WordPress Cambridge

Author: Ben Attenborough

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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:

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Creating awesome images for your business presentation

    Creating awesome images for your business presentation

    Here are the slides from the “Creating awesome images for your business” presentation by Jemima Willcox. Jemima talked about creating images for use on your website and for social media. She also discussed how to find royalty-free images, using pictures of people correctly, sizing images and more. Check out the slides below:

  • Useful WordPress Courses

    Here are some useful WordPress courses. Do you have any others you’d like to add? Let us know! General WP Courses WPShout – described as “In-Depth WordPress Tutorials for Developers” Free Code Camp (free, natch) – Very accessible and of course free, so if you don’t get on with it you don’t lose anything. I don’t think…

  • Next Meetup: Gutenberg: Learn the Future of WordPress 12-02-2018

    Next Meetup: Gutenberg: Learn the Future of WordPress 12-02-2018

    Getting to know Gutenberg – Monday 12 February 2018 6.45pm to 9.45pm, The Bradfield Centre, Central Working, Cambridge See: Meetup for up to date details Gutenberg is the name for the new editor focus in WordPress. It is the future of WordPress, and will make creating websites much, much simpler. Tammie Lister will take you…