Towards the end of 2019, we published this blog post “Calling all local WordPress agencies”. In this post we outlined our objective to double the number of WordPress Portsmouth Meetup members from 130 to 260.
Well,
We didn’t quite achieve the target – membership on Jan 18th is 242.
Our growth was not in response to any effort to contact local WordPress agencies.
So let’s try again in 2021.
Calling all local WordPress agencies
In 2021 we want to grow the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup group’s membership. We want to attract more members from WordPress agencies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – How to build an accessible WordPress theme
🗣️ WHAT’S HAPPENING? Come to the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on 20th November 2019 to hear accessibility expert Graham Armfield, of Coolfields Consulting, explain how to make your website accessible. The event starts at 7pm. There will be a social to carry on discussions and network after the meeting for any attendees who wish to go to it. Outline:…
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.
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.
