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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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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
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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:
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October 2017 Meetup: Managing WordPress & WP Transients
Managing WordPress Steven Watts of Newt Labs talked about WordPress management, which also included a quick introduction to Slack – an instant messaging/support system. See the slides below: This is a cut down version of the presentation, for more see https://www.slideshare.net/StevenWatts8/managing-wordpress Takeaways: where to get help, how to setup a staging site, a backup strategy, quick security wins,…