Meetups
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)
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)
April 2016 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 06 Apr 2016 6:00 PM
Creating a WordPress Child Theme
Child themes are the safest way to customize and tweak your WordPress theme while still allowing you to apply updates to your site. At this meetup, we’ll discuss what a child theme is and the benefits of using one. We’ll also go through the process of creating and activating a child theme, as well as how to make modifications to your WordPress site using a child theme.
Presented by: Liz MacDonell. Liz is a web developer and digital product manager. Liz started working with and falling in love with WordPress 3 years ago.
NOTE: Child themes, while not a basic topic, are an extremely important topic, and everyone who manages a WordPress site should know how to create a child theme. Liz is targeting this talk to be at a beginner level so that users of all levels can learn how to use child themes on their sites.
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)