Survey Results

We published a survey to ask people what they would like to see at WordCamp this year. Here’s a summary of the results: if you’re thinking about speaking at WordCamp, this is a great starting place to get ideas!

Topics people want to learn more about (topics marked with an asterisk were requested multiple times):

  • *How to choose plug-ins and templates that will best serve my blog
  • Content strategy, marketing and business
  • Marketing your theme business
  • Theme design
  • *Responsive design
  • Integrating the theme customizer in your themes
  • *Best coding practices
  • What’s new with core WP
  • *Innovative web solutions using WP (not blogs)
  • Custom multiple loops, Pages and posts that do not need the loop.
  • Starting a WordPress based business
  • Working with / contracting Photographers
  • Best Practices in “training” new clients how to use their site
  • Best Practices in selling to people with horrible sites (out of date, poorly designed, etc)
  • *Creating Membership sites
  • Maintaining a WordPress site
  • Moving blog from WordPress.com to self-hosted
  • *SEO
  • Step-by-step talks on development that start absolutely from scratch
  • *Security in WordPress
  • Largely unknown uses of WordPress that are inherent in core (like Post Formats, or available WP Config lines of code that are being under utilized, and things that can be ‘turned on’ or ‘off’ easily to enhance the functionality and experience of just a core install – no plugins)
  • *Multisite
  • *Theme frameworks
  • *Starter themes
  • *Running a WP business, marketing, getting clients
  • launching wordpress sites from stage/local to live
  • how to get my wordpress site lean and fast, not bloated
  • Rich snippets for non-developers
  • business planning and why you need to set goals before starting a website design/build.
  • Git and WordPress development
  • wordpress core functions every new dev should know
  • enqueue files/scripts and how to clean up plugins that bastardize the function
  • combine/minify includes like JS and CSS
  • *SASS and/or Compass
  • *WP-CLI
  • Content creation
  • Social Media
  • *How to pick a good hosting company
  • Does managing your blog from a mobile device make sense?
  • Non-programmer’s guide to applying CSS to achieve desired effects
  • How to create cookie-cutter WordPress websites
  • Non-Core Contributing (theme reviews? documentation?)
  • Third Party Server Best Practices for WordPress
  • WordPress Small Business Best Practices
  • WordPress in Seattle
  • How WordPress integrates to enhance User Experience
  • HTML coding
  • Manipulation of themes, customization
  • Best plugins, most used, popular
  • WP as an app platform
  • how to run a dev agency
  • Using your blog as a resume to start a career
  • frameworks versus themes
  • are plugins good or bad?
  • modern design trends
  • important elements of business sites
  • beginner troubleshooting
  • How to leverage the built in JS libraries within WordPress
  • Using WP as a RESTful backend
  • integrating with other platforms
  • Logo Design for Web Developers

We asked what formats people prefer, and by far the most popular choices were lecture with Q&A and workshop.

If you have knowledge to share about any of these topics, head over to our call for speakers page and submit your talk!