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WordPress Cambridge Meetup
The WordPress Cambridge Meetup is a monthly get together for developers and users of WordPress, held at The Boathouse usually on the second, or third Monday of the month. You can usually expect to see 2-3 talks and an open Q&A session, followed by drinks in the pub. Find out more about WordPress, whether you’re…
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Guten Tips!
Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor and it went live at the end of 2018. We’ve now had a few months to explore it and so some of us are sharing what we have learnt. Our previous blog post about the introduction of Gutenberg has some useful links you may wish to check out. Lightning…
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WordPress as a Marketing Portal
Thanks to Chris O’Dell and Simon Ellington for giving great talks at our January 2019 meetup. Chris spoke on using WordPress to create a Minimum Viable Product to test the market. His quick approach to get a service/product to market was inspiring. Chris’s full presentation is available for you to look through. Simon spoke about…
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Gutenberg – new way to edit WordPress
Gutenberg (or WordPress 5.0) is now live… December 6, 2018, WordPress.org will update the core of WordPress with the new editor, ‘Gutenberg’. It’s a little controversial and makes some big changes to how the ‘back end’ of your WordPress site will look once you have updated WordPress. Your hosting company may delay updating the new…
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What to shove up your .htaccess
Simon Bragg of website and design agency Sibra gave a talk on Monday about the .htaccess file. This file is found in the root directory of websites running on Apache web servers (so check what server software you are using if the htaccess is missing). It controls access to pages on the site, handles redirects and can…
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Local Development and Child Themes
Ben Attenborough and Zuzana Kunckova gave a presentation last night on Local Development and Child Themes. Here are the slides (click to open): Local Development Here are some resources to help you with local development: Good blog post from wpmudev: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-use-local-by-flywheel-for-quick-wordpress-development/ Local development software: Local by Flywheel (the one we demoed) Desktop Server Vagrant XAMPP WAMP…
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Writing for the Web with Simon Bragg
Simon Bragg from Sibra gave a presentation last night on Writing for the Web. Once again the presentation was very insightful and prompted lots of debate. Thanks Simon! You can see the presentation by clicking on the image below:
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Practical WordPress Security with Tim Nash
Tim Nash (@tnash) from 34SP joined us on Monday 14 May to share his knowledge of WordPress security. You can see slides from Tim’s recent talks on security here Tim’s said: Thanks folks who came to my Practical Security talk at WP Cambridge last night. Today it’s time to take action we covered a lot of…
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The Gutenberg Block What I Wrote
Lightening talk given by me (Ben Attenborough) at the WordPress Cambridge meeting on 14 May 2018. Slides below: Links: Code on github: https://github.com/BenAttenborough/rba-codeblock Zac Gordon’s Gutenberg course: https://gutenberg.courses/development/ Code Mirror http://codemirror.net/2/ See also: https://codemirror.net/ Gutenberg Code Editor component https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/components/code-editor