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.
WordPress Sites for Academics
WordPress sites for Academics – how us geeks can help and assist non-geeks to use WordPress
Writing blogs and articles – lessons from writing for newspapers
Peter Curtain gives a talk on writing blogs and articles, his lessons from writing for newspapers.
Intro + WP Contributor Day
Welcome to the WordPress London Meetup. Keith will discuss the upcoming WordPress Contributor Day.
The Heartbeat API
With the launch of WordPress 3.6 comes the Heartbeat API, a simple yet powerful way of implementing a polling in WordPress. We’ll take a look at the basics, an example and the possibilities.
