Tickets are now available for WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012.

Tickets are currently £35 early bird, which will increase to £45 full price on 1 June 2012.

Please note the email you receive in acknowledgement of your purchase is your ticket – no paper tickets will be issued.

This event is being organised by WPUK.

The start of ticket sales for WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 has been delayed for a week.

Due to outside work pressures amongst the team building this year’s event site, it has not been possible to complete the design and post all of the content by the original deadline of 6 May 2012.

Therefore, there is now a revised target of Sunday 13 May 2012 for the launch of the site, which will include ticket purchasing facilities.

Ticket sales will commence with discount £35 early bird, and will increase to £45 full price four weeks later.

This year’s wonderful WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012 logo is by Jonathan Harris.

This event is being organised by WPUK.

I went to meeting number eleven of the WordPress London local group on 19 April 2012.

Areas covered were:

• Dan Thornton and Robert Rhoades gave a presentation on their Jigoshop WordPress ecommerce plugin – an area of plugin development where improved usability is definitely required.
• Steve Jones gave an interesting talk on using PHP classes for plugin authoring.
• Lee Rickler led a lively and informative WordPress Q&A session
• And finally I gave a quick presentation on WPUK and the forthcoming WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012; slides (55kB PDF).

Afterwards it was (inevitably) beer at the Sutton Arms.

WordPress London meets on a monthly basis – many thanks to Keith for organising the gathering.

If you’re not based in London, see if there’s a WordPress local group near you on the WPUK wiki.

The event site, currently under development, is scheduled to be launched on 29 April 2012 to include a range of information about the event.

Ticket sales are planned to start on 6 May 2012 – initially they will be early bird discount tickets, similar to the process followed for last year’s Portsmouth WordCamp.

In the meantime, content ideas for the event can be posted on the WPUK planning wiki.

To post to the wiki, you need to be a registered user. To register contact me, detailing your name and website URL, with the subject line “WPUK wiki registration request”.

The process of renaming WordCamp UK to WPUK has been completed with the final stage of introducing a new WPUK mailing list, which replaces the old WordCamp UK list.

If you have been a subscriber to old list, and have not received an email automatically subscribing you to the new list, you should manually subscribe to the WPUK mailing list.

I went to the tenth meeting of the WordPress London local group on 1 March 2012.

The main talks were:

• Graham Armfield detailed some of his, and other group members, favourite WordPress plugins.
• Rich Holman gave an introduction to building multi-lingual sites with WordPress.
• Tammie Lister outlined how to design for humans, not robots, with WordPress.

Afterwards it was beer at the Sutton Arms.

Another interesting and illuminating group meeting.

WordPress London meets on a monthly basis – many thanks to the organisers Keith, Chris and Emily.

If you’re not based in London, see if there’s a WordPress local group near you on the WPUK wiki.

The confirmation of the successor to WordCamp Portsmouth UK 2011 follows WordCamp Central processing and venue booking.

This year’s WordCamp venue was proposed by Taryn Wallis and Martin Young, who, along with the Core Group, will be involved in organising this year’s event.

The event website is at the early stages of development by Jonny Albutt and Jonathan Harris – whilst this work is being undertaken go to the planning wiki for
more details.

The Core Group are now seeking sponsors for the event, if you’re interested contact me.

Those who have already expressed an interest in sponsorship will be
contacted shortly.

Microsponsorship by individuals, as last year for Portsmouth, will be
available when tickets go on sale at a date to be announced in due
course.

To keep up to date with developments subscribe to the WPUK mailing list.

What is WPUK? WordCamp UK has recently been renamed to WPUK in recognition of the wider range of activities undertaken by the group.

I attended the eighth meeting of the WordPress London local group on 7 December 2011 – the Christmas social!

Beer (courtesy of Headshift) and chat, replaced the usual presentations (and beer).

The Blue Lion proved to be an excellent venue with a great range of real ales.

Pictured is the new WordPress London badge, produced by Emily Webber.

I went to the seventh meeting of the WordPress London local group at the Headshift offices in Shad Thames on Thursday 17 November 2011.

During the meetup, Keith Devon gave a clear and succinct presentation on working with custom post types, and how they can be used in conjunction with templates, custom taxonomies and meta boxes.

Chris Adams (pictured above) gave an update on recent news developments in the wonderful world of WordPress, including drawing our attention to the WP Install Profiles plugin, which looks like it could be a bit of a timesaver.

David Bain also talked about the various possibilities for improving WordPress SEO.

The excellent evening concluded with liquid refreshment at the local hostelry Anchor Tap.

WordPress London meets on a monthly basis – if you’re not based in London see if there is a WordPress local group near you on the WordCamp UK wiki.

I went to the sixth meeting of the WordPress London local group at the Telegraph offices in Victoria on Thursday 20 October 2011.

During the meetup, Paul Gibbs (pictured above), Developer at the Telegraph, gave an illuminating presentation on what’s involved in running the WordPress powered Telegraph blogs and MyTelegraph, the latter claimed to be the largest BuddyPress site in the UK.

Graham Armfield also gave an interesting presentation on WordPress and web accessibility, giving those present plenty of food for thought.

WordPress London meets on a monthly basis – if you’re not based in London see if there is a WordPress local group near you on the WordCamp UK wiki.

The event is planned to be held on the weekend of 14-15 July 2012.

This will be the fifth in the series of UK-based gatherings of WordPress publishers, designers and developers, which is held at a different location for each event.

The first conference took place in 2008 at Birmingham, followed by Cardiff the following year, then Manchester in 2010, and finally Portsmouth earlier this year.

The decision on the winning bid will be taken by the WordCamp UK mailing list.

Those interested in proposing a venue should follow the procedure on the planning wiki – the deadline for bid submissions is Saturday 26 November 2011.