WordPress Portsmouth Meetup
As of March 2020, the Portsmouth WordPress Meetup is going to be meeting virtually.
Details of links to the virtual meetups will be published on the website, Twitter @wppompey, Facebook and the #meetup-portsmouth channel on UK WP Community Slack.
This is where we’ll be publishing the links, when we know them.
Thanks to Leo Mindel for his assistance. We’ll be going live at around 19:30.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Virtual Meetup – 18th March 2020 – Virtual meetup trial”
Tony Blacker
Tony is a Full Stack Developer at the NHS Leadership Academy.
He’s a full time web geek with a penchant for front end theming, and an a11y ally.
WordPress: @tblacker
Come to the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on 19th February 2020 for a streamed talk, by Tony Blacker, entitled “Nightingale: How Gutenberg can save the NHS money and improve health outcomes.”
Tony will be presenting live from Ipswich.
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.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 19th February 2020 – Nightingale: How Gutenberg can save the NHS money and improve health outcomes”Thanks to everyone who attended last night’s hands on problem solving clinic;
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.
Continue reading “Follow up to – Hands on problem solving clinic – 15 Jan 2020”
Come to the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on 15th January 2020 for our New Year’s clinic. Bring your laptop / tablet and your problems for some hands on problem solving. Lightning talks and show and tells invited from participants, particularly for solved problems.
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.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 15th January 2020 – New Year Clinic”Come to the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on 18th December 2019 for our final meetup of the year. We’ll be having lightning talks and a little seasonal fun.
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.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 18 December 2019 – Lightning Talks Part Three”
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
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:
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
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 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
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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.
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.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 20 November 2019 – How to Build an Accessible WordPress Theme”
Come to the WordPress Portsmouth Meetup on 16th October 2019 where Lesley Hussell, of Editing Edge, will be leading an interactive workshop style session on copywriting.
A practical guide for anyone who wants to produce fantastic content for websites, brochures, reports, blogs and social media posts.
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.
Continue reading “WordPress Portsmouth Meetup – 16 October 2019 – Content is King”
