November’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 20th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group October 2019
October’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 16th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group September 2019
September’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 18th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group August 2019
August’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 21st from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group July 2019
July’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 17th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group June 2019
June’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 19th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Manchester WordPress User Group May 2019
May’s Manchester WordPress User Group, run by WordPress co-founder Mike Little, takes place on Wednesday, the 15th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm.
Glasgow May 2019 meetup
Tuesday 28th May, 18:00 – 20:30 at the Old Sheriff Court (SYT) G1 1TF
“SHOW AND TELL” where anybody can share what cool stuff they’ve built with the new Block Editor!
So far this is what we have in the program:
- Neil Scott will show us a Gutenberg block he has built.
- The meetup organising team will tell us what WordPress has in the pipeline for the Block Editor.
Get in touch if you have done something cool with the new editor, have had a go at writing a block from scratch or have found a smart feature you’d like to share!
In the meantime, here’s a couple of WordPress community posts you may find of interest:
* WordPress Editor guide from the WordPress Support team: https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-editor/
* A proposal for the future from the WordPress Meta team: https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2019/03/08/the-block-directory-and-a-new-type-of-plugin/
* What’s new in Gutenberg, from the WordPress Core team: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/03/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-6th-march/
Glasgow meetup, 1st quarter 2019
Please find below all the information for the next 3 WordPress meetups is Glasgow, corresponding to January, February and March 2019.
We’re looking forward seeing you there!
WordPress helpdesk and networking
Tuesday, 22nd January 2019, from 6:00pm until 8:30pm, at the Citizen M’s hotel lounge
If you have a WordPress site and you’ve got a bug or there is something you are not quite sure how to do, come and meet the WordPress professionals who may be able to help you or point you in the right direction.
If you are a WordPress professional and can spare a couple of hours every 3 months, come along to give some guidance to people who are learning or are stuck and need advice.
This event also aims to be a meeting point for WordPress developers and web designers looking for their next project or collaboration and for people who have a project and would like to meet a WordPress professional.
“Yoast” by Kayleigh Thorpe and “Digital Marketing” by Valerie Ferrat
Tuesday 26th February 2019, from 6:00pm until 8:30pm at the Old Sheriff Court (Scottish Youth Theatre venue)
Two talks. We’ll be updating the event description as soon as we have all the details!
“Writing effective website specification documents”, by Mark Wilkinson
Tuesday, 26th March 2019, from 6:00pm until 8:30pm at the Old Sheriff Court (Scottish Youth Theatre venue)
Do you want to set your website project up for success? Do you want to avoid any costly surprises along the way? Of course, you do.
A thorough, focused web specification document will keep your web project running smoothly and, most importantly, will give you the best to chance of delivering a project that meets the goals of your visitors and your business.
Mark Wilkinson is a developer and co-founder of Highrise Digital, a specialist WordPress agency focusing on building WordPress solutions for post-small pre-enterprise businesses.
Mark has been using WordPress since late 2005, all the way back to version 2.0. He is also an active member of the UK WordPress community, attending meet-ups and WordCamps in the UK, as well as getting involved in organising such events.
Glasgow meetup, November 2018
For this coming meetup, we will have our first ever Lightning talks by three members of the WordPress Glasgow community.
Each talk will last around 10 minutes and there will be plenty of time at the end to ask questions and discuss the topics covered by the talks.
TALK #1: “Introduction to the WP_CLI” by Sean MacKay
WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. It allows you to do all sort of nifty tasks without ever using the web browser.
TALK #2: “Mistakes and How to Make Them” by Jeremy Davis
A light-hearted look at some of the WordPress mess-ups I have made
with some practical tips on how to avoid making them yourself.
TALK #3: “Digital Certificate 101” by Nigel Pentland
A rapid explanation of what a digital certificate is, and what it looks like.
