Join the WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup on 21st April 2021 for a series of 5 to 10 minutes Show and Tell talks by meetup members.
Share your WordPress ideas and experiences. Tell us about
- something you’re proud of,
- something you found useful,
- something you’re working on
- your favourite plugin
If you want to reserve a slot for your Show and Tell be sure to get in touch with Herb Miller by direct message, on Slack or Twitter.
The event starts at 7pm GMT (7pm UTC). We will be providing a Zoom link for you to connect to the online Meetup.
To get the link, please register to attend this #OnlineWPMeetup.
RECENT SHOW & TELLS AT WP-CHELTENHAM
Last month Elliot Richmond hosted a Show & Tell at the @wpchelt meetup. There was an interesting mix of fairly technical show & tell talks by speakers from around the country.
Rich Bell demoed Ray and Background WordPress processing. Mark Wilkinson demoed his Just In Time CSS, I (Herb Miller) talked about 3 plugins I wrote to help visualise my server side performance, Elliott showed us how to run Xdebug, setting breakpoints, watching variables and changing values on the fly, Ross Wintle demoed his new spam pixel plugin to block spam bot’s comments, Keith Devon showed us his work on CSS grid for block based themes, and we ran out of time before Jonny Allbut had a chance to show his latest work with template parts ( PHP version not FSE ).
As I said, most of these talks were fairly technical, but yours doesn’t have to be.
ON THE CARDS
- Jonny Allbut – Using template parts efficiently, when building WordPress themes.
- Andrew Leonard – Using TablePress, plugins, bespoke plugins and a custom child theme to build the Ferns of Macaronesia website.
- Simon Bragg – Writing for the web
- Ruby McCarthy– Converting from HTML to a spiffing block editor WP site
- Reserve: Herb Miller – What’s going on? Does my site run slow with this?
VIDEOS
The Show and Tell sessions were recorded. Separate videos will be produced for Jonny’s, Andrew’s and Simon’s talks.
🏕️ WHO CAN ATTEND?
All levels of experience of WordPress and website publishing welcome. We are a learning and development group. We welcome WordPress beginners.
As this is a virtual meetup attendees can come from far and wide.
Please sign-up if you intend to join the Meetup. If you are new to the group, please can you complete your Meetup profile to help us plan topics.
⏱ AGENDA
| Time | Item |
|---|---|
| 7:00pm | Connect to Zoom and say hello |
| 7:05pm | Organisers’ introduction to the online meeting |
| 7:10pm | Attendee’s introductions (optional) – 30-60 seconds on who you are and why you’re interested in WordPress. |
| 7:30pm | Show and Tell talks. 5-10 minutes each plus short Q&A |
| 8:45pm | Wrap-up |
To find the times in your location, websites like WorldTimeBuddy.com can help. Put in the timezone you want to convert (7pm GMT in this case), and enter your location timezone to view your local time.
Attendee’s introductions – an example
Attendees introductions are optional. If you do tell us about yourself then we’ll get a better understanding of your WordPress knowledge and how you use it. Here’s what I might say.
I’m Herb Miller, the initiating organiser of WP-Pompey. I started using WordPress about 11 years ago. I’m a (retired) software engineer. I mostly develop WordPress plugins. Recently I’ve become very interested in the Gutenberg block editor’s work on Full Site Editing, which is still very much under construction. I’ve developed two experimental FSE themes, Fizzie and SB, which I use to display the contents of online catalogues. I live in Rowlands Castle with my wife Susan and two cats, Bramble and Marmalade.
Herb Miller
🍕REFRESHMENTS
Bring your own.
🤔 OTHER INFORMATION
- Find us on Twitter @wppompey or connect with us on your web related topic ideas using #wppompey
- If you would like to help organise the WordPress Portsmouth MeetUp, offer a talk or sponsor an event, let us know in the #meetup-portsmouth Slack channel for the UK WordPress community.
🏢 SPONSORS
Thanks to Non Stop Business Support, Bobbing Wide, and Drew Westcott for their in-kind sponsorship of this WordPress MeetUp.
Thanks also go to Susan Cowe Miller for use of her Zoom Pro account.