Schedule
We will post additional schedule information as it is finalized. The session times for Saturday are still a little bit in flux as we try to accommodate all the speakers’ schedules.
Friday
| 9 – 5 | Full-day Newbie Workshop. See “Get Your WordPress Here!” for details. Since this workshop is only relevant for some people, separate tickets are required. |
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| 5:30 – 7:30 pm | Casual meet and greet. Come one, come all and meet your fellow attendees. Stop by for a quick glass of tea, get an advance look at who makes up the local community, and meet visiting speakers and WordPress experts before everyone’s crazy busy with presentations. We might have some snacks to keep you going until you eat dinner (maybe with someone you meet here!) |
SATURDAY
| Time | Using WordPress (user/blogger/business) | Making WordPress (design/development) |
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| 8:00 am | Registration (Coffee donated by StudioPress) | |
| 8:45 am | Welcome/Announcements | |
| 9:00 am | Showcase: What Can You Do with WordPress? | |
| 9:30 am | WordPress 3.0, In Case You Missed It Jane Wells |
Beginner PHP/CSS Shayne Sanderson |
| 10:00 am | Hidden Gems/Favorite Features Sheri Bigelow |
Writing Your First Plugin Mark Jaquith |
| 10:30 am | Break/Group Activity 1 | |
| 10:45 am | Site Demo: A Wedding Anthony Bubel |
2010: A Theme Odyssey Matt Thomas |
| 11:15 am | Site Demo: SCAD Radio Caila Brown |
Customizing Themes/Child Themes Sara Cannon |
| 11:45 am | WordPress for Dummies, Live Q&A Lisa Sabin-Wilson |
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Themes Matt Mullenweg |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch from Angel’s BBQ, donated by Automattic | |
| 1:30 pm | Functional Themes | Automating Your Plugin with WP-Cron Dan Cannon |
| 2:00 pm | Adding BuddyPress to Your Site John James Jacoby |
Contributing to WordPress Core Andrew Nacin |
| 2:30 pm | Post Templates vs. Custom Post Types Ptah Dunbar |
WordPress + jQuery Daryl Koopersmith |
| 3:00 pm | Break/Group Activity 2 | |
| 3:15 pm | Social Media Plugins Judi Knight |
Hooking into Comments Beau Lebens |
| 3:45 pm | Essential Plugins for Small Business Amanda Blum |
WordPress + Google Summer of Code BuddyPress Event Calendar – John James Jacoby Visual CSS Editor – Daryl Koopersmith |
| 4:15 pm | Top Multisite Plugins Andrea Rennick, via Skype |
WordPress + Google Summer of Code continued Visual CSS Editor – Daryl Koopersmith Theme Revisions/Editor – Andrew Nacin |
| 4:45 pm | Break | |
| 5:00 pm | What’s Next for WordPress? Q&A with Members of the WordPress Core Team Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells, Andrew Nacin |
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| 5:45 pm | Closing Remarks/Sunday Announcements | |
| 6:00 pm | Go Get Yourself Some Dinner (Afterparty details to come) | |
SUNDAY 12 – 5 pm
Sunday will include “unconference” sessions suggested/voted on/determined by speakers and attendees on Saturday, a potluck lunch, a genius bar where you can ask experts for help with your WordPress woes (including a few consultants, in case you want to hire someone for a project after WordCamp), casual networking, and an Update! station to help you get your site onto the current version of WordPress if it’s running an older version.
I’ll be attending the newbie workshop on Friday-I’m guessing I’ll need to bring a laptop. Am I correct? Also since I use an IMAC at home will I have any problems using a PC during the class? Thanks so much-looking forward to learning all about WordPress!
If you need some examples of sites that were converted from a “traditional” site (using a CMS or HTML editor to maintain) to a WordPress blog, I have two of them:
http://www.ospreyvillage.org
http://www.netgreenconsulting.com (under development at http://netgreenconsulting.theinternetgreen.com/ now but it will be converted before WordCamp Savannah unless you want me to do it LIVE at the conference!)
David G.