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This is your WordCamp London and we’d love to hear directly from you about any WordPress related topics that tickle your fancy, or what you might be interested in hearing or learning more about.
Previous WordCamp’s have hosted a massively diverse range of talks around community, content, Open Source, development, UX, trends, design, marketing, SEO, performance and business, to name a few!
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I’ll kick off this chatter then with some ideas on the sorts of topics I would like to see covered in the talks.
I am very much interested in talks around running a remote WordPress agency/business. How do you keep on top of what people are up to, what is used for communication & project management? What are the benefits and problems that need to be overcome?
Javascript is the future in terms of WordPress (we hear!) and therefore some talks on getting started with Javascript would be good – for novices that have never written javascript before.
I always like case studies too. I think these talks are good and maybe have a case studies track where a speaker outlines a problem or issue they had to solve in a project and then speaks about how they went about solving it. It could be one aspect of a project or the entire project – either way.
Just some thoughts anyway and look forward to seeing what other people are interested in.
Business Development topics and more structured/inspirational talks around this topics would be great.
The business room last year was OK but I felt splitting it into non-profit / for-profit was confusing and the agency panel in that room was too chaotic.
Development wise more Javascript talks and less PHP talks is a must but there needs to be a clear distinction between any REST API talks to ensure the same content isn’t repeated.
DevOps is also an area which has been done to death so the less about caching/servers/etc the better.
Mark, I’m part of a virtual agency – happy to have coffee sometime if we’re ever in the same place at the same time – or to chat online about experiences. There are definitely (IMO) limitations to the remote-working model. But there’s a lot of opinion in there too (observe Woo and Automattic who don’t seem bothered by restrictions)
I’ll second the JavaScript idea (even though I loathe the language and really hope JS is NOT such a large part of WordPress’s future. In particular some info on where in the codebase JS is, what sort of design patterns are used in it. How it’s documented. How to contribute to development with it. I have worked a little bit with the core JS code (shiny updates!) and it’s really hard to get to grips with.
I’d also more generally like to see more on how to contribute back to WordPress development. Getting started can be hard so some basic pointers on getting involved in core and getting plugins and themes into the repo would be good.
Finally…non-topic related requests:
– I’d love a cloak room on both days if at all possible
– I’ve said it before, but there’s a lot of introverts that attend who need quiet time to recharge. A quiet space where you can go and not talk to other people would be really cool.
Love the new design and already excited about WCLDN2016! 🙂
Personally I would like to see more technical talks and maybe some workshops to follow those. Or as I have seen at other conferences a chance to book in some time with a speaker so you can expand upon what they talked about and find out more. I often find talks skim the surface and am desperate to know more. Sitting down 1-2-1 with people is great and the best way to learn more.
If anyone can give a masterclass on roots (www.roots.io) that would be amazing
If you can make it to Bristol one of our members is a developer on roots. We will hopefully be getting him to talk next year about what he does. Very nice chap 🙂
awesome, when will the talk be? I would definitely be keen to go to it if I can make it!
Keep an eye on http://www.meetup.com/Bristol-WordPress-People/ it will be posted on there as soon as its organised 🙂
Last year’s WCLDN had a nice diversity of formats (panels, Q&A’s, etc.) and I’d really love to see even more extravaganza on that side (interviews, public Q&A’s, interactive workshops, keeping the “talk” format always numerically dominant).
I’m interested in the whole area of WordPress security. Anything related to tips on how to pick a quality hosting provider, plugin choice and configuration, backup tips etc would be great. Best of luck with the event. I hope to be there!
A couple of possible suggestions:
Local Development – there has been a lot of discussion recently on different set-ups for local development. A lot of these include Vagrant – but not much on where to get started with vagrant. VVV & PuPHPet of course are a couple of options – but how do none-developers know which is right? Especially at a time when so few ‘ready-made’ solutions are supporting PHP7.
Another topic I would like to see a talk on would be custom themes v off the shelf premium themes – why premium themes are often bloated, and when is the right time to get your hands dirty with Underscores.
Last one… carrying on from the Underscores option… frameworks and how the likes of Foundation or Bootstrap can give a starting point for theme creation.
Hope to make it to London, good luck with all the planning & work!
It would be great to see more design focused talks at WordCamp London. A lot of WordCamps focus on business and that’s ok, but it shouldn’t mean we ignore the world of design and the design talent we have in London, South East and beyond. London has a great, strong tradition of design and seeing more talks would celebrate this.
Just some suggestions would be:
– Svg and using
– CSS animation
– UX and the experience of WordPress
– Wire-framing and research focused
– Web typography
– Being a designer in WordPress
– A modern designers toolkit
– Open source as a designer
– Redesigning something in WordPress: a case study. Always wanted to tackle a part of WordPress in theory? Do it in a talk. Redesign revisions, iterate on post editing – it’s a great chance to show your ideas.
… and much more. The world of design is huge and there are so many talks that need to be spoken.
Using SVGs with WordPress is still a pain, but doable with some effort. I’d like to see WP offer better SVG support. Hmm, maybe I’ll whip up a lightening talk…
Javascript and REST API for the novices-where to start and learn.
Is Javascript and REST API future for the WordPress themes?
+1 for “Javascript and REST API for the novices-where to start and learn”
I second your comment Ana. Perfect.
Hello everyone, personally I’d like to hear some talks about a couple of topics:
– Discovering WordPress as an entrepreneurial tool
– WordPress for authors and freelancers
– How to find inspiration for blogging and stand out as a small company
– WordPress for newbies
The main theme that links the topics above is the ‘tutorial’ kind of voice. Whether you’re a consumed content marketer, a brilliant tech person or a WordPress newbie, exploring the very basic foundation of the content writing on WordPress would be a great source of inspiration for developing our own tone of voice, learn how to use the power of WordPress at 100% and be a mentor for colleagues/clients/friends.
Hope that makes sense and someone will submit something similar as a talk for #wcldn 🙂
Would anyone be interested in hearing a talk about how to introduce testing to the software one is developing? It wouldn’t be a too in-depth talk, more an overview of possibilities and a glimpse of a mindset that you can have if you have testing as a part of your development process.