sharing a handful of my best techniques to help you work with WordPress and build themes like a pro!
There may even be a little live coding if I’m feeling brave… surely worth attending to see how that goes for me (fingers crossed… we know how that usually goes in-front of an audience!)
Matt Radford
Get Your Git On
How can Git successfully be integrated into a WordPress development workflow: What should be in the repo? How should you deploy? What should be deployed? I’ll also be reviewing the plugins I can find that enable WordPress updates to work with Git.
Mike Little
Workshop (2 hrs): Hands-on introduction to WordPress
It’ll be a hands-on interactive introduction to WordPress.
Where you can try out WordPress on a practice site you get keep for 30 days after the workshop.
You’ll learn the basics of creating content with words and multimedia, when to use posts and pages, all about menus and widgets, and an introduction to themes and plugins.
Rachel McCollin
Content is King
Your WordPress site needs to be well coded and look good, yes, but when it comes down to it the most important element of your site is the content.
In this talk I’ll look at:
Workshop (2 hrs): Manage Your WordPress Website Now and For the Future
This workshop is aimed at WordPress users who have already created a site and started adding content to it. It will be a practical session aimed at helping you develop the skills you need to manage your site and make sure it’s robust, fast and regularly updated.
During the workshop there will be some input from the workshop leader but you’ll spend most of the time doing practical work on your own site, with guidance from the instructor, as well as being able to ask questions and discuss practical aspects of running a WordPress site with the rest of the group.
By the end of the workshop you’ll be able to:
As this is an interactive workshop numbers are limited.
Kirsty Burgoine
Workshop (2 hrs): Custom fields workshop
A look at the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon and how to integrate it into your WordPress theme to add new functionality and options.
This workshop assumes you are comfortable with WordPress theme development, PHP and possibly some jQuery as well.
PLEASE NOTE: Ideally you will have a fresh local install of WordPress and the ACF plugin (which will not be covered in this session), but come along with a pal that has (or a pen and paper!)
Catering for WordPress
The catering/restaurant industry has very few tools to help them create/store recipes, plan menus and work out costings that can be shared with members of staff and other branches of a chain.
This talk would cover one solution to this, showing how WordPress has been used as an intranet for businesses in the restaurant/catering industry. Features include working as a tool to itemise ingredients, a stock take facility including the monetary value of stock, help plan and budget dishes and menus, work out costings for bulk recipes down to individual portions and include other factors such as VAT and a variable gross profit.
All of this has been set up using a combination of WordPress MU, custom plugins, custom post types, custom fields and a bespoke theme with all of the necessary maths functions built in. People should come to this if they are developers who are interested in how to take WordPress further than a standard brochure/blog website. There will be some knowledge of PHP, theme development, plugin development and jQuery assumed for this talk.
Nathan Monk
Building a business by using WordPress as an application framework for universities
We’ve worked as a service led agency for 5 years and did so with WordPress – but service is hard. We decided to try creating software-as a-service for universities. This talk explores the why we chose WordPress and the business and technical challenges – from making WordPress work in real time using node.js to utilising multisite to build a solid infrastructure.
Iain Cambridge
Paul Cherry
Customers and the Web
Customer experience on the web is really, really important. In this talk, Paul, who’s been in brand marketing for the best part of 15 years (and a good number of those involved with working with the web for brands) shares his insights on making web a better place for customers. Whether desktop or mobile, let’s make better experiences that keep customers coming back.
Mark Wilkinson
Content manage everything!
Tips and tricks on how I try to make sure that practically everything in a WordPress build is made editable by the client through the WordPress dashboard in some way shape or form.
Steven Jones
Improving the UX of search in WP
Making the search in WordPress a good UX for your users. Thinking about different ways searches can be used in different scenarios and ways to improve upon the out-of-the-box WordPress search.
Ben Furfie
Why it’s time to stop using Photoshop for web design
Adobe’s Photoshop has long reigned supreme when it comes to designing mockups for websites. However, neither it nor its sibling Illustrator are particularly well suited to the task of designing user interfaces – especially now in the age of responsive web design. Worse still, both products are terrible from the perspective of helping developers to take a design and bring it to life.
Enter Sketch 3 and InVision. This talk will focus on how web designers can design responsive websites quickly and accurately – even sites based on the latest frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation – help developers to create those sites far more efficiently than they can from a PSD, and how combined with InVision, Sketch 3 can deliver accurate, interactive mockups to clients before a single line of code is even written.
Mike Pead
Turbo-speed your WordPress website!
Don’t frustrate your visitors with slow page loading speeds. Learn how to make your WordPress website load faster with a few speed optimisation tips. This talk will teach you how to test your loading speed; why and how you can cache your pages; how to reduce the number of files loaded on each page visit; and other tips and tricks.
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