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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 […]

    November 17, 2016
  • 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 […]

    February 11, 2019
  • 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 […]

    January 30, 2019
  • 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 […]

    December 6, 2018
  • 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 […]

    August 16, 2018
  • Varying Vagrant Vagrants – What the heck? By Adam Maltpress

    Adam Maltpress gave a presentation last night about Varying Vagrant Vagrants. This is an open source local development tool for developing with WordPress. You can see the presentation here: A summary of the slides above follows: Varying Vagrant Vagrants VVV – what the heck? “An open source Vagrant configuration for developing with WordPress” Where Vagrant is […]

    August 14, 2018
  • 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 […]

    July 10, 2018
  • 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:

    June 12, 2018
  • How to Drive Traffic to your Website with Penni Stanton

    Penni Stanton (@kabocreative) from Kabo Creative gave a presentation on “How to drive traffic to your website”. With an estimated 140,000 new websites launched every day, you need a long term plan to drive consistent website traffic. Penni gave her top tips for driving consistent traffic, including: Contact forms & conversion measurement On-site SEO Being helpful […]

    June 12, 2018
  • 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 […]

    May 15, 2018
  • 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

    May 15, 2018
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