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work together to solve our WordPress problems

I'm talked some WordPress aficionados into being available to solve our problems. (Blog post)

Hosted by Lloyd Budd and in no particular order Richard Eriksson, Jim Groom, Rebecca Bollwitt,Duane Storey, Chris Lott, D’Arcy Norman, David Peralty, and Lorraine Murphy.

Participants

Please add your name and a short description of your problem (and even better a link to a blog post about your problem -- if you do this maybe someone will be able to research your issue before the event)

• Lloyd Budd problem (link)
• Add yourself here
• Nancy White - embedding youtube - I know to turn off WYSIWYG but is there an easier way? And WPTags/delicious tags. Where is the mix?
  • Nancy, I tried to answer your 1st question http://foolswisdom.com/embedding-youtube-in-wordpress-2-3-bug/ can you elaborate on your 2nd one?

Plan 

The plan is for the first half to be spent discussing problems and experiences in small groups and then us all coming together to discuss the groups’ discoveries and some of the problems that still taught us with the whole group.

Hopefully, in the small groups, you will also swap blogging stories and 411.

Some of the small groups could be solving problems related to:

• Getting going on WordPress.com - Richard Eriksson (sightings) also doing the Blogging 101 session of Internet Bootcamp (Podcast of his 2007 session of the same title)
• Setting up WordPress (+ using it for CMS) - Jim Groom (sightings) (notes) brings all his experience on using WordPress MU for the campus-wide blogging initiative at the University of Mary Washington and running WordPress on his personal blog. Saturday with D’Arcy, he is presenting Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform (NV 2007: with D’Arcy More than just a Blog)
• Beautiful prose and pictures - Rebecca Bollwitt (miss604) (sightings) is a Vancouver blogger, who loves WordPress, and is amoug the best I know for putting together prose and pictures into a tasty post. Or maybe you need some technical help with live blogging. She is a Northern Voice volunteer.
• Themes & CSS - you? Could really use a themer or designer to lay down some cascading flavor .
• Plugins - Duane Storey (sightings) author of numerous awesome WordPress plugins including Crossroads Flickr Plugin, CoolExcerpts, WordTwit Twitter, and he is currently working on Viper Cache.

   

• Messing up the code and contributing to WordPress - me, I guess.

Additional experts on hands:²

• Chris “Wordpress code is messy” Lott³ (sightings) and he still likes it! Saturday presenting The Blog is Dead! Long live bloggers (NV 2007: with Darcy Mashups for Non-Programmers and Social Software for Learning Environments [podcast])
• D’Arcy Norman from WordPress to Drupal and back again. (sightings) Saturday with Jim doing, Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform (NV 2007: with Jim More than just a Blog, with Chris Mashups for Non-Programmers and Social Software for Learning Environments [podcast])
• David Peralty (sightings) Head of Marketing at Splashpress Media, he is a pro blogger, has published over 4000 articles, and contributes to many blogging news. He has also been know to hack up a theme, make multiple loops, and streamline upgrading.
• Lorraine Murphy (sightings) as well as her famous pop culture blog raincoaster.com, she regularly runs Blogging for Beginners course with titles like “From zero to Technorati in 7 hours”. She is also volunteering at Northern Voice. (NV 2007 Stats: The Forbidden Love)
• Joshua McKenty  (sightings), Founder of BountyUp.com. Full-time entreprenuer, long-term technologist and amateur Wordpress hacker, he's had good luck glueing WP and BBpress into other sites, from Smarty integration to Single-Sign-On (using cookie hacks and SQL views).

The groups will be formed around your problems. What problem do you need help with?

Each of these aficionados is modest — some I had to trick to volunteer — and I bet you are modest too. WordPress is a rich environment, and by sharing your insights with us, you will surprise yourself with your own expertise . You will also be surprised that we have the same problems. Is there an interesting problem that you have solved and can help others solve to?

Depending on where the interest is we will reconfigure the session on the fly.

It won’t be scheduled during Blogging 101 or Photocamp. Any other sessions to avoid butting heads with? I won’t be arriving until Friday morning, because I’m still through mid-April at the Pregrancy Conference and after that I will be at the First Baby Conference for at least a few months. If there is interest some of us can get together later in the day and take a look at WordPress 2.5 which is still in development, but nearing beta quality, but I want this to be focused on solving people’s problems today.

Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!

More Topics To Consider

• Performance on shared hosting - suggested by Pete Quily

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