WordUp Pompey! – 6 years old today

This post is a follow up to the meetup on the 16th February 2022 “Performance: Improve your Core Web Vitals”.

The only part of the September meetup that was recorded was Nilo Vélez’s demonstration of using poedit to quickly translate strings from US English to UK English.

WordPress 5.8 now supports WebP files.

In January 2021, the WordPress Portmouth Meetp conducted an online Clinic. We attempted to answer questions and problems raised by members of the community. Some were answered there and then. Others took a little longer.

At the October 2020 WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – Gutenberg – the block editor there were a number of questions that were answered during the Q & A; and there were others that were posed but not fully covered. This post is a follow up for some of the questions.

For the remaining 6 months of 2020, the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup will remain online. I ( Herb ) will be creating the Events on Meetup.com and the website in due course. The proposed events are as follows.

Apart from July’s meeting, which was postponed for a week, all are being held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, from 7pm.

There may still be a clash with other meetups: e.g. Cheltenham, Manchester, Edinburgh. But we do start slightly later. You can, if you wish, try to attend more than one meetup in an evening. I don’t recommend attending meetings concurrently.

We’ll continue to use Zoom and will record some of the meetings. We’ll edit the videos before publishing them on YouTube. This may not be done instantaneously.

Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s hands on problem solving clinic;

• to those who were brave enough to air their problems
• and those who attempted to help solve them

We had a range of problems to solve. Some of them a lot harder than others.

Here’s a summary of the problems that I know were discussed. I understand that a few were at least partially resolved.

In case there were no problems I prepared 4 problems associated with our Meetup group’s websites.

https://www.slideshare.net/bobbingwide/wordup-pompey-march-2018

Suffice it to say

1. We didn’t need them.
2. I have been working on them.

Here’s a sanitised list of some of the topics that were raised.

• Migration from WordPress eCommerce to WooCommerce:
  • How to map taxonomies?
  • Should customer lists and orders be migrated?
• Any recommendations for an RSS aggregator?
• Do we have to read all 50 pages every time there’s some GDPR news?
• Avada theme issues:
  • Why do image file sizes increase?
  • Is it true that related posts ignores the post’s category?
  • How do I integrate a booking form?
• Live editing with Fusion builder:
  • How do I clone a page?
  • What happens if I save a live page as draft?
  • How should I name my image files?
  • Is there an SEO friendly way to format addresses and phone numbers
  • What’s the difference between a widget in a side bar and a widget in content?
  • What’s the best way of saying “We’re on holiday”?
• What parts of the database needs to be encrypted for GDPR? Can it be done?
• Who can help me with my Two Factor Authentication project.
• Where do I learn about WP-CLI?
• Do I still need a domain mapping plugin for WordPress MultiSite. Is Mercator much better than my current plugin?
• How do I get in the building when I arrive late?

I’d love to hear from everyone whether or not they found solutions to their problems.

So kick off for WordUp Pompey will now be in late February.