wordcampparis/wordcamp-talks

Manage your WordCamp Call for Speakers.. In WordPress!

WordCamp Talk Proposals

WordCamp organizers can save some precious time when managing their call for speakers. The WordCamp Talk Proposals plugin is their tool to manage the talk proposals of their potential speakers. Speakers simply need to have a WordPress.org profile to submit their proposals.

Speakers are saving time!

When the plugin is activated on a WordCamp.org site, they can simply log in using their WordPress.org credentials to start submitting their talk. They can customize their biographical information for this particular WordCamp from their front-end profile. Their edits will be saved into a Pending WordCamp Speaker Post Type.

When the plugin is activated on any website, they'll need to register using their WordPress.org account username and their Gravatar email. Once registered, their WordPress.org biographical information and display name will automagically be used in the website.

They can follow the progress of the review of their talk proposals thanks to the mention prefixing their talks title.

Organizers are saving time!

Organizers can directly manage the selection process of their WordCamp Sessions from their WordPress Administration.

To edit the state of a talk proposal, they can update it from the Talk Proposal Status metabox of the Talk Edit screen.

When used on a WordCamp.org site, they can save more time once they selected their talks by using the Draft a Session button to init a session. This button will only show if candidates have saved their biographical information from their front-end profile.

Organizers can invite people to contribute to reviews

The WordCamp Talk Proposals plugin comes with two new roles :

• Raters can review Talk proposals by adding their ratings or comments.
• Blind Raters can do the same without knowning about the existing reviews and about the candidates personal information.

Requirements

• WordPress 4.6.1.
• Tested up to WordPress 4.9.

Cloning/Downloading

If you're familiar with git you can simply go at the root of you plugins directory and do:

git clone https://github.com/WordCampParis/wordcamp-talks.git

If you downloaded the master archive or one of the release tags. Make sure to rename the main folder of the plugin to 'wordcamp-talks' before activating it.

wordcamp-talks's Issues

Speaker's submitted Talks profile tab

Once the call for speakers ending date has been reached, this profile tab disappears for the speaker. It shouldn't be the case.

Notices to speakers on Talk Proposal's status change

I personaly think it would be nice to send an email to the speaker when the Talk Proposal's status has transitionned eg: pending to selected etc..

What do you think ?

Talk Proposal Status and CSV exports

As the plugin is now using custom statuses, we need to make sure it's not added to the Talk Proposal title and it has its own column when exporting the CSV.

Vote average needs 2 decimals

Login form to replace 404 for user's profile

When the user is not logged in and tries to access to a user's profile, redirect him to the WordPress login form.

Bulk update talk statuses

Once the call for speakers is ended, editing each talk status can take quite a long time. A bulk action would improve the process a lot.

wrong vote averages when exporting in CSV

The cap needed to view the average rate is missing to the user when doing this action.

French translation issue

On the main Talks page, when no talks were submitted, the link is opening the login screen and the text is showing "register". It should be log in.

WordPress.org user profile syncing

When a user signs up there's an HTTP requests that checks the username he chose exists on WordPress.org. If it's not the case the signup is rejected, if it's the case the WordPress.org user's description is copy pasted into the Site user's description.

This syncing is very interesting as it makes organizers save times when it comes to ask the user to give a short bio or his WordPress.org username. Moreover it's not a big deal to sign up a WordPress.org account. Moreover it is a key element that allowes the sessions/speakers export feature.

But, this feature shouldn't discourage WordCamp organizers to use the Plugin if they think the opposite. Let's use an option to disable this syncing, and adapt the export feature accordingly.

Logged in user feedback once the call for speakers ended

On the archive page, the feedback message ask the already logged in message to register or log in. It should inform the call for speakers ended.

Let Admins submit talks as someone else

It should be easier for an admin to Post a talk proposal as someone else. As speakers are regular subscribers, they are not listed into the author metabox. So to achieve this today you need to temporary give the speaker the contributor role, edit the author from this metabox and change back the speaker's role for subscriber.

This should be improved.

Notice error when adding a comment errored

When adding a comment errored, as a WP_Error object is returned instead of 1 or 0, it causes a notice error into wct_users_raters_approved().