October 2015 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2015 6:00 PM
Speed Up Your Site!
Did you know the average user will wait only 2-3 seconds waiting for a webpage to load before abandoning it forever? Having a fast website is critical to its success. How do you ensure your site loads fast and reliably, to all kinds of users around the world? In this presentation we’ll discuss seven strategies for increasing your WordPress site’s speed.
Covering caching, content delivery networks, image optimization, file optimization, database cleaning, and hosting and theme choices, you’re guaranteed to leave this presentation with concrete next steps for improving your site’s performance.
Meagan Hanes is a designer of digital things, photographer, founder of the Arnprior WordPress Community, and all around creative gal living in Arnprior, Ontario. She enjoys creating easy-to-use websites and technology solutions for businesses big and small. When not giving back to the WP community, you’ll find her working on catching all 721 Pokémon.
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 Montreal 2015
Date
Saturday, 04 Jul 2015 8:00 AM
Heading to Montreal for WordCamp? Use this event to coordinate with other Ottawa WordPressers!
Don’t forget: You’ll need to register for WordCamp Montreal separately. RSVP’ING TO THIS MEETUP DOES NOT GET YOU TICKETS!
WordCamp Montreal is an annual, volunteer-run conference that’s all about WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system (CMS).
WordCamp Montreal is taking place on July 4th and 5th at Concordia University (the Sir George Williams Campus). Cost $40.
All details can be found at https://montreal.wordcamp.org/2015/
June 2015 ***Not Beginner*** Meetup
Date
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2015 7:00 PM
An introduction to writing secure WordPress code.
Stéphane Boisvert, Ottawa’s first automattician, will be giving a special preview of his WordCamp Winnipeg presentation.
He go over some of the most common attack vectors in code and how to protect against them while you write or edit a theme or plugin.
Going over:
• Escaping
• SQL sanitization
• General Sanitization / Validation
• XSS in Javascript
• current_user_can
• nonce checks
• And other security tips and tricks.
Stéphane works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com as a VIP Engineer helping sites stay secure and optimized. He’s been working with WordPress for over 5 years.
Meeting Details:
This is a meetup in our “Not Beginner” series. This series of talks is for WordPress (or related) presentations that are not at a beginner level. Anyone at any experience level is welcome to attend, but there will be an assumption in the presentations and discussion that attendees have some knowledge of WordPress.
Senate Room, 6th Floor – Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive. Robertson Hall marked on Google: http://goo.gl/maps/1UkxO
Parking on campus requires payment, but all of the lots, including the garage just to the north of Roberson Hall, cap at $7 for the evening after 5pm. http://www5.carleton.ca/parking/visitors/parking-rates/
No donations for this meeting! (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)
Agenda
7:00 – General announcements
7:10 – Presentation
8:00 – Q&A
8:30 – Wrap-up
June 2015 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 03 Jun 2015 6:00 PM
The Important Bits for Content Creators.
The latest stats peg WordPress powering 23% of the web. But in his years of developing and managing WordPress sites Mike has discovered that there are many basic misunderstandings of what it is, how to properly use it, and how to keep it secure and up to date. Mike’s talk will focus on the real-world tasks every WordPress user should know.
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 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)
May 2015 WordPress Meet-Up
Date
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 6:00 PM
So you would like a WordPress website?
That will be $10,000 and will take a month of development time. Oh wait, actually it will be free and you can have your site up and running in less than an hour.
There are many different variations and flavours of WordPress suited for different needs and budgets. We have various plans on wordpress.com, template themes for wordpress.org installs, and custom themes for wordpress.org installs. The price, development time, capabilities, and functionality vary greatly between all of these variations. Many people use the generic term ‘WordPress Website’ for all of these variations, which can make things very confusing! In this presentation we will be discussing all of these different variations and which one is right for you based on your budget, technical requirements, visual design requirements, and time requirements.
This will be presented by Steve Puddick. Steve has been working with WordPress since 2009 and focuses on custom WordPress themes and plugins. He currently works at the Liberal Party of Canada where he works on a highly customized, large scale, multisite instance of WordPress. You can check out a couple of Steve’s public WordPress plugins here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-notes-widget/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/notes-widget-wrapper/.
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)