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October 2016 Virtual Contrib2Core [Developers]
Date
Monday, 17 Oct 2016 6:30 PM
Virtual Contrib2Core – Shared event with WPToronto
See the Toronto WordPress Group for the partner event.
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Note: The activities in this meetup are best suited for intermediate/advanced WordPress developers.
Join Paul Bearne (Senior Freelance WordPress Developer) for a virtual meetup using Google Hangouts, where we come together as a team with the aim of adding to and improving WordPess itself (contrib to core).
This is a series of bi-weekly events using YouTube live recording on Google Hangouts. A new hangout link is published in the comments shortly before each session.
Sessions are interactive – you will help craft the code and create your own core commits. As at the beginning of April, we had submitted 6 patches of which 2 have so far been accepted into WordPress 4.5 from this project. You do not need to have experience of core commits, just to be reasonably comfortable with code and willing to come along, learn and do. There is guidance all the way, with opportunities to help with documentation and research. You can even just lurk and listen!
At each meetup, we are working on writing unit tests for the original functions file in WordPress – there are around 200 functions to keep us occupied!
The file we are working on is:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core/blob/master/src/wp-includes/functions.php
We will use this repo to swap code as we work:
https://github.com/pbearne/contrib2core
If you are new to core development, you will need to install
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV or have a working deployment build of WordPess.
More reading:
October 2016 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2016 6:00 PM
All about images
• intro to the media library
• what formats are supported
• where images are stored / why you should sort by date
• what WP does with images uploaded/derived intermediate sizes
• inserting images individually
• inserting as a gallery
• adaptive images in WordPress 4.5+
• what “regenerating thumbnails” does
Presented by Mike Dickson. Mike has been programming for 17 years, and by far his favourite is websites. He loves everything about them, from the “boring” planning stages and framework design to the finessing of the layout to get it just right. He’s an entrepreneur at heart, running three businesses from home in Ottawa.
Agenda
6:00 – General announcements
6:05 – Presentation(s)
7 ish – Questions
7:30 – Open help session “Happiness Bar” – get answers to your WordPress questions.
Meeting Details:
LOCATION NOTE:
We have a private space reserved downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.
No donations for this meeting! If attendees buy enough food etc. from the pub it covers our tab. (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $150-450/year)
September 2016 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 14 Sep 2016 6:00 PM
A WordPress Sampler (3-4 quick talks to wet your taste for WordPress) – more to come as talks are confirmed
A Battle of Two Plugins: qTranslate X vs. Polylang
A case study of the pros and cons of two popular multi-language plugins. Presented by Miriam Goldman
WordPress Improv
Request a topic, vote on it, and Meagan will present it. Presented by Meagan Hanes
Agenda
6:00 – General announcements
6:05 – Presentation(s)
7 ish – Questions
7:30 – Open help session “Happiness Bar” – get answers to your WordPress questions.
Meeting Details:
LOCATION NOTE:
We have a private space reserved downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.
No donations for this meeting! If attendees buy enough food etc. from the pub it covers our tab. (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $150-450/year)
WordCamp Ottawa 2016
Date
Saturday, 18 Jun 2016 8:00 AM
REGISTER FOR WORDCAMP OTTAWA 2016 AT: http://2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org/register.
WordCamp Ottawa 2016 will feature over 30 sessions in 3 tracks covering topics for all levels of WordPress user, from beginner to developer. You can sit in on any session(s) in any track(s) you wish, even hopping between tracks, there are no restrictions as to which sessions you attend.
“Content Creators”: presentations that will help users that create content in WordPress sites.
“Site Creators”: content for those who are more experienced users, but not necessarily designers or developers.
“Code Creators”: for designers or developers, including topics about site set-up, theme design, plugin development, best practices for development, and more.
Add in the “Happiness Bar” where you can get one on one help with your WordPress questions, and all together we’ll have about 50 talented people, many from our own WordPress community, and others from as far away as Vancouver, presenting to you the latest and greatest for WordPress.
Register now for the friendliest and finest WordPress event in the nation’s capital!
REGISTER FOR WORDCAMP OTTAWA 2016 AT: http://2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org/register. You may indicate your intent to attend by RSVP’ing here, but YOU WILL NOT BE REGISTERED for WordCamp. You must register at the WordCamp site.
May 2016 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 04 May 2016 6:00 PM
WordPress website backups
Could you recover your WordPress website if it was lost due to a hardware failure, hacked, or corrupted during an update or plugin install? Having reliable automated backups can make the difference between taking 10 minutes to restore your site, and needing to do a complete site rebuild that may take a week or more. This presentation will look at the many options and plugins for backing up your WordPress site including backing up to Amazon S3.
Presented by Rick Radko of R-Cubed Design Forge.
Agenda
6:00 – General announcements
6:05 – Presentation(s)
7 ish – Questions
7:30 – Open help session “Happiness Bar” – get answers to your WordPress questions.
Meeting Details:
LOCATION NOTE:
We have a private space reserved downstairs. Enter the main doors, turn left, and down the stairs.
No donations for this meeting! If attendees buy enough food etc. from the pub it covers our tab. (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $150-450/year)