October 2017
October Meetup – APIs
The WordPress Meetup is hosted at The House, a co-working space for creative businesses in the centre of Tunbridge Wells. This month we are going to get a bit technical and talk about web service API's (Application programming interface) and the new WordPress REST API. Talks will be given by Meetup organizer Dominic Johnson from Miramedia and Andrew Dixon from mso, a digital agency based in Dartford. Talk 1: An introduction to web service API's In this talk, Dom will cover the basics of…
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November Meetup – Security
The WordPress Meetup is hosted at The House, a co-working space for creative businesses in the centre of Tunbridge Wells. This month, it's all about security. Beginners (Intro): Dominic Johnson, Miramedia What is WordPress security? Why WordPress security is so important? Why would anyone want to hack your WordPress site? Is WordPress particularly vulnerable? Plugins for Securing your WordPress Site. Talk 2: Secure your site in 10 Minutes: Spencer Nash, SGN Media Change Login page URL Create editors rather than admins Install…
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January’s Meetup
This month it's was all about speeding up your Wordpress website. We have talks from the following WP Experts: Mark Hickman & Adam Tachauer-Yates Mark from Affinity Hosting: Owner 4 rescue dogs, WordPress Developer, Hosting Engineer. After a colossal website failure in 2008, have learnt php, css and html, built a load balanced, auto Scaling WordPress Platform currently hosting more than 4000 websites, author of "The Ultimate Guide to Google Places" and "101 ways to speed up your WordPress website".…
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February Meetup: Page Editors
This month, we started with a demonstration by Dominic Johnson of Miramedia on the following: Standard page editor Unyson Visual Composer Gutenberg We then watched a demo of Gutenberg from WordCamp US.
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March WordPress Meetup: An intro to WooCommerce
The WordPress Meetup is hosted at The House, a co-working space for creative businesses in the center of Tunbridge Wells. In March, we're talking about WooCommerce. We have 3 talks, more welcome if you'd like to demonstrate a past project. Dominic Johnson, Miramedia, Introduction to WooCommerce & Project demo Jonathan Rawlings, Maltonite.com, Project demo: Job Board Spencer Nash, SGN Media, Project demo Please let me know if you have a demo you'd like to show / discuss. Click here to…
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Aprils Meetup: SEO, Search Engine Marketing, getting index, rank & measure
This month it's all about SEO, Search Engine Optimisation - how to get your WordPress site indexed by Google and visible to users. We have 2 talks: One from and SEO expert, Simon Howland and the other from Andrew Dixon who will be explaining how to deploy Simon's SEO tips and advice into WordPress. Simon Howland: www.sjh.digital Andrew Dixon: www.mso.net
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May Meetup – GDPR
This Month it's going to be all about GDPR and what you might need to do to keep the GDPR wolfs from the door. I know it's not strictly relevant to WordPress but it's a very hot topic at the moment. I also went to an excellent talk at WordCamp London on Saturday and I thought I'd share this with you. Here at Miramedia, we've just completed a few GDPR projects so I'll also share these - and then it's…
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June Meetup – Advanced Custom Fields & future.css
This month we are going to be a bit more technical than normal, but as always, EVERYONE is welcome. We have two excellent speakers, Spencer Nash, talking about Advanced Custom Fields, and Keith Devon to present his WordCamp London presentation "future.css". Spencer Nash - Advanced Custom Fields Learn how you can use the plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields; to control what can be edited in your theme. What is Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)? How does Advanced Custom Fields compare to Visual…
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July Meetup – Making WordPress fly with JetPack & Practical Security
At the July Tunbridge Wells WordPress Meetup we have two special guest speakers from hosting provider 34SP.com, Kayleigh Thorpe and Tim Nash. Making WordPress fly with JetPack In this talk Kayleigh will be showing the various features of the Jetpack plugin, from its built-in analytics, to form and portfolio building, and how you can use the Jetpack plugin to improve your site’s visibility. She will use real examples from her own site to show how much you can do with this one…
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