For everyone who followed the talks at WordCampUK 2010 by David Coveney of Interconnect IT.
I will add my presentations here in a little bit.
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WordCamp UK 2010 Live Discussion
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WordCamp UK 2010 Live Discussion
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Going to close the discussion now – thank you everyone – come back for the presentations!
If you’d like to use this discussions plugin, it’s at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-threaded-comments/ – have fun!
It’s always good to have a personal recommendation, so thanks for that.
Can see a good use for this live commenting in lessons in school – asking the teacher questions without me having to move!
Yeah, we have plans for it as well – keep watching
Great stuff Dave, well done! Just a quick question – what CDN/streaming servers did you use for delivering the videos?
Amazon’s S3 – works a treat. You can configure the type of server you want in your service. Very economical too.
Thanks. I thought it must be one of the big boys! I guess it makes it easy to manage from a costs point of view.
Easier from a setup and turnaround time perspective as well! The client set it up, and they didn’t spend much time on it or experienced any issues – very impressed.
We have successfully integrated WordPress 3.0 install with our Windows Server 2008 environment. Users login with their network AD login details and we use the WpDirAuth plugin to do this. However we found that the 1.5 version of the plugin would not work, but 1.3 was fine. The site runs on IIS7 through a Threat Management Gateway (formerly ISA I believe). It works surprisingly well at the moment.
Hi Mark – that’s great to know – really interesting information. Thanks for sharing.
Jane & Peter have just finished their stint…
Haha – WordPress’s own flood control is kicking in, because we’re all on the same IP….
We’ll have to look at a fix for that…
This is a quick reply.
Got away with it that time… interesting one though…
Nice work =) (extra bit added to bypass the brevity filter
That must be WP-Spamfree that we use here… something we’ll probably drop soon on this site in favour of Bad Behaviour.
Just extended the roll-up depth to 6 – this is a configurable option and helps to stop threads going on to too deep a level for visitors who may not be that interested, whilst allowing regulars to respond in much more depth.
Changes to settings aren’t ajaxed, you’ll need to refresh your browser to actually see changes to settings.
Incidentally – you heard it here first – our own site relaunches very soon… lots of new shiny + more in-depth info about the sites we’ve worked on.
No pressure then
None whatsoever
But if you can finish it today….
Q: What training does Telegraph give journos for ‘online writing’ ?
Not sure what’s done now, but in the early days I gave an afternoon’s course to Kate Day and Shane Richmond – but they were already pretty clued up on a lot of it. I would guess they support other journalists. Hopefully Adrian can expand on that later…
Aha – James has arrived… and Mark
Is there a way to make these comment inputs record our details? It’s a pain to keep retyping them.
Also; do these spectacular comments sync into the WP database, or are they stored separately?
Your details should hang around in the Name and email areas, if not then that’ll be a bug I need to look at.
As for your other point. The comments end up in WP’s own db in standard form so if you turn off the comments will continue as normal.
This seems to be working now, perhaps it was Dave’s change from static to live. I take it you’re the lead developer of the plugin? Looks interesting
Yes I am the developer of it I initially built for http://webinars.telecoms.com/ then spent the last few weeks to extended it to work with as many themes as I could and made it backwards compatible down to wp27.
There doesn’t seem to be any way to show a hidden comment. Also, when submitting a reply it seems to jump to a different point on the page — at least on iPad.
What do you mean by a hidden comment? If you’re talking about those that fall below the roll up depth then you should be able to click the toggle above the comment. If you’re talking about a deleted comment then there isn’t away they are just removed from the page and only a stub is left behind to avoid shuffling the whole page to deal with replies to deleted comments.
Can’t see them anymore but before there was a border box offering me the ability to hide (x) replies, if I clicked that there wasn’t a way to get them back. Not a big deal but just thought it might be interesting to note.
The roll up option can be set, but I expanded it to 6 deep from the default 3 deep.
Have you been working on that hairstyle since the last WordCamp?
Also; do you or The Telegraph plan to release any of the BP additions you/they have developed?
Yeah, pretty much! Too much work and a baby!
Not sure if the Telegraph’s BuddyPress extensions are that releasable, but would be nice… I’ll get Adrian in here later…
Congrats on the baby btw.
Why thank you! Lots of pics on my personal site at http://www.davesgonemental.com – he was an excuse for a new camera!
The problem with a lot of the plugins I create is that they are developed to fit a specific requirement we have. As such they aren’t always particularly flexible. That said we would love to feed back. If you spot any bit of functionality you like I can tell you how I did it and share any applicable code.
Westi & Jane are talking about the security of WP – a big issue with an inherently open platform and coding environment.
Almost the end of the day – lot of tired faces around.
I *started* tired! Not sure how I’ll cope tomorrow – will have to resist temptations at the social….
Adrian’s quizzing Westi at the moment, but I’m here.