Earlier today Andrew Leonard and I were playing with the columns CSS property. When we were applying it to a list block we noticed that the block was to the left hand side of the editor. We were using the Twenty Sixteen theme. We tracked it down to some CSS that set the left and right margins to small values. Normally they’re auto.
Gutenberg for Editors – follow up to the Q&A session
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.
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#OnlineWPMeetup – the next 6 months
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.
| Date | Title | Speakers / Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2020 | How to build a WordPress website – Part Two | Paul Tansom and Scott McKeown |
| 19 August 2020 | Plugin Kollektiv | Bernhard Kau, Torsten Landsiedel and Simon Kraft |
| 16 September 2020 | What’s new in WordPress 5.5 and how to use it. PLUS What bugs you? |
The organisers. |
| 21 October 2020 | Gutenberg | Belinda Mustoe |
| 18 November 2020 | WP Plugin presentation | Joe Simpson jr |
| 16 December 2020 | Quiz and social | With tinsel and baubles |
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.
Call for Speakers
The WordPress Portsmouth Meetup group are looking for speakers for January 2020 onwards. If you have a WordPress related talk that you feel would be of interest to our members please contact one of the organisers by whichever means you choose: Slack, Twitter, Meetup, Email.
Our meetings in the past 12 months have been as follows
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 18th November 2020 – WP Plugin Presentation
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 21st October 2020 – Gutenberg – the block editor
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 16th September 2020 – What’s new in WordPress 5.5 and how to use it
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 19th August 2020 – Plugin Kollektiv
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 22nd July 2020 – Build your own WordPress website – Part Two
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 17th June 2020 – Build your WordPress website in 21 steps
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup -20th May 2020 – Lightning Talks
- WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup – 15th April 2020 – How to build and sell WordPress plugins – Streamed
- WordPress Portsmouth Virtual Meetup – 18th March 2020 – Virtual meetup trial
- WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 19th February 2020 – Nightingale: How Gutenberg can save the NHS money and improve health outcomes
- WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – February 2020 – Stream
- WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 15th January 2020 – New Year Clinic
Notes:
- Even though we are mainly about WordPress we do also cover some other web topics. e.g. copy writing, branding, GDPR, security.
- We’re also happy to include remote speakers.
- We enjoy a variety of formats: straight forward presentations, multi media, workshops and clinics.
- We sometimes have a suite of lightning talks: 5-10 minutes.
- Mostly we have one speaker; talk and Q&A taking 40 mins to one hour.
Location and meetup dates
Thanks to Scott McKeown of RedIT, for his continued sponsorship of the venue. We now have confirmed bookings at The Technopole for the following dates.
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 15th January 2020 | |
| 19th February 2020 |
The Full Bradbury Suite can hold up to 28 attendees in conference layout, 40 in theatre. It has
- Overhead projectors with HDMI and VGA connections
- Free WiFi – fast reliable broadband.
- Free on-site car parking.
- Wheelchair accessible.
- Easy access from the M275
Calling all local WordPress agencies
In 2020 we want to significantly grow the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup group’s membership. We want to double the number of members; from 130 to 260.
Starting in November (2019) we’ll be writing to local WordPress agencies to:
- let you know we exist
- invite you to our meetups
- invite you to get involved in the local WordPress community
If you’re part of a WordPress agency, and we haven’t written to you, and some or all of your team are interested in finding out more about the local WordPress community, then please join the Meetup group and get in touch.
And we want to increase the average attendance at our meetups
This month Graham Armfield, from Coolfields Consulting, is going to take us through a very informative presentation on accessibility. That’s something that you should be doing when you develop a client’s website. Or as Graham puts it.
It makes sense to treat accessibility as a website requirement – even if your client doesn’t specifically ask for it.
@coolfields – April 2019
Reserve your place today
Let us know what you want
We want to ensure that our meetups satisfy the needs of the local community.
If you think that the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup is for you and your team then join the community and get involved.
Join our meetup
Join the Portsmouth WordPress Meetup group today.
If not, why don’t you let us know what we can do.
We want to know what you want to know.
WordUp Pompey organisers
PS. Have you completed the 2019 Annual Survey?
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Email that Herb’s been sending
This is the content of the email being sent from Email: pompey@wp-pompey.org.uk.
Hello there replace-this-dinlo , did you know: - That there's a Portsmouth WordPress Meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Portsmouth-WordPress-Meetup/ - We meet monthly on the third Wednesday of the month at The Technopole. - This month we have Graham Armfield, Coolfields Consulting, with a talk entitled "How to build an accessible WordPress theme" - It's FREE and open to everyone interested in WordPress. - In 2020 we want to double our membership and the average attendance of our meetings We'd really appreciate your involvement in the WordPress community. If you're interested then why not join the meetup group and register for the next meeting - https://www.meetup.com/Portsmouth-WordPress-Meetup/events/265682522 For more information see: - https://www.wp-pompey.org.uk/2019/11/11/calling-all-local-wordpress-agencies/ yours sincerely, Herb Miller - co-organiser - https://twitter.com/wppompey - https://twitter.com/herb_miller And sometimes I write a PS.
Fun with emoticons
They look different in the front end! These emoticons were copied and pasted from the 20th March meetup entry.
When viewed in the front end the emoticons in the left block may look different from the screen captures. The left hand side is the text part of a Media and Text block. The right hand side is the screen capture of the left hand side.
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WordPress SEO Workshop follow up
Here’s a follow up to our WordPress SEO Workshop.
Did you know that the SEO for beginners training videos by Yoast Academy are freely available from You Tube?
Andrew Leonard
Lesson 16 covers “What is structured data”.
See WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 16 Jan 2019 – Yoast SEO webinar and workshop for the Yoast webinar video that we viewed during the workshop.
You can also see the PowerPoint slides for the Meetup. The slides contain some other useful resources.
Don’t forget that next month we’re having a series of Lightning talks.
Yoast blocks – How To
Time needed: 1 hour.
Make it go green
- Use Yoast SEO
Ensure Yoast SEO is installed and activated
- Use the Yoast SEO meta box or Settings
Fill in the bits and see what it comes up wit
- Be prepared to make adjustments
Read the messages and change your content to fix the ‘problems’
Third Wednesday – 7pm – Technopole Portsmouth
Starting from January 2019 the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup, aka WordUp Pompey! is changing from the 4th Thursday of the month to the 3rd Wednesday.
In 2019 we’ll finalise the meetups month by month.
This website wp-pompey.org.uk will have the draft agendas and topics for forthcoming months.
We’ll try to confirm the agenda before it appears in your WordPress dashboard.
We have a couple of new speakers lined up for our meetups in the first quarter.
Watch this space.
Lean coffee and lightning talk proposals
At the December meetup there were a number of topics suggested for Lean Coffee discussions and a number of members volunteered to give Lightning talks. This table is a summary taken from the flip chart. We plan to address these during our 2019 meetups.