WordCamp Malaysia 2010

0Hazrul Azhar Jamari • 22nd May 2010 • My Notes, Business, Internet Presence, My Notes, My Notes, Pictures, My Notes, Travels

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Location: CitiTel Hotel, Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1646pm: END. Thanks WordCamp Malaysia!

1643pm: Colin Charles crediting the sponsors of WordCamp Malaysia 2010.

1642pm: after answering lots of geeky qns from floor, Aizat ends the day on a techie feel. For questions, pls visit his blog at http://blog.aizatto.com.

1626pm: 2 kind of hooks. actions and filters. actions = do something. filters = transform

1605pm: Know your friends (Codex, Google; people who blog abt development). More here -> http://blog.aizatto.com/2010/05/04/speaking-at-wordcamp-malaysia-2010/

1600pm: Aizat Faiz: Beginning WordPress Plugin Development

1540pm: Celebrating Naoko’s birthday as well!

1500pm: Forum Panel: Monetising your blog. Recorded clips of the forum. Watch for it on my youtube, vimeo and maybe FB videos later.

1450pm: Fai showcases WP running on Azure cloud, explaining how you can create multiple instances of the application to cater to traffic.

1445pm: Fai showcases the Silverlight Media Player Plugin

1430pm: Fai now showcasing Silverlight for WordPress.

1425pm: Fai shows how fast Web Platform installs WordPress with IIS over Web Platform 2.0

1420pm: Lai Hoong Fai: Light up your Web site with technology

1300pm: LUNCH!

1250pm: Jimmy shows a few demos on geotagging + buddypress by integrating foursquare and bp. http://thepremiumpress.com/blog/2010/02/10/introducing-gmaps/

1245pm: BP is easily extensible into other social network-related implementations like office intranet through the use of document management plugins.

1240pm: BP pot language files can be used for more than language. Turn BP into foursquare by renaming posts as check-ins and groups as venues.

1235pm: Jimmy says, why another social networking platform? better control of your private information. fb changes tos, and personal info tends to be abused. Another reason is to allow platforms to build niche social networks.

1225pm: Jimmy describes that BuddyPress is a social networking layer sitting on top of WP. Going through a quick tutorial on BuddyPress features.

1221pm: Jimmy Ngu: Geo-Tagging with BuddyPress

1220pm: Yahya describes how Facebook is the number destination in ASEAN, whereas it’s #2 in the US. So leverage on Facebook.

1215pm: Yahya discusses the various SM wp plugins like WordBook and Sociable. This requires creating a Facebook application, but all you need is to follow readme instructions to set it up.

1210pm: How to marry sm and wp together? People. SM is all about people. Word of mouse through social platforms redirect to your wp blog. Machines can’t be social.

1205pm: align your social influence. what’s ur guruship?

1200pm: Yahya: the key to sm in wp is establishing your guruship

1155am: Yahya Ayob: Blending Social Media in WordPress

1145am: noindex robots. make the robot not to follow categories, tags because its not useful for users and robots.

1145am: images are ranked better than content. ensure descriptive file name. include alt and title attributes with a description that includes your keywords. not doing this is a waste.

1145am: @liewcf keyword keyword keywords. SEO is all about keywords. bold/italic impt keywords but don’t calefare. interlink related pages using key phrases.

1140am: title, meta, permalink, impt tags to make your site produce good seo result. remove irrelevant words (is, are, etc in permalink). @liewcf recommends /%category%/%post_title%/ to improve SEO. but if u change ur category name in future, u will have a 301 problem. future proof it with /%postname%-%post_id%/ instead to better improve SEO.

1135am: @liewcf goes technical. discusses how to optimise your front page for best search results. use tools google.com/insights/search – / google.com/trends – google.com/analytics

1128am: Liew Cheon Fong @liewcf: SEO for Blogs

1051am: Adjourning for tea break.

1045am: David answers qn. He uses headway framework which is drag and drop theme suitable for people with no css knowledge.

1043am: woohoo! end of geeky bit. for a geek like me, i think that was a bit difficult to bear coz it’s newbie stuff for me.

1040am: WP3.0 make frameworks more pwrful. In-built support for child themes and its features.

1035am: Ok. So it’s gg to get technical. David show’s the code on how to make child theme.

1030am: David kinda taking very long to make his point that theme frameworks make developing themes easier.

1025am: Discusses history of theme frameworks beginning from Sandbox. It’s now discussing technical stuff right now. Probably more suitable for smaller group sessions.

1020am: David is discussing how some theme frameworks aren’t really theme frameworks. Themes that are blank themes, without hooks etc.

1015am: David Wang: Theme Framework: A glimpse into the future presentation.

1013am: yay! sponsor session done. -yawn-. *opocot* Kevin tripped on the mic wire. haha.

1010am: Kevin discusses flaws and strengths of WordPress. Developer ranting right now.

1005am: Kevin Zahri, Founder of embunweb.com on the podium, giving a sponsor session. Introducing his web hosting company.

1000am: Naoko ends her keynote. Colin Charles (MC) takes over podium.

0955am: Admin UI transition, Automattic listens to user feedback (well… most of the time).

0950am: 40++ WordCamps last year. 2010 has 45 WordCamps already by May scheduled.

0945am: Naoko talks abt benefits of WP. Sharing (9000+ plugins and 1000+ themes). Child themes (a recommended method of theme development beginning with wp3.0). 60+ core translations (plugins/themes). Contributions. etc. A bit preachy right now.

0940am: Cool feature in wp3.0! Event post type in-built by default!

0935am: Twenty-ten new default theme. New navig menu management. Lots of widget canvas. TwentyTen Demo at http://2010dev.wordpress.com

0930am: Merge of wpmu, buddypress and wp in 3.0. You guys already know the features of this. Currently still in beta.

0925am: Showcasing sites that use wp. Stuff we already know like techcrunch.

0920am: STATS. 9.5 million downloads of WP. WP powers 8.5% of the ENTIRE Internet. Drupal came 1% behind. All this in 7 years. WordPress.com is the 12th most visited site in Malaysia (Alexa). 79% of top 1mill sites with blog use WP.

0915am: Naoko describes WordPress history. Too boring right now. May 27 2003, WordPress began. Discussing WP growth till today.

0910am: Naoko from Automattic gives keynote.

0905am: Video of Matt appears. 3.0 successfully merged with wpmu. Talks about B2 history. Also discusses about the legal bits of WP. Encourages Malaysian wpers to continue collab.